Muriel Debié

Muriel Debié
Born28 December 1967 Edit this on Wikidata
Pau Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationHistorian Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Knight of the National Order of Merit (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://ephe.academia.edu/murieldebie Edit this on Wikidata

Muriel Debié, born in 1967, is a French historian specialist of the Syriac world.

Biography

Muriel Debié was born in Pau on December 28, 1967. After studying at Henri-IV and then at the École normale supérieure, she pursued a path as an orientalist at the Catholic University of Paris and later at the Sorbonne (Paris IV), where she completed a thesis under the supervision of Bernard Flusin on Western Syriac historiography.[1]

She teaches as a director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), where she holds the chair of Oriental Christianities.[2] One of her research topics focuses on the complex relationships between Christians and Muslims in the early Muslim caliphates.[3] Additionally, Muriel Debié contributed to France Culture, addressing topics related to her research, such as Ephrem the Syrian, the city of Antioch or the figure of Jacob of Serugh, among others.[4][5][6][7]

She is generally regarded, along with her colleague Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, as a significant Syriac scholar.[8][9] The two researchers also collaborated within the framework of Les Belles Lettres, where they oversaw the publication of a new collection dedicated to Oriental Christianity.[10][11] Their joint work, "Le monde syriaque" (The Syriac World), received a major award from the Institut du monde arabe in 2018[12][13] and the medievalist prize la Dame à la licorne.[14]

The following year, in 2019, Debié contributed to the writing of The Quran of Historians[15][16][17] and later joined the Institut Universitaire de France as a senior member in 2020.[18]

In November 2022, she was appointed a Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite for her academic research.[19]

Decorations

References

  1. ^ Debié, Muriel (1999-01-01). Ordonner les temps : étude de l'historiographie de langue syriaque et de ses rapports avec l'historiographie grecque du Ve au IXe siècle (These de doctorat thesis). Paris 4. Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  2. ^ "L'écriture de l'Histoire en syriaque, entre hellénisme et islam, avec Muriel Debié". France Culture (in French). 2016-01-17. Archived from the original on 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  3. ^ Daryāyī, Tūraǧ; Debié, Muriel; Griffith, Sidney Harrison; Qāḍī, Wadād al- (2016). Christians and others in the Umayyad state. Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. ISBN 978-1-61491-031-2.
  4. ^ "Antioche, avec Muriel Debié et Charbel Maalouf". France Culture (in French). 2023-06-18. Archived from the original on 2023-08-12. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. ^ "Coran : le regard des historiens". France Culture (in French). 2019-11-21. Archived from the original on 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  6. ^ "Jacques de Saroug, avec Muriel Debié". France Culture (in French). 2019-08-11. Archived from the original on 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  7. ^ "Muriel Debié, "Ephrem le Syrien, un poète pour notre temps"..." France Culture (in French). 2016-02-28. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  8. ^ Fady NOUN, « Pour (re)découvrir plus de 2 000 ans d’histoire et de culture syriaques », L'Orient le Jour,‎ 2017 https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1090029/pour-redecouvrir-plus-de-2-000-ans-dhistoire-et-de-culture-syriaques.html Archived 2021-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Destephen, Sylvain (2019-09-01). "Françoise Briquel Chatonnet et Muriel D: Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2017". Revue de l'histoire des religions (236): 613–615. doi:10.4000/rhr.10010. ISSN 0035-1423. Archived from the original on 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  10. ^ commentaire, L'équipe du site 17 janvier 2017 Un (2017-01-17). "Bibliothèque de l'Orient chrétien : une nouvelle collection en librairie". Éditions Les Belles Lettres : le blog (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-12-06. Retrieved 2024-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "La Bibliothèque de l'Orient Chrétien, avec Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet et Muriel Debié". France Culture (in French). 2023-01-29. Archived from the original on 2023-01-29. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  12. ^ "Prix littéraire de l'Oeuvre d'Orient : le monachisme d'Orient couronné". La Croix (in French). 2018-05-28. ISSN 0242-6056. Archived from the original on 2020-08-30. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  13. ^ « Summer at the Institut », Al-Ahram Weekly,‎ 11 july 2018
  14. ^ "Le Prix de la Dame à la licorne – Société des Amis du musée de Cluny" (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-12-13. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  15. ^ "Comprendre le Coran". www.lhistoire.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  16. ^ Grasso, Valentina A. (2022). "The Qu'rān through the Lens of Late Antiquity, Late Antiquity through the Lens of the Qu'rān: Approaches, Perspectives and Possibilities". Harvard Theological Review. 115 (3): 466–476. doi:10.1017/S001781602200027X. ISSN 0017-8160. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  17. ^ Jambet, Christian (2023-06-02). "Le Coran des historiens et le Coran des musulmans:". Commentaire. Numéro 182 (2): 431–435. doi:10.3917/comm.182.0431. ISSN 0180-8214. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  18. ^ "Les membres - Institut Universitaire de France". www.iufrance.fr. Archived from the original on 2023-09-25. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  19. ^ Décret du 23 novembre 2022 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national du Mérite, archived from the original on 2023-11-14, retrieved 2024-03-07