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Religious Radicalism. The Challenges of an Ill-Defined Concept in Europe
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 Septemb...
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Otherness And Spatial Dimension In The Arabic Language And Culture
Etymologically, the noun âkhar from the verb âkhara, rather draws the action of postponing, أَخَّرَ العَمَلَ, or temporarily deprogramming an action. al-âkhar on some other hand does not establish ...
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Discourses and strategies of otherness: Crossed perspectives and analyses
Summary: The interest of discourse analysis is to highlight the articulations of texts and social locations (Maingueneau, 2012). Questioning the functioning of these formations and the conditions o...
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Religious radicalization. Process of a controversial concept
Introduction : I would like to seize the opportunity of my first participation to the Mediterranean website to raise the issue of radicalisation as a concept, which has permeated the political a...
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Political and Religious Fields in Morocco. Issues and stakes of power and authority
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2...
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From Islamic Reference to Conservative Pragmatism. The Sinuous Political Discourse of the Moroccan Party of Justice and Development
Online conference organised by Trends Research and Advisory, on the theme The Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World: Signs of Decline and Strategies to Survive. The lecture of Ali Mostfa starts b...
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The radical discourse and civilisational stake
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 appr...
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Violence and Jihad in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions
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 o...
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The challenges of religious visibility in the liberal public space
Western modernity has engaged the religious question, over the past thirty years in processes that show an increased interaction between religiosity, visibility and urban public space. At a time wh...
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Proceedings of the Congress : Islam at plural, thought, faith, society
Publication of the proceedings of the first congress of PLURIEL held from 6 to 9 September 2016 at the Catholic University of Lyon. Edited by Ali Mostfa and Michel Younès. The theme of the co...
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The authoritarian republic. Islam in France and the Republican illusion
- Haoues Seniguer
Publisher’s presentation The logic of suspicion has become the compass of the French state. Since 2015 and the attacks of January and November, the preventive and repressive policy of the Sta...
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MIDÉO No. 37: Recitation in the early centuries of Islam
- Emmanuel Pisani
The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held in Cairo in October 2020 on reciting in the early Isl...
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Not without others: recognition of others and unity in Christ – on the relationship between mission and dialogue
- Tobias Specker
Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World
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Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti and the Second Coming of Jesus in Islam
- Antonio Cuciniello
"This article first provides an overall picture of Jesus in the Qur’anic Text, amongst the stories of the other prophets, his prophetic role during the mission God gave him on earth and at the End ...
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Religion and Democracy
- Wolfgang Palaver
"This article addresses mainly two widespread prejudices. The first claims that democracy flourishes only in a Christian culture, the second wants to keep religion out of politics to protect democr...
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Islam in Prison: Finding Faith, Freedom and Fraternity
- Mallory Schneuwly Purdie
“Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of Islam affects prison life and rehabilitation,...
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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 Septemb...
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Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be understood as directly given by God an...