Islamicist · Agrégé in Arabic · Intellectual history of the MaghrebIlyass Amharar
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Conferences and lectures

  1. Georgetown University

    “Theology in Arabic” seminar

    Paper: “Challenging the Myth of Mālikī Anti-Kalām”.

  2. University of Geneva

    Crossed Horizons: Islam and the paths of coexistence

    Paper: “A plea against antisemitism in seventeenth-century Fez? Al-Mayyāra's Counsel to the Deceived”.

  3. Harvard University

    The Qandūsī Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt

    Facsimile presentation of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in al-Qandūsī's hand. The study day was also held at Chicago's Seldon Institute.

  4. Collège de France

    History and the Qurʾān

    Conference convened by François Déroche. Paper: “The role of the Meccan Qurʾān in legitimising kalām according to the early Ashʿarites”.

  5. Institute of Ismaili Studies, London

    International Quranic Studies Association

    Paper: “Quranic Abrogation and Uṣūl al-fiqh: Unraveling Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī's Legacy”.

  6. Fscire, Palermo

    European Academy of Religion

    Paper: “Theory and Transmission of Knowledge (ʿilm) in the History of Islamic Thought”.

  7. Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich

    International Society for the History of Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy

    Paper: “Between Islamic theology and Hellenistic philosophy: al-Juwaynī and divine knowledge of particulars”.

  8. Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat

    Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī: career, legacy and transmission

    International conference he convened. Paper: “From Baghdad to Seville: the Ashʿarite lineage of Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī”.

Gallery

On air

AssadissaThawābit

Producer and presenter

Twenty-six episodes on the religious history of Morocco, on Moroccan national television.

France CultureQuestions d'Islam

Ashʿarite doctrine

A programme on the theological school that shaped Sunnī thought, and what it teaches about reason and revelation.

Al Jazeera MubasherSheikh Hamad Award ceremony

Translation prize awarded in Doha

Coverage of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding ceremony.

Radio Monte Carlo DoualiyaCafé Show

“Uṣūl al-fiqh is daunting — let the young take it on”

An interview on legal theory, its forbidding reputation, and why it is worth entering.

Chaîne Inter, MoroccoScholars of Morocco

Islamic studies columns

Resident specialist for a series of columns: Abū ʿImrān al-Jawrāʾī, Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī, and Fāṭima al-Fihriyya for International Women's Day.

French Bishops' ConferenceStudy day

“Muslim believers and the critical study of their tradition”

A meeting held as part of the training programme of the French Bishops' Conference.

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The Samāʿ

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