Évariste Lévi-Provençal

He then joined the Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines. He held positions at the University of Algiers (1926) and later the Sorbonne (1945). Lévi-Provençal was the founder of the French study of Islam and the first director of the Institute of Islamic Studies (Institut d'études islamiques) in Algiers. He specialized in the history of al-Andalus and the Muslims of Spain. He worked on editing and translating the Arabic sources for the medieval history of Spain, often with Spanish Arabist Emilio García Gómez. His writings about Muslims scholarship were both admiring and critical. He was anticolonial in his leanings, and he tended to ignore or underplay Jewish sources and obfuscate his own Jewish origins to avoid French antisemitism.

Évariste Lévi-Provençal studied at University of Algiers 1. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is oriental studies. Employment is recorded with University of Paris and University of Algiers 1. Works named in the authority record are Nasab Kuraish (Dār al-Maʻārif, 1982). Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour, officier d'académie, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Officier de l'Instruction publique.

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