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Mohammed Arkoun completed his primary studies in Taourirt-Mimoun, his secondary studies in Oran and pursued higher education at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Algiers and at the Sorbonne in Paris . Thereafter he was professor at the Faculty of Philology of Strasbourg University (1956-1959); at Lycée Voltaire, Paris (1959-1961); Assistant-Professor at Sorbonne University (1961-1969); Associate Professor at Lyon II University (1969-1972); Professor at Paris VIII University, Paris III University and at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (1972-1992). He has also been a visiting professor at U.C.L.A., Los Angeles (1969); Louvain-La-Neuve University, Belgium (1977-1979); Pontifical Institute of Arabic Studies in Rome, Princeton University (1985), Temple University, Philadelphia (1988-90) and the University of Amsterdam (1991-1993). He has acted as Fellow at Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin (1986-87 and 1990) and Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, USA (1992-93) and has lectured all over the world.