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...
Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Docteur en science politique, spécialiste du salafisme, du jihadisme et de l’islamisme contemporains
Laurent Basanese
Membre officiel du Conseil pontifical pour le dialogue interreligieux, professeur à l’Université pontificale grégorienne de Rome
Baptiste Brodard
Lecturer-researcher in Islamic Studies at Aix-Marseille University, France
Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East
Karim Kardady
Candidate for the doctoral program in Applied Human Sciences, University of Montreal
Hamideh Mohagheghi
Research Assistant in Exegesis of the Koran and Violence in the Holy Scriptures – Universität Paderborn
Alberto Priego Moreno
Associate Professor
Wolfgang Palaver
Professor of Catholic Social Teaching
Wael Saleh
Professeur associé à l’Institut d’études internationales de Montréal (IEIM), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Youssouf Sangare
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization and the Arab World, University of Clermont Auvergne
Haoues Seniguer
Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Science Po Lyon
Davide Tacchini
Research Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller- Universität (Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies)
Olga Torres
Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Seville
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The Mihna. Deconstruction and reconsideration of the Mu’tazilite role in the “Inquisition
Abstract The Miḥna has usually been attributed to the Mu‘tazilite theological school as expression of something unusual, a bid‘ah (Islamic innovation) related to a rationalist group of theologians that trie...
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Fighting for the Cause of God: Vice or Virtue? Views of ŠIHĀB AL–DĪN AL–QARĀFĪ (d. 1285)
Original title : “Se battre pour la cause de Dieu : vice ou vertu ? Vues de ŠIHĀB AL–DĪN AL–QARĀFĪ (m. 1285)” ABSTRACT: This article discusses the views of the Cairene jurist Šihāb al–Dīn al–Qar...
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Violence in the Holy Scriptures of Islam and Christianity
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Islamic violence: immigration, radicalism, dialogue between civilizations
Ali MOSTFA is interviewed during the Conference “The Narrative of Islamic Violence in History. Creation, Artifice and Reality” at the University of Navarra in december 2018.
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Fundamentalism, Extremism, Fanaticism and Religious Terrorism. An effort at Clarification
Original title: “Fundamentalismo, extremismo, fanatismo y terrorismo religioso. una clarificación de los conceptos” Abstract In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in terrorist activity,...
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Europe challenged by the Middle East conflict
First International Congress of the University Platform on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): geopolitical axis Speaker: Jaume Flaquer, professor of interreligious dialogue at the Faculty of Theology of...
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Denouncing the manipulations of the religious in geopolitical conflicts
Lecture by Georges Corm, professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, given during the first international congress of Pluriel in Lyon.
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Corresponding across Religious Borders. The Letter of Ibn Taymiyya to a Crusader in Cyprus
SUMMARY: Presentation of Taqī al–dīn Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya‘s Al–risāla al–qubruṣiyya, a letter written to a crusader baron in Cyprus, probably John II of Giblet, sometime between early 1303 and mid–1304. In hi...
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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 objective ...
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Human Rights and Democracy
Title of the lecture : ‘Embracing the Other: Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri‘s approach to Human Rights and Democracy’ In the Western world, the Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar Muhammad Tahir-u...
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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 September 11 att...
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Thinking Islam in Europe
Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter : Raphaël Georgy With the collaboration ofAn...