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Ashʿarite doctrine

Questions d'Islam

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

Translation prize awarded in Doha

Sheikh Hamad Award ceremony

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

“Muslim believers and the critical study of their tradition”

Study day

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

“Theology in Arabic” seminar

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

Crossed Horizons: Islam and the paths of coexistence

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

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.

History and the Qurʾān

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

International Quranic Studies Association

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

European Academy of Religion

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

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”.

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”.

Producer and presenter

Thawābit

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

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

Café Show

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

Islamic studies columns

Scholars of Morocco

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.