Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Political Science and the Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University (Evanston). She studies religion and global politics and co-directs Talking Religion: Publics, Politics and the Media and the Global Politics and Religion Research Group at Northwestern. Her work addresses comparative secularism and the governance of religious freedom, including in Muslim-majority contexts such as Turkey and Iran. She recently published Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
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Beyond Religious Freedom. The New Global Politics of Religion
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
A landmark study by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Princeton University Press, 2015, 216 pp.), Beyond Religious Freedom examines the international promotion of religious freedom and of “religious en...
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The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
A now-classic work drawn from her doctoral research, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Princeton University Press, 2008, 232 pp.) argues that seculari...
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Understanding Salafism
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in the series The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, this book by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, professor at Sorbonne Par...
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Religious Freedom in Italy. An Unfinished Path (1848-2024)
- Alessandro Ferrari
Published under the original title La libertà religiosa in Italia. Un percorso incompiuto (1848-2024), this synthesis by Alessandro Ferrari, professor of ecclesiastical law and comparative religiou...
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Wael Saleh: “Recognising Without Confining, to Better ‘De-other’ the Public Debate”
- Wael Saleh
In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a new concept for contemporary democratic debate: "de-othering" (in Fre...
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The Muslim Brotherhood in International Relations: Roles and Outcomes
- Wael Saleh
In this book published by TRENDS Research & Advisory (Abu Dhabi, May 2026), Wael Saleh, a member of Pluriel‘s coordination committee, examines the place and modes of action of the Muslim ...
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Interreligious Dialogue and Ethnic Nationalisms in the Balkans
At the invitation of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome) and Georgetown University, Ahmet Alibašić, professor of Islamic civilization at the Faculty of Islamic Studies...
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Beyond Representation: Systemic Epistemic Alterity and the Architecture of Knowledge in the Contemporary Academy
- Wael Saleh
In this article, published in two parts by Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC), Wael Saleh, a researcher at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) and a member of Pluriel's...
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Managing Religious Diversity in Italy: Law, Policy, and Practice in a Pluralist Era
- Alessandro Ferrari
In this article published in the journal Religions 17/3 (2026), Alessandro Ferrari offers a comprehensive analysis of Italy’s regime for governing religious diversity, at the intersection of ...
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The Muslim Brotherhood International Power Index (MBIPI) 2025
- Wael Saleh
- Patrice Brodeur
Published in February 2026 by TRENDS Research & Advisory (Abu Dhabi), The Muslim Brotherhood International Power Index (MBIPI) 2025 offers the first systematic, global measurement of the Brothe...