Houari Touati#


Houari Touati
Membership Number:7049
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:2025
Main Country of Residence:FRANCE
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Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 2012 Director of Studies 1st class at EHESS
  • 2005 - 2012 Director of Studies 2nd class at EHESS
  • 1995 - 2004 Associate Professor at EHESS
  • 1988 - 1994 Associate Professor at the University of Oran
  • 1984 - 1988 Lecturer at the University of Oran
  • 1980 - 1984 Assistant at the University of Oran

Fields of Scholarship
  • Anthropology and history of Islam
  • Mediterranean history
  • Book history
  • History of writing
  • Maghrib history


Honours and Awards
  • 1994 Ibn Khaldûn Prize awarded by the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council, New York
  • 1994 - 1995 Research grant from the Alexander Von Humboldt Stiftung,
  • 1995 Research grant from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • 1995 - 1996 Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton(declined with regret)
  • 2001 Fellowship, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
  • 2014 - 2017 Funding from Investment of the Future, France
  • Summer 2015 Fellowship, Scaliger Institute, Leiden University
  • 2019 - 2021 Funding from Scripta/PSL Research University Paris
  • 2020 Research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Berlin
  • 2023 Funding from the Fonds de la recherche de l'EHESS

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