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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.
Titre original : “Islamic violence: immigration, radicalism, dialogue between civilizations”
Ali MOSTFA est interviewé en marge du colloque “The Narrative of Islamic Violence in History. Creation, Artifice and Reality” à l’Université de Navarre, en décembre 2018
مقابلة مع علي مصطفى في خلال مؤتمر “سرديات العنف الإسلامي في التاريخ. الخلق، الحيلة والواقع” الذي عُقد في جامعة نافارا في كانون الأوّل\ديسمبر 2018.
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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
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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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Religious Radicalism. The Challenges of an Ill-Defined Concept in Europe
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
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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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Thinking Islam in Europe
- Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
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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 collabor...
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Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Human Rights and Democracy
- Dirk Ansorge
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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-ul-...
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Thinking Jihadist Radicalisation: Actors, Theories, Transformations
- Elyamine Settoul
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Like many countries, French society is facing the rise of violent radicalisation phenomena with a politico-religious referential. From the factors of jihadist commitment to the processes of disaffi...
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Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps
- Adnane Mokrani
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The article traces the key concepts and methodological steps that make an Islamic theology of nonviolence plausible. It offers the tools for a critical reading of classical texts, “sacred” history,...
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Does the pandemic affect radicalisation?
- Patrice Brodeur
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Collaboration between Canadian and French researchers in the framework of the Centre Jacques Cartier talks, promoting partnerships between the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Quebec.
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Violence and Jihad in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
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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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Violence in Early Islam. Religious Narratives, the Arab Conquests and the Canonization of Jihad
- Marco Demichelis
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Presentation: The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers ...
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The Mihna. Deconstruction and reconsideration of the Mu’tazilite role in the “Inquisition
- Marco Demichelis
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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 theologia...