Mounira Chapoutot

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

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

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 [es] 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)