Évariste Lévi-Provençal

Évariste Lévi-Provençal (* 1894 in Algiers , † March 27, 1956 in Paris ) was a French Medievalist , Orientalist, Arabist and Islamic scholar.

His family, originally Jewish , came from Provence and they began using the name Provençal towards the end of the 15th century. They probably took the name Levi after a stay in Italy during the 16th century. Évariste Lévi-Provençal's ancestors arrived in Algeria around 1600 . He was born in Algiers. From 1926 on he held a position at the University of Algiers , and later from 1945 at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lévi-Provençal was the founder of French Islamic studies and the first director of the Institute for Islamic Studies (Institut d'études islamiques) in Algiers. He specialized in the history of Al-Andalus and the Muslims in Spain . He worked on the editing and translation of Arabic sources on Spanish history in the Middle Ages, often together with the Spanish Arabist Emilio García Gómez .

Fonts (selection)

• La Conquête et l'Émirat hispano-umaiyade (710-912) (1944), Volume 1 of Histoire de l'Espagne musulmane
• Le califat umaiyade de Cordoue (912-1031), Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve; Leiden: E.-J. Brill, 1950. Volume 2 of Histoire de l'Espagne musulmane
• Le Siècle du califat de Cordoue , Volume 3 of Histoire de l'Espagne musulmane
• L'Espagne musulmane au X ^e siècle. Institutions et vie sociale (Paris, Maisonneuve & Larose, 1932)

Translations

• Séville musulmane au début du XIIe siècle. Le traité d'Ibn ʿAbdun sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers , translated and with an introduction and notes by Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Maisonneuve, Paris 1947; Facsimile reprint by Maisoneueve et Larose, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7068-1494-2

Web links

Wikiquote: Évariste Lévi-Provençal  - Quotes (French)

• Évariste Lévi-Provençal near BibilioMonde (French)
• Biography (french)