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Conference
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Schedule: May 14
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- 17 , 2015
With Participation of:
Maghrebi Sufism in its
Global Contexts
Conference Schedule
The International Academic Centre of Sufi and Aesthetic Studies organizes its first Sufi International Conference on:
Conference Location: Congress Palace in Ensemble Artisanal
Partnerships:
 Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University.
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Fes-Saiss
 Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE);
 Institut Français, Fes.
 Fes Urban Commune.
 Batha Hotel.
DAY 1: Thursday, May 14, 2015
9:00-10:00: Reception and Welcome Speech
Chairman: Dr. Aziz El Kobaiti El Idrissi, President of the IACSA, Fes;
Rapporteur: Mr. Mohammed Bourchachen, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Fes-Saiss;
Opening the proceeding with Quran recitation (5 minutes)
Keynotes by:
The Chancellor of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (5 min.);
The Dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Fes-Saiss (5 min.);
President of the Local Religious Council of Fes (5 min.)
President of the Municipal Council of Fes (5 min).
The Executive director of MACECE.
Representative of Research Laboratory
The Organizing Committee
10:00-10:30: Tea/Coffee break; Visiting the Book Fair and the Arabic Calligraphy Gallery
Panel I: Moroccan Sufism and the Reinforcement of Belonging to the Islamic Nation
10:30-13:00 First session: Room N° 1
Moderator: Dr. Marcia Hermansen
Rapporteur: Pr. Ilyas Ahmad
Fez as a Place of Prophetic Benediction in
Hagiographical Discourse: Historical
Backgrounds and Contemporary Stakes”
Dr. Ruggero Vimercati-Sanseverino
(Professor of Islamic Theology at the
university of Tobenghen)
The Significance of Maghrebi Sufism to the
Development of Islam in Britain
Ron Geaves (Honorary Visiting
Professor in the School of History,
Archaeology, and Religion at Cardiff
University
Moroccan Sufism and its Extensions: Maoula
Abdessalam Ben Meshish and Sidi Mhamed Ben
Sliman Aljazouli as Case Studies
Tobenghen/
Germany
Cardiff/
England
20 min.
20 min.
Dr. Khalid Sqalli
( Professor of History, Faculty of Arts,
Dher Lmehraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben
Abdellah University)
Fez/
Morocco
Sufism Universal and Political: The
Darqawiyya/Habibiyya and the Murabitun
Dr. Mark Sedgwick (…..)
Arhous/
Denmark
20 min.
Shaykh Sidi Abdal’Azeez Ad-Dabagh and His
Influence in The West : Muhammadeeyah
Dabbaghiyyah Sufi Order As an Example
Pr. Mohammed Bourchachen
(University Professor of English at Fez
Sais University)
Fez/
Morocco
20 min.
Chicago/
USA
20 min.
Maghribi Sufism and the Return to “Tradition”
among Sufi Thinkers in the West
20 min.
Dr. Marcia Hermansen (Director of the
Islamic World Studies Program and
Professor in the Theology Department
at Loyola University, Chicago)
Discussion
10.30-13.00: Second Session (Room N° 02)
Moderator: Dr. Mohammed Bokbout
//
Moroccan Sufism as a Unity and Cohesion factor
among Muslims in Mali
Rapporteur: Pr. Othmane Zehzouhi
Dr. Youssef Ibrahim Ja (Professor
at the Islamic University in Niger)
Sikasou/ Mali
20 min.
Bjaya/ Algeria
20 min.
Dr. Taoufiq Ben Ammour
(Professor of History at Tunis
University)
Tunis, Tunisia
20 min.
Dr. Qassim Al-hadek (Professor of
History)
Fez/ Morocco
20 min.
The Role of Sufism in Establishing Spiritual Ties
between the Maghrebian Societies – The
Example of Habibi Sufi order of Meknes
Dr. Akhedar Qouidri (Professor of
Philosophy and Sufism)
Aghouat/
Algeria
20 min.
Sufi Movements’ Spiritual Discourse in
Countering Fundamentalist Discourse
Pr. Mohamed al-Houni (Editor-inchief of the Arab international
Press)
London,
England
20 min.
The Role of Sufi Movement in the Reform of the
Maghrebian Islamic Society
Sufi Relations between Morocco and Southern
Sahara
Moroccan Sufism and the Adoption of the
Resistance and Jihad Policies: The Example of
Darkaoui Sufi Leaders
Dr. Salem Ben Lebad (University
Professor and Vice President of the
Language and Literature
Department)
Discussion
Panel II: Moroccan Sufism and its Contribution to the Dissemination of Islam
15.30-18.00: Third session (Room N° 1)
Moderator: Dr. Said al Maghnaoui
//
Rapporteur: Pr. Mohammed Sabri
Title of the lecture
The lecturer
The Role of Moroccan Sufism in the Dissemination
of Islam in Western Sudan during the Saadinian
Dynasty’s Reign 961-1069 (Hirji calendar) / 15531658 (Gregorian Calendar)
City and
state
Timing
20 min.
