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Fouad Ben Ahmed is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations (NELC), serving a full academic year (2024-2025). He is a Moroccan scholar specializing in the history of philosophy and Kalam in Muslim contexts, with particular emphasis on the post-Ghazālī to post-Ibn Rushd period. He holds a PhD from Mohammed V Agdal University (2008) and has been a professor at Dar El Hadith El-Hassaniyya (affiliated with Al-Qarawiyyin University) since 2009.
His research focuses on medieval Islamic intellectual history, including Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Arabic logic, and the interplay between philosophy and theology in Muslim contexts. Key works include editing Ibn Ṭumlūs’s Compendium on Logic (Brill, 2020) and co-authoring the Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Ibn Rushd with Robert Pasnau.
Ben Ahmed has held visiting roles at institutions like Foggia, Aix-Marseille, and the University of Cologne. He actively contributes to international societies such as SIEPM and SIHSPAI, and leads the Philosmus Foundation. His recent publications (2021–2024) explore Ibn Rushd’s reception in Ḥanbalī contexts, Ibn Ṭumlūs’s logical methods, and the transmission of philosophical texts in medieval Islamic regions.
