Conference papers

  • Presentation of the book L’art de la guerre chez les Mamelouks (1250–1375) : stratégies et tactiques(Leiden, Brill, 2024), with discussant Sami Benkherfallah, at the 6ᵉ Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans (GIS-MOM), University of Strasbourg, Tuesday, 24 June 2025. https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/browse/typdoc?lang=fr

 

  • Encounter with Mehdi Berriah (Ifpo) and Abbès Zouache (CNRS/IFAO) on the occasion of the publication The Medieval Jihad: Texts, Theories and Practices, with discussant Hassan Bouali (CEFREPA), IISMM – EHESS, Paris, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. https://iismm.hypotheses.org/123504

 

  • “The legal issue of sacrifice in warfare in the Mamluk context: Ibn Taymiyya as a case study”, Eleventh Conference of the Mamlūk Studies, Queen Mary University, London, 8-10 May, 2025.

 

 

 

  • “References to early Islam in Mamluk jihad propaganda and the construction of the image of the mujāhid sultan”, Tenth Conference of the Mamlūk Studies, Dār al-Āthār al-Islāmiyya, Kuwait-City, March 5-7, 2024.

 

  • “La hudna comme outil diplomatique au service de l’effort de guerre mamelouk contre les Francs”, workshop Peace and diplomacy in the classical age of Islam, French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula (Cefrepa/Kuwait), March 3, 2024.

 

  • “Sufi and Mujāhid: the Participation of Sufis in the Mamluk War Effort”, international seminar: Taṣawwuf and Traditionalism in Medieval Islam: Texts, Authors and Discourse, University of Kentuch, Lexington, 30-31 October, 2023.

 

  • “Arabic Language’s Status and Merits in Ibn Taymiyya”, Ninth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Brown University, Providence (Rhode Island), 8-10 June, 2023.

 

  • “Ibn Taymiyya’s Corpus and Thought: State of the Art, New Research Perspectives and Re-evaluation”, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, 12 March, 2023.

 

  • “An Important and Neglected Epistle by Ibn Taymiyya on Jihad: Qāʿida fī al-inghimās fi al-ʿaduww”, International conference: Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy, MMSH/Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, 9-10 November, 2022.

 

  • “The Issue of al-inghimās fī al-ʿaduww. Preliminary Remarks and Research perspectives”, International Workshop: Fiqh and Jihad in Medieval Islam: Corpus, Concepts and Norms, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, 27 May, 2022.

 

  • “Mongol Threat and Eschatology in Ibn Taymiyya”, conference cycle: Les imaginaires eschatologiques en islam, University of Lorraine, Metz, May 12, 2022.

 

  • “Jihad in the Work and Thought of Ibn Taymiyya”, Rencontres du Bureau central des cultes, Paris, March 23, 2022.

 

  • “Ibn Taymiyya’s Methodology Regarding his Sources: Reading, Selection and Use”, Hamad Bin Khalifa University – Centre for Islamic studies, Doha, March 16, 2022.

 

  • “Ibn Taymiyya in the Historical Sources”, Séminaire islamologie et sciences sociales : objets, méthodes, pratiques, École des Hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, March 2, 2022.

 

  • “Jihad: Ibn Taymiyya and the Historians”,Cefrepa Islam Series Seminar, May 18, 2021.

 

  • “The Mobilization and the Use of the 1st/7th – 2nd/8th centuries in the Mamluk Sources as an Ideal Past: a Propaganda and Critical Tool of the Writing Add of History in the Mamluk Period”, Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies, Aga Khan University, London, October 23-24, 2020.

 

  • “Les Salaf comme source dans la méthode d’argumentation d’Ibn Taymiyya: importance, sélection et procédés d’utilisation”, workshop La notion de salafisme en débat: contribution à l’histoire doctrinale de l’islam sunnite, University of Aix-Marseille, December 4, 2019.

 

  • “Ibn Taymiyya’s ijtihād spirit as example of ijtihād for Muslim communities of West in the 21th”, Islamic Studies and Islamic Theology in the Modern System Education: Problems and Prospect, Bolgar, November 5-7, 2019.

 

  • “Visiting the Prophet’s grave: bidʿa or not? A Case of Divergence and Theological Debate in the Mamluk Period”, Sixth Conference of the Mamlūk Studies, University of Waseda, Tokyo, June 15-17, 2019.

 

  • “Mobility and polyvalence of the ʿulamā’ in the Mamluk period: the case of Ibn Taymiyya”, workshop international Professional Mobility in the Islamic Lands (900 -1600):ʿulamāʾ, udabāʾ, and administrators, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, March 20-21, 2019.

 

  • “Fighting with the pen and the sword: the participation of the ʿulamā’ in the effort of the Mamluk jihad (7th/13th – 9th/14th centuries)”, international conference The Elites in the Middle Ages between East and West, CIHAM, CEFREPA, Kuwait University, Kuwait-City, December 3-4, 2018.

 

  • “Le jihad sous les Mamelouks : pratique, légitimité politique et renouveau idéologique (XIIIe-XVIesiècles)”, Seminar of Young Researchers, IRSEM/DMPA, Paris, April 3, 2018.

 

  • “Dār al-Islām, dār al-kufr, dār al-ḥarb, dār al-ṣulḥ… Concepts et évolution de la vision du monde chez les savants musulmans (VIIIe-XIVe siècles)”, international conference Représentations et symbolique de la guerre et de la paix dans le monde arabe, Université de Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, March 14-16, 2018.

 

  • “La conception du jihad chez Ibn Taymiyya”, workshop Ǧihād et fitna : penser et concevoir la guerre dans le Mašriq médiéval (xie-xvie siècles), UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, CEFREPA, Horn East, Université Paris Panthéon-La Sorbonne, Paris, January 24, 2018.

 

  • “La stratégie des Mamelouks, une conduite de la guerre multiforme et évolutive (VIIe/XIIIe-VIIIe/XIVe siècles)”, XXème Journées Diwan, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, June 28-30, 2017.

 

  • “La “grande stratégie” du sultanat mamelouk dans le Proche et Moyen-Orient médiéval (XIIIe-XVIesiècles)”, Seminar of Young Researchers, IRSEM/DMPA, Paris, March 22, 2017.

 

  • “Les guerres des Mamelouks, entre légitimité et jihad (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)”, Service Historique de la Défense, Paris, December 8, 2016.

 

  • “The furūsiyya of the Mamluks: practice, legitimacy and islamization (13th-14th centuries)” 3rdInternational Conference Mediterràneos, Madrid, October 26-28, 2016.

 

  • “La furūsiyya à l’époque mamelouke : culture, discours et représentations (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)”, 4èmecolloque international Langues, cultures et médias en Méditerranée : forme, sens et développement, Paris 8 University and Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, October 24-26, 2016.

 

  • “The Siege of al-Bīra in 663/1264-1265)”, EAUH – 13th International Conference on Urban History – Reinterpreting Cities, panel “Cities at War in the Medieval Islamic World (10th–15th c.)”, Helsinki, August 24-27, 2016.

 

  • “The Mamluks’ Tactical Procedures against the Mongols, 13th-14th centuries”, 18th Annual Graduate Strategic Studies Conference: Security, Strategy, and Defence, Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies of the University of Calgary, February 25-26, 2016.

 

  • “La procédure tactique de l’armée mamelouke face aux Mongols (13e-14e siècles)”, 16th International Conference of the Graduate Student Association of the Historical Sciences Department of Laval University, Québec, February 16-19, 2016.

 

  • “Mamluks’ Strategy and Tactic against the Franks in the Bilād al-Šām (661-671), King Saud University, Riyadh, December 17th; King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, December 29, 2015. (in Arabic)

 

  • “The Tactical Genius of the Mamlūk Army: the Battle of Šaqḥab (702/1303)”, King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh, December 30, 2014. (in Arabic)