Dr. Ata Abo Rayyah
(Professor of Islamic History
and Cultural Adviser at Taif
University)
Taif/ Saudi
Arabia
Dr. Mamoudou Kan,
Professor of Medieval
History
Mauritania
20 min.
Dr. Mohammed Saleh Jalo
known as ‘Dayf Allah Algini’
Boston/
USA
20 min.
Tijani Sufi Thought in Morocco: Academic, Sufi and
Social Extensions in Africa
Dr. Saadia Ottba’zit
( Professor of History)
Bajaâd/
Morocco
20 min.
Moroccan Sufism: Dissemination of Islam and the
Consolidation of Religious Unity
Dr. Mohamed Amrani Alaoui
( Professor of Medieval and
Modern History)
Errashidiya/
Morocco
20 min.
Pr. Noureddin Lrja (Doctoral
student)
Rabat/
Morocco
20 min.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Khateb
(Professor of History at AlHasania school)
Rabat/
Morocco
20 min.
Moroccan Sufism in Guinean Society: Reading in
ways of Upgrading it yet Preserving its Specificities
Moroccan Sufism in the Guinean Community: A
Reading on the ways of its Development and the
Preservation of its Specificities
The Role of Sufi Zawiyas in Disseminating Islamic
Teachings and Preserving the Moroccan Specificity
in Amazigh Tribes: Ayyashi Zawiya as an example
The Humanistic and Social Tendency in Moroccan
Sufism: its Influences and Global Extensions
Discussion
Panel III: Moroccan Women’s Contribution to the Global Spread of Sufism
15.30- 18.00: Fourth session (Parallel Session) Room N° 2
Moderator: Pr. Amina El Mrini
//
Rapporteur: Pr. Fatima El-Asri
Title of the lecture
Sufi Manifestations in Contemporary Moroccan
Poetry: the Experience of Amina Merini
The Righteous Women of Suss: Virtues
Without Myth
Moroccan Woman and Sufism in the Middle
Ages
Moroccan Women’s Contribution to the Global
Spread of Sufism
The lecturer
Pr. Mohammed Nafad
(Researcher in IACSAS)
City and state
Fez/ Morocco
Timing
20 min.
Dr. Abo Lloz Abdelhakim
(Sociology researcher at Jacques
Berque Institute)
Dr. Karima Mohammed
abderraouf Rahim Ad-doumi
(Professor of Islamic History and
Qualitative Studies)
Agadir/ Morocco
20 min.
Ain Shams
University/ Egypt
20 min.
Fez/ Morocco
20 min.
Dr. Khalid Touzani (Researcher
in IACSAS)
The Concept of Divine Love between
Rabia al Adawiyya and Sheikh Zarrok
Dr. Mostpha Boukhbza
(Reasercher in IACSAS)
Moroccan Sufi Women’s Contribution to
National Integration and Belonging
Pr. Sarah Hebbouch, a teacher of
English and a researcher on
Sufism and Women, Ministry of
National Education, Morocco
Fez/ Morocco
20 min.
Casablanca/
Morocco
20 min.
Discussion
A Parallel Activity in Riad Al-Bathaa: 21.00-22.50
Tariqah Muhammadiyah Ad-Dabbaghiya:
Sufi Discipline in Relation to the Physical and
Spiritual Aspects of the Prophetic Biography,
Shaykh Ahmad Ad-Dabbagh
Manchester,
England
30 min.
A Dhikr and Sam’a Session led by Shaykh
Ahmad Ad-Dabbagh, Mohammadiyah Tariqah
Tariqa Muhammadiyah AdDabaghiya
Manchester,
England
40 min.
A Q-A session spearheaded by Shaykh Ahmad
Ad-Dabbagh, Manchester, England;
Sheikh Ahmad Ad-Dabbagh,
Tariqa Mohammedia Debbaghiya
Manchester,
England
30 min.
