
NEWS
Amir Dziri: “Over the past decade, the Swiss Center for Islam and Society has strengthened its academic standing”
Fribourg, Switzerland. To mark the Swiss Center for Islam and Society’s tenth anniversary, its co-director Amir Dziri gave an interview to Pluriel.
NEWS
Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in the Muslim World?
Interview. Saudi researcher Abdulrahman Khalid AlKhunayfir, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo, traces his intellectual journey that led him to study the history o...
to 15/07/25 to 23/07/25
AGENDA
Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”
As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...
to 06/07/23 to 08/07/23
AGENDA
Justice / International Meeting on Comparative Theology
The International Meeting on Comparative Theology is an annual conference aimed at connecting PhD students and young researchers working in the field of Comparative Theology all around the world. Since 2016...
DEADLINE : 30/01/23
CALL FOR PAPER
Justice / Call for papers
International Meeting on Comparative Theology University of Bonn6-8 July, 2023 The International Meeting on Comparative Theology is an annual conference aimed at connecting PhD students and young resea...
13/09/22
AGENDA
Muslim spiritual guidance in the interfaith and secular context
Conference organised by the Swiss Center for Islam & Society Muslim chaplaincy in public institutions in Switzerland was born in response to a concrete need. On the one hand, it is situated at the thres...
to 02/12/21 to 03/12/21
AGENDA
International conference “Religion, State, and Law”
Les 2 et 3 décembre 2021, l’Université de Graz accueille le colloque international “Religion, État et droit : Défis nationaux, transnationaux et internationaux”. Il est organisée par la Fa...
16/12/20
AGENDA
Webinar : Religions and secularism: the challenge of intransigence
Wednesday December 16th, 6.30PM (online) In a context marked by extremism, radicalism, separatism and communitarianism, French society is experiencing an intensification of identity-based and militant withd...
Dominique Avon
Director of studies at the EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL) and director of the IISMM (Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World).
Maryam Ballout
Assistant to the Cluster on Christian-Muslim Relations of the HEST Programme of the Jesuit Universities of Europe (Kircher Network)
Cédric Baylocq
Anthropologue, Chercheur associé à l’Institut de Science et Théologie des Religions, Institut catholique de Paris
Houssame Bentabet
Docteur en sociologie et islamologue, chercheur
Pablo López Chaves
Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Contemporary History Department
Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East
José Luis Llaquet de Entrambasaguas
Doctor in law and associate professor
Hicham Abdel Gawad
Doctorant en sciences des religions, écrivain et formateur aux faits religieux en société.
Silvia Pierantoni Giua
Researcher
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Professor of Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies
Jamel Khermimoun
Benjamin Latouche
Prêtre catholique et chercheur, membre du laboratoire d’islamologie du Centre d’études des cultures et des religions (CECR) de l’Université catholique de Lyon
Myriam Di Marco
Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Professeure de théologie fondamentale et d’études religieuses à la faculté de théologie catholique d’Innsbruck
Ignacio Sepúlveda del Río
Assistant professor of political philosophy and philosophy of religion – Universidad Loyola Andalucía.
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Muslim worship in France: is the State-led reorganization underway?
In this article published on February 26, 2025, on The Conversation, Ali Mostfa analyzes the evolution of the Forum of Islam in France (Forif), created in 2022 to replace the French Council of Muslim Worshi...
videos
Islam in Europe or European Islam?
In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers an in-depth analysis of the Muslim presence in Eu...
videos
Freedom of conscience, a contested yet resilient right
Rome. In a conference given on November 28, 2024, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Professor Dominique Avon from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris traced the complex h...
publication
Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
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Islam & Otherness. Proceedings of the Pluriel congress in Beirut
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Religion and Democracy
“This article addresses mainly two widespread prejudices. The first claims that democracy flourishes only in a Christian culture, the second wants to keep religion out of politics to protect democracy...
videos
Thinking Islam in Europe
Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter : Raphaël Georgy With the collaboration ofAn...
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Identity, ‘race’, freedom of expression. Critical perspectives on some of the debates that fracture the left
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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019
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Religions and Constitutional Transitions in the Muslim Mediterranean
videos
Rethinking the Muslim-Christian living together in Lebanon / Amin Elias
On the eve of the first centenary of the proclamation of the State of Greater Lebanon (September 1, 1920), this intervention proposes to expose and analyse the position of Muslims in Lebanon towards this pr...
publication
Religious Traditions in the Face of the Crisis of the Liberal System: The Case of Islam
formations
University degree “Religion, freedom of religion, secularization (laïcité)”
University degree jointly delivered by the University of Lyon 3 and the Catholic University of Lyon, in partnership with the French Institute of Muslim Civilization and the Conseil Régional du Culte Musulma...
formations
University Diploma Interculturality, Secularism, Religions
The training “Interculturality, secularity, religions”, created in 2008 within the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris, in partnership with the Central Of...