author
Bernard Carra de Vaux
1867–1953
A French orientalist and historian of science, he wrote lively accounts of his travels in the Middle East and explored major figures in Islamic thought. His work helped introduce Arabic philosophy and religion to a wider French readership.
2 Audiobooks
Avicenne
by Bernard Carra de Vaux
La doctrine de l'Islam
by Bernard Carra de Vaux
About the author
Born in Bar-sur-Aube in 1867, Bernard Carra de Vaux was a French orientalist known for his studies of Islam, Arabic philosophy, and the history of science. Sources consistently describe him as a scholar who also published travel writing based on journeys in the Middle East.
He wrote on subjects including Avicenna and the intellectual traditions of the Islamic world, bringing specialized scholarship to readers in France at a time when interest in those fields was growing. Library and reference records also show the breadth of his output across religion, philosophy, and related historical studies.
He died in Nice in the early 1950s; some sources list 1952 while others give 1953, so the exact year is reported inconsistently in the material available here.