Farid Bouchiba is a graduate in Arabic Language and Civilisation from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III) where he obtained two masters degrees in Islamology. In addition to this training, he has made numerous study trips to the Arab world in order to complete his learning. He was a Fellow in the Department of Medieval History at Harvard University (2013-2014). A former member of the European Relmin project led by Professor John Tolan, which focused on the history of the legal status of religious ‘minorities’ from the 5th to the 15th century. He defended (19 October 2018) a PhD thesis in medieval history entitled ‘Jews and Christians in the mirror of Muslim law: transmission, hermeneutics and legal norms towards non-Muslims in the Almoravid period in the work of Ibn Rušd al-ǧadd (d. 520/1126)’. He was an ATER in Islamology at Aix-Marseille (2019-2020), then at Lyon 2 (2020-2021). Author of numerous scientific contributions, he is also a member of several scientific societies. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the EPHE in the GSRL laboratory (UMR 8582 – CNRS). Next fall, he will join the ANR RelRace project (Univ. Le Mans), where he has been recruited as a postdoctoral fellow for two years (2022-2024).
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Radical evil and the Canadian multiculturalist otherness
The "radical evil" that tore Europe apart in the 20th century was totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt). Today, this evil has been reincarnated into a barbaric radicalisation that undermines societies. T...
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Muslim as ‘Other’ in former Yugoslavia
Balkan Islam, and in particular that of the former Yugoslavia, is plural because of its ethnic diversity. However, the collective perception does not see it that way, due to a double homogenisation...
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The legal status of non-Muslims in Algeria. The example of evangelicals and Ahmadis.
This book, which focuses on the situation before 2019, provides keys to explaining the origins of the popular protest movement, the hirak. It shows how the State controls the society, which is pred...
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Between Standardization And Otherness: Being A Muslim In The In The French Armed Forces
Already present since the colonisation process, the question of Islam within the French army has reappeared strongly with the settling down of the populations resulting from the great waves of indu...
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Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean
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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The imam, the “priest” of Muslims?
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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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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The fatwa in Europe. Minority rights and integration issues
The growing interest in fatwâs and the different ways of regulating the overabundance of muftîs in Europe and in the world, in particular in the Arab world, has encouraged Islamologists to work on ...