Mounira Chapoutot

Mounira Chapoutot
Director of Les Cahiers de Tunisie [fr]
In office 1997–2011
Personal details
Born	(1942-04-27)27 April 1942
Died	22 October 2023(2023-10-22) (aged 81)
Nationality	Tunisian
Occupation	Professor Historian

Mounira Chapoutot (Arabic: منيرة شابوطو; 27 April 1942 – 22 October 2023) was a Tunisian academic and historian who specialized in the Middle Ages.[1]

Biography

Born on 27 April 1942, Chapoutot was a professor at Tunis University and directed the History Department at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis [fr]. She directed the journal Les Cahiers de Tunisie [fr] and directed history studies at the École normale supérieure de Tunis [fr].[2]

Chapoutot was a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts[3] and presided over its social and human sciences section.[4] She was also a member of the journal Al-Qantara and a member of the committee of the Prix Zoubeida Bchir [fr].[5] She was a member of the jury for the COMAR d'Or and oversaw thesis defenses for various master's and doctoral degrees.[6] 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.[7]

Distinctions

• Commander of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia (2007)[8]
• Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (2006)[8]
• Ibn Khaldun Awards (2016)[9][10]
• Prize of the Union of Arab Archaeologists (2020)[11]

Publications

• 1492 en Méditerranée (1992)
• Liens et relations au sein de l'élite mamlūke 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)[12]
• Destins croisés en Méditerranée : Jean-Léon l'Africain et Mustapha des Six-Fours (2007)
• موسوعة القيروان (2010)

References

1. Tiss, Mohsen (23 October 2023). "Décès de professeure Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi". Tunisie Numérique (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2023.
2. "Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi". Sud Éditions (in French).
3. "Tunisie - Liste des membres de Beit al-Hikma". Espace Manager (in French).
4. "Beït El Hikma élit ses présidents de département". Leaders (in French). 19 September 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
5. "لجنة متابعة جائزة زبيدة بشير". Credif (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 24 February 2017.
6. Dhaouadi, Amel Douja (29 April 2019). "Mounira Chapoutot Remadi (Membre du Jury): «Les Comar d'or sont d'une grande aide pour les écrivains»". La Presse de Tunisie (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2023.
7. Habaieb, Taoufik (23 October 2023). "Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, l'historienne et la militante qui nous quitte". Leaders (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2023.
8. "Chapoutot-Remadi : CV" (PDF). Beit al-Hikma Foundation (in French).
9. "Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, lauréate avec Abdelwahab Meddeb du Prix Ibn Khaldûn 2016". Leaders (in French). 24 May 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
10. "Les Prix Ibn Khaldun 2016 remis le 27 mai à Tunis". Kapitalis (in French). 21 May 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
11. "Pr Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, lauréate du Trophée de l'Union des archéologues arabes". Leaders (in French). 13 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
12. "Sur les pas d'Ibn Khaldoun". Sud Éditions (in French).