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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Spiritual eroticism and erotic spirituality in Sufi mystical thought
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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The gnostic constitution of aesthetic values in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Art in the face of authoritarian discourse: the contribution of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Beyond the licitness of ecstasy: the poetry of samāʿ as an aesthetic and cognitive experience in al-Ghazālī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...
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Ghaḍḍ al-baṣar as the paradigm of an Islamic aesthetics: interpretations and perspectives
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...
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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...