Английская Википедия:Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch (5 November 1909 – 24 July 1999) was a French scholar of Islam, a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and a translator and writer, who published a total of forty books and numerous articles. She was a disciple of the Sufi master Hamza al Qadiri al Boutchichi.

Life

Eva Lamacque de Vitray was born on November 5, 1909, in Boulogne-Billancourt, an affluent Parisian suburb. From a privileged social background,Шаблон:Sfn she was educated in Catholic schools before studying for a law degree.Шаблон:Citation needed She began a doctorate in philosophy on the subject of "Symbolism in Plato."Шаблон:Sfn

At the age of 22, Eva married Lazare Meyerovitch, of Latvian Jewish origins.Шаблон:Sfn She became an administrator in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.Шаблон:Sfn In 1940 Eva escaped from Paris with Joliot-Curie during the German occupation of Paris and retired to the Corrèze department for the duration of the war.Шаблон:Sfn Eva's husband was a member of the Free French Forces.Шаблон:Sfn After the liberation of France, Eva joined the CNRS, where she soon became director of the human sciences department.Шаблон:Sfn She earned an income from translations.Шаблон:Sfn She met orientalist Louis Massignon, with whom she would remain closely linked and who supported her after the sudden death of her husband in the early 1950s.Шаблон:Sfn

Eva discovered Islam through the book The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by poet and author Muhammad Iqbal.Шаблон:Sfn After three years of studying Christian exegesis at the Sorbonne, she chose to become a Muslim.Шаблон:Sfn She took the Arabic name Hawwa, a translation of her Christian name.[1] Eva was very interested in the work of the Persian poet Jalâl ud Dîn Rûmî (1207–1273), through whom she became aware of the mystical aspect of Islam, Sufism.Шаблон:Sfn Subsequently, she embarked on learning Persian.Шаблон:Sfn Soon afterward, she published her first translations of Muhammad Iqbal and Rumi into French.[1]

In 1968, Eva defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris on Mystical Themes in the Work of Jalal Ud Dîn Rûmî.Шаблон:Sfn From 1969 to 1973, she taught in Cairo at Al-Azhar University.Шаблон:Sfn In 1971, she made the pilgrimage to Mecca and also visited Medina.Шаблон:Sfn From 1972 until her death, she regularly published annotated translations of Rûmi's writings and works she wrote herself on Islam, Sufism, and the whirling dervishes. In 1990, she published her translation of Rumi's Masnavi, a colossal work of 50,000 verses in 1,700 pages, translated for the first time into French.[2]

Parallel to her academic career, Eva pursued a personal quest that led her to meet many personalities involved in Sufism, such as Amadou Hampâté Ba,Шаблон:Sfn Najm Oud Din Bammate,Шаблон:Sfn Cheikh Bentounès,Шаблон:Sfn and Faouzi Skali.Шаблон:Sfn Through Skali, in Morocco in 1985, she met a living Sufi spiritual guide, Hamza al Qadiri al Boutchichi, whose teaching she would follow until her death.Шаблон:Sfn She was also active as a speaker in France and abroad on Rumi, Islam, and Sufism. In addition, she recorded several programs for France Culture and television.Шаблон:Sfn In 1998, during her last conference in Turkey, she expressed the wish to be buried in Konya.Шаблон:Sfn

Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch died on July 24, 1999, in her apartment on rue Claude-Bernard in Paris.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was buried in a private ceremony in Thiais, in the Paris region. In 2003, steps were taken to transfer her remains to Konya, which was finalized in 2008. On November 17, 2008, an official ceremony accompanied the burial of the coffin of Vitray-Meyerovitch in Konya.Шаблон:Sfn Her grave is opposite the mausoleum of Jalal ud Din Rumi.Шаблон:Sfn

Publications

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Presentation of the publisher of the book.
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