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 | |
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Born | 28 June 1926 Yvetot, Seine-Maritime, France |
Died | 13 June 2018 (age 91) Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France |
Occupation(s) | Writer and historian |
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]
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)