Ahmed abbadi biography

Can you describe how the Rabita fits in Morocco’s institutional structures? What is its role and yours?

I was working at the Ministry of Habbous Religious Affairs when His Majesty appointed me (in 2006) to lead and revive the Rabita; he thus entrusted me with an important institution and mandate, and his command was that I make it viable, with a central role in the critical institutional structure governing Islam in Morocco.

The Rabita had been founded in 1960, by a group of distinguished scholars, essentially as a scholarly enterprise.

Ahmed abbadi biography

Then King Hassan II was the patron though at a distance. But the institution had fallen into what amounted to a deep sleep, a hibernation. The scholars involved grew old and several had died and the mandate was unclear. The current king, His Majesty Mohammed VI, felt it was an important institution that should have resources and prestige, and he marked his interest by giving it his name.

When I took on what was a heavy bur