Roger Arnaldez

Roger Arnaldez (born September 13, 1911 in Paris , † April 7, 2006 in Paris) was a French scholar of Islam.

Life

After studying philosophy and literature , which he with the promotion ended, he was after successful Agregationsprüfung first teacher at the Lycée Mont-de-Marsan (1937-1938) and from 1938 to 1939 at a French Lycée in Cairo , the deputy head he after military service and German captivity from 1945 to 1946. From 1948 to 1950 he was the French cultural attaché in Cairo. He was then Professor in Heliopolis (1950–1955), then Professor of Arabic Literature in Bordeaux (1955–1957) and Professor of Arabic Philosophy and Muslim Civilization at the Faculty of Literature in Lyon (1957–1968) and later for Arabic Philosophy and Islamic studies at the Sorbonne in Paris (1969–1978) and as director of the ERA for Arabic lexicology . He was also the editor of the works of Philo of Alexandria . In 1986 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and in 1997 was elected President. He was also an associate member of the Royal Belgian Academy and a corresponding member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.

Arnaldez was by Benedict XVI. quoted in the sensational papal speech from Regensburg .

Works

• A la croisée des trois monothéismes . Albin Michel, 1993.
• Averroes. A rationalist in Islam . Notre Dame 2000, ISBN 0-268-02007-8
• Grammaire et théologie chez Ibn Hazm de Cordoue . Vrin, 1956.
• Jésus, fils de Marie, prophète de l'Islam . Desclée de Brouwer, 1980.
• Trois messages pour un seul Dieu . Albin Michel, 1983.