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Toni Kahwaji

Toni Kahwaji is Professor of philosophy and director of the Institute of Oriental Letters (ILO) at Saint-Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) since September 2022, where he has been teaching since 2014.

Holder of a State Doctorate in philosophy from the Lebanese University (mention Excellent), he is also Assistant Professor there since 2014. A specialist of epistemology and complex thought, his research bears on formal and mathematical logic, philosophical and scientific methodologies of reasoning, hermeneutics, as well as on the relations between philosophy and architecture, and between philosophy and Arabic music.

He is the author of several works, including Mabāḥith fī al-ibistīmūlūjiyā (Investigations in epistemology, Dār al-Jīl) and Nuṣūṣ falsafiyya mutarjama (Translated philosophical texts, Dār al-Kutub al-Ḥadītha), and has participated in numerous national and international conferences. Before entering higher education, he long coordinated the social sciences in Lebanese secondary schools.

At the Pluriel Congress in Cordoba in February 2026, he delivered a paper entitled : « Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethical conduct in Ibn ʿArabī’s experience ».

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