Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy, was a French nobleman, linguist and orientalist. His son, Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy, became a journalist.
Claude Cahen was a 20th-century French Marxist orientalist and historian. He specialized in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the Crusades, and social history of the medieval Islamic society.
Roman Ghirshman was a Ukrainian-born French archeologist who specialized in ancient Persia. Ghirshman spent nearly thirty years excavating ancient Persian archeological sites throughout Iran and Afghanistan.
Youakim Moubarac was a Lebanese French scholar. He was an Islamologist, an Arabist and a disciple of the Orientalist Louis Massignon and of philosopher Louis Gardet. A Maronite priest, Moubarac dedicated his life and major works to interfaith dialogue between Christianity and Islam, to Arab and Lebanese causes, to the unity of the Church and to the Maronite Church Antiochian heritage.
Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il was a 14th-century Egyptian historian. He was a Coptic Christian.
Bidiyo is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south central Chad.
Maurice Dunand was a prominent French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East, who served as director of the Mission Archéologique Française in Lebanon. Dunand excavated Byblos from 1924 to 1975, and published a Byblos syllabary in his monograph Byblia Grammata in 1945. The Neolithic of Lebanon was divided by Dunand into three stages based on the stratified levels of Byblos. From 1963 onwards, Dunand also thoroughly excavated the site of the Temple of Eshmun near Sidon.
Pierre Meile was a French linguist. He was a professor of Indian languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Joseph-Antoine Castagné was a French professor at the gymnase d'Orenbourg in Orenburg, Russia, an ethnographer and an expert on Central Asia. He wrote extensively about Russian Turkestan.
Alfred Bel was a French orientalist and scholar of Arab culture. He was the director of the Médersa de Tlemcen from 1905 to 1935.
Gustave Achille Gaston Migeon was a French historian of the arts of the world.
Geneviève Gobillot is a French scholar of Islam, Muslim civilization professor at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 since 1993, a specialist in Islamic mysticism, Shi'ism and Sufism, particularly in Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, author of the 10th century. Her work also includes the intercultural and intertextual reading of the Qur'an in the context of a rapprochement between monotheisms.
Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes was a French Arabist, a specialist in Islam and the history of religions.
Henri Massé was a 20th-century French orientalist. He was first professor of Arabic and Persian literatures at the faculté des lettres d'Alger, then professor of Persian language at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes of Paris (1927–1958), of which he was administrator from 1948 to 1958 and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Edmond Doutté was a French sociologist, orientalist and Islamologist - both Arabist and Berberologist - but also an explorer of Maghreb.
Mireille Issa is a Lebanese medievalist born in Beirut. She studies the Late Latin period of Antiquity.
Bernadette Menu is a French archaeologist and Egyptologist, whose research work on ancient Egypt is widely known. She is mother of the writer Jean-Christophe Menu.
Gabriel Ferrand (1864–1935) was a French orientalist specialised on the Madagascar.
Roger Lescot (1914–1975) was a French orientalist and diplomat known for his research of the Kurdish language.
The Yehimilk inscription is a Phoenician inscription published in 1930. Currently in the museum of Byblos Castle.
