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