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Juan Macias Amoretti

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Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti is a Professor (Profesor Titular) of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Granada, where he is a member of the research group on contemporary Arab studies. He was also an associate researcher at the Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat.

He holds a European doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Granada. His research focuses on contemporary Arab and Maghrebi political thought, political Islam, the analysis of postcolonial intellectual discourse in the Maghreb, and processes of democratization in the Arab world.

Disciplines

History Islam Studies

Topics

Arabic Language Islamism Political Islam

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Islam and society in contemporary Spain (Granada)

Because the presence of Muslim communities in Spain is relatively recent, and because there is not a long tradition of theological study of Islam, we want to start our dialogue with the Islamic tradition by understanding the characteristics of Islam of Spain and the way it interacts with the rest of the Spanish society. Our objective is to identify concrete points of conflicts regarding the understanding of social life that exists in the relationship between Islam and society in Spain. In a second moment, we would…

Facultad de Teologia de la Universidad Loyola Spain

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