Jacques Berque

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Jacques Augustin Berque (born June 4, 1910 in Frenda , Algeria , † June 27, 1995 in Saint-Julien-en-Born , Landes , France ) was a French scholar of Islam and sociologist . His area of ​​expertise was the decolonization of Algeria and Morocco and the Arab world in general.

biography

Berque was born to French parents in Frenda, Algeria (now in the province of Tiaret ). He was a pied noir , i.e. H. a white European settler in Algeria. His father, Augustin Berque, was an orientalist. Jacques Berque graduated from the University of Algiers and received his Master of Arts degree in 1930. He joined the French army and worked as a civil servant in Morocco from 1934 to 1944 . As such, he worked as an agronomist , trying to improve Moroccan agriculture and farmers' lives. He later became administrators of the Seksawa tribe near Imi n'Tanout, Atlas Mountains . A five-year stay among them led to the book Structures Sociales du Haut-Atlas (1955, also dissertation), which established his scientific reputation. The work is considered a solid ethnography of the Berbers . Jacques Berque spent his last years in a region in southwestern France where the Berque family came from. He died in Saint-Julien-en-Born.

career path

In 1947, Berque became a Middle East expert for UNESCO . In 1953 he was sent to Egypt and returned to Paris two years later. After the publication of his dissertation he became director of Muslim sociological studies at the École pratique des hautes études and a year later, in 1956, professor of the social history of contemporary Islam at the Collège de France ; he held a position until his retirement in 1981. He later headed the Ministry of Research (1981–1982) and the Ministry of Education (1984–1985).

He was also the translator of the Koran .

literature

  • James Whidden Jacques Berque , in Philip Daileader, Philip Whalen (Editors) French Historians 1900-2000 , Wiley-Blackwell 2010

Fonts

  • Essai sur la méthode juridique maghrébine , Rabat, typogr. Marcel Leforestier, 1944
  • Structures sociales du Haut Atlas , Presses Universitaire de France (PUF), Bibliothèque de sociologie contemporaine (Série B): Travaux du center d'études sociologiques, 1955, new edition 1978
  • Histoire sociale d´un village Egyptia au XX siècle , 1957
  • Al-Yousi. Problèmes de la culture marocaine au XVIIe siècle , 1958, 2001 (about the Sufi writer Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi (1631–1691))
  • Le Maghreb entre deux guerres , Le Seuil 1962, 1970, 1979
  • Dépossession du monde , Edition Seuil 1964
  • with JP Charnay L´ambivalence dans la culture arabe , Paris: Anthropos 1967
  • L'egypte: impérialism et révolution , Gallimard 1967, 1980
  • L'Orient second , Gallimard 1970
  • with J. Coutland, JL Duclos a. a. Les palestiniens et la crise israelo-arabe , Paris: Ed. Sociales 1974
  • Langages arabes du présent , Gallimard 1974, 1980
  • Nomades et vagabons , 1975
  • with J. Couleau Nous partons au Maroc , PUF 1977
  • L'interieur de Maghreb. XVe-XIXe siécle , Gallimard 1978
  • Arabies: entretiens avec Mirèse Akar , Stock 1978
  • De l´Euphrate al´Atlas , 2 volumes, Paris: Sindbad 1978, 1999
  • L'Islam au défi , Gallimard 1980
  • Andalousie , Paris, Sindbad 1982
  • Ulémas, fondateurs, insurgés du Maghreb, XVIIe siècle , Paris: Sindbad 1982, Arles 1998
  • L'Islam au temps du monde , La Bibliothèque de l'islam, Sindbad 1984, 2002
  • Aspects de la foi de l'Islam , Brussels 1985
  • L'immigration à l'école de la République, rapport au ministre de l'Education nationale , CNDP, 1985
  • Le Coran , Paris, Sindbad 1989, 1991 and Ed. Albin Michel 2002 (translation with commentary)
  • Relire le Coran , Albin Michel 1993
  • Il reste un avenir, Entretiens avec Jean Sur , Arléa, 1993
  • Mémoires des deux rives , Paris: Ed. Seuil 1989 (memories)
  • Une cause jamais perdue. Pour une Méditerranée plurielle: écrits politiques (1956-1995) , Albin Michel 1998
  • Les Arabes suivi de Andalousies , Sindbad / Actes Sud 1997 (first 1973 or 1981)
  • Les Arabes: L'Islam et nous , éd. Mille et une nuits 1997
  • Le Liban second , Actes Sud 1999
  • Opera Minora , Éditions Bouchène, 2 volumes 2001
  • Musiques sur le fleuve , Albin Michel, 1996

Writings in German

  • The Koran reread , Frankfurt am Main: Lembeck, 1995, ISBN 978-3-87476-310-3
  • The Arabs , Stuttgart: German Book Association, 1961.

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personal data
SURNAME Berque, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berque, Jacques Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French scholar of Islam and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Frenda , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1995
Place of death Saint-Julien-en-Born , Landes, France