Permanent and Visiting Teachers

Zuhair Mahmood

-- Director of IESH Chateau-Chinon
-- Phd in Science
-- Teaches the Biography of the Prophet (Seerah) and Islamic Reform Movements

Larabi BECHERI

Professor Larabi Becheri (with video message!)

-- Director of Education at IESH
-- Member of the European Fatwa Council
-- PhD student at the University of Aix en Provence
-- Teacher (since 1996) in Islamic Law

Saïd BOUHDIFI
Professor Said Bouhdifi (with video message!)

-- Head of Quran Department
-- A teacher in the Quran department as well as in the Islamic Studies department since 2003

--Holds an Ijaza (a chain of teachers in Quran that lead all the way back to the Prophet (PBUH) in the ten readings (Qira'aat) of the Quran, which he obtained in 2003 from Sheikh Abdul Mun'im Shalati in Damascus (Syria) and in 2004 from Dr. Ayman Swaid at Chateau-Chinon
-- Graduated in religious sciences at IESH Chateau-Chinon

Brahim Souissi
Professor Brahim Souissi(with video message!)

-- Head of Arabic Language Department
-- Has been a teacher in the Arabic Department since 1997
-- Graduated in religious sciences at IESH Chateau-Chinon.


Farid Ouyalize
-- Has been a teacher in the Quran Department since 2001, also teaches in the Arabic Department
- Also holds an Ijaza in the ten readings of the Quran (Qira'aat), obtained in 2004 from Dr. Ayman Swaid at Chateau-Chinon
-- Graduated in religious sciences at IESH Chateau-Chinon

Zohra Azgal
-- Has been a teacher in the Quran Department since 2004
- Holds an Ijaza in three readings of the Quran (Hafs - Warsh - Qalun)
- Licensed graduate of Arabic Language and Civilization (Paris) 

Abdelmajid NAJAR

 Professor AbdulMajid Najjar (with video message!)

-- Doctor of Islamic Theology ('Aqeedah) Al Azhar University (Egypt).
-- Author of numerous books and publications
-- Member of the Knowledge Council of IESH
-- Member of the European Fatwa Council
-- Teaches Islamic Theology ('Aqeedah), Islamic Culture (Thaqafah), Currents of Contemporary Thought, and Purposes of Islamic Law (Maqasid Al-Shariah) in the Islamic Studies Department

Abdullah Yusuf Al-Juday'
-- Doctor of Hadith Sciences
-- President of a research centre at Leeds (UK)
-- Teaches methods of authenticating Ahadeeth (Takhreej)

 Professor Mohamed Bacchouche

 

(with video message!)

-- Teacher (since 1997) in the Arabic Department
-- Holds a DEA in Arabic obtained at the University of Lyon


Ali Al-Haddad
-- Has taught in the Arabic Department since 1999.
-- A graduate of Arabic from the University of Meknes (Morocco)


Musa al-Sharif
-- Ph.D. in Islamic History

-- Speaker
-- Teaches in Islamic History and Research Methods

Salim Kettach
-- PhD in Psychology
-- Teaches in Educational Psychology

Mohamed Ghamgui
-- Ph.D. in Political Science
-- Teaches Sociology, Islam and Europe, and Research Methods

Abel Halim Beghriche
-- PhD in Law Affairs from the Jean Moulin University (Lyon III)
-- Teaches theoretical General Law and Law of Institutions and Public Freedoms

Larbi Belbachir
-- Graduated from the University of Abdelkader El Amir in Constantine (Algeria)
-- Teaches the Sciences of the Quran, the Sciences of Hadeeth,  and Fundametals of Islamic Law


Professor Abdulkader Djedidi

 (with video message!)