Abdelmajid Charfi

President of Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters

Abdelmajid Charfi is the President of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts (Beit Al-Hikma), and Emeritus Professor of History of Islamic Thought at the University of Manouba in Tunisia. He is the former director of the Arab Department at Ecole Normale Supérieure of Tunis and former member of the Tunisian Economic and Social Council. Professor Charfi is the author of several books on Islamic Thought published in Arabic, English, and French, including Al-fikr al-islâmî fî-r-radd ala-n-nasârâ; Islam and Modernity; Islam between Message and History; La pensée islamique. Rupture et fidélité.