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Jan 26, 1915 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 23 May 2004 (aged 89)
French historian
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About Maxime Rodinson
- Maxime Rodinson (French: [??d?~s?~]; 26 January 1915, Paris – 23 May 2004, Marseilles) was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist.
- He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian (Ge'ez) at EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France).
- He was the author of a body of work, including the book Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam. Rodinson joined the French Communist Party in 1937 for "moral reasons", but later turned away after the party's Stalinist drift.
- He was expelled from the party in 1958.
- He became well known in France when he expressed sharp criticism of Israel, particularly opposing the settlement policies of the Jewish state.
- Some credit him with coining the term "Islamic fascism" (le fascisme islamique) in 1979, which he used to describe the Iranian revolution.
