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Claude Cahen (
1909 -
1991) was a
French orientalist. He specialized in the studies of the
Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the
Crusades, and
social history of the medieval Islamic society (works on
Futuwa orders).
Claude Cahen was born to a French
Jewish family. Cahen was married and had six children, including the historian Michel Cahen who wrote a biography of his father. Cahen was a member of the
French Communist Party from the 1930s until 1960, and remained an active
Marxist afterwards. Despite his origins, he neither self-identified as Jewish, nor supported the
State of Israel. Cahen has been called "the
doyen of Islamic social history and one of the most influential Islamic historians of [his] century," and "the best historian of the Middle East in the twentieth century."
Mark Cohen describes him as a distinguished Islamic historian. He was a prisoner of war in
World War II. and an issue of the journal
Arabica (43/1 (1996)) was dedicated to him. That journal also includes a nearly complete bibliography of his works.
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