Leïla Tauil
Leïla Tauil is a lecturer at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (CISMOC) at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Holding a doctorate in the history of religions, her research focuses on the founding period of Islam, the historical development of Islamic law, the status of Muslim women, Islamic and secular Arab feminisms, and intercultural dialogue based on the work of Mohammed Arkoun.
She is the author of several books, including Les féministes de l’islam. De l’engagement religieux au féminisme islamique (Pensées féministes, 2011), Féminismes arabes : un siècle de combat. Les cas du Maroc et de la Tunisie (L’Harmattan, 2018) and Les femmes dans les discours fréristes, salafistes et féministes islamiques : une analyse des rapports de force genrés (Academia, 2020). She has also published numerous articles, given lectures and taken part in radio programmes on Islam, women and feminisms in the Arab world.
Her work contributes to debates on contemporary Islamic thought, between reform and tradition, and on women’s rights and gender equality in Muslim societies.
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...
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The Virtues of the Good Muslim
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Published in 2025 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari in Venice, this monograph by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University) is the augmented English translation of Le virtù del buon Musulmano, fir...
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Without Judaism, No Islam. The Denied Source
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Published under the original title Ohne Judentum kein Islam. Die verleugnete Quelle, with the subtitle Die Wurzeln des muslimischen Antisemitismus. Eine aktuelle Analyse (“The Roots of Muslim...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...
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ʿAbd al-Mutaʿāl al-Ṣaʿīdī (1894-1971): A Defence of Religious Freedom
- Youssouf Sangare
Published in 2024 in the collective volume Théologies musulmanes du pluralisme religieux (ed. Emmanuel Pisani, Éditions du Cerf, proceedings of the ISTR symposium of 20-21 November 2021, pp. 65-88)...
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Islamic Lessons for Christians
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
Islamic Lessons for Christians (Oneworld Publications, 2026) is the latest book by Gabriel Said Reynolds, Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. What, if...
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Kenneth Cragg and the Event of the Qur’an
- Timo Güzelmansur
Article by Timo Güzelmansur published under the title Kenneth Cragg und das Ereignis des Koran on the theological portal feinschwarz.net (12 June 2026, open access). Timo Güzelmansur presents the A...