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Louis Blin

Diplomat, doctor in contemporary history, specialist in the Arab world.

Lamartine, in the forgotten years of French Islamophilia Louis Blin · September 2023 Hard as it is to believe today, in the course of French literary history, many writers displayed, vis a vis Islam, a desire to understand, a real tolerance and an open-mindedness which have now vanished completely among most of our intellectuals. The poet Alphonse de Lamartine is a case in (…)
Books Islam. A Little-Known Poem by Victor Hugo as an Antidote to Islamophobia Louis Blin · December 2020 In a little-known poem from La Légende des siècles, Victor Hugo takes a stand against the media uproar following the assassination of the French and British consuls in the city of Jeddah, then under Ottoman rule, on 15 June 1858, by resolutely inscribing Islam in a universal humanist (…)