Mounira Chapoutot (; 27 April 1942 – 22 October 2023) was a Tunisian academic and historian who specialized in the Middle Ages.
Biography
Born on 27 April 1942, Chapoutot was a professor at Tunis University and directed the History Department at the . She directed the journal and directed history studies at the .
Chapoutot was a member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and presided over its social and human sciences section. She was also a member of the journal and a member of the committee of the Prix . She was a member of the jury for the COMAR d'Or and oversaw thesis defenses for various master's and doctoral degrees. 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.
Distinctions
Commander of the Tunisian National Order of Merit (2007) Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (2006) Prix Ibn Khaldun (2016) Prix de l'Union des archéologues arabes (2020)
Publications
1492 en Méditerranée (1992) Itinéraire du savoir en Tunisie : les temps forts de l'histoire tunisienne (1995) Sur les pas d'Ibn Khaldoun (2006) Destins croisés en Méditerranée : Jean-Léon l'Africain et Mustapha des Six-Fours (2007) موسوعة القيروان (2010)