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).
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Awards and Recognitions
2021: Member of the Literary Award Jury for his poetry collection Murds Soil Melancholy in My Country, Salon Littéraire Oujda, Morocco.
2017: Award for Best Journalistic Work for the article The Wisdom of the Frog in a Pluralistic World, published in the Islamic World Journal.
2014: Nominee for the Thesis Awards at VU Amsterdam, Faculty of Religion and Theology, for his Master's thesis Islam and Western Pluralism: From the Approaches of Jacques Derrida, Hans Küng, and Henk Vroom (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nelly van Doorn-Harder).
2009: Recognized as one of the Top 100 Arab Writers in the World by the Arab World Press Forum, United Arab Emirates.
2006: First Prize in Literature (Arabic Poetry), awarded by the Al-Hidjra Foundation for Culture and Art, Amsterdam.
1992: First Prize in Literature, Lyceum Al-Amal Midar, Morocco.