Maxime Rodinson

Affiliations: 
Université de Paris 5 Panthéon-Sorbonne 
Area:
Marxism History, Sociology, Islam
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Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian (Ge'ez) at EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France). He was the author of a body of work, including the book Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam. [from wikipedia]

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