Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2025 : Grant from KU Leuven to support the open-access release of the edited volume Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy (6 000 euros)

2025 : Recipient of the Verbruggen Prize (2024 edition) for the book L’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks (1250-1375) : stratégies et tactiques, Leyde, Brill (Series Islamic History and Civilization, volume 214), 2024, 772 p. + XXVII

• https://www.ifporient.org/the-2024-verbruggen-international-prize-awarded-to-mehdi-berriah-for-his-book-lart-de-la-guerre-chez-les-mamelouks-1250-1375/
• https://institut-islamologie.fr/le-prix-international-verbruggen-2024-a-mehdi-berriah-pour-lart-de-la-guerre-chez-les-mamelouks-1250-1375-brill-2024/
• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7327626361324400640/

2023-2024: 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 (45 000 euros)  

                                        

2020-2021: Project “The Taymiyyan corpus of Jihad: Reception, Decontextualization and Instrumentalization by the Contemporary Jihadist Movements”. Winning           project of the call 2020-2021 « Islam, religion et société » Central Bureau of         Worship – French Ministry of the Interior (35 000 euros)                                                                       

 

2015-2018: Fellowship of the Institute for the Strategic Research of the Military School    (IRSEM/Paris)