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Louis Massignon was a French Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding. He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic Church's relationship with Islam and played a role in Islam being accepted as an Abrahamic faith among Catholics.
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Born 25 July 1883 · Died 31 October 1962 · Q1342067
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1962· 2 entries
And was buried on November 6 in Pordic, Brittany
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Died 1962-10-31.
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Wissam Alaouite (1957).
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1953· 1 entry
Promoted by two self-styled Muslim religious leaders, El Glaoui and El Kittani; he was supported in this by two committees, France-Islam and the newly founded France-Maghreb, the latter having among its members François
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1950· 1 entry
With the permission of Patriarch Maximos IV, despite some opposition from the Holy See, which, however, finally accepted his priestly ordination
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1949· 1 entry
Which meant he still remained in the Catholic Church, but was no longer affiliated with the Roman Rite
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1947).
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1934· 1 entry
And Mary Kahil, a friend from his youth, prayed at the abandoned Franciscan church of Damietta, Egypt, where Francis of Assisi had met Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil in 1219
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1931· 1 entry
Massignon became a Franciscan tertiary and took the name of "Ibrahim" (due to the hospitality of Abraham to the angels)
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1928· 1 entry
After a long hesitation by the Church authorities over the imprimatur
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1926).
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1919· 1 entry
Massignon was provisionally appointed to the Chair of Muslim Sociology and Sociography at the Collège de France in Paris
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1907· 1 entry
Was sent on an archeological mission to Mesopotamia
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1906· 1 entry
Received his diplome d'études supèrieures on the strength of his study
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1904· 1 entry
Vowed to dedicate himself to the study of Arabic after a dangerous confrontation in the desert
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1902· 2 entries
By Alfred Le Chatelier at the Collège de France with support of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco
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Continued his studies, graduating licencié ès-lettres on an essay on Honoré d'Urfé and embarking on the first of his many Arab subjects: the corporations of Fez in the 15th century
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-07-25.
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