Henri Laoust

Henri Laoust , born with the Fresnes-on-Scheldt on April 1st 1905 and died in Bad tempers the November 12th 1983, is a French orientalist, specialized in the Moslem canonical Droit.

== Henri Laoust makes his secondary studies with the Gouraud college with Rabat, where his/her father is director of the Institute of the high Moroccan studies, then with the Louis-the-Large Lycée with Paris. Received with the National university of the street of Ulm, incorporated of Arabic, he teaches initially with Constantine, then becomes general secretary, then directing of the French Institut of Arab studies of Damas (1937-1941). He is then professor at the university of Lyon (1946-1956), with the Collège de France of 1956 to 1976 (pulpit of Moslem sociology). He is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1974.

This modest scholar, which did not exclude, sometimes, a outspokenness, was moreover member of the Arab academies of Cairo and Damas.

Work

In addition to innumerable articles always very dense and sometimes bulky, published in French and foreign specialized magazines on the history of the thought arabo-Moslem woman (Al-Mâwardî, Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Khaldoun, Al-Hillî, Al-Baghdadi, etc), one must in Henri Laoust of the reference books, among which:

  • Test on the social and political doctrines of Ibn Taimîya (661/1262-728/1328) , Cairo, IFAO (French Institute of oriental archeology), 1939. (Thesis of doctorate be-letters)

  • the Treaty of public law of Ibn Taimîya (annotated translation of the Siyâsa shar' îya ), French Institute of Damas, 1952.
  • Governors of Damas under the first Othomans (translation of annals of Ibn Tûlûn and Ibn Djûm' a) , French Institute of Damas, 1952.
  • Hanbalisme under the caliphate of Baghdad , Paris, Geuthner, 1959.
  • Hanbalisme under Mamlouks bahrides , Re-examined Islamic studies , 1960.
  • Schisms in Islam , Paris, Payot 1965, and many republications. (Traditional)
  • the Policy of Ghazâlî , Paris, Geuthner, 1970.
  • Caliphate in the thought of Rachid Ridâ , Paris, Maisonneuve, 1986.

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