the Mediterranean with those of its southern shore'. Berque's most lasting contribution might have been to the study of Islam. A devout Christian, he found in Islam "a new version of the truth of the world". Made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in his own country, he was decorated also by Morocco, Syria and Tunisia. In Egypt he was made a member of the Arabic Language Academy of Cairo. Orientalism controversy In the literary sparrings between Bernard Lewis and Edward Said, who criticized Orientalist scholarship, claiming Lewis' work to be a prime example of Orientalism, in his 1978 book Orientalism, Berque was among the scholars, such as Maxime Rodinson, Malcolm H. Kerr, Albert Hourani, and William Montgomery Watt, who maintained that Said's disregard for all the evidence that contradicted his narrative made Orientalism a deeply flawed account of Western scholarship. Sources Pouillon, François (2019). « Jacques Berque : les miroirs brisés de la colonisation » in Christine Laurière et André Mary (dir), Ethnologues en situations coloniales, Les Carnets de Bérose n° 11, Paris, BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, pp. 80-108. Notes External links Obituary of Jacques Berque, The Guardian, July 11, 1995 Quel islam? by Jacques Berque, oumma.com, July 28, 2005 (French) Jacques Berque. Une sociologie vaste et profonde by Réda Benkirane, September 26, 2005 (French) Hommage à Jacques Berque by Ahmed Moatassime, June 23, 2000 (French) Centre Jacques Berque pour les études en sciences humaines et sociales (French) Association des amis de Jacques Berque (French) Repossession du monde – Portrait et bibliographie de l'orientaliste français Jacques Berque (French) Resources related to research : BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. "Berque, Jacques (1904-1995)", Paris, 2019. (ISSN 2648-2770) 1910 births 1995 deaths People from Frenda People of French Algeria Pieds-Noirs French Arabists Translators of the Quran into French 20th-century translators Academic staff of the Collège de France