Jean-Paul Roux, PhD was a French

France

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 Turkologue

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 and a specialist of Islamic culture.

He was a graduate of Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales

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, the École du Louvre

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, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études

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. In 1966 he was awarded a doctorate in literature in Paris

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. He was Director of Research at CNRS from 1957 to 1970, the Science Secretary for the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations from 1960 to 1966, and a teacher of Islamic art

Islamic art

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 at École du Louvre

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. He was General Commissioner for the Islamic Arts at the Orangerie de Tuileries in 1971 and also the Grand Palais

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 in 1977. Jean-Paul Roux's Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (2003) has been described as an "admirable short introduction" by historian David Morgan

David Morgan (historian)

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Publications

• Ghenghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (2003)
• Montagnes sacrées, montagnes mythiques (1999)
• L'Asie centrale, histoire et civilisation (1997) ISBN 9782213598949
• Le roi, mythes et symbole (1995)
• Histoire de l'empire mongol (1993)
• Tamerlan (1991)
• Jésus (1989)
• Le sang. Mythes, symboles et réalités (1988)
• Babur, histoire des Grands Moghols (1986)
• Histoire des Turcs (1984)
• Les explorateurs au Moyen Âge (1985, written with Sylvie-Anne Roux ISBN 2012793398)
• La Religion des Turcs et des Mongols (1984)
• Mustafa Kemal et la Turquie nouvelle (1983)
• Les traditions des nomades de la Turquie méridionale : contribution à l'étude des représentations religieuses des sociétés turques d'après les enquêtes effectuées chez les Yörük et les Tahtaci (1969)
• Faune et flore sacrées dans les sociétés altaïques (1966)
• La mort (la survie) chez les peuples altaïques anciens et médiévaux d'après les documents écrits (1963)