Noemi Trucco
Noemi Trucco is a sociologist and researcher at the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (CSIS) at the University of Fribourg. She holds a PhD in sociology obtained in 2023, with a thesis focusing on the “subjectivation” of imams. Her research areas include the sociology of knowledge, discourse analysis, and the study of subjectivation, with a particular interest in Muslims and Islam in Europe, processes of othering and exclusion, social conflicts, and social inequalities. In addition to her research activities at CSIS since 2018, Noemi Trucco teaches at the Department of Social Work, Social Policy, and Global Development at the University of Fribourg. She co-organized the monthly research workshop on sociological discourse analysis (WDA) in 2022-2023 and will co-organize the meetings of the WDA network in the German-speaking area starting from 2024. Her other research interests include political and social processes in Turkey as well as statelessness.
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Between Threat and Ideal: The Subjectivation of Imams
- Noemi Trucco
Abstract Public debate on Muslims in Switzerland is characterized to a significant degree by issues of problematisation and securitisation. In this debate, imams have become an increasingly frequen...
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Anti-Muslim Racism in Switzerland: A Baseline Study
- Noemi Trucco
- Amir Dziri
- Hansjörg Schmid
Commissioned by the Swiss Confederation’s Service for Combating Racism (SLR), this study (SZIG/CSIS-Studies 12, 2025) is the first comprehensive baseline survey of anti-Muslim racism in Switz...
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Bad guy or good guy? The framing of an imam
- Noemi Trucco
In this paper, we investigate framing in the case of an imam in Switzerland. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 175 articles from Swiss newspapers and public broadcasting websites in Ge...
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Understanding Salafism
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in the series The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, this book by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, professor at Sorbonne Par...
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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion
- Guillaume Chatagny
Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title "Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion", this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...
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Islam Seen through the Work of Aziz al-Azmeh
- Wasim Salman
Abstract Published in Arabic in issue 50 (2024) of Islamochristiana (PISAI, released in April 2025), this essay by Wasim Salman, president of PISAI and director of the journal, examines the rela...
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European Islam and the Italian Case: Tendencies and Specificities
- Stefano Allievi
Abstract Published under the original title "European Islam and the Italian case. Tendencies and specificities" in Contemporary Islam (Springer, November 2025, open access), this article by Stef...
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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts
- Guy-Raymond Sarkis
Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberati...
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Two Seas, One Course: The 2026 Jesuit Migrant Service Report on Spain’s Southern Border
- Josep Buades
The annual report of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), the social apostolate body of the Society of Jesus in Spain, written by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, examines the migratory dynamics of Spain’s ...
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Photographing Ordinary Islam
- Guillaume Chatagny
What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 w...
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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends
- Michel Younès
Publication date: April 16, 2026. Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form of political governance, an expression of fait...