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Claude Gilliot

كلود جيلو

Notable figure 1940–2025 · Source: Claude Gilliot, IREMAM, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 8, al-ʿUkayli, pp. 133–166 · Second source: John Burton, review of Exégèse, langue et théologie en islam, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 55/3 (1992)

Field: Philology and Semitics

Affiliation

Exégèse, langue et théologie en islam; Qur’anic language

Biography

A Frenchman, agrégé in Arabic and professor emeritus at Aix-Marseille University. His books include Exégèse, langue et théologie en islam on al-Tabari (1990). He also wrote on language and the Qur'an in al-Tabari (1988), on shawahid in language (1996), and on the language and style of the Qur'an with Pierre Larcher (2003).