Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé

Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé is a Research Engineer in Digital Humanities at the CNRS (IHRIM, ENS de Lyon), working within the ERC project NOTCOM. His research lies at the intersection of intellectual history, comparative literature, and digital humanities, with a particular focus on the circulation and reception of Muslim texts in early modern and modern Europe.

He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature focusing on English and French Orientalism (17th–19th centuries), examining how Muslim texts, notably the Qur'an and its exegesis, were read, interpreted, and reconfigured in European intellectual contexts. He is also a co-director of the Qur'an 12–21 platform, dedicated to the comparative analysis of European translations of the Qur'an.

Within NOTCOM, he is responsible, in collaboration with Maud Ingarao (IHRIM – ENS de Lyon), for the design and development of the project's database and for the digital scholarly edition of the Journal des Sçavans (1665–1701).  He also curates excerpts from this edition relevant to the project's three core research themes. His work combines text encoding, corpus structuring, and digital editorial practices to support the study of scholarly communication in the seventeenth century.