Georges-Henri Bousquet (21 June 1900 in Meudon – 23 January 1978 in Latresne) was a 20th-century French jurist, economist and Islamologist.
[1] He is also known for his translation work of the great Muslim authors, Al-Ghazali, a theologian who died in 1111 and Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406).
He was known as a polyglot, spoke several European languages (Dutch, his second mother tongue, English, German, Italian, but also Spanish, Danish, Norwegian) and Eastern ones (Arabic, Malay).
By this time, he learned Arabic and became interested in Islamic studies while preparing the agrégation in political economy, which he passed in 1932.
After the independence of Algeria, Bousquet moved to Bordeaux to complete his academic career: he taught both Muslim sociology and the history of economic thought.