André Raymond

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André Raymond (7 August 1925 – 18 February 2011) was professor emeritus at the University of Provence. He was an expert on the history of the city in the Arab world.

Honours and awards[edit]

Honours[edit]

Awards[edit]

Career[edit]

Raymond was director of the French Institute for Arab Studies in Damascus, and of the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic World, in Aix-en-Provence. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus at the University of Provence.[1]

Raymond was an expert on the city in the Arab world about which he wrote several books. In 2002 his essays and articles on the subject were collected for a volume in the Variorum Collected Studies series titled Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb.[2]

Death[edit]

Raymond died on 18 February 2011.[3]

Selected publications[edit]

  • The great Arab cities in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: An introduction. New York University Press, 1984. (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization) ISBN 0814773915
  • Le Caire. 1993.
  • Cairo: City of history. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. (Translator Willard Wood) ISBN 9774246608
  • Raymond, A. (2000). Cairo. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674003160.
  • Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb. Ashgate Variorum, 2002. (Variorum Collected Studies series) ISBN 978-0-86078-874-4

References[edit]

  1. ^ Cairo. Harvard University Press. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ^ Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period. Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Ashgate. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. ^ "André Raymond".