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Amin Elias holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Le Mans (France). He is a specialist in History of ideas in the Arab-Mediterranean region. He is an assistant professor at Antonine University and Lebanese University (Lebanon), teaching History, Philosophy and courses related to politics and citizenship.
He has published several books in Arabic and French, including: Gamal al-Banna: l’islam, laïcité et la liberté (with D. Avon), Paris, l’Harmattan, 2013; Musulmans et laïcités, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014; Almâniyya min ‘indina (“Laïcité de chez nous”), Dar saer el-Machrek, Beirut, 2017; Lubnân bi qalam moufakiri al-nadwa al-lubnaniyya (“Le Liban comme l’écrivent les penseurs du Cénacle libanais”), Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Lebanon, 2012.
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Religious minorities in France
Edited by Anne-Laure Zwilling This unique book, bringing together nearly 80 sociologists, ethnologists, anthropologists, historian, wants to allow a better knowledge of the religious groups present...
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Islam and Otherness : presentation of the 3rd PLURIEL International Congress
- COTTINI Valentino
- FLAQUER GARCIA Jaume
- MOSTFA Mohamed-Ali
- QUAST-NEULINGER Michaela Johanna
- PISANI Emmanuel
- SICKING Thom
- TALHOUK Roula
- YOUNÈS Michel
Presentation of the theme and the stakes of the 3rd international congress of PLURIEL. Planned to take place in Beirut in April 2020, it had to be rescheduled and reshaped due to the global heal...
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Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad
Presentation: The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers ...
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The Oromo and the historical process of Islamisation in Ethiopia
- DEMICHELIS Marco
Abstract The historical interaction between Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa is profoundly connected with the region’s specifi c historical, linguistic and cultural characteristics. ...
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The Fate of Others in 14th century Hanbalism
- DEMICHELIS Marco
Abstract In a recent publication entitled Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics, Sophia Vasalou tackles the moral objectivism that Ibn Taymiyya would reworked inspired to the unorthodox thought of M...
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The Mihna. Deconstruction and reconsideration of the Mu’tazilite role in the “Inquisition
- DEMICHELIS Marco
Abstract The Miḥna has usually been attributed to the Mu‘tazilite theological school as expression of something unusual, a bid‘ah (Islamic innovation) related to a rationalist group of theologia...
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Religious Violence, Political Ends
Since antiquity, religious violence based on political motives has been and remains a common practice: the atrocities committed by the Roman Empire against the first Christian communities were quic...
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“House of agreement”: the islamic tradition of Bosniaks and its european-ness
Conference of Anja ZALTA during the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME. The syntagma "house of agreement" was coined by former Bosnian reisu-l-ulema Mustafa Ceric in his "Declaration...