Nicolas Payen

Temporary teaching and research assistant in Arabic Studies at the École normale supérieure de Lyon
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Research topics

  • The animal: concept and classification.
  • Continuity between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
  • Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant in the first four centuries of Islam.
  • Construction of knowledge in the Abbasid era.
  • Translation movement (Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Pehlevi).

Professional experience

  • 2024-2025 : Temporary teaching and research assistant in Arabic Studies at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.
  • 2023-2024 : Temporary teaching and research assistant in Islamic History at Sorbonne Université (Paris).
  • 2020-2023 : Scientific employee within the ERC-project "Animals in the Philosophy of the Islamic World" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich).
  • 2018-2019 : University tutor in History at Sorbonne Université (Paris).

Education

  • 2020-2023 : PhD in Philosophy and History of the Middle Ages at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) and Sorbonne Université (Paris).
  • 2019-2020 : Yearly Arabic Linguistic Program at the French Institute of the Near East (Beirut); B.A. in Arabic at Inalco (Paris).
  • 2017-2019 : M.A. in History at Sorbonne Université (Paris) ; B.A. and Maîtrise in Communication at Celsa (Neuilly-sur-Seine).
  • 2014-2017 : B.A. in History and English Studies at Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Research domain

History History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences Literature Religions

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Publications

Spokespersons in al-Ǧāḥiẓ’s Book of Animals

Nicolas Payen
Animali Eroi nella Letteratura Medievale. XXV edizione del Congresso Biennale della Società Internazionale Renardiana, International Reynard Society, Sep 2024, Trento, Italy
Conference papers hal-04733588 v1

Le souffle et la production de sons chez les animaux en Islam médiéval

Nicolas Payen
Il ne leur manque que la parole : Sons, cris et voix des animaux dans les cultures antiques et médiévales, Zoomathia, Oct 2024, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-04786488 v1

L’animal dans les textes arabes médiévaux (avec Meyssa Ben Saâd)

Nicolas Payen
L’écologie en Islam : traditions séculaires et défis contemporains, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM), Nov 2024, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-04786502 v1

L’inversion des relations inter-animales en contexte eschatologique

Nicolas Payen
Sauvage et/ou domestique, l’animal du Proche-Orient à l’Asie centrale, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM), Nov 2024, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-04786510 v1

L’émergence d’une culture zoographique en Islam : modalités et motivations

Nicolas Payen
Tier-Mensch Interaktionen in Antike und Mittelalter: Erfahren, Verstehen, Miteinander Leben, Zoomathia - Universität Trier, Jun 2024, Trier, Allemagne
Conference papers hal-04733580 v1

L’animal comme catégorie juridique dans le fiqh classique (Mālik, al-Šaybānī et al-Šāfiʿī)

Nicolas Payen
Condition animale et études aréales : quelles synergies, quels enjeux ?, CNRS et Observatoire de recherche sur la condition animale (ORCA), Nov 2024, Aubervilliers, France
Conference papers hal-04786506 v1

Les interactions entre humains et animaux dans les premières biographies du Prophète

Nicolas Payen
Interactions hommes-animaux dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge : expérience, compréhension, échanges, Zoomathia - Université Côte d'Azur, Sep 2023, Nice, France
Conference papers hal-04733571 v1

State of investigation: Research and studies on animals in Islam

Nicolas Payen
Animals as Worshippers of God before all, CNRS, Nov 2022, Villejuif, France
Conference papers hal-03960388 v1

State of investigation: Research and studies on animals and saints in the Latin world

Nicolas Payen
Animals as Worshippers of God before all, CNRS, Nov 2022, Villejuif, France
Conference papers hal-03960411 v1

The Testament of Adam

Nicolas Payen
Animals as Worshippers of God before all, CNRS, Nov 2022, Villejuif, France
Conference papers hal-03960400 v1

Al-Fārābī’s systems of animal classification

Nicolas Payen
Animals in Islamic Theology and Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, May 2022, Munich, Germany
Conference papers hal-03960356 v1

Flying creatures in early Islam

Nicolas Payen
34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (DMG), Sep 2022, Berlin, Germany
Conference papers hal-03960374 v1

The animal as an ensouled being in early Islamic law

Nicolas Payen
Medieval Arabic and Latin Conceptions of Spirit: Between Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Mar 2022, Munich, Germany
Conference papers hal-03960339 v1

The colours of animals in Arabic philology

Nicolas Payen
Colour in Islam: Understanding Textual and Visual Historiographies of Colour in Inter-Disciplinary Perspective, LMU Center for Advanced Studies, Oct 2021, Munich, Germany
Conference papers hal-03960314 v1

Wonderful Animals in the Biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad

Nicolas Payen
Mathilde van Dijk. Companion Species. Saints, Animals and Ordinary Humans in the Middle Ages, Routledge, pp.103-125, 2025, 9781003478423. ⟨10.4324/9781003478423⟩
Book sections hal-04856363 v1

A History of the Concept of Animal in the First Four Centuries of Islam

Nicolas Payen
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Sorbonne Université, 2023. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩
Theses tel-04354564 v1