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Mohamed Ben Mansour

Mohamed Ben Mansour is Senior Lecturer (Maître de conférences) in Arabic Studies at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon since 2018, and a permanent member of the Triangle research laboratory (UMR 5206 CNRS).

Holder of the agrégation in Arabic and a doctorate in the humanities (philosophy, epistemology), he defended his thesis in 2017 at the ENS de Lyon, on the relations between poetry and power in the Abbasid period (750-965). His monograph Le poète et le Prince. Couleurs de l’éloge et du blâme à l’époque abbasside, drawn from this research, was published by Geuthner in 2021.

His work explores political philosophy and rhetoric in classical Islam, medieval Arabic literary criticism, and the performativity of poetic speech in the face of caliphal authority. He has notably published « Parole ouverte, parole cryptée. Essai sur la parrêsia poétique à l’époque abbasside » in Liberté de parole. La critique politique des élites religieuses, Islam, Byzance, Occident (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle) (Brepols, 2022), as well as an annotated translation of a 10th-11th century mirror for princes in the journal Éthique, politique, religions (no. 18, 2021). He is currently preparing a translation and commentary of Ṯaʿlab’s Qawāʿid al-šiʿr (Rules of Poetry).

His research also extends to translation and the circulation of knowledge between Greek philosophy and Arabic thought, a topic he addressed in « al-Tarjama al-khallāqa: manifestations of Arab identity in Greek philosophy » (Doha, 2024). He is also the author of the essay « Rire en Islam » published in La Vie des idées in 2016.

At the ENS de Lyon, he has directed both the Arabic Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies master’s programmes since 2019-2021, and is a tenured member of the 15th section of the French National Council of Universities (CNU).

At the Pluriel Congress in Cordoba in February 2026, he delivered a paper entitled : « Defining beauty in Islam: oscillation between submission to and transgression of ethical norms ».

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