André Raymond
André Raymond 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
Honours
- 1983 : Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 1981 : Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
- 1979 : Commander of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia
- 1975 : Officier of the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic
- 1969 : Officier of the Order of Merit (Egypt)
Awards
- 2003 : IRCICA award.
- 2002 : Lewis Galantiere prize.
- 1998 : Medal of Honor of Tunis University.
- 1980 : CNRS Silver Medal.
- 1978 : Prix Bordin of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Career
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.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.
Death
Raymond died on 18 February 2011.Selected publications
- The great Arab cities in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: An introduction. New York University Press, 1984.
- Le Caire. 1993.
- Cairo: City of history. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
- Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb. Ashgate Variorum, 2002.