Ahmed Toufiq (born 22 June 1943) is a Moroccan historian and novelist who has been serving as Minister for Islamic Affairs in the government of Morocco since 2002.
Ahmed Toufiq
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Minister of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs | |
Assumed office 7 September 2002 | |
Monarch | Mohammed VI |
Prime Minister | Abderrahmane Youssoufi Driss Jettou Abbas El Fassi Abdelilah Benkirane Saadeddine Othmani Aziz Akhannouch |
Preceded by | Abdelkebir M'Daghri Alaoui |
Personal details | |
Born | (1943-06-25) 25 June 1943 (age 81) Margha, Morocco |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Mohammed V University |
Thesis | al-Mujtamaʿ al-Maghribī fī al-Qarn al-Tāsiʿa ʿAshar: ʼInūltāne (1850-1912) |
Doctoral advisor | Germain Ayache |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
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Toufiq was born on 22 June 1943 in Marigha Village in the High Atlas.[1] After completing his primary and secondary studies in Marrakech, he enrolled at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Rabat, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1968, then a master's degree in history. Toufiq also holds a certificate of Archaeology. He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century.
He started his career as a teacher at L'École Normale Supérieure de Marrakech and taught in a high school in Rabat. Thereafter, he joined the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, where he served in various roles from 1970 to 1989; lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor. He was appointed director of the Institute of African Studies at the Mohammed V University in 1989. holding the position for six years until 1995. From 1995 to 2002, he worked as director of the National Library of Morocco.[2][3]
In 1989, Toufiq received his first Moroccan Book Prize for his novel Shajarat Hinna' Wa Qamar (A Tree of Henna and a Moon). In 2001, he served as a Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School, affiliated with its Center for the Study of World Religions.[4]
In November 2002, Toufiq was appointed to the government as Minister for Islamic Affairs. He is also a personal advocate of interfaith dialogue and currently sits on the Board of World Religious Leaders for The Elijah Interfaith Institute.[5] Toufiq is a Sufi.[6]
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