University platform for research on Islam
Initiated by
the Federation
of European
Catholic
Universities
Supported by
the International
Federation
of Catholic
Universities
Hosted by
Constance Arminjon
At the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL, Paris), Constance Arminjon was first lecturer in Contemporary Islam from 2012 to 2022. Since autumn 2022, she has been director of studies in the Intellectual History of Contemporary Shi’a Islam. Her teaching and research focus on the evolution of doctrines and currents of thought in contemporary Islam. She is interested in several aspects of Shi’a religious and political modernity: the renewal of the intellectual landscape since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the evolution of theories and practices of authority in the regions of the Shi’a world, and the renewal of Islamic law. She also studies the history of Sunni and Shi’ite currents of thought in a comparative perspective.
Affiliation institution(s)
Location
Resources related to
Contemporary Islam
videos
Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in contemporary Muslim thought
- Farid Bouchiba
The purpose of the proposed paper is to question the division of the world into dār al-islām (land of Islam) and dār al-ḥarb (land of war), which is a classification introduced by Muslim jurisconsu...
videos
The Populist Political Style of the Islamist Moroccan party, the PJD
- Amina Drhimeur
Title of the lecture : 'The «Us» Against the «Others», the Populist Political Style of the Islamist party the PJD' How do religious actors understand an increasingly globalised and pluralistic w...
videos
The field of fatwa production in French: a scene of tough competition between Islamic authorities
- Bénédicte Du Chaffaut
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...
videos
The imam, the “priest” of Muslims?
- Benjamin Latouche
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...
videos
Al-Ash’arî, what place does still hold the authority of the theologians?
- Michel Younès
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...
videos
Fundamental and applied Islamology
- Michel Younès
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical appr...
article
Imam Training in Europe: A Comprehensive Vision
- SÁNCHEZ-NOGALES Jose Luis
Abstract Professor Sánchez Nogales explains in this article the question about training imams in Europe. The most of these believers who work as spiritual leaders in Islamic communities living in ...
publication
Internal movements within Islam
- Michel Younès
Contrary to popular belief, Islam is not limited to a single school of thought or legal school. It is marked by a quasi-constitutive diversity, which continues to this day, in the form of denominat...