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Cédric Baylocq

Born in 1980 in France, Cédric Baylocq is a project officer at the French Institute of Islamology (IFI), lecturer at the Catholic Institute of Paris (ICP), and associate researcher at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR, Theologicum). Since 2020, he has been teaching “Socio-history of Islam in France” at ICP (Theologicum, L3 Humanities and DU FASSED).

He holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Bordeaux, completing his thesis in 2012 on religious authority and Islamic norms in a secular context. His initial education includes a Master’s 2 in Ethnology (2005-2006), a Master’s 1 in Ethnology (2004-2005), a semester at UC Berkeley (2004), a Bachelor’s in Ethnology (2002-2003), and a DEUG in Psychology (2000-2002), all from the University of Bordeaux.

After a post-doctorate at the Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat (2011-2013), he taught in higher education in Morocco (2013-2015). From 2015 to 2019, he was a research project officer at the Central Bureau of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Interior, implementing a research support program on Islam. He then joined the North Africa Middle East directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-2021). From June 2022 to March 2023, he held the position of Research Engineering and Development Officer at the Research Department of CY Cergy Paris University.

His research primarily focuses on Islam in France, Islam in Morocco, Islamic studies, imams, reformism, the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafism, jihadism, and state-religion relations. He is also interested in questions of secularism and secularization.

At the French Institute of Islamology since 2023, Cédric Baylocq is responsible for the dissemination and promotion of research in Islamic studies. He notably leads the National and International Observatory of Islamic Studies.

Co-director of two collective works – “Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism” with Emmanuel Pisani (Cerf-Patrimoines, 2024) and “Morocco: Religious Issues in a Transitioning Society” (forthcoming 2025) – he has authored numerous recent academic articles, including “Epistemological Paths to Reconciliation between Anthropology and Islamic Studies” (2023), “Orientations and Lessons from a Quarter Century of University Training Attempts for Muslim Religious Ministers in France” (2024), and “French Muslim Reformists’ Responses to Bellicose Uses of Fiqh, Hadith, and Sira” (2024).

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Islam and Otherness (Paris)

In the global context of identity tensions, migratory flows, depreciation of the image of the Muslim world and its association to Daesh and al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks, the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris intends to carry out a research on the capacity of Islam to maintain a constructive and peaceful relationship with […]

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