Pluriel

University platform for research on Islam

Initiated by
the Federation
of European
Catholic
Universities

Supported by
the International
Federation
of Catholic
Universities

Silvio Ferrari

Silvio Ferrari is retired as Professor of Canon Law at the University of Milan and as Professor of Church-State Relations at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He has been visiting professor in Paris (École Pratique des Hautes Études) and Berkeley (University of California) and is working for many international organizations, including the European Union and the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has founded, together with other professors, the European Consortium for Church and State Research. Professor Ferrari is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut européen en sciences des religions (EPHE, Paris) and of the Board of Expert of the International Religious Liberty Association (Silver Spring, Maryland). His main fields of interest are Law and Religion issues in West Europe; Comparative Law of Religions (in particular Jewish Law, Canon Law and Islamic Law); Relations between Israel and the Vatican.

Professor Ferrari is Life Honorary President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and was a fouding Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the International Center for Law and Religion Studies.

Source : International Center for Law and Religious Studies

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Islam in Europe (Closed)

The project aims at studying the legal statute of the Islamic communities in the EU countries.

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Islam & Otherness. Proceedings of the Pluriel congress in Beirut

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Personal Status Laws of Women in Egypt and Palestine

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The legal status of non-Muslims in Algeria. The example of evangelicals and Ahmadis.

  • Zohra Aziadé Zemirli

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Thinking Jihadist Radicalisation: Actors, Theories, Transformations

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Is God a Lawgiver? Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Ius divinum

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