Ahmed Toufiq (born 22 June 1943) is a Moroccan historian and novelist who has been serving as Minister for Islamic Affairs in the government of Morocco since 2002.
He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century.
He started his career as a teacher at L'École Normale Supérieure de Marrakech and taught in a high school in Rabat.
He was appointed director of the Institute of African Studies at the Mohammed V University in 1989. holding the position for six years until 1995.
[2][3] In 1989, Toufiq received his first Moroccan Book Prize for his novel Shajarat Hinna' Wa Qamar (A Tree of Henna and a Moon).