Mohamed Badredine Tachouche, Ph.D.

Mohamed Badredine Tachouche (Badr) is a researcher, lecturer, writer, and vocalist. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, where he collaborates with anthropologists as an expert in Islamic history and theology. He is also a Research Fellow with the Islam and Liberty Network in Malaysia, where his work explores Islamic legal thought from interdisciplinary perspectives, including its historical genealogy across the Mediterranean and contemporary debates on its challenges and reform.

He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities, specializing in History and Heritage: Islamic Studies, from the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Morocco, as well as an M.A. and a B.A. in the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence and a Baccalaureate in Literature and Foreign Languages, with a focus on French and English. His academic education has been complemented by traditional studies at madrasas in Algeria and Morocco, including at the historic Al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez. He has also taught dozens of classical texts in Arabic and Islamic literature, poetry, theology, and history. His academic formation includes visits to institutions in Turkey, Mauritania, and Tunisia, and he holds several Ijāzāt, or teaching licenses with authenticated chains of transmission, in classical Islamic texts.

At Anglo-American University, he teaches Composition 101 and 102 and contributes to academic events and activities related to history and philosophy.

Badr has presented his research at the University of Exeter, the University of Toronto, the University of Sarajevo, Université de Limoges in France, Charles University in Prague, including the Protestant Theological Faculty, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Al-Azhar University, the European Academy of Religion, and other academic institutions and international forums. He has also presented at the Abu Dhabi Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates, the African Peace Conference in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and cultural and artistic events, including the Animator Film Festival in Poland, the Manchester Immigration Exhibition, and the ICICH/ICOMOS Symposium in Italy.

His research focuses on Islamic intellectual history, Islamic jurisprudence and legal thought, traditional Islamic education and madrasa pedagogy, the preservation and resilience of material and intangible cultures, religious groups, radicalism and ideological polarization, and Sufi and Andalusian cultural and artistic traditions. His work connects classical Islamic scholarship and textual traditions with contemporary questions of education, pluralism, freedom, and religious thought.

Alongside his academic work, he has presented on Andalusian and Sufi music and performed in Arabic, Berber, French, Turkish, and Hebrew at international concerts and workshops. He has written and hosted television and web programs and documentaries and has contributed to cultural and artistic projects. In his free time, he enjoys playing classical instruments, editing medieval manuscripts, and watching Depuis Quand and J’irai Dormir Chez Vous!.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Tachouche, M. B. (2025). Exploring the significance of Andalusian ܷɲḥāt and in the study of Islamic theology: A case study of “Jādaka al-Ghayth” by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (1313–1374). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(1), 133–157.

Book Chapters

  • Tachouche, M. B. (2026). The Other Saint of Hippo: Sīdī Bū Marwān al-Būnī between al-Durra al-Maṣūna and Salafization. In Kulty světců a světic ve světě muslimů (pp. 31–67). Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia.

Books and Edited Volumes

  • Tachouche, B., Tlili, V., Sobotková, V., Pelikán, P., Ramadan, I., Kvasnovská, R., Kordová, A., Ilková, T., Sulovský, I., Siegel, M., & Fous, M. (2025). Pohřební rituály a smrt ve světě muslimů (EN: Funeral Rituals and Death in the Muslim World). University of West Bohemia Press.

Research Reports and Conference Papers

  • Tachouche, M. B., & Tlili, V. (2025). Traditional Islam Facing Radical Islam: Pedagogical and Ethical Practices in Souss Fiqh Madrasas. Toronto Democracy Forum 2025 Research Papers. World Anti-Extremism Network.

Public Scholarship

  • Tachouche, M. B. (2026). Unmosquing the West: Traditional Islam, Proselytism, and the Mausoleum of al-Shāfiʿī. Edraak, Islam and Liberty Network.
  • Tachouche, M. B. (2026). Napoleon’s Flotilla: Decolonizing the Concept of Freedom in the Muslim World. Edraak, Islam and Liberty Network.

Arabic Publications

  • طشوش، محمد بدر الدين. (2023). فتوى ماردن وفقه الأقليات بين قاعدة الضرورة وضرورة المراجعات. مؤسسة مؤمنون بلا حدود. (EN: The Mardin Fatwa and the Jurisprudence of Minorities between the Principle of Necessity and the Need for Reassessment).
  • طشوش، محمد بدر الدين. (2022). ثلاثية الفناء: الدعوى والدعوة والعدوان، الأصول الاعتقادية للإقصاء الديني والاستمدادات الفقهية للاستقطاب الأيديولوجي. مؤسسة مؤمنون بلا حدود. (EN: The Trilogy of Annihilation: Claim, Proselytism, and Aggression—The Doctrinal Foundations of Religious Exclusion and the Juridical Foundations of Ideological Polarization).

Scholarly Media

  • Tachouche, M. B. (2026). Ijtihād as a Space for Freedom and Reason in Islamic Thought (Part 1). Interview, Islam and Liberty Podcast, Islam and Liberty Network.
  • Tachouche, M. B. (2026). Ijtihād as a Space for Freedom and Reason in Islamic Thought (Part 2). Interview, Islam and Liberty Podcast, Islam and Liberty Network.
  • Tachouche, M. B. (2022). A Song and a Story. Web documentary on Arabic and Islamic poetry and music. Writer, host, and co-producer.

Works Under Review

Journal Articles

  • Tachouche, M. B., & Tlili, V. From Silence to Resilience: Ethical and Pedagogical Practices in Southern Maghrebi Madrasas. Accepted for publication in Asian and African Studies.
  • Tachouche, M. B., & Tlili, V. The Role of Dialogue in Cultivating Human Consciousness: Perspectives from Classical and Contemporary Islamic Jurists. The Muslim World.

Book Chapters

  • Tachouche, M. B. Genealogy of Islamic Legal Thought in Europe: Lessons for Muslim Communities in an Era of Division. In the proceedings of the 12th Islam and Liberty Network Conference, Living Together Peacefully in a Free Society, Sarajevo International University.

Books

  • Tachouche, M. B., & Tlili, V. Imhdaren: Pedagogy, Society, and Ecology in South Moroccan Madrasas.
  • Tachouche, M. B. When the Moon Calls: A Mālikī Fatwa on Crescent Verification and the Role of Technology in Islamic Legal Thought: A Critical Edition of an Unpublished Manuscript by Muḥammad al-Mukhtār al-Sūsī (1900–1963).
  • طشوش، محمد بدر الدين. كومنسكي والكومنيولوجيا: أول دراسة عربية. (EN: Comenius and Comeniology: The First Study in Arabic). Includes an Arabic translation of Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk’s introduction to the commemorative Comenius publication of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 1928.