Ludvik Kalus

Ludvik Kalus

The Spread of Islamic Inscriptions in East and Southeast Asia

Ludvik Kalus, retired in 2013, was Professor of Islamic Medieval History, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and Directeur d’études of Islamic Numismatics and Diplomatics, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe section, Paris. He is author or co-author of ten books and has published about eighty articles. A specialist in Islamic sigillography, numismatics and epigraphy, the last fifteen years he concentrated his efforts in Arabic epigraphy in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei etc.). He is the founder, designer and director of the Thesaurus d’Epigraphie Islamique, developed from 1990 under the patronage of the Fondation Max van Berchem (Geneva) and bringing together all of the inscriptions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish (as well as in other “small” languages) from the Muslim world up to the year 1000 of the Hegira.