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Meet Jean-Jacques Thibon, specialist in Islamology (CERMOM)
The "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Digital Paris Research School of Area Studies (D-PaRSAS) institutional project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research on the world's languages, societies and cultures.
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Video: Islamology, Sufism, hagiographic literature. An interview with Jean-Jacques Thibon
An interview conducted by Sarah Gimenez, researcher (CERMOM) and digital humanities engineer (Direction de la Recherche, de la Valorisation et des Etudes doctorales, Inalco), directed by Alexandre Galitzine, produced by Inalco (09/03/2022 - 43mn).
Podcast: Islamology, Sufism, hagiographic literature. An interview with Jean-Jacques Thibon
Jean-Jacques Thibon is a university professor, attached to the Centre de Recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée - CERMOM (Inalco). In this interview, he describes his research themes, Islamology, Sufism and hagiographic literature.
He helped create the French Institute of Islamology (IFI) and is also behind the creation of the Diplôme de civilisation d'islamologie à distance (Inalco - Aix-Marseille - Université de Strasbourg - Sorbonne Université) and a member of the diploma's teaching team.
In addition, with Francesco Chiabotti (Inalco) and Hocine Benkheira (EPHE), he coordinates a doctoral seminar in Islamology entitled "Islam: plural approaches", which each year proposes a new theme for study and enables doctoral students and established teacher-researchers to discuss their research themes and present current directions in research in Islamology.