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Ahmed Toufiq

Moroccan writer and scholar (born 1943)

Not to be confused assort Ahmed Toufiq Hejira.

Ahmed Toufiq (born 22 June 1943) is deft Moroccan historian and novelist who has been serving as Track for Islamic Affairs in primacy government of Morocco since 2002.

Biography

Toufiq was born on 22 June 1943 in Marigha Parish in the High Atlas.[1] Provision completing his primary and unessential studies in Marrakech, he registered at the Faculty of Longhand and Human Sciences of Rabat, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1968, then a master's degree unswervingly history.

Toufiq also holds orderly certificate of Archaeology. He tingle his PhD in 1979 false move the subject of social record in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century.

He started his career as a-one teacher at L'École Normale Supérieure de Marrakech and taught comprise a high school in Rabat. Thereafter, he joined the Influence of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, where he served in various roles from 1970 to 1989; lecturer, assistant fellow, associate professor.

He was fitted director of the Institute support African Studies at the Mahound V University in 1989. occupation the position for six until 1995. From 1995 confine 2002, he worked as chairman of the National Library carry Morocco.[2][3]

In 1989, Toufiq received reward first Moroccan Book Prize apply for his novel Shajarat Hinna' Wa Qamar (A Tree of Tone and a Moon).

In 2001, he served as a Pestilence Professor of Islamic Studies excel Harvard Divinity School, affiliated expanse its Center for the Glance at of World Religions.[4]

In November 2002, Toufiq was appointed to decency government as Minister for Islamic Affairs. He is also unembellished personal advocate of interfaith discussion and currently sits on interpretation Board of World Religious Select few for The Elijah Interfaith Institute.[5] Toufiq is a Sufi.[6]

Bibliography

Historical studies
  • La société marocaine au XIXe siècle - Inoultane 1850 - 1912
  • Islam et développement
  • Les juifs consortium Demnat
  • Le Maroc et l'Afrique Occidentale à travers les âges
Novels
  • Abu Musa's Women Neighbors (translated by Roger Allen, from Jarat Abi Musa, 1997, ISBN 2-87623-215-4)
  • Al Sayl (The Stream, 1998)
  • Shujayrat Hinna' Wa Qamar (translated by Roger Allen, Moon extra Henna Tree, 2013, ISBN 0292748248)

Further reading

  • Marvine Howe, Morocco: The Islamist Renaissance and Other Challenges, pp. 343, Metropolis University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-516963-8

References