Aleksandar Popović (orientalist)
Aleksandar Popović (Serbian Александар Поповић; born 1931 in Belgrade ; died 2014 in Paris ), in French spelling Alexandre Popovic , was a Serbian political scientist, historian and orientalist with a French passport. He is considered one of the most prominent Serbian orientalists.
He obtained his diploma in arabe littéral at INALCO (1957). Having initially been interested in the history of the medieval Muslim world, he turned to the modern and contemporary history of Muslims in the Balkans. He was Directeur de recherche at the Center national de la recherche scientifique ( CNRS ; German National Center for Scientific Research ) in Paris . He was a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . His specialty was Islam in the Balkans and the mystical orders of Islam. Together with Gilles Veinstein he gave the book Les Voies d'Allah. Les ordres mystiques dans la monde musulman des origines à aujourd'hui about the Sufi orders in the Muslim world from the beginning until today. He died in Paris after a long illness.
Publications (selection)
- Alexandre Popović: L'Islam balkanique: les musulmans du sudest europeen dans la période postottomane. (Eastern European Institute at the Free University of Berlin. Balkanological Publications, Vol. 11.) xii, 492 pp. Berlin: Commissioned by Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1986.
- Le “radicalisme islamique” en Yougoslavie, in: Radicalismes Islamiques, Vol. 2, Paris 1986
- Les ordres mystiques dans l'Islam: cheminements et situation actuelle / A. Popovic. - Paris: Éd. de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986
- Les Turcs de Bulgarie (1878–1985), in: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, 27, 1986
- Islamic movements in Yugoslavia, p. 273 ff., In: Andreas Kappeler / Gerhard Simon / Georg Brunner: The Muslims in the Soviet Union and in Yugoslavia. Identity. Politics. Resistance. Cologne 1989
- Bektachiyya: Études sur l'ordre mystique des Bektachis et les groupes relevant de Hadji Bektach / Alexandre Popovic. - Istanbul: Éditions Isis, 1995
- Alexandre Popovic & Gilles Veinstein (eds.): Les Voies d'Allah. Les ordres mystiques dans la monde musulman des origines à aujourd'hui. Paris: Fayard, 1996. ISBN 9782213594491
- therein the articles: Les Balkans post-ottomans and La Rifâ'iyya
- Alexandre Popovic: "La Qâdiriyya / Kadiriyye dans les Balkans. Une vue d'ensemble" in Th. Zarcone, E. Işın u. A. Buehler (eds.): "The Qâdiriyya Order", Special Issue of the Journal of the History of Sufism (2000) 167-212
- Alexandre Popovic: The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq, in the 3rd / 9th Century. , Trans. Léon King, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton 1999, ISBN 1-55876-162-4 .
- Muslim intellectuals in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the twentieth century: continuities and changes (p. 211 ff.)
See also
- Fehim Bajraktarević (Bosnian)
- Gilles Veinstein (French)
- Darko Tanasković (Serbian)
References and footnotes
literature
- F Giomi: "Obituary: In Memoriam: Alexandre Popovic (1931-2014)". 2014 partial view
Web links
- Obituary (Nathalie Clayer)
- IN MEMORIAM: Aleksandar Popović (Darko Tanasković)
- Александар Поповић (1931–2014) (Дарко Танасковић)
- Preminuo academy Aleksandar Popović
- SUB GÖ
- data.bnf.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popović, Aleksandar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popovic, Aleksandar; Popovic, Alexandre; Поповић, Александар; Popović, Alexandre; Popovic, Alexandre; Popović, Aleksandar; Поповић, Александар |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian-French political scientist, historian, orientalist, specialist in Islam in the Balkans (Sufism) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris |