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The Mawāqif, spiritual work and corpus of transmission

The Bibliothèque nationale de France identifies the Kitāb al-Mawāqif as a work by Emir Abdelkader. Two editorial milestones provide documented access in French: Michel Chodkiewicz’s 1982 selection and Michel Lagarde’s three-volume translation published between 2000 and 2002.

One work, several forms of access

A selection, a complete translation and the Arabic text do not offer the same reading experience. The collection therefore states the nature, translator, date and extent of each edition before drawing on its content.

The halt as form

The word mawqif, often rendered as halt, designates a unit of meditation and teaching. The order, vocabulary and translation of these units require patient reading attentive to the work’s own structure.

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Emir Abdelkader Collection, “The Mawāqif, spiritual work and corpus of transmission,” thematic dossier, 15 August 2026, https://emir-abdelkader.vercel.app/en/dossiers/mawaqif.