22.50: Dinner
DAY 2: Friday, May 15, 2015
Panel IV: Moroccan Sufism, Its Origins and Extensions in the World: Tariqas and Sheikhs
9.00-11.00: The Fifth Session (Room N° 1)
Moderator: Dr. Aziz El Kobaiti Idrissi
Rapporteur: Dr. Khalid Touzani
Title of the lecture
The lecturer
City and
state
Timing
The Extension of Moroccan Sufism to Algeria
and its Impacts during the Ottoman Era –
Darqawi and Tijani Sufi Orders as case studies-
Dr. Mohamed Chato (Professor of
History)
Me’asker/
Algeria
20 min.
Dr. Mostapha Omran Bin Rabe’a
(Professor of Islamic Studies)
Zliten/ Libya
20 min.
Dr. Mostapha Al-Hakim (Research
professor on Moroccan Sufism)
Meknes/
Morocco
20 min.
Dr. Farida Moli (University Professor
and member of the Sufi Discourse
laboratory)
Bejaya/
Algeria
20 min.
Dr. Aziz Idrissi El Kobait, President of
the IACSAS
Fes,
Morocco
20 min.
Moroccan Sufism: Issawi Sufi Order as a Case
Study
Abo Alhassan Ali Ben Mimon Alghemari (917865 Hijri calendar) a Key Figure of Moroccan
Sufism in the East and Turkey: Giving and
Revival
The Impact of Moroccan Zawiyas on the
Algerian Sufi Orders: The Example of
Balkadiya Habriya Zawiya
The Influence of Moroccan Sufism in Europe
and the United States of America
09.00-11.00
Sixth Session: Parallel Session (Hall N° 02)
Moderator: Dr. Mohamed El- Merrahi
Title of the lecture
Maghrebi Sufism and the Ottoman
Empire: the Case of Shaykh al-Islam
Mustafa ‘Ashir Efendi (d. 1804)
The Different Forms of Spiritual and
Social Presence of the ‘Alâwiyya Tariqa in
the Maghreb and Europe
“The Essence of Human Identity Knowing
the Self in the Maghribi Tarīqa
Muhammadiyya”
The Impact of Sidi Mohammed Ibn Al
Habib on Western Intellectuals.
Title of the Presentation: An Eye Witness
speaks of his First Encounter with the
Habbibiyya Fukaras in London (1975)
Moroccan Sufism in Britain and the USA:
a Comparative Study through Islamic
Sufism in the West: Moroccan Sufi Impact
on Britain and Islamic Sufism in the
United States of America
//
Rapporteur: Dr. Rachid Acim
City and
state
Timing
Dr. Erdal Toprakyaran (Professor and
Director of the Islamic Studies Center at the
German University of Tübingen
Tübingen /
Germany
20 min.
Dr. Eric GEOFFROY (University of
Strasbourg, France)
Strasbourg/
France
20 min.
Dr. Zachary Wright (Assistant professor in
residence at Northwestern University in
Qatar)
Doha/
Qatar
20 min.
Pr. MOHAMMED BOKRETA
General Manager & Freelance Writer
Alger/
Algeria
20 min.
Dr. Khalid Naserddin ( Professor of Arabic
literature)
Tinghir/
Morocco
20 min.
The lecturer
Discussion: 20 minutes
Panel V: Moroccan Sufism and its Influence on the International Thought
15.30- 17.50
Seventh Session: (Room N°1)
Moderator: Dr. Mohamed Lamrani
//
Title of the lecture
The Hidden Universal Laws through Sufi
Heritage
The Role of Sufism in Establishing Spiritual Ties
between the Maghrebian Societies – The
Example of Habibi Sufi order of Meknes
Moroccan Sufism and its Role in Upgrading
Relations with Algeria
The Role of Faith in Reforming Society:
Moroccan Sufism
The Cultural Components of of Moroccan Sufi
Thought: Dimensions and Significance
Sheikh Ibn ‘Ajiba’s Balanced Sufi Thought and
his Influence on the Islamic World
Rapporteur : Pr. Az-elArab El Boukili
City and
The lecturer
state
Pr. Bouchaib Achoufani (Researcher
Azemmour,
in Islamic Psychology)
Morocco
Timing
20 min.
Dr. Akhedar Qouidri (Professor of
Philosophy and Sufism)
Aghouat/
Algeria
20 min.
Pr. Mounir Akrar (A doctoral student,
Hitory Department)
Dr. Mohamed Amrani, University
Professor of Philosophy, Cady Ayyad
University, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities
Dr. Abdellah Chentouf (Professor of
Islamic Exegesis, Ibn Tofail
University)
Dr. Mahmoud Ay (Assistant
Professor, department of Exegesis
at the faculty of Theology , Istanbul
university)
Oujda,
Morocco
20 min.
Safi,
Morocco
20 min.
Kser Lakbir,
Morocco
20 min.
