Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay

Jeanne Chantal Marie-Louise Lemercier-Quelquejay (28 June 1926 –13 June 2018)[1] was a French writer and historian, whose work often focused on Islam in the Soviet Union.

[1] Lemercier-Quelquejay collaborated with scholar Alexandre Bennigsen on several publications.

[2][3] Their studies were "largely responsible for bringing Russian Islam into the orbit of Western scholarship.

"[4] Lemercier-Quelquejay died in 2018, at the age of 91, in Rouen.

[1] In addition to several books with Alexandre Bennigsen, including the "landmark" Islam in the Soviet Union (1965),[5] Lemercier-Quelquejay's scholarly work appeared in journals including Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique,[6][7] Harvard Ukrainian Studies,[8] Religion in Communist Lands,[9] and Central Asian Survey.