Mounira Chapoutot

Mounira Chapoutot (; 27 April 1942 – 22 October 2023) was a Tunisian academic and historian who specialized in the Middle Ages.

Biography

Born on 27 April 1942, Chapoutot was a professor at Tunis University and directed the History Department at the . She directed the journal ' and directed history studies at the .

Chapoutot was a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and presided over its social and human sciences section. She was also a member of the journal ' and a member of the committee of the Prix . She was a member of the jury for the COMAR d'Or and oversaw thesis defenses for various master's and doctoral degrees. She was invited to teach at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Lyon, and the Institut français des études arabes.

Mounira Chapoutot died on 22 October 2023, at the age of 81.

Distinctions

• Commander of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia (2007)
• Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (2006)
• Ibn Khaldun Awards (2016)
• Prize of the Union of Arab Archaeologists (2020)

Publications

• 1492 en Méditerranée (1992)
• Liens et relations au sein de l'élite mamlÅ«ke sous les premiers sultans Baḥrides (1993).
• Itinéraire du savoir en Tunisie : les temps forts de l'histoire tunisienne (1995)
• Sur les pas d'Ibn Khaldoun (2006)
• Destins croisés en Méditerranée : Jean-Léon l'Africain et Mustapha des Six-Fours (2007)
• موسوعة القيروان (2010)

References