Biography
Ahmed Mitiche is a cultural anthropologist interested in questions of religion, coloniality, modernity, and the secular. His current research is a historical anthropology of twentieth-century Algerian scholars and writers active in the decades preceding the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962). Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and textual research in Algeria, France, and Morocco across Arabic and French sources, he analyzes their theologically grounded account of colonial domination—what they termed the “colonization of the soul”—and their efforts to cultivate liberatory practices of ethical self and community formation. In particular, his work examines attempts to reconstitute dismantled intellectual traditions and to rethink the organization of knowledge, time, and earth under conditions of colonial governance. Ahmed’s research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. He is a 2025–2026 Incite Institute Dissertation Fellow.
