Haoues Seniguer
Born in 1979 in France, Haoues Seniguer is a political scientist specialising in political Islam and Islamism, in France as well as in the Arab world, and Morocco in particular.
He holds a doctorate in political science from Sciences Po Lyon (2012), with a dissertation on the genesis and reconfigurations of Moroccan Islamism, together with the French accreditation to supervise research (HDR, 2024). He was an associate professor (maître de conférences) of political science at Sciences Po Lyon and deputy director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM, EHESS) from 2020 to 2021. He is now a full professor at Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University (IRIEC) and an associate researcher at the Triangle laboratory (UMR 5206, CNRS / ENS de Lyon).
His work focuses on Islamist movements, notably the Muslim Brotherhood and its heirs, contemporary political Islam, Islam in France, and the relationship between religion and politics.
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God Is with Us: How Islam and Judaism Justify Violence
- Haoues Seniguer
Long before October 7, 2023—and even more so since—certain politicized strands of Judaism and Islam have been creating conditions that legitimize, escalate, and sacralize violence in God’s na...
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Revival and Dynamics of Islamic Studies in Europe
- Michel Younès
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Cédric Baylocq
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
- Michele Brignone
- Haoues Seniguer
“In a troubled international context where Islam is sometimes defined as an ideological marker of many conflicts, academic research drawing on history, sociology, and political science has mu...
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Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism. Proceedings of the Colloquium Held on November 20 and 21, 2021
- Emmanuel Pisani
- Cédric Baylocq
- Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
- Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
- Charbel Attallah
- Haoues Seniguer
- Youssouf Sangare
The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research on the theme of religious pluralism in Islam. Wh...
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The authoritarian republic. Islam in France and the Republican illusion
- Haoues Seniguer
Publisher’s presentation The logic of suspicion has become the compass of the French state. Since 2015 and the attacks of January and November, the preventive and repressive policy of the Sta...
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Who is an authority in Islam in Switzerland and France?
- Haoues Seniguer
- Erwin Tanner
- Michel Younès
Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the theme “Authority and regulation in Islam” of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR, UCLy) The q...
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Authority and Regulation in Islam – Research group in Lyon
- Erwin Tanner
- Haoues Seniguer
- Michel Younès
Presentation of the research group on “Authority and Regulation in Islam” of the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies (CECR, UCLy) with Michel Younès, Erwin Tanner and Haoues Senig...
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The (neo) Muslim Brothers and the new capitalist spirit
- Haoues Seniguer
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The Neo-Salfist galaxy: apoliticism in trompe-l’oeil
- Haoues Seniguer
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): geopolitical axis Speaker: Haoues Seniguer, Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences ...
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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...