Aoudaghost

Cette cité commerçante n’était connue, jusqu’en 1960, que grâce à des sources écrites en arabe. Les trois plus importantes de ces sources qui citaient l’existence de la ville étaient : Ibn Ḥauqal (ver 988), al Bakrī (milieu du XIe siècle ; il existe, chez cet auteur, de nombreux emprunts à des auteurs ifriqiyens de la fin du Xe siècle), et al-Idrīsī (milieu du XIIe siècle). Le deuxième apportait, sur la situation, le site et la vie de la ville, un luxe d’informations que beaucoup d’autres aut..

Les forêts de la Méditerranée : un capital nature, une nature capitale

A l'occasion de la publication du n°100 de la revue Forêt Méditerranéenne, il a été demandé aux grandes institutions nationales qu'elles nous présentent leur vision des espaces forestiers méditerranéens "depuis Paris". Cet article nous donne le regard porté par une ONG internationale (WWF) sur la forêt méditerranéenne

The origins and development of Zuwīla, Libyan Sahara: an archaeological and historical overview of an ancient oasis town and caravan centre

Zuwīla in southwestern Libya (Fazzān) was one of the most important early Islamic centres in the Central Sahara, but the archaeological correlates of the written sources for it have been little explored. This paper brings together for the first time a detailed consideration of the relevant historical and archaeological data, together with new AMS radiocarbon dates from several key monuments. The origins of the settlement at Zuwīla were pre-Islamic, but the town gained greater prominence in the early centuries of Arab rule of the Maghrib, culminating with the establishment of an Ibāḍī state ruled by the dynasty of the Banū Khaṭṭāb, with Zuwīla its capital. The historical sources and the accounts of early European travellers are discussed and archaeological work at Zuwīla is described (including the new radiocarbon dates). A short gazetteer of archaeological monuments is provided as an appendix. Comparisons and contrasts are also drawn between Zuwīla and other oases of the ash-Sharqiyāt region of Fazzān. The final section of the paper presents a series of models based on the available evidence, tracing the evolution and decline of this remarkable site

Postface

Devisse Jean. Postface. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 73, n°271, 2e trimestre 1986. Madagascar et l'Europe (2e Partie) pp. 205-206

Le Tourneau (Roger) : The Almohad Movement in North Africa in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Devisse Jean. Le Tourneau (Roger) : The Almohad Movement in North Africa in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 61, n°222, 1er trimestre 1974. pp. 152-155

F. L. Ganshof, Wat waren de Capitularia ? Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1955. (Verhandlingen van den Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en schone Kunsten van Belgie ; Klasse der Letteren- Verhandling, N° 22)

Devisse Jean. F. L. Ganshof, Wat waren de Capitularia ? Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 1955. (Verhandlingen van den Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en schone Kunsten van Belgie ; Klasse der Letteren- Verhandling, N° 22). In: Revue du Nord, tome 39, n°156, Octobre-décembre 1957. pp. 289-291

L'influence de Julien Pomère sur les clercs carolingiens

Devisse Jean. L'influence de Julien Pomère sur les clercs carolingiens. In: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France, tome 56, n°157, 1970. pp. 285-295

Les Africains, la mer et les historiens.

J. Devisse—Africans, the Sea and Historians. Most historians have written that Africans turned away from the sea out of fear. Very few sources can help us draw up a serious long-term history of Africans and the sea. For several millennia, coastal activities involved actively gathering shell-fish and then fishing itself; but we cannot conclude that maritime activities were highly developed, since the inhabitants continued finding their resources on the continent. We can clearly observe maritime activities during the past two millennia, first in eastern and then in western Africa. In the western part of the Indian Ocean, Africans were much involved in exchanges and navigation between Madagascar and Aden; and in West Africa, recent research has shown that they had begun venturing out on the high sea before the arrivai of the Portuguese. A new methodology has to be drawn up if research on this topic is to advance.Devisse Jean. Les Africains, la mer et les historiens.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 29, n°115-116, 1989. Rivages II. pp. 397-418