Renaud Soler

Degree in Arabic, doctorate in history and associate professor of history; lecturer in Islamology and Islamic thought (8^th-18^th centuries) at the University of Strasbourg (Faculty of Languages, Department of Arabic Studies). Books: Edward Robinson (1794-1863) et la naissance de l’archéologie biblique, Geuthner, 2014; Écrire, initier et transmettre. Local identity and confraternity tradition in the Ḥāfiẓiyya Ḫalwatiyya, a Sufi confraternity of Middle Egypt (19^th-20^th centuries), Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo, 2021.

Maxime Rodinson: What Marxism Can Teach Us About the History of Islam Renaud Soler · September 2023 Between the nineteen fifties and nineties, Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) was one of France’s most famous Arabists. Gifted with an admirable encyclopedic culture, author of thousands of recensions, he was also an influential member of the left-wing intelligentsia, often called upon by the media for (…)