• Scholarship by ( DAAD ) Deutscher Akademisher Austausch. Federal Republic of Germany, the period : June - July / 2002.
  Project title : Seville : Realm of the saints , methodological approch .
  Host institution : the Ruhr university of Bochum.
  Faculty associate : Prof. Dr. Gerhard Endress.
  Host Institution : The institute of Oriental studies.
• Fulbright grant for the period: August - December / 2005.
  Hostinstitution : university of Arkausus - Fayetteville.
  Faculty Associate :Prof. Dr. Vincent Cornell Professor and Director of King Fahd center for Middle East and Islamic studies.
  Project title : Andalusian sufi Poet al-Mirtulli al -Zahid : historical and symbolic figure.
• Fulbright grant for visiting specialists program, for period : September - October / 2009.
  Host institution : Chatham university , Chatham college for women , Pittsburgh, PA.
  Project title : Interrelgious dialogue : Between religious traditions and world views.

* CNRS grant (National Centre for Scientific Research), Paris, France. for the period: April - June / 2013.

Project title : culture, society and civilization in the Western Mediterranean .

The host university: University of Sorbonne, Paris VI, France.

Faculty associate : Prof. Dr. Pascal Buresi, director of the project : the imperial government and power in Medieval Muslim West (2010- 2015).