14/10/21

AGENDA

Conference / Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam

EPISTEMOLOGICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL APPROACHES AND ISSUES Initiated within the framework of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier in 2019, a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Cultures and R...

17/03/21

AGENDA

Trying jihadism in France: perspectives on the trials of jihadist networks since 2015

Online lecture organised by the Swiss Centre Islam and Society on the occasion of the presentation of a new training programme entitled “Preventing Extremisms. Ideologies, Religions and Violence(s)...

Religion – Violence – Communication – World Order (Innsbruck)

RGKW (Religion-Gewalt-Kommunikation-Weltordnung) is an interdisciplinary centre of research based at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (Innsbruck). It conducts fundamental research in the field of religion-c...

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, pr...

videos

“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”. Face...

videos

Interreligious Dialogue and Ethnic Nationalisms in the Balkans

At the invitation of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome) and Georgetown University, Ahmet Alibašić, professor of Islamic civilization at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Saraj...

article

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...

publication

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

• Michel Younès

videos

The Carnival of the Malês: signs of an ethics of Muslim resistance

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 Islam...

publication

A Theology of Violence: An Analysis of Selected Surahs from the Qur’an

• Hamideh Mohagheghi

publication

God Is with Us: How Islam and Judaism Justify Violence

• Haoues Seniguer

article

Expulsion of the ‘Turk’: Contextualising Islamophobia in the Balkans, the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Anja Zalta

An article by Anja Zalta published in Intellectual Discourse (vol. 33, special issue, 2025). The author analyses the rise of Islamophobia in the Balkans, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She shows ho...

publication

Speaking freely in Islam

• Hamadi Redissi

publication

Islam in Prison: Finding Faith, Freedom and Fraternity

• Mallory Schneuwly Purdie

article

Religious Radicalism. The Challenges of an Ill-Defined Concept in Europe

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

Ali Mostfa, professor of linguistics and discourse analysis at the Catholic University of Lyon, analyses the semantic shifts about the notion of religious radicalism, particularly since the September 11 att...

publication

The authoritarian republic. Islam in France and the Republican illusion

• Haoues Seniguer

formations

Certificate of advanced studies (CAS) Preventing Extremism. Ideologies, religions and violence(s)

Target group People working in education, prisons, security, social work and anyone interested in becoming a contact person for issues related to extremism in their professional environment. Content The phe...