Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes
Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes was a French Arabist, a specialist in Islam and the history of religions.
His best known works are his historical and religious studies on Hajj and Muslim institutions. He also translated into French in an annotated edition the story of Arab travel writer and explorer Ibn Jubair. His book written after Arab authors on Syria at the time of the Mamluk is also a seminal work.
Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes was a professor at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes.
Works
- 1898: Ibn Khaldoun : Les Rois de Grenade
- 1900: Les Cérémonies du mariage en Algérie
- 1923: Le Pèlerinage à la Mekke. Étude d'histoire religieuse.
- 1921: Les Institutions musulmanes
- 1957: Mahomet. L'Homme et son message
- 1931: Le Monde musulman et byzantin jusqu'aux croisades. Paris, E. de Boccard,
- 1925: Manuel d'arabe marocain. Grammaire et dialogues. New edition revised and enlarged by Louis Mercier. Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales
- 1923: La Syrie à l'époque des Mamelouks d'après les auteurs arabes: description géographique, économique et administrative précédée d'une introduction sur l'organisation gouvernementale / Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes. Paris, Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner,
- 1927: Masālik el abṣār fi... / 1 / L'Afrique, moins l'Égypte / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī. Paris.
- 1927: Masālik el abṣār fi mamālik el amṣār / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī. Paris.
- 1949: Voyages. First edition, four volumes, Librairie orientaliste Geuthner, 1949, 1951, 1953–1956 and 1965.
- 1965: Voyages / P. 4 / Tables / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair.
- 1953–1956: Voyages; P. 3 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair.
- 1951: Voyages; P. 2 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair.
- 1949: Voyages; P. 1 / Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Ǧubair.
- 1952: Grammaire de l'arabe classique: / Régis Blachère. - 3e éd., reworked :
- undated: Les cent et une nuits. Translated from Arabic. Librairie orientale et américaine E. Guilmoto, Translated with extensive notes from a modern North African manuscript with variants from three others.
- 1927: Masālik El Abṣār fi... / 1 / L'Afrique, moins l'Égypte / Abu-'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn-Yaḥyā Šihāb-ad-Dīn Ibn-Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī.
- 1907: Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. Includes a comparative list of 200 words from Bua, Niellim, Fanian and Tunia languages, with a short grammar and a few sentences collected by Decorse.