Patrick Laude
Title: Professor
Expertise: Poetry, comparative mysticism, French and Francophone literature
Room Number: A153 Office Phone: +974-457-8247
Dr. Laude has been on the SFS-Qatar faculty since August 2006. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he earned a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne with certificates in Indian and Islamic philosophy, and a thesis on Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī. He received his Ph.D in French literature in1985 from Indiana University with a dissertation on the French poetry of South East Asia. He has been teaching in the French Department at Georgetown’s main campus since 1991, and has been Professor since 2001. He also taught courses in the Liberal Studies, Catholic Studies and Comparative Literature programs.
Professor Laude's personal and academic interests lie in the relationship between poetry and contemplative or mystical traditions, as well as in Western representations and interpretations of Islam and Asian religions. He is the author of nine books, including Pray Without Ceasing: The Way of the Invocation in World Religion, 2006, Divine Play, Sacred Laughter and Spiritual Understanding, 2005, Singing the Way: Insights in Poetry and Spiritual Transformation, 2005, Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998): Life and Teachings, 2004, Massignon intérieur, 2001, and Approches du quiétisme, 1992. His latest book, Unveiling an Inner Islam, written in Qatar, is forthcoming with the State University of New York Press in 2009.
He is a regular contributor to Parabola: The Search for Meaning, and he has authored numerous articles on comparative religion, mysticism and poetry in international academic journals such as Symposium, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, Neophilologus, Revue théologique de Louvain, Littératures classiques, and Sophia: The International Journal for Philosophy of the Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics.
More information is available at Professor Laude's Website.
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- SFS-Qatar Students Receive UREP Grants
Three students from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar were awarded research grants in the latest round of funding from the Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP). (June 29, 2009) - SFS-Qatar Sets the Stage for Summer with Planet Georgetown Program
Later this month, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar) will host its second annual Planet Georgetown summer enrichment series for youth from local independent schools throughout Qatar. (June 19, 2009) - Mehran Kamrava Appointed Interim Dean at SFS-Qatar
Georgetown has named Mehran Kamrava as interim dean at SFS-Qatar. Starting August 1, Kamrava will succeed the current SFS-Qatar Dean James Reardon-Anderson, who will return to Main Campus in Washington, DC. (June 16, 2009)
