Said ElBousklaoui
Professor
- Email: Said.ElBousklaoui@zu.ac.ae
- Telephone: +971 2 599 3513
- Address: Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF2-1-073A
Introduction
Said El Bousklaoui is currently serving as Chair of the department of Islamic World Studies. He served last year as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He got his doctorate degree in 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 worked at Mohamed I University, Morocco, as assistant Professor (2003-2008), and later associate Professor (2008-2016). He was promoted to full Professor in 2016. He was also promoted to full Professor at Zayed University in 2018. He supervised, and still does, numerous theses and was a committee member for many others. At Zayed University, he teaches courses on Islamic civilization and his research interests include Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
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:
https://ump-ma.academia.edu/SaidElBousklaoui
Research and Professional Activities
Research interests:
Islamic Philosophy and Theology
Current Projects:
- The Reception of John Philoponus in Islamic Philosophy and Theology.
- History of Kalām in the Muslim West.
- The Notion of the Will in Islamic Theology.
- Studies on Islamic Sects and Doctrines.
Keywords:
Falsafa, Kalām, Philoponus, Will, Ethics
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate courses
Islamic Civilization
- Peter Adamson, Al-Kindi, chapter one: « Works, Life, and Influence », (introduced and translated into Arabic by Said El Bousklaoui), Journal Yatafakkarun, Vol 14 (2020), pp. 372-386.
- Dirāsāt ’an yaḥyā al-Naḥwī fī al-turāth al-islāmī (Studies on Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī in the Islamic Tradition) (Assembled, introduced and translated into Arabic by Said El Bousklaoui), Beiruth/Alger/Rabat: Publications of Dhifaf, Ikhtilaf and Dar Alaman, 2019. ISBN 978-614-02-1563-4
-El Bousklaoui. Said. “ba‘ḍ malamiḥ al-sijāl al-kalāmīi fi bilād al-maghreb ba‘da Ibn Khaldūn”(Some Aspects of Theological Debate in the Maghreb after Ibn Khaldūn”, in Journal Al-Sawrat of Human and Social Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2019), pp. 28-67.
-El Bousklaoui, Said. “al-rudūd ‘alā al-falāsifa wa al-rudūd ‘alā al-rudūd, muḥāwalat fī al-t’arikh li al-falsafat al-‘arabiyyat al-Islāmiyyat” (The Refutations of Philosophers and Refutations of Refutations, An essay in the history of Arabic Philosophy), in the Proceedings of Philadelphia International Congress 22: Arabic History and the Modern Methods of Thought, Philadelphia University publications (2019), pp. 117-151.
-El Bousklaoui, Said. “Sifat al-irādah bayna al-ithbāt wa al-nafy fī al-ilāhiyyat al-islāmiyyah”(The Attribute of Divine Will between Affirmation and Negation in Islamic Theology), in https://www.mominoun.com/pdf1/2018-08/itbat.pdf, Mominoun Without Borders for Studies and researches, published on October 16 (2018), 37 p.
- Josef Van Ess, « Political Ideas in Early Islamic Religious Thought » (translated into Arabic by Said El Bousklaoui), Journal albāb, Vol. 12 (2018), pp. 162-183.
