Four cycles for entering the Islamic sciences through the door of the texts: reading, understanding how an argument is built, and knowing where it comes from.
Each cycle is conceived as a path: we start from what the student already knows, install the technical vocabulary, then open the text. Reading the sources directly is not reserved for specialists; it only requires an honest progression.
Cycles are held in person and online, in French or in Arabic, for small groups or for institutions. A recording is made available to those enrolled.
From the founders of Baghdad to the masters of Fez
How a theological school born in the East became, in the Maghreb, the official doctrine of an empire — and what it actually said.
Uṣūl al-fiqh: how a norm is built
Islamic law is not a list of rules but a theory of interpretation. This cycle takes its mechanism apart.
Reading Sībawayh's Kitāb and its Maghrebi posterity
Entering grammar not as one enters a textbook, but as one enters a science of language built twelve centuries ago.
The workshop of critical editing
A practical workshop: reading a Maghrebi hand, dating a copy, collating witnesses, establishing a text.