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 Dr Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director of Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London, has previously served as the founding director of the King Abdul-Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco. He was the secretary-general of the Mohammed V University in Rabat, and also taught modern philosophy there.
He has contributed widely to the academic discourse on Islam and modernity and on democratisation 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.
Publications (since joining AKU-ISMC)
Books
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou (ed.) (2008), Le sens de l'histoire: La raison aux prises avec la condition humaine (Dialogue des deux rives) [Meaning and End of History], Fondation du roi Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud, Rabat
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou (2003), Réformer l'islam? Une introduction aux débats contemporains [Reforming Islam? An Introduction to the Currents of Muslim Thought], Paris: Editions la découverte.
Chapters in Books/Encyclopaedias
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou, (2005) 'Muslims and Democracy', Diamond L., M. F. Plattner, Costopoulous P. J., World Religions and Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book), pp. 153-157, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou, (2005) 'The Challenge of Secularization', Diamond, L., Plattner, M. F., Costopoulous, P. J., World Religions and Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book), pp. 192-196, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou, (2005) 'The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought', Diamond, L., Plattner, M. F., Costopoulous, P. J., World Religions and Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book), pp. 197-211, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou (2004) 'State, society and creed: Reflections on the Maghreb', Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 294 - 318, Palgrave Macmillan, New York
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