André Raymond

• 1983 : Knight of the Legion of Honour (France)
• 1981 : Officier of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (France)
• 1979 : Commander of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia
• 1975 : Officier of the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)
• 1969 : Officier of the Order of Merit (Egypt)

• 2003 : IRCICA award.
• 2002 : Lewis Galantiere prize.
• 1998 : Medal of Honor of Tunis University.
• 1980 : CNRS Silver Medal.
• 1978 : Prix Bordin of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Raymond was director of the French Institute for Arab Studies in Damascus, and of the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic World, in Aix-en-Provence. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus at the University of Provence.^[1]

Raymond was an expert on the city in the Arab world about which he wrote several books. In 2002 his essays and articles on the subject were collected for a volume in the Variorum Collected Studies series titled Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb.^[2]

Raymond died on 18 February 2011.^[3]

• The great Arab cities in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: An introduction. New York University Press, 1984. (Hagop Kevorkian Series on Near Eastern Art and Civilization) ISBN 0814773915
• Le Caire. 1993.
• Cairo: City of history. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. (Translator Willard Wood) ISBN 9774246608
• Raymond, A. (2000). Cairo. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674003160.
• Arab cities in the Ottoman period: Cairo, Syria and the Maghreb. Ashgate Variorum, 2002. (Variorum Collected Studies series) ISBN 978-0-86078-874-4