Jeanne Chantal Marie-Louise Lemercier-Quelquejay (28 June 1926 – 13 June 2018) was a French writer and historian, whose work often focused on Islam in the Soviet Union.
Biography Lemercier-Quelquejay was born in Yvetot, Seine-Maritime. Lemercier-Quelquejay collaborated with scholar Alexandre Bennigsen on several publications. Their studies were "largely responsible for bringing Russian Islam into the orbit of Western scholarship." Lemercier-Quelquejay died in 2018, at the age of 91, in Rouen.
Publications In addition to several books with Alexandre Bennigsen, including the "landmark" Islam in the Soviet Union (1965), Lemercier-Quelquejay's scholarly work appeared in journals including Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Religion in Communist Lands, and Central Asian Survey. The Evolution of the Muslim Nationalities of the USSR and Their Linguistic Problems (1961, with Alexandre Bennigsen) "Un document inédit sur la campagne de Russie de 1812" (1963) "Les bibliothèques et les archives de Turquie en tant que sources de documents sur l'histoire de Russie" (1964) "La Russie, la France et la Turquie a la veille de la Campagne de Russie, Un document inédit des Archives de l'Empire Ottoman" (1965) "La campagne de Pierre le Grand sur le Prut: D'après les documents des Archives Ottomanes" (1966) "Les missions orthodoxes en pays musulmans de Moyenne- et Basse-Volga, 1552-1865" (1967) Islam in the Soviet Union (1965, 1967, with Alexandre Bennigsen) "Un condottiere lithuanien du XVIe siècle: Le prince Dimitrij Višneveckij et l'origine de la Seč Zaporogue d'après les Archives ottomanes" (1969) "Les marchands de la Cour ottomane et le commerce des fourrures moscovites dans la seconde moitié du xvie siècle" (1970, with Alexandre Bennigsen) "Three Ottoman Documents Concerning Bohdan Xmel'nyckyj" (1977) "Muslim religious conservatism and dissent in the USSR" (1978, with Alexandre Bennigsen) "'Official' Islam in the Soviet Union" (1979, with Alexandre Bennigsen) "Azerbaijan: The Foreign Influences" (1980) "La structure sociale, politique et religieuse du Caucase du nord au XVIe siècle" (1984) "From tribe to Umma" (1984) "Soviet Experience of Muslim Guerrilla Warfare and the War in Afghanistan" (1984, with Alexandre Bennigsen) Le soufi et le commissaire: Les confréries musulmanes en URSS (1988, with Alexandre Bennigsen) Les mouvements nationaux chez les musulmans de Russie, II: La presse et le mouvement national chez les musulmans de Russie avant 1920 (2020, with Alexandre Bennigsen)
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