Associate Professor

Bio

Said El Bousklaoui is an associate Professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies, Zayed University, UAE. He got his Doctorate Degree on the History of Philosophy in 2003 from Fez University. He also got a Fulbright scholarship in 2008 at Yale University. Before joining Zayed University in 2015, he had worked at Mohamed I University, Morocco, as assistant Professor (2003-2008) and then as associate Professor since 2008. He supervised, and still does, numerous theses and was a member of the jury for many others. He is also the founder and coordinator of the research Group on Islamic Philosophy in Mohamed I University. He teaches courses on the Islamic civilization and his research interests include Islamic Philosophy and Theology, the reception of late Greek Philosophy in Islam, (especially the reception of John Philoponus in the Arabo-Islamic tradition) and the notion of the Will in falsafa, Kalām and Sūfism.

Said El Bousklaoui is the author of The Notion of the Will in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy, Beyrut: Dar El Machreq, 2010. (373 pp. in Arabic with an English Introduction). He also authored, edited and translated many other works (books, book chapters, refereed journal articles, and conference papers) in both Arabic and English. Some book chapters and articles are fully available on the following website:

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