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Amin Elias
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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Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean
- Alessandro Ferrari
- Amin Elias
How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean to understand the diversity of legal regimes ...
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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019
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Rethinking the Muslim-Christian living together in Lebanon / Amin Elias
- 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...
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Protestantism and Islam
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
How did Martin Luther and John Calvin view Islam? How have Protestant theologians contributed to research on Islam? Pierre-Olivier Léchot, professor of modern history at the Protestant Institute of...
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Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps
- Adnane Mokrani
The article traces the key concepts and methodological steps that make an Islamic theology of nonviolence plausible. It offers the tools for a critical reading of classical texts, “sacred” history,...
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Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean
- Alessandro Ferrari
- Amin Elias
How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean to understand the diversity of legal...
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Corresponding across Religious Borders: The Letter of al-Qūṭī
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Summary : This article provides an introduction to the Letter of al-Qūṭī, a short anti-Islamic polemic in Arabic purportedly written by an unknown priest active in Toledo in the mid-1...
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Lavigerie and Islam, an ambiguous legacy
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that their founder’s legacy “was not without ambiguity”...
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Understanding Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Minorities in Turkey
- Anja Zalta
Volume 26 of the journak Poligrafi, edited by Anja Zalta, Tahir Abbas, and Umut Azak Abstract : The study of ethnic minorities is of vital concern in the context of nations consisting of different...
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Blessed Ramon Llull: the character and his relationship with Islam
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
The PISAI is pleased to announce the publication of the book Il beato Raimondo Lullo: il personaggio e il suo rapporto con l’Islam (Roma 2021), edited by Professor Diego Sarrió Cucarella, MAf...
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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019
- Amin Elias
It was in 2006 that the secular idea (al-‘almâniyya), which the master Boutros al-Bustanî forged in 1861 in his journal Nafîr Sûriyâ, took a political and militant form, when a number of acti...