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Michon, Jean-Louis

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Personal name headingMichon, Jean-Louis
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Associated countryFrance Switzerland Syria
Birth date1924
Death date2013
Place of birthNancy (France)
Place of deathLausanne (Switzerland)
AffiliationUniversité de Paris Unesco
Special noteOld catalog heading: Michon, Jean Louis.
Found inHis Relevé des mariages de Marsannay-le-Bois (Côte-d'Or), 1693-1792, 1984: t.p. (Jean-Louis Michon)
LC data base, 6/12/86 (hdg.: Michon, Jean Louis; usage not given)
A living Islamic city, 2020: ECIP title page (Jean-Louis Michon) ECIP galley (Jean-Louis Michon, born in Nancy, France in 1924, was a traditionalist writer, editor, translator, Arabist, and artistic consultant who specialized in Islam in North Africa, Islamic art, and Sufism. After a time spent teaching high school in Damascus, Syria, he obtained a Ph.D. in Islamic studies at Paris University (Sorbonne). From 1972 to 1980, Michon was Chief Technical Adviser to a series of joint programs by UNESCO, the UN Development Program, and the Moroccan government aimed at the preservation of traditional arts and crafts. He died in 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived since 1952.)