Biographical Note

Tijani Boulaouali (Tissali, Driouch Morocco, 1973) is assisting academic and teaching staff at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He is a member of the Research Unit Arabic and Islamic Studies. His areas of specialisation are: Dutch Quran Translation, Quranic Studies, Islamic Studies, Quranic and Biblical Concepts and Narratives, Interfaith Dialogue.

Tijani obtained his doctoral degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the KU Leuven. He has worked on a doctoral dissertation on the Biblical reference framework of the contemporary Dutch translators of the Qur'an.

He published a number of books including: Muslims and the Phobia of Globalization (Fez Morocco, 2018), The Image of Islam in the Dutch Academic Approach (United Arab Emirates, 2013), Arabic Poetry, the Duality of Norm and Deviation (United Arab Emirates, 2012), The Islam and the Amazighism (Casablanca, 2008), Muslims in the West (2006, Cairo).