Academic, president of the Imam Junayd Centre for Sufi Studies, disciple of the Tariqa Qâdiriya Boutchichiya
Dr Smaail Radi chairs the Imam Junayd Centre for Specialised Sufi Studies and Research, part of the Rabita Mohammadia of Ulema of Morocco. A professor at Oujda, he devotes his work to the standing of tasawwuf in Islam's scholarly tradition: Sufism among the ulema, the fiqh of hearts, and the relations between Sufism and the Islamic sciences.