Jacqueline Chabbi

Jacqueline Chabbi (born in 1943) is a historian and a professor of Arab Studies at the University of Paris-VIII (Paris Saint-Denis). Her research concerns the history of the medieval Muslim world.

Biography Chabbi holds a graduate agrégée of Arabic and she presented a thesis in 1992 on State Arab and Islamic Studies at the University Paris-Sorbonne 1. She was associated University Professor.

Selected bibliography Books Dieu de la Bible, Dieu du Coran [God of the Bible, God of the Koran] (with Thomas Römer), Paris: Seuil, 2020, 304 pages, On a perdu Adam. La création dans le Coran [Adam went lost: Creation in the Koran], Paris: Seuil, 2019, 372 pages, Les Trois Piliers de l'islam : Lecture anthropologique du Coran [The three pillers of Islam: an anthropological reading of the Koran], Paris: Seuil, 2016, 384 pages, / Reprint "Points Essais", 2018, Le Coran décrypté : Figures bibliques en Arabie [The Koran deciphered: biblical figures in Arabia], preface by André Caquot, 415 pages, Paris: Editions Fayard (2008). Reprinted by Cerf, "Lexio" series, 2014, Le Seigneur des tribus. L'islam de Mahomet [The lord of the tribes: the Islam of Mohammed], 725 pages, Paris: Noesis (Agnes Viénot) (1997). Reprinted by Editions du CNRS, 734 pages, 2010, L'Arabie occidentale au début du septième siècle : Étude des représentations et des mentalités [West Arabia at the beginning of the 7th century: a study of representations and mentalities], Lille: A.N.R.T., 1992 Maître et disciples dans les traditions religieuses [Master and disciples in religious traditions] (collective work), Paris: Cerf, 1990

Articles Chabbi is the author of many articles, including some about Sufism.

Article Sufism in the Encyclopædia Universalis. Article Martyrdom of Al-Hallaj in the Encyclopædia Universalis. Notes on the historical development of ascetical and mystical movements in Khursan, Studia Islamica, No. XLVI, 1977, p. 5-72.