Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay

Jeanne Chantal Marie-Louise Lemercier-Quelquejay (28 June 1926 –13 June 2018)^[1] was a French writer and historian, whose work often focused on Islam in the Soviet Union.

Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay
Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay in 1981
Born	28 June 1926 Yvetot, Seine-Maritime, France
Died	13 June 2018 (age 91) Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Occupation(s)	Writer and historian

Biography

Lemercier-Quelquejay was born in Yvetot, Seine-Maritime.^[1] Lemercier-Quelquejay collaborated with scholar Alexandre Bennigsen on several publications.^[2][3] Their studies were "largely responsible for bringing Russian Islam into the orbit of Western scholarship."^[4] Lemercier-Quelquejay died in 2018, at the age of 91, in Rouen.^[1]

Publications

In addition to several books with Alexandre Bennigsen, including the "landmark" Islam in the Soviet Union (1965),^[5] Lemercier-Quelquejay's scholarly work appeared in journals including Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique,^[6][7] Harvard Ukrainian Studies,^[8] Religion in Communist Lands,^[9] and Central Asian Survey.^[10]

• The Evolution of the Muslim Nationalities of the USSR and Their Linguistic Problems (1961, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[11]
• "Un document inédit sur la campagne de Russie de 1812" (1963)^[6]
• "Les bibliothèques et les archives de Turquie en tant que sources de documents sur l'histoire de Russie" (1964)^[12]
• "La Russie, la France et la Turquie a la veille de la Campagne de Russie, Un document inédit des Archives de l'Empire Ottoman" (1965)^[13]
• "La campagne de Pierre le Grand sur le Prut: D'après les documents des Archives Ottomanes" (1966)^[14]
• "Les missions orthodoxes en pays musulmans de Moyenne- et Basse-Volga, 1552-1865" (1967)^[15]
• Islam in the Soviet Union (1965, 1967, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[16]
• "Un condottiere lithuanien du XVIe siècle: Le prince Dimitrij Višneveckij et l'origine de la Seč Zaporogue d'après les Archives ottomanes" (1969)^[17]
• "Les marchands de la Cour ottomane et le commerce des fourrures moscovites dans la seconde moitié du xvie siècle" (1970, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[18]
• "Three Ottoman Documents Concerning Bohdan Xmel'nyckyj" (1977)^[8]
• "Muslim religious conservatism and dissent in the USSR" (1978, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[19]
• "'Official' Islam in the Soviet Union" (1979, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[9]
• "Azerbaijan: The Foreign Influences" (1980)^[20]
• "La structure sociale, politique et religieuse du Caucase du nord au XVIe siècle" (1984)^[7]
• "From tribe to Umma" (1984)^[10]
• "Soviet Experience of Muslim Guerrilla Warfare and the War in Afghanistan" (1984, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[21]
• Le soufi et le commissaire: Les confréries musulmanes en URSS (1988, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[4]
• Les mouvements nationaux chez les musulmans de Russie, II: La presse et le mouvement national chez les musulmans de Russie avant 1920 (2020, with Alexandre Bennigsen)^[22]