Dalil Boubakeur (born 2 November 1940) is a

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

Mufti A Mufti (; ar, مفتي) is an Islamic jurist qualified to issue a nonbinding opinion ('' fatwa'') on a point of Islamic law (''sharia''). The act of issuing fatwas is called ''iftāʾ''. Muftis and their ''fatwas'' played an important rol ...

, and current rector of the

Great Mosque of Paris The Grand Mosque of Paris (french: Grande Mosquée de Paris), also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, is located in the 5th arrondissement and is one of the largest mosques in France. There are prayer rooms, an outdoo ...

. He is also the president of the

French Council of the Muslim Faith The French Council of the Muslim Faith (french: Conseil français du culte musulman, usually abbreviated to CFCM), is a national elected body, to serve as an official interlocutor with the French state in the regulation of Muslim religious activi ...

. He was born on 2 November 1940 in the Algerian city of Skikda, to Hamza Boubakeur and Hafza Leshtoilette. He studied at Lycées Bugeaud in Algiers, before moving to France and studying at

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris. It was founded in the ...

. He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences et Medicine of Paris and holds degrees in Quranic studies, theology and Muslim civilization.

External links

Docteur Dalil Boubakeur
, official biography on the site of the Great Mosque of Paris
Dalil Boubakeur
biography on the site of the

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and politics. The center was founded in 2006 under a ...

1940 births Living people Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Algerian emigrants to France People from Skikda Algerian Muslims French Muslims {{Islam-bio-stub