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Protestantism and Islam

Auteur(s) :

• Pierre-Olivier Léchot

How did Martin Luther and John Calