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Papers, lectures and seminars

  • “Mongol Threat and Eschatology in Ibn Taymiyya”, Cycle de conférences : Les imaginaires eschatologiques en islam, Université de 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”, seminar École des Hautes études en sciences sociales islamologie et sciences sociales : objets, méthodes, pratiques, March 2, 2022.
  • “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-XVIe siècles)”, 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-XVIe siècles)”, 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)” 3rd International Conference Mediterràneos, Madrid, October 26-28, 2016.
  • “La furūsiyya à l’époque mamelouke : culture, discours et représentations (XIIIe-XVIe siècle)”, 4ème colloque 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)