Ahmad Ali Mohsen
Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth Université Saint Joseph de BeyrouthLebanon
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Ahmad Ali Mohsen

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Born in 1984 in Lebanon, Ahmad Ali Mohsen is a lecturer at the Institute of Muslim-Christian Studies (IEIC) of Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), where he teaches Islamic history, modern Shi’i thought and Islamic political thought. He holds a PhD in religious studies (2024) and a master’s degree in Muslim-Christian relations (2017) from USJ, and has since pursued graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Parma (Italy).

His research focuses on contemporary Shi’i thought in Lebanon, particularly the work of Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din and Hani Fahs, on the place of the other and of pluralism in Islamic thought, and on the history of Christian-Muslim relations. His publications include “State and Power: Sources of Islamic Civil Society according to Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din” (Perspectives and Contexts, no. 1, Faculty of Religious Sciences, USJ, 2024) and “Fading Traces, Present Absences: Saint Elias Church of Mrayyjé and the Spatial Reconstruction of Sectarian Identity” (Perspectives and Contexts, no. 4, 2026). He has also translated several works of social science and history into Arabic, including Vali Nasr’s Iran’s Grand Strategy (Princeton University Press, 2025).

He is a member of the Pluriel research group “The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)”.

Disciplines

Islam Studies

Topics

Islam in the Middle East Muslim-Christian Dialogue Political Islam Shia Islam

Research Group

Pluriel

The Making of Martyrdom (Beirut)

This research project aims to deepen the concept of martyrdom as mobilised in the discourses of the various politico-religious actors on the Lebanese scene. It analyses how this concept is invested, appropriated and reinterpreted by the different communities in order to sacralise their cause, legitimise their action, strengthen their internal cohesion and assert a distinct identity. Carried by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in theology, Islamic studies, anthropology, philosophy, history and sociology, fr…

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