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Islam and Otherness (Paris)
In the global context of identity tensions, migratory flows, depreciation of the image of the Muslim world and its association to Daesh and al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks, the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris intends to carry out a research on the capacity of Islam to maintain a constructive and peaceful relationship with the ‘other’, both within the Muslim world and with other religions and cultures.This investigation is crucial in order to guarantee a community life in the Muslim world and in the West in the years to come. It calls for a transdisciplinary methodology which is not only a matter of scholarly Islamology but also of linguistics, history, political science, geography, sociology, law or philosophical anthropology.
Our research will identify semantic fields and concepts related to otherness in the corpus of primary sources (Qur’an and Sunnah). Our research will also critically reconsider the specific body of medieval Muslim writings which is “hijacked” by Islamist groups and used as their source of legitimacy. If the historical, sociological and political study of the facts and the strategies deployed within movements or organizations is unavoidable, the original perspective of our research is to involve a properly theological, linguistic and symbolic examination on the key texts on which contemporary fundamentalist discourses are based, to study them from a linguistic angle, to identify their historical contexts, to analyze their rhetoric and to assess their symbolic purpose.
Membres du groupe
BENTABET Houssame
Sociologue et islamologue
PISANI Emmanuel
Director of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religion (ISTR) - Paris Catholic Institute
VIVIER-MURESAN Anne-Sophie
Maître-assistant à l'Institut de Science et de Théologie des Religions (ISTR), chercheuse en théologie du dialogue - Institut Catholique de Paris.
GOBILLOT Geneviève
Professeur émérite depuis 2013 Spécialité Etudes arabes et islamiques (histoire des idées et civilisation). Université Lyon 3, Jean Moulin.
SHIRALI Mahnaz
Directrice d’étude du DU Judaïsme, Christianisme, Islam (ISTR) Enseignante à Science Po
TESSANGARE Youssef
HAJJAR Mohammad
Docteur en droit
JAJÉ Amir
Docteur en islamologie
PARSAPAJOUH-TERRIER Sepideh
Docteur en anthropologie
BAJRAFIL Mohammad
Docteur en linguistique
SPEZIALE Fabrizio
Docteur en sciences religieuses
SULAYMAN Nasser
Docteur en sciences politiques
EL HAMRI Jamel
Chercheur en histoire de l'islam contemporain, et Consultant islam, jeunesse et citoyenneté
