Wael Saleh
Wael Saleh is a researcher at Trends Research & Advisory and an associate professor at the Institut d’études internationales à Montréal (IEIM) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He is also a research associate at the Observatoire sur le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, at the same university.
Wael Saleh’s research interests include the history and geopolitics of ideas in the Arab world; the contemporary Middle East; political Islam; and epistemological and methodological issues. In 2017, he defended his thesis in political science and Islamic studies at the Université de Montréal, in which he examined the continuities, evolutions and ruptures in the conception of the state in modern and contemporary Egyptian thought, through the prism of the link between religion and politics.
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Wael Saleh: “Recognising Without Confining, to Better ‘De-other’ the Public Debate”
- Wael Saleh
In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a new concept for contemporary democratic debate: “de-othering...
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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 Hu...
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The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse
- Wael Saleh
Full lecture title : ‘The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse: an intra-religious otherness?’ In what ways do non-Brother Muslims (especially secular, lib...
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From Applied Islamology to Applied Islamismology
- Patrice Brodeur
- Wael Saleh
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference “Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical...
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Studies of radicalization leading to violence in the name of Islam: mapping theoretical actors to better understand epistemological and ethical issues
- Wael Saleh
Original title : “Les études de la radicalisation menant à la violence au nom de l’islam : cartographier les acteurs théoriques pour mieux comprendre les enjeux épistémologiques et éthiques&#...
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Belonging(s) and territory(s) to the prism of religiosity (al-tadayyun) in current Arab-Muslim thought
- Wael Saleh
Lecture by Wael SALEH, at the second International Congress of PLURIEL in Rome. As Syrian thinker Burhan Ghalioun [1] French historian Dominique Avon [2], Moroccan philosopher Abd al-Ila h Balqaziz...
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In search of an aggiornamento of Islam. Contemporary approaches
- Wael Saleh
Can the upheavals in the Arab-Muslim world lead to an aggiornamento regulating the link between religion and politics and making it possible to live better together in peace? To answer this questio...
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Wael Saleh: “Recognising Without Confining, to Better ‘De-other’ the Public Debate”
- Wael Saleh
In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a new concept for contemporary democratic debate: "de-othering" (in Fre...
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The grammar of sacred violence: A critical discourse analysis of radical Islamist writings
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
This article offers a discursive analysis of two contemporary Islamist texts that present violence not as a deviation from religious normativity, but as its necessary, even redemptive expression. I...
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Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism
- Mounia Ait Kabboura
The thought of Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) has profoundly shaped a wide range of religio-political movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to Salafi-jihadists, radicalizing political Islam and inspiring...
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Salafist Movements in Europe: Between Local and Transnational Mobilizations
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
In this chapter, the author sheds light on the main sociological features and academic debates on the issue of Salafism in Europe. Through a comparative analysis of different countries, he shows th...
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The Caliphate and Secularism. Syrian perspectives
- Wasim Salman
The book confronts us with two opposing possibilities facing contemporary Arab society, namely the caliphate and secularism. While the former refers to the Islamic monarchy, theocracy and absolute ...
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The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse
- Wael Saleh
Full lecture title : 'The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse: an intra-religious otherness?' In what ways do non-Brother Muslims (especially secular, liberal and ...
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Radical evil and the Canadian multiculturalist otherness
- Mounia Ait Kabboura
The "radical evil" that tore Europe apart in the 20th century was totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt). Today, this evil has been reincarnated into a barbaric radicalisation that undermines societies. T...
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Islamists and international relations
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Full title of the conference: "Islamists and International Relations. What worldview? What diplomatic practices? Emergence, evolution and amendment of a culturalist and antagonistic theory of world...