Henri Lammens
Deceased Person
1862 – 1937
Who was Henri Lammens?
Henri Lammens was a prominent Belgian-born Jesuit and Orientalist.
Born in Ghent, Belgium of Catholic Flemish stock, Henri Lammens joined the Society of Jesus in Beirut at the age of fifteen, and settled permanently in Lebanon. During his first eight years there Lammens mastered the Arabic language, as well as Latin, and Greek. His first work of scholarship was a dictionary of Arabic usage. He edited al-Bashir, the Jesuit newspaper of Beirut, and after much travelling, he began his career as an Orientalist at the School of Oriental Studies at the Jesuit College in 1907.
He published a series of studies on the Umayyads, and several on pre-Islamic Arabia: Etudes sur le regne du calife Omaiyade Mo'awia ler, Le berceau de l'Islam; L'Arabie occidentale à la veille de l'Hegire. He contributed many articles to the first edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, as well as to various learned journals.
His contributions are considered highly influential among Western historians of Islam; and yet he has often been criticized for his skewed portrayal of many issues.
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