Mohamed Badredine Tachouche (Badr)

Mohamed Badredine Tachouche (Badr) is an adjunct lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague, where he teaches Europe and Islam: An Interdisciplinary Approach and Composition 101. He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, University of West Bohemia, and a research fellow with the Islam and Liberty Network in Malaysia. Badr holds a Baccalaureate in Literature and Foreign Languages, a B.A., and an M.A. in the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence, and a Ph.D. in Humanities with a specialization in History and Heritage: Islamic Studies from the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco (2021). His traditional Islamic education includes years of study at madrasahs in Algeria and Morocco, most notably at the historic Al-Qarawiyyin University in Fez. He further expanded his learning through academic visits to institutions in Turkey, Mauritania, and Tunisia, and he holds several Ijāzāt (teaching licenses with authenticated chains of transmission) in core Islamic texts. Badr has published with the University of Oslo, contributed to a range of Arabic media platforms, and reviewed scholarly work for both the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace and the University of West Bohemia. He has also written and produced television programs and web documentaries. His research interests include Islamic legal theory and Malikism, the history of al-Andalus, pedagogy in Islamic educational settings, and the musicology of al-Andalus. Bridging scholarship and art, he has shared his work through academic publications as well as performances for both scholarly and artistic audiences.