{"id":37890,"date":"2026-11-03T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/constructing-religious-deviance-medieval-islam-christendoms-lyon-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:02:02","slug":"constructing-religious-deviance-medieval-islam-christendoms-lyon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/constructing-religious-deviance-medieval-islam-christendoms-lyon-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructing Religious Deviance (Medieval Islam and Christendoms): History of Representations and Semantic Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The CIHAM<\/strong><\/a> research unit (History, Archaeology and Literatures of the Medieval Christian and Muslim Worlds, UMR 5648) and Inalco’s Middle East and Mediterranean Research Centre (CERMOM), together with the ReligiS research programme, are holding two study days in Lyon on 12 and 13 November 2026, first at Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 and then at the Maison des sciences de l’homme (MSH) Lyon Saint-\u00c9tienne. They are organised by Cyrille Aillet, Enki Baptiste and Valentina Toneatto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These study days set out to explore how religious deviance was constructed in the two monotheistic traditions of medieval Christianity and Islam, through the analysis of the vocabulary and of the discursive and pictorial representations of religious exclusion. Discrimination draws on a lexicon of stigmatisation and differentiation that takes root in polemic, spreads across various fields of written and visual culture, and may also reach the domain of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday 13 November at 14:40, Faisal Kenanah<\/strong><\/a> (University of Caen Normandy) will speak on “Between \u0161ar\u012b\u02bfa<\/em> and falsafa<\/em>: the Language of Defilement, the Hierarchy of Knowledge and the Construction of Religious Deviance in the Seventeenth Night of Ab\u016b \u1e24ayy\u0101n al-Taw\u1e25\u012bd\u012b’s Kit\u0101b al-Imt\u0101\u02bf wa-l-mu\u02be\u0101nasa<\/em> (414\/1023)”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Islamic side, the programme also includes Dariouche Kechavarzi (EPHE) on ghuluww<\/em> between schism and heresy, Tessa Larivi\u00e8re-Ammari (Aix-Marseille University) on the representation of the Nizaris in three Persian sources, Othman El Kachtoul (EPHE) on false prophets and apostasy in the ridda<\/em> narratives, Ziad Bou Akl (EPHE) on doctrinal accusations in the maq\u0101l\u0101t<\/em> treatises, and Chaym\u00e2 El Ouazzani (Paris-Sorbonne University) on funerary differentiation in the normative sources of the first centuries of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n