André Raymond

André Raymond (7 August 1925 – 18 February 2011) was professor emeritus at the University of Provence. He was an expert on the history of the city in the Arab world.

Early life[]

André Raymond was born on 7 August 1925 in Montargis, France.^{[citation needed]}

Career[]

Raymond was director of the in Damascus, and of the , in Aix-en-Provence. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus at the University of Provence.^[1]

Raymond was an expert on the city in the Arab world about which he wrote several books. In 2002 his essays and articles on the subject were collected for a volume in the Variorum Collected Studies series titled Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb.^[2]

Death[]

Raymond died on 18 February 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Selected publications[]

• The great cities in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: An introduction. New York University Press, 1984. () ISBN 0814773915
• Le Caire. 1993.
• Cairo: City of history. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. (Translator ) ISBN 9774246608
• Raymond, A. (2000). Cairo. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674003160.
• Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb. Ashgate Variorum, 2002. (Variorum Collected Studies series) ISBN 978-0-86078-874-4

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