Abdelwahab Meddeb

Abdelwahab Meddeb was born on 17 January 1946 in Tunis, the son of a scholar of Islamic law at the Zitouna who taught him the Qur'an from the age of four. Settled in Paris in 1967, he studied art history at the Sorbonne, then was, from 1974 until the end of the eighties, literary adviser to the Sindbad publishing house, where he introduced Arab, Persian and Sufi classics. A professor of comparative literature at Nanterre, he founded a review in 1995 and hosted on France Culture a programme devoted to the cultures of Islam. A 2002 essay earned him the Prix François-Mauriac. He died in Paris on 5 November 2014.

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• NovelTalismanoAbdelwahab Meddeb · 1979Literature