Anne-Marie Delcambre Explained

Anne-Marie Delcambre (26 June 1943, in L'Hermitière – 2 January 2016 in Saint-James)^[1] was a French Islamic studies scholar and Arabist.She obtained a Paris-Sorbonne University postgraduate doctorate in Islamic studies, as well as a doctorate in Law studies.

Anne-Marie Delcambre taught Arabic language at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and contributed to the Encyclopædia of Islam by writing articles.^[2] She caused controversy among Islamic apologists by publishing translations of Islamic texts that they had carefully avoided mentioning in their works and in the media.^[3]

Published works

Anne-Marie Delcambre wrote mainly on the subject of Islamic civilization. Her work Mahomet: la parole d’Allah became one of the top five best-sellers of the Découvertes Gallimard collection.^[4] Other works include:

• Méthode d'arabe Linguaphone, Linguaphone Institute, 1979
• Mahomet, Desclée de Brouwer, 1999
• L'Islam, La Découverte, 2001
• Enquêtes sur l'islam : En hommage à Antoine Moussali, collectif, Desclée de Brouwer, 2004
• La schizophrénie de l'Islam, Desclée de Brouwer, 2006^[5]
• Soufi ou mufti ? : Quel avenir pour l'islam ?, Desclée de Brouwer, 2007. Préfacé par Daniel Pipes
• Inside Islam (translation of L'Islam des interdits, Desclée de Brouwer, 2008)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès. deces.matchid.io.
2. Web site: Delcambre Islam | University Press | Marquette University. www.marquette.edu.
3. Entretien avec Marie-Thérèse Urvoy, « L'islam dans sa réalité », La Nouvelle Revue d'histoire, no 89 de mars-avril 2017, p. 6-9.
4. Mahomet: la parole d’Allah, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Religions » (no 22), 1987, 192 p. ISBN 978-2-070-53030-4
5. Web site: LA SCHIZOPHRÉNIE DE L'ISLAM. March 24, 2006. Le Figaro.