Nicolas Payen

Nicolas Payen is Research and Teaching Assistant in Arabic Studies at ENS de Lyon. From 2020 to 2023, Nicolas Payen served as a doctoral candidate within the ERC-funded project entitled “Animals in the Philosophy of the Islamic World,” under the guidance of Prof. Peter Adamson (LMU Munich). Payen’s doctoral dissertation centers on the exploration of the concept of the animal and the evolution of zoography during the early stages of Islamic civilization.