Youssouf Sangare

Associate professor Member of Research groups

Lecturer in Arab civilisation and world at the University of Clermont-Auvergne.

Born in Kayes, western Mali, into a family steeped in Sufi Islam. Lecturer in Islamic history and Arabic media language (University of Strasbourg) from 2013 to 2015. He is the co-founder of the academic journal Les Cahiers de l’Islam (refereed journal) published in Paris and has published two books: “Rethinking the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. An Introduction to the Thought of Fazlur Rahman” in 2017 published by Al Bouraq and “The Sealing of Prophecy in Islam” in 2018 by the Parisian publisher Geuthner.

In 2018 he was awarded the “Mohammed Arkoun Prize for the thesis in Islamology”, received for his thesis obtained in 2016 at the University of Strasbourg, under the title: “The notion of khatm al-nubuwwa (sealing of prophecy) in Islam: Genesis and evolution of a doctrine”. http://majlis-remomm.fr/54896

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“War and peace”, by Adrien Candiard

On Wednesday 20 May 2026, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) hosted in Cairo a lecture by Brother Adrien Candiard, Dominican and Islamologist, on the theme "War and peace". Faced w...

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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms

Paper presented at the 5th 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 Isla...

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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)

Paper presented at the 5th 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 Isla...

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The contemplation of God’s signs according to Ibn Barrajān of Seville: towards an ethics respectful of the natural world

Paper presented at the 5th 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 Isla...

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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī

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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Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: from bodily healing to the aesthetics of the soul — a study of the “Risālat Dhamm Ladhdhāt al-Dunyā”

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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Spiritual poetry, hermeneutics and theology in contemporary Shi’i Iran: Soroush, Shabestari, Malekian and Rūmī

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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The Role of Islam and its Organizations in Cooperating on the Goals of the Agenda 2030

  • Antonio Angelucci

A chapter by Antonio Angelucci in Human Rights, Religions and the United Nations Agenda 2030 (A. Angelucci, R. Bottoni, G. Camilleri, A. Cupri eds., Ledizioni, 2025).The author presents Islamic eco...