Abdou Filali-Ansary

Abdou Filali-Ansary is the director of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU-ISMC) in London.

Previously he served as founding director of the King Abdul-Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco and as secretary-general of the Mohammed V University in Rabat, having also taught modern philosophy there. He has contributed widely to the academic discourse on Islam and modernity and on democratization and civil society in the Middle East and has written numerous books and articles on Islam's reformist traditions, including Is Islam Hostile to Secularism?; Reforming Islam: an Introduction to Contemporary Debates as well as a translation into French of Ali Abdel-Raziq's landmark book Islam and the Foundations of Political Power. In 1993 he co-founded the bilingual Arabic-French journal «Prologues: revue maghrébine du livre».

5 Mar 2008

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