Le Tourneau, Roger (Personal Name)

His L'Islam contemporain, 1950.

His Histoire du Maroc moderne, 1992: t.p. (Roger Le Tourneau)

Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (Docteur ès-lettres; 1907-1971)

Vingt-cinq ans d'histoire algérienne, 1956: title page (R. Le Tourneau)

Memoire Afrique du Nord website, viewed June 10, 2015 (Roger Le Tourneau; b. Paris Sep. 2, 1907; named professor at collège Moulay-Idris, Fès, in 1930; taught French and Latin, also was interested in the city and in Arabo-Muslim civilization, beginning his orientalist career; studied classical and dialectal Arabic; in Mar. 1941 became Directeur de l'instruction publique, Tunisia; imprisoned twice during WWII; completed his thesis in Paris at Centre des hautes études d'administration musulmane; named to Faculté des Lettres d'Alger; in 1957 named to the Faculté des Lettres d'Aix-en-Provence, where he created a Centre d'études islamiques; from 1958 to 1970 he was a regular visiting professor at Princeton University; d. in Aix Apr. 7, 1971)