Claude Cahen

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Claude Cahen and his wife (1989)

Claude Cahen (26 February 1909 – 18 November 1991) was a 20th-century French

Futuwa
orders).

Claude Cahen was born in Paris to a French

École Normale Supérieure on the rue d'Ulm, he attended the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, receiving a doctorate in 1940. He was a professor at the University of Strasbourg from 1945 to 1959 and then at the Sorbonne; in 1967 he was invited to teach at the University of Michigan, and in 1973, he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He was later elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1983.[2]

Cahen was married and had six children, including the historian Michel Cahen, who wrote a biography of his father.

In 1954 he published "An Introduction to the First Crusade" in the Oxford journal Past and Present.[4] Cahen has been called "the doyen of Islamic social history and one of the most influential Islamic historians of [his] century,"[5] and "the best historian of the Middle East in the twentieth century." Mark Cohen describes him as a distinguished Islamic historian.[6] He was a prisoner of war in World War II.[1] The Festschrift Itineraires d'Orient: Hommages a Claude Cahen, edited by Raoul Curiel and Rika Gyselen, appeared in 1995 as an honor to his "distinguished career",[7] and an issue of the journal Arabica (43/1 (1996)) was dedicated to him. That issue also includes a nearly complete bibliography of his works.

Works

Références :

« Claude Cahen : histoire et engagement politique. Entretien avec Maxime Rodinson » (propos recueillis par D. Gazagnadou et F. Micheau, bibliographie exhaustive des ouvrages, articles et comptes-rendus de Claude Cahen), Arabica (Brill éditeur), vol. 43, n°1 (1996), (p. 7–27). Revue Arabica

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Ira M. Lapidus, review of Curiel and Gyselen (1995), Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 39.2 (1996), pp. 189-90
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  3. ^ Michel CAHEN: L'Historien et le Politique: Engagement et Pensée Scientifique chez Claude Cahen. Réflexions et quelques Souvenirs d'un Fils sur son Père in Itinéraires de l'Orient: Hommages à Claude Cahen, ed R Curiel and R Gyselen, Res Orientales 6 (Bures-sur-Yvette, France, 1994), pp 385-442.
  4. ^ "Past and Present -- Table of Contents (1954, 6)". Archived from the original on 2006-07-01. Retrieved 2006-03-09.
  5. ^ Paul M. Cobb, review of Curiel and Gyselen (1995) in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998), p. 220
  6. ^ Mark Cohen (1994) p.xvii
  7. ^ Journal of the American Oriental Society, October 1998