Co-director of the seminar Revêtir l’invisible : la religion habillée at the Collège des Bernardins and professor of theology and history of religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society (LSRS)
Specialist in the history of Ottoman Sufism, he obtained a doctoral thesis in modern and contemporary history at the University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne), entitled “Practices and doctrines of whirling dervishes in the 17th century in the Ottoman Empire: the case of Ismâ’îl Rüsûhi Ankaravî”. After obtaining his doctorate in 2007, he continued his research and the publication of his scientific results and obtained the habilitation to direct research in Catholic theology at the University of Lorraine by presenting a dossier entitled: ” The Sufism of the Whirling Dervishes. Research in mysticism”.
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The authority of mystics: reality or overdetermination of Islamic scholars? Through the eyes of Maurice Borrmans
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2...
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Words of the Sufis. Muslim Mysticism and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Author : Maurice de Fenoyl, sj Resource related to the group « Islam and society in contemporary Spain » Résumé : This compilation of Sufi texts sets in relation Saint Ignatius’ Spiritual Ex...
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Islamic and christian spiritualities in Spain: influences, similarities, and parallels
Author : Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas Resource related to the group "Islam and society in contemporary Spain" Abstract : Two cultures, the Islamic and the Chris- tian, that, at first sigh...
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Towards an islamic dialogical and a-controversial theology
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Adnane Mokrani, Associate Professor at the Pontifical Ins...
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Basra, cradle of Islamic culture. An analysis of the urban area that was the early home of Islamic Studies
Abstract Several factors account for the primacy of Baúra in Islamic studies, some attributable to objective reasons, some to prevailing anthropological, historical and political conditions. Baú...
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The mystical experience and its impact on the Christian-Muslim dialogue
Edited by Michel Younès Not being the object of its own quest, mysticism aims, according to the figures and the cultural and religious contexts, at different realities: the search for a personal Go...