Research Seminars, Projects and Programmes

Since 2026

Research seminar “The Concept of Sharīʿa: Epistemologies, Paradigms and Hermeneutics,” co-organized with Hassan Chahdi (University of Lorraine) and Jamal Zaid Al-Kilani, (University An-Najah).

Since 2023

Coordinator for the programme of the “Résidences islamologiques” with the French Institute in the Near East (Ifpo)

• https://www.ifporient.org/appel-a-projets-residences-islamologiques-de-lifpo-2025
• https://www.ifporient.org/residences-islamologiques-2024/

Since 2023

Coordinator of axis 2 “States, power and societies in the Arab and Muslim East” of the Cefrepa research program

• https://cefrepa.cnrs.fr/axis-ii/

Coordinator of axis 7 (transversal 2) “The renewal of religious thought in Islam in the contemporary era” of the Cefrepa research program                  

• https://cefrepa.cnrs.fr/axis-vii/

2023-2025

Webinar organized in collaboration with Pr. Makram Abbès director of the French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula (Cefrepa, Kuwait), Renewal of religious thought in Islam in contemporary times: new research perspectives in Islamic studies (in French). Partner institutions: French institute in the Near East (Ifpo) and the French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula (Cefrepa/Kuwait).

• https://iismm.hypotheses.org/111527
• https://diwan.hypotheses.org/29445

Project leader (Principal Investigator) of the project “Jihad in the Middle Ages: Texts, Contexts and Practices (7th-15th century)”. Winning project of the call 2022-2023 « Islam, religion et société » Central Bureau of Worship – French Ministry of the Interior

2020-2023

Collaboration in SHARIAsource in the Program of Islamic Law at Harvard Law School coordinated by professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard University) 

2021-2022

International Seminar: Les imaginaires eschatologiques de l’islam : perspectives historiques comparées, University of Lorraine, Metz, in collaboration with Hassan Bouali.

• https://ecritures.univ-lorraine.fr/manifestations/conferences/cycle-de-conferences-les-imaginaires-eschatologiques-en-islam-seance-2

2020-2021

Project leader (Principal Investigator) of the project “The Taymiyyan Corpus of Jihad: Reception, Decontextualization and Instrumentalization by Contemporary Jihadist Movements”. Winning project of the 2020–2021 call “Islam, religion et société”, Central Bureau of Worship – French Ministry of the Interior.

2017-2022      

Collaboration in the international research program “War in the Medieval Near East (11^th-16^th C.): Transmission of Knowledge, Social Practices and Sensitive Approach” coordinated by Mathieu Eychenne (Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn), Ahmed el-Shoky (ʿAyn Shams University and Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo) and Abbès Zouache (CNRS/Lyon), based at the Ifao (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology/Cairo) and Ifpo (French Institute of the Middle East/Beirut)                                                                                     

2013-2017      

Collaboration in the international research program War, culture and society in the medieval Near East (969-1517)coordinated by Mathieu Eychenne (Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn), Stéphane Pradines (Aga Khan University, London) and Abbès Zouache (CNRS/Lyon), based at the Ifao (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology/Cairo) and Ifpo (French Institute of the Middle East/Beirut)

Collaboration in the international research program “Les mots de la paix” coordinated by Michele Bernardini (university of Naples) and Sylvie Denoix (CNRS, UMR 8167)