Youssef Seddik , born in 1943 with Tozeur, is a Philosophe and anthropologist Tunisia N specialist in the ancient Greece and anthropology of the Coran.

In 1966, it obtains a license and a Maîtrise in Philosophie as well as a license in French literature and civilizations. During the four following years, he teaches the French with the college of Compiegne and obtains in 1967 a of philosophy ( determinism of the desire and the freedom of the love at Avicenne and Spinoza ) and a license of Greek old. Of 1971 with 1977, it teaches philosophy.

Obtaining a DEA in Hellenic language and civilization ( On the walk of the dix-mille of Xénophon ) with the University Paris III (1988) and a Doctorate with the School of the high studies in social sciences of Paris (1995), it is in charge of conference there then sign the modern thought Islam ic at the University Paris III of 1995 with 1996. Director of a company of edition specialized in the works intended for youth between 1984 and 1987, it is also large-to defer to the newspaper the Press of Tunisia between 1975 and 1983.

He publishes many works and Traduction S around the Islamic inheritance of which the Known as ones of the prophet Muhammad , the Known as ones of the Imam Ali , Coran: another reading, another translation and We never read Coran . In 2002, its translation and its analyzes of Coran emphasize the strong hellenistic influence on the text, which scandalized the integrist Moslems who think that the text emanates from God.

The Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali addresses to him in 2004 a letter of congratulations for his last work: I congratulate you for the depth on your double culture, the audacity which was yours to establish bridges between tradition and rationality in order to include/understand Coran, a comprehension which is not alienated at one time nor monopolized by an elite particulière.

Publications

• Bits of baffle. Daily life in Baghdad with Xe century (Co-writing with Tanûkhî), ED. Actes Sud, Arles, 1999
• Coran: another reading, another translation (translation of the Coran), ED. paddle, the Tower the Acute ones, 2002
• the newcomer of the evening: this Islam of light which pains with becoming , ED. paddle, the Tower the Acute ones, 2004
• We never read Coran , ED. paddle, the Tower the Acute ones, 2004
• Which is the barbarians? : Route of a thinker of Islam , ED. paddle, the Tower the Acute ones, 2007
• the Known as ones of the prophet Muhammad , ED. Actes Sud, Arles
• the Known as ones of the Imam Ali

External bond

• “Youssef Seddik or the '' work of culture ''”, '' the literary Press '', December 18th, 2006