NEWS

Does the term “frérisme” clarify or obscure the public debate?

In an op-ed published on May 13, 2026, in the Quebec daily Le Devoir, Mounia Aït Kabboura, a sociologist of Islam, and sociologist Samir Amghar examine the growing use of the word “frérisme” (Brotherhood-is...

NEWS

Dominique Avon: “Hezbollah, the History of an Armed Organisation”

On 25 March 2026, historian Dominique Avon was a guest on Le Cours de l’histoire on France Culture for an episode in the series Guerre au Moyen-Orient, l’histoire pour comprendre, hosted by Xavi...

to 28/11/22 to 30/11/22

AGENDA

Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam: for a France-Quebec referential | EJC 2022

The 34th Entretiens Jacques Cartier will take place in Quebec from 28 to 30 November 2022. A group of Canadian and French researchers will hold a one-day conference on the theme of radicalisation studies. A...

to 18/11/21 to 19/11/21

AGENDA

Conference / Religious authority in Islam

Conference organised by the Centre d’études des cultures et des religions (UCLy, Lyon) on 18 and 19 November 2021 Presentation Being a repository of authority or being recognised as a place of authori...

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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 ...

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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. It examine...

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Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism

• Mounia Ait Kabboura

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Salafist Movements in Europe: Between Local and Transnational Mobilizations

• Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

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The Caliphate and Secularism. Syrian perspectives

• Wasim Salman

videos

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...

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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 sp...

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Fundamental and applied Islamology

• Michel Younès

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 approaches an...

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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 approach...

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Violence and Jihad in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

This article explores the phenomena of violence and jihad in three parts: their emergence and trajectory in the Qur’anic text, their meanings, and their entanglement with the religious cause. The objective ...

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Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad

• Marco Demichelis