| André Adam | |
| Birth Name: | André Clément Henri Adam |
| Birth Date: | 30 July 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Saint-Lô |
| Death Date: | 2 July 1991 |
| Death Place: | Veulettes-sur-Mer |
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André Clément Henri Adam (30 July 1911, in Saint-Lô – 2 July 1991, in Veulettes-sur-Mer) was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa.[1] He wrote extensively on Casablanca, Morocco, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled , and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled .[2] [3]
He studied literature at l’École normale supérieure (1933), earned a diploma from l’École libre des sciences politiques (1935), and earned an Agrégation de Lettres (1936). He also held a certification in Standard Arabic from L’Institut des hautes-études marocaines (1942), and a in letters and human sciences from Paris-Sorbonne University with high honors (1968).
He was appointed to work for the Direction générale des affaires indigènes du Maroc of the French Protectorate in Morocco (1943-1945) and was made an honorary reserve captain. He served in various civil roles as a professor agrégé in Rabat 1937, Fes 1941, and at L’Institut des hautes études marocaines in Rabat (1946-1949). He served as the director of L’École marocaine d’administration 1955–1960, also in Rabat. He taught as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Letters at Aix-Marseille University until 1970. He was named professor emeritus at Paris Descartes University (1980).
His publications on Casablanca, and , are heavily cited by authors writing later about the city, such as Abdallah Laroui, Jean-Louis Cohen, and Susan Gilson Miller.