Istanbul/
Turkey
20 min.
Discussion: 20 min.
15.30- 17.50
Session 8: Parallel session (Room N°2)
Moderator: Dr. Mohammed Allaoua
//
Title of the lecture
The Sufi and Political Methodology of Titouani
Through his Sufi Interpretation
Rapporteur: Pr. Mhamed Hmamed
The lecturer
Dr. Ziyad Abderrahman
Rewasheda (Professor at the
faculty of Theology)
City and state
Timing
Istanbul/ Turkey
20 min.
“Spiritual Security,” Global Tolerance, and the
Boudshishiyya: Living with the Other Within
Dr. Emilio Spadola
(ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF
ANTHROPOLOGY)
Colgate
University/
USA
20 min.
Abbad Ennafzi Errundi Essufi and his
Existential Act in the Presence of the alEsakandari’s Hikam Aâtiya:An Interpretive
Approach on Ennafri and Hiedegger
Dr. Mokhtar Lazaar – Professor
of Philology
Alger/ Algeria
20 min.
Binghamton
University
20 min.
Duke/ USA
20 min.
Fribourg/
Switzerland
20 min.
Sufism and Salafism in the Maghreb: Political
Implications
Political Theology of the Shādhilī-Darqāwī Sufi
Tarīqa: an Interpretative Essay
Reformed Sufism and Neo-classical Maghribi
Sufism
Dr.Ricardo René Larémont
(professor of Political Science and
Sociology)
Dr. Farouqi Danishi (Researcher
in Political science)
Dr. Philip Valentini (Assistant
Professor, Fribourg university)
Discussion
A Parallel Activity in Riad Al-Bathaa: 21.00-22.50
Tariqah Darqawiya Habibiyah:
21.00-22.50
Sufism, a Mohammadian Gleam, neither
eastern nor western
Mortada al-Boumshouli, one of
the prominent Sheikhs of
Darqaoui Habibi Tariqa
Dhikr and Sama’ Session
Led by Sheikh Mortada, the
Shaykh of Habibiyah Tariqah
Disscussion
Scholars’ questions answered by
Sheikh Mortada al-Boumshouli
22.50: Dinner
Kalaat
Maggouna,
Morocco
Kalaat
Maggouna,
Morocco
Kalaat
Maggouna,
Morocco
30 min.
40 min.
30 min.
Day 3: Saturday, May 16, 2015
Panel VI: Moroccan Sufism and its Influence on the International Literature
9:00-11.40 Session 9:
Moderator: Mohammed Thami El Harraq
Rapporteur: Dr. Mostafa Boukhobza
Title of the lecture
The Aesthetic Side of Moroccan Sufi Literature: a
Preliminary Reading in Signs and Characteristics
The Impact of Sufism on Moroccan Literature at
the Thematic and Terminological Levels
The lecturer
City and state
Number
Dr. Mohamed Tohami Harrak
(university Professor)
Rabat/ Morocco
20 min.
Taounat/
Morocco
20 min.
Algiers/ Algeria
20 min.
Dr. Youso Mankila ( Dean of
faculty of Letters)
Niamey/ Niger
20 min.
Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Biba
(Professor of Civilization and
Languages at Maroua
University)
Maroua/
Cameron
20 min.
Pr. Patricia Olcina Ponsell,
Granada University
Granada/ Spain
20 min.
Dr. Alan Godlas (University
Professor, Georgia)
Georgia/ USA
20 min.
Pr. Hassan Benlhabib
(a Moroccan Poet and PhD
student)
Dr. Laâmouri Zaoui
(Professor of Literature at
Algiers University)
The Sufi narration in the Lectures of Alyoussi: a
Study of the Structure and SignificanceFeatures of Moroccan Sufism in the Arab-African
Poetry
Tijani Tariqa and its Role in Spreading Arabic
Literature in Cameron
The Enlightening Wine: Reflections on the Early
Darqawiyya in the West from the Diwan of Shaykh
Muhammad Ibn Al-Habib.
“Invoking Blessings upon The Prophet (peace be
upon him), the Moroccan Salat Al-Mashishiya
expanded in its Extended (mamzuja) Version, alWazifa al-Shadhiliya.”
Discussion: 30 min.
Panel VII: Moroccan Sufism and its Influence on Aesthetics: Calligraphy, Music, Architecture, Theatre and
Other Arts
Session 10:
14.00-16:00
Moderator: Dr. Majouline Nhibi
//
Rapporteur: Mr. Tarik Boukteb
Title of the lecture
The lecturer
City and
state
Number
The Impact of Sufism on Calligraphy: Samples
of the Spirituality of the Moroccan Calligraphy
Dr. Majdouline Nhibi ( Professor at the
faculty of Science of Education, a
researcher on linguistics, Aesthetics and
Sufism)
Rabat/
Morocco
20 min.
