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With the death of Maxime Rodinson on Monday, the world of Middle Eastern studies has lost a French Marxist scholar who rarely succumbed to dogma, and who always enriched his works through the intricacies inherent in his own person - those of a working-class French Jew whose parents were killed at Auschwitz, and who devoted his life to learning about the Arabs and Islam.

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