Mohamed Ourya

Doctor in Religious Studies; Lecturer in Politics, Religion and Ethics – University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Sherbrooke, 2012 / M.A. in Political Science from UQAM, 2008 / B.A. in Public Law from Hassan II University (Morocco), 2002.

Publications :

  • La pensée arabe actuelle. Entre tradition et modernité, Paris, L’Harmatan, 2016.
  • Religieux dans les citadelles du Politique, Paris, L’Harmatan, 2014.
  • Le Complot dans l’imaginaire arabo-musulman. Antécédents historico-religieux et persistance dans le discours actuel, Saarbrücken, Dictus Publishing, 2012.

Research Group

Epistemological and methodological issues in studies on violence in the name of Islam (Montreal)

This group aims to provide food for thought on the following questions: Are the available conceptual and epistemological methods and tools adequate enough to decipher the specific and complex discourses, practices and developments related to the use of violence in the name of Islam? Isn't new research imperative to enrich our understanding of this phenomenon, to redress perspectives, to fill current gaps and to deconstruct widespread prejudices? In summary, the aim of this group is : 1) to emphasise the current ne…

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The Virtues of the Good Muslim

  • Ida Zilio-Grandi

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“War and peace”, by Adrien Candiard

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Le pape Léon XIV présente l'encyclique Magnifica Humanitas, Salle du Synode, Vatican, 25 mai 2026

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Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Pluriel working group on AI-assisted interreligious dialogue

  • Wael Saleh

Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Human...

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Opening address of the Cordoba congress

  • Michel Younès

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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends

  • Michel Younès

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“Welcome to Hell”: eschatology in the literary work of Dževad Karahasan

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...

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Hospitality, power and interreligious dialogue in Naguib Mahfouz’s “Children of the Alley”

  • Gabriel Khairallah

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...

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Landscape and architecture as occasions of contemplation and of interreligious dialogue in the travel narratives of the Sufi ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...