Louis-Alexandre Olivier de Corancez
Louis-Alexandre Olivier de Corancez (born September 23, 1770 in Paris , † July 2, 1832 ) was a French orientalist and participant in the Egyptian expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte . He was the son of the lawyer and writer Guillaume Olivier de Corancez . Corancez became a member of the Institut d'Égypte, founded by the French a year earlier, in 1799 . From 1802 to 1808 he served as the French consul in Aleppo , Syria , at that time the capital of an Ottoman administrative province.
Corancez collected, among other things, reports on the expansion of the Wahhabis on the Arabian Peninsula and the attacks of the followers of Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad Ibn Saud on the holy sites of the Shiites Najaf and Karbala in 1802. After his return to France Corancez published his reports and collected documents anonymously under the title “Histoire des Wahabis depuis leur origine jusqu'à la fin de 1809”. As an author, he only used the initials of his first name "LA".
The work was one of the first attempts by European orientalists to analyze the Wahhabi movement within the Muslim world, which was then completely unknown in Europe. In it Corancez already attested to the Wahhabis that they “seem determined to still play a major role in world history”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hussein I. El-Mudarris: Le Consulat de France à Alep au XVIIe siecle: Journal de Louis Gedoyn, vie de Francois Picquet, memoires de Laurent d'Arvieux . aleppoart / Ray Publishing, Aleppo / Istanbul 2009, p. 473 .
- ↑ Louis-Alexandre Olivier de Corancez: Histoire des Wahabis depuis leur origine jusqu'à la fin de 1809 (published 1810) . In: Jean-Luc Gourdin, Antoine Sfeir (ed.): Les Cahiers de l'Orient (reprint) . Paris 2006, p. xviii .
- ↑ "Histoire des Wahabis", p. 3
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| SURNAME | Corancez, Louis-Alexandre Olivier de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist and participant in the Egyptian expedition |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1832 |