Shia Islam
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Najam Abbas
Chercheur sur l’Asie centrale
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Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Titulaire de la Chaire “Exégèse et théologie de l’islam shi’ite” à l’École pratique des hautes études
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Ziaka Angeliki
Professeure de sciences des religions à l’Université Aristote de Thessalonique, directrice du programme d’études musulmanes
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Maryam Ballout
Assistant to the Cluster on Christian-Muslim Relations of the HEST Programme of the Jesuit Universities of Europe (Kircher Network)
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Michel Boivin
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
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Vanessa Breidy
Docteure en études islamiques (PISAI, Rome)
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Amir Jajé
Docteur en études orientales, spécialiste du chiisme.
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Janos Jany
Chef de l’Institut d’études internationales, Université catholique Pázmány Péter, Budapest
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Justin Jones
Professeur associé en Sciences des religions, Faculté de théologie et de religion
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Fouad Gehad Marei
Chercheur associé au Centre de théologie et d’études religieuses de l’Université de Lund.
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Jad Moufarrej
Doctorant en théologie comparative à l’Université catholique de Lyon, chargé de mission au CECR
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Sepideh Parsapajouh
Anthropologue, chargée de recherche au CNRS (Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux, CéSor-EHESS)
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Roula Talhouk
Directrice de l’Institut d’études islamo-chrétiennes, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth. Professeur en théologie et anthropologie religieuse.
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Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
Doyenne du Theologicum (Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses), Institut catholique de Paris ; théologienne et anthropologue
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Luciano Zaccara
Chercheur principal à New Ground Research (Qatar) ; spécialiste de l’Iran, du Golfe et des systèmes électoraux du monde arabe et musulman
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Spiritual poetry, hermeneutics and theology in contemporary Shi’i Iran: Soroush, Shabestari, Malekian and Rūmī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme “Ethics and Aesthetics in Islam...
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“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l’esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologi...
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Unity of God and unity in God – a possible perspective and way of dialogue between the believers?
- Vanessa Breidy
A shῑ‘ῑ perspective of dialogue developed by D. Mohammad Ali Shomali. Talking about unity between believers and calling them to act upon it is not new in Islam. The Qur’ān and the early history of Islam esp...
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“A Religious Cosmopolitanism: The City of Qom in the Mirror of Transnational Circulations”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the collective volume Un Moyen-Orient ordinaire (eds. Thierry Boissière and Yoann Morvan, Diacritiques Éditions, 2022), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), devotes a chapter...
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The Hidden Imam and religious and spiritual authority in Shia Islam
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
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 2021. . Vi...
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publication
MIDEO 36 – Iǧtihād and taqlīd in Sunnī and Šīʿī Islam
- Emmanuel Pisani
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“The Power of Place, the Mediation of the Text: Anthropological Remarks on the Pious Visit to Karbalā”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the journal Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), offers an anthropological analysis of the ziyāra, the pious visit to Shia holy places, focusin...
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MIDEO 35 – Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians
- Emmanuel Pisani
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“The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In a thematic issue of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (Brill, 2020) that she co-edited, Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), studies the topography of corp...
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From Apology to Dialogue with Others in Shia Islamic Studies: The Case of Muhammad Jawad al-Balaghi
- Mohammad Zaraket
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological axis Speaker: Mohammad Zaraket, teacher at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon
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Ashura in sunnite mirrors, confused borders between joy and sadness
- Adnane Mokrani
SUMMARY: This article analyzes the Sunnite views of ‘Āshūrā’ and the assassination/martyrdom of al–Ḥusayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad. It is not an exhaustive work; it is rather selective, searchi...