name: Louis Massignon
birth_date: 1883-07-25 00:00:00
death_date: 1962-10-31 00:00:00
genres: Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
influences: Charles de Foucauld
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about: Louis Massignon was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate.