Lucien Bouvat (1872âÂÂ1942) was a French orientalist and Islamic scholar. He researched various Islamic dynasties and communities, including the Timurid dynasty, the Barmakid family, and the Ahmadiyya religious community of Qadian.
He was a librarian of the Société Asiatique and in 1906, he worked on the magazine Revue du monde musulman in the (future) French protectorate in Morocco, published by the Mission Scientifique du Mar, which was founded in 1904 by Alfred Le Chatelier (1855âÂÂ1929), Professor at the Collège de France.
His best known work is a History of the second phase of the Mongol Empire published by Eugène Cavaignac (1876âÂÂ1969) in the world history series Histoire du Monde, which treats the Central Asian ruler Timur (also called 'Timur Lank', or âÂÂTamerlaneâÂÂ), of the Timurids (1405âÂÂ1502, his successors: Shah-Rukh, Ulugh Beg, etc., to the "Bataille de Chourour"), Baber and the Indian Mongol dynasty (1526âÂÂ1857) and the rulers of Khwarezmian: the Khans of Khiva (until 1920).