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Living
Leo Scholars:
Here is a
list of the few 'living' Leo scholars, academics and thinkers: people
who dedicate some or all of their time to the advancement of Leo scholarship.
Please contact them at your own discretion... If you know another Leo
scholar not mentioned on this site, please contact me at cristel@leoafricanus.com.
Khalid
Bekkaoui, bekkaouikd@hotmail.com
Mr. Bekkaoui is a Moroccan Professor of English Literature in Fes. He
is currently editing of a 16th century British Play, Lust's Dominion,
and he suspects one the play's characters was based on Leo Africanus.
Natalie
Davis, nz.daviz@utoronto.ca
Mrs Davis is currently working on a book analyzing the "styles of
cultural mixture in the 16th and 18th centuries". One of the 4 figures
she examines is Leo Africanus and his "braided identity".
Martin
Elbl, Ivana Elbl and others working on the Leo
Project
Mr Elbl can be reached at melbl@trentu.ca. His team of historians, geographers
and computer scientists are working hard to bring Leo's travels to 'digital
life'. They plan to build "an interactive multi-media e-book, based
on on a digital atlas and offering the first modern English version"
of the Description of Africa. The 'temporary'
site currently available gives a thorough and inviting description
of the project to come.
Mrs Elbl is the administrative head of the project (also heads Otonabee
College) and can be reached at
ielbl@trentu.ca
Mohammed
Hajji
Mr. Hajji was one of the two Moroccan scholars having first translated
Leo's work into Arabic. He ran the Moroccan association for writing, translation
and publishing-an association which promotes the publication of Moroccan
works. This Association can be reached in Rabat:
53 Rue Allal Bin Abd Allah
Rabat 10000, Maroc
Tel. 212-37-70.48.18
Professor Hajji died in 2002- he will be greatly missed by the congregation
of Leo scholars...
Pekka
Masonen, hipema@uta.fi
Dr. Masonen is a lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland (Department
of History). He has done extensive research on the life and travels of
Leo Africanus, in particular as they relate to sub-saharan Africa. Visit
the Bibliography section of this website to read his latest article on
Leo: "Leo
Africanus- the man with many names"
Dietrich
Rauchenberger, dubrauchenberger@web.de
Mr Rauchenberger is the most 'rigorous' Leo scholar alive, and his work
attests to the impressive research he conducted on the matter. His greatest
contribution is the systematic comparison of Ramusio's 1550 edition and
Leo's original manuscript- to reveal errors in Ramusio's adaptation, and
centuries of misinterpretations of Leo's words! His latest work Johannes
Leo der Afrikaner draws
on Italian archives to offer a most comprehensive biography of Leo.
Oumelbanine
Zhiri, ozhiri@ucsd.edu
Mrs. Zhiri is another impressive academic authority on Leo. She is author
of several books and articles on Leo, all of which are listed in the Bibliography.
She is a Professor in the Literature Department of the University of California
at San Diego. Miss Zhiri is originally Moroccan- though her life adventures
are not unlike Leo's...
Scholars
in Morocco:
In 2003, Francois Pouillon (pouillon@ehess.fr) organized an international
meeting of Leo experts. Here are the names of Moroccan scholars who participated:
Ahmed Boucharb, boucharb2002@yahoo.fr
Abdelmajid Kaddouri, majidkaddouri@hotmail.com
Driss Mansouri, mansouridriss@yahoo.com
Houari Touati, touati@ehess.fr
Mohammed Kenbib,mdkenbib@hotmail.com: he worked on Jewish-Muslim relations
in Morocco. He writes: "Il me semble que ce que Léon a écrit sur
les Juifs citadins et leurs coreligionnaires de l'Atlas devrait avoir
sa place dans votre site". Indeed Leo wrote about certain Jewish
communities living in remote Atlas regions and who rode horses (in spite
of Royal decrees against this..).
Scholars
in France
In 2003, Francois Pouillon (pouillon@ehess.fr) organized an international
meeting of Leo experts. Here are the names of French scholars who participated:
Idrissa Ba, Idrissa.Ba@malix.univ-paris1.fr: Doctorant en Histoire à l'Université
de Paris. Mène des recherches sur la problématique de la présence juive
au Sahara et au Soudan au Moyen - Age. Léon l'Africain est une de ses
sources.
Alain Roussillon,
alroussillon@aol.com
Jeanne Chiche, chichej@hotmail.com
Jocelyne Dakhlia, dakhlia@ehess.fr
François-Xavier Fauvelle, fauvelle@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
Ali BenMakhlouf, ali.benmakhlouf@wanadoo.fr
Frank Lestringant, frank.lestringant@wanadoo.fr
Bertrand Hirsch, hirsch@univ-paris1.fr
Claude Lfeebure, lefebure@ehess.fr
Daniel Nordman, nordman@ehess.fr
Dominique Caubet, caubet@idf.ext.jussieu.fr
Jacob Oliel, j.oliel@free.fr
Bernard ROSENBERGER:
107 rue du Faubourg Boutonnet, 34090 Montpellier
Scholars
in Italy
Frederico
Cresti, cresti@mbox.unict.it
Scholars
in Spain
Fernando Mdeiano,
mediano@filol.csic.es
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