Eric Geoffroy

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Eric Geoffroy

le 12 December 2009

Eric Geoffroy is an Expert in Islam and Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Strasbourg. He also teaches at the Open University of Catalonia, at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (Paris). ‎ He is a specialist in the study of Sufism and sanctity in Islam. Among ‎others, his research also extends to a comparison of mysticism, and to issues of ‎spirituality in the contemporary world (spirituality and globalization; spirituality ‎and ecology...). ‎

He gives many lectures in the field of Sufism and more generally of ‎Islamic culture all over the world ( Europe, the Arab world, USA, Indonesia...).‎

So far, Eric Geoffroy has had seven books published. He is the author ‎of numerous articles in magazines specialized in Islamology as well. He has also ‎written some fifteen articles in the Encyclopedia of Islam 2 e and 3 e ed.

Besides ‎this, he has also participated in international conferences and made some ‎contributions to key reference books (Les voies d’Allah, Dictionnaire critique ‎de l’ésotérisme, Dictionnaire du Coran, histoire de l’Islam et des musulmans en ‎France du Moyen-Âge à nos jours...). Eric Geoffroy himself works at ‎organizing conferences and seminars (Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, ‎European Council in Strasbourg...). ‎ The official consultant on « Islam » for the French dictionary Le Petit ‎Larousse, he is at the origins of an itinerant exhibition on Sufism directed by the ‎Arabic World Institute in Paris.

He also often writes articles in well-known ‎magazines such as Le Monde des Religions, Le Point Hors Série, La Vie. In ‎addition, he is a member of the international group of research on Science et ‎Religion en Islam (Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris).‎

Besides this, Eric Geoffroy has on many occasions been the guest of ‎national and international TV broadcastings such as: ‘Vivre l’islam’, ‘Voix ‎bouddhistes’ (France 2), El-Jazîra, Chaîne 2M (Morocco), Canal Algérie, ‎Egyptian televisions... He has also been interviewed in numerous radio ‎broadcastings such as : ‘ Cultures d’islam’, ‘ Les chemins de la connaissance’, ‎‎‘Tout un monde’ (France Culture), RMC (Moyen-Orient...). Some of his ‎articles are available on several websites: oumma.com, religioperennis.org, ‎science-islam.net, buddhaline.net..., and some others are published in Arabic ‎newspapers or magazines (al-Hayât, al-Watan, al-Râya, al-Nour, Majallat al-‎‎‘Arab al-dawliyya...).‎