Antoine Salameh
Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth Université Saint Joseph de BeyrouthLebanon
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Antoine Salameh

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Antoine Salameh is a researcher and lecturer at Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), La Sagesse University and the Lebanese University. He holds a PhD in religious studies from USJ and specialises in Maronite-Druze relations; his doctoral thesis examined religious dress among the Maronites and the Druze from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, from anthropological, religious and historical perspectives.

His work lies in comparative religious studies and Christian-Muslim relations. He has written several articles on joint Muslim-Christian declarations, including “Constructive Communication in Joint Muslim-Christian Declarations” (Al-Maqasid, 2017) and “The Family in Joint Muslim-Christian Declarations” (Fi Rehab Al-Hiwar, 2017), and is preparing a study of religious pluralism in the thought of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib. He is the author of L’Aventure du dialogue, a biography in dialogue form of Judge Abbas Al-Halabi (Faculty of Religious Sciences, USJ, 2023), and co-wrote with Roula Talhouk a chapter on the situation of Christians in Lebanon at the dawn of the third millennium, in Au cœur de la tempête (ed. Mitri Raheb, 2023).

He also works on the religious and communal history of Lebanon, notably the funerary rites of the Maronites and the Unitarian Druze.

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

Disciplines

Anthropology of Religions History

Topics

Comparative Studies Islam in the Middle East Muslim-Christian Dialogue

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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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