Ernest Renan
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
M. Renan · Renan · ارنست رنان
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Author of 'Souvenirs d'Enfance', describing Breton nobles.
Renan is publishing in the Revue des Deux Mondes, he describes a class of territorial nobles who were found in Brittany, just before the Revolution, and who were quite distinct from the later nobility of royal creation.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Scholar credited with finding village-communities among obscure Semitic tribes.
Renan has discovered them among the obscurer Semitic tribes in Northern Africa.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The French scholar called al-faylasūf in the Arabic, credited with a study of Averroes's philosophy and biography which the note says has been rendered into Arabic.
and the philosopher (Ernest Renan) investigated his philosophy and the history of his life in his book which has been translated into Arabic
The Genius of the Common Law
Scholar credited with suggesting that the biblical story of Ahab and Naboth is a sacerdotal libel.
It has been suggested, I think by Renan, that the story of Ahab and Naboth, as we have it, is a sacerdotal libel, and Ahab was an enlightened ruler who tried to introduce ‘expropriation pour cause d’utilité publiquè’ to a generation too backward to understand it.