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Henri Lammens

Born

in Ghent, Belgium

July 01, 1862

Died

April 23, 1937

Genre

Jesuit, Islam History

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LAMMENS, Henri (Ghent, 1 July 1862 – Beirut, 23 April 1937), Jesuit and historian of Islam (Arabic هنري لامنس)

Henri Lammens is born on the 1st of July 1862 in Ghent as the child of wage worker Bernardus Lammens and Joanna Livina Vandeneste. His father is an alcoholic who leaves his wife and their six other children during Lammens’ childhood. Despite his modest background, one of Lammens’ primary school teachers in Ghent notices his apparent brightness and gets him admitted to the Jesuit-run Apostolic School in Turnhout, a breeding ground for missionaries. Lammens quickly lives up to the schools’ reputation. Just fifteen years old, he leaves for Lebanon in March 1877, where he enters into the Societas Jesu on 23 July 1878. Following its resu LAMMENS, Henri (Ghent, 1 July 1862 – Beirut, 23 April 1937), Jesuit and historian of Islam (Arabic هنري لامنس)

Henri Lammens is born on the 1st of July 1862 in Ghent as the child of wage worker Bernardus Lammens and Joanna Livina Vandeneste. His father is an alcoholic who leaves his wife and their six other children during Lammens’ childhood. Despite his modest background, one of Lammens’ primary school teachers in Ghent notices his apparent brightness and gets him admitted to the Jesuit-run Apostolic School in Turnhout, a breeding ground for missionaries. Lammens quickly lives up to the schools’ reputation. Just fifteen years old, he leaves for Lebanon in March 1877, where he enters into the Societas Jesu on 23 July 1878. Following its resurrection in 1814, this order was present in the region since 1831. Lammens spends 1878 as a pupil of the Jesuit College of Beirut and fulfils his noviciate in a convent north of Beirut during the next two years. In 1881, he returns to Mount Lebanon’s capital to study rhetoric at the Jesuit Université Saint Joseph (usj), progressing to a study in philosophy in 1883, which he completes two years later. During these years, Lammens acquires a profound knowledge of the Arabic language, which he subsequently goes on to teach at the Jesuit College between 1886 and 1891. These years see his first publications, mainly of a philological nature, the most prolific of which is a textbook for French students of Arabic (1891).After ending his teaching assignment he completes his Jesuit formation by studying theology in Beirut, Wales (1891-1893) and Leuven (1895) and, finally, spending his last year of training in Vienna in 1896. Now a full Jesuit Father, he moves back to Beirut, where he fulfils various administrative tasks in the College.

During his final years of Jesuit training, Lammens exhibits an increasing scholarly activity. In 1894, he publishes a study on the seventh-century Umayyad poet Al-Akhtal, his first feat as an historian of Islam. In the following years, however, his budding activity in the study of Islamic history is eclipsed by other scholarly endeavours. Between 1897 and 1907 Lammens, like many contemporary Orientalist scholars, undertakes numerous travels throughout Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The articles he publishes on these trips show him studyingthe history and religion of indigenous communities like the Alawis and Yazidi and indulging in amateur archaeological research on the region’s Early Christian and Crusader history, illustrating Lammens’ wide-ranging fascination for – especially Christian – Middle-Eastern history and society. In cooperation with the Brussels Cinquantenaire museum’s director Franz Cumont and with subsidies from the Belgian government, moreover, he also (illegally) helps transfer a series of archaeological artefacts from Syria to Belgium.

Simultaneously, he regularly publishes on contemporary Middle-Eastern Christianity in French Catholic journals and in the Jesuit-run Arabic periodicals Al-Machriq and Al-Bachir. In these articles Lammens, as a member of a Catholic order closely associated with France’s long standing claim to being the ‘protector’ of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, strongly supports French regional ambitions, regularly criticising the actions of France’s European rivals for influence over local Christian groups. To Lammens, France best guarantees the success of the Catholic Church’s activities in the region that, under the influence of the contemporary Unionism-movement, works towards reuniting local Christians with Catholicism. By scorning the internal politics and spiritual qualities of indigenous Churches, he supports the Unionist campaign.

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	رواية الشقيقتين by Henri Lammens, هنري لامنس, أنطون شحيبر (Translator) 1.96 avg rating — 56 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	قرة العين في خريدة لبنان by Henri Lammens, هنري لامنس, نجيب حبيقة (Translator) 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1898 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مكة في الدراسات الاستشراقية by Henri Lammens, Meir J. Kister, هنري لامنس 2.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Cité arabe de Tif à la veille de l'hégire it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Le Berceau de l'Islam, l'Arabie Occidentale à la Veille de l'Hégire, Vol. 1: Le Climat; Les Bédouins (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Syrie, Vol. 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	العرب من أفول الوثنية إلى بزوغ الإسلام by Henri Lammens, سعدون هليل (إعداد وتحقيق) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars