Serge de Beaurecueil

Serge de Laugier de Beaurecueil (born August 28, 1917 - March 2, 2005 ) was a French Dominican . As an Islamic scholar , he specialized in Sufism and translated medieval mystical writings.

biography

De Beaurecueil was born in 1917 into an aristocratic family to separated parents. He attended the Catholic private school Gerson and the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris . In 1935 he entered the Dominican Order and completed a degree in theology at Le Saulchoir College under the direction of Marie-Dominique Chenu . In 1939 he was given the opportunity to use the Arabic he had learned at the Lycée when he was sent to Lebanon for military service . In 1946 he founded the Institut dominicain d'études orientales (IDEO) in Cairo together with Georges Anawati and Jacques Jomier . He began there with research on Islamic mysticism , specialized in the mystic Chwadscha ʿAbdallāh al-Ansārī and translated his works from Arabic and Persian . His annotated French translation of the Munadschat al-Ansari includes a foreword by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi .

In 1963 he was given a chair in the history of Islamic mysticism at the University of Kabul . For 20 years he lived in the Afghan capital, where he campaigned for the numerous orphans and street children. In 1983 the Soviet invasion forced him to leave the country.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jean-Jacques Pérennès: Georges Anawati (1905-1994). An Egyptian Christian and the secret of Islam (= series of publications by the Georges Anawati Foundation. Vol. 7). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30379-1 . Pp. 150-151.

literature

• Jean-Jacques Pérennès: Passion Kaboul, le père Serge de Beaurecueil . Éditions du Cerf 2014.
• Guy Monnot: Serge de Beaurecueil (1917-2005) , in Journal asiatique , 2005, Vol. 293 No. 2, pp. 387-391.