Pr. Mohammed Sabri (PhD student)
Fez/
Morocco
20 min.
Dr. Saida Al-achhab (Professor of
History)
Aljadida/
Morocco
20 min.
Dr. Abdellatif Alkhallabi
(Professor trainer at the Regional Center
of Teacher Training, Safi)
Safi/
Morocco
The Spiritualties of the Moroccan Calligraphy
in the order of Sidi Ahmed Rifaa’i Qastali arRibati
The Role of Darqawi and Rissuoni Tariqas in
Promoting the Artistic Taste in Tetouan
The Role of Sufi Tariqas in the Organization of
Crafts and Craftsmen in Fez in the Middle Ages
20 min.
Symbolic Aesthetics in Moroccan Sufism
Dr. Said Nouasser, a Professor at the
Afican University of Adar
Adrar,
Algeria
20 min.
Moroccan Sufism: Revealing the Depth of the
Aesthetic Symbol
Dr. Mohamed Ghani ( researcher in the
Aesthetics of Sufism)
Fes/Morocco
20 min.
Discussion: 20 min.
Panel VII: Moroccan Sufism and its Influence on Aesthetics
16.20-18.40
Session 11:
Moderator: Dr. Mounir Al-Boskari
//
Title of the lecture
Manifestations of Sufi Music in Forming the
Aesthetic Side of the Sufi Sama’a in the
Maghreb : An Anthropological Perspective
Rapporteur: Ms. Asmaa Rafik
The lecturer
City and state
Number
Dr. Nourddine Koussa (Professor of
Anthropology at Stiff university)
Setif/ Algeria
20 min.
Dr.Deborah Kapchan, Affiliated
Associate Professor, Anthropology,
Middle East Studies, Music
New York/USA
20 min.
Dr. Rashid Acim (Professor of
English Literature)
Beni mellal/
Morocco
20 min.
The Impact of sufism on Melhoun Poetry
Dr. Monir Alboskeri (Vice-Dean of
Safi Faculty)
Safi/ Morocco
20 min.
Sufis’ Impact on Some Architectural
Characteristics of the Moroccan City : Fes
City as a Case Study
Dr. Tareq Yashi (Laboratory of
Analytical Bibliography and
Documentation of Maghrebi
Heritage)
Fez/ Morocco
20 min.
Impact of Magribi Sufism on Spiritual,
Educational & Socio- Cultural Development
of Islamic West Africa
Pr. Sheikh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar
(Islamic preacher and Sufi sheikh)
Cape of Good
Hope/ South
Africa
20 min.
Listening to Sama”: Sacred Affect, Aural
Pedagogies and the Spread of Sufi Islam
Sama’ and Chanted Poetry in Moroccan
Sufism
Discussion
A Parallel Activity in Riad Al-Bathaa: 21.00-22.50
Tariqah Maizbhandari Qadriya:
The Importance of Shariaa in Sufism+
Introduction to Maizbhandari Tariqah
Shaykh Shajada Syed Saifuddin
Ahmed
Chittagong,
Bangladesh
30 min.
A Dhikr and Sam’a Session led by Shaykh
Shajada Syed Saifuddin Ahmed, Tariqa
Maizbhandari Qadriya.
Tariqa Maizbhandari Qadriya
Chittagong,
Bangladesh
40 min.
Shaykh Shajada Syed Saifuddin
Chittagong,
Ahmed, Tariqa Maizbhandari
Bangladesh
Qadriya
22.50: Dinner in Honour of Sheikhs, Scholars, and Professors
A Q-A session spearheaded by Shajada Syed
Saifuddin Ahmed, Chittagong, Bangladesh
30 min.
DAY 4: Sunday, May 17, 2015
9.00-13.00: Parallel Activity
Spiritual Visit to the Religious and Spiritual Monuments of Fes City
13.00-16.00:
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Lunch
Dhikr session and Reading Sufi Poems
16.20-17.00: Conference Closure
Concluding Remarks by:
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The IACSAS President: Dr. Aziz El Kobaiti Idrissi
Reading the Conference Reports and Recommendations in Arabic and English, Dr. Mohamed
Bourchachen,
Dr. Mahmut Ay, in the behalf of Arabic speaking participants
Dr. Marcia Hermansen, in the behalf of English speaking participants.
Reading the Letter to be sent to His Majesty, King Mohammed VI , Kingdom of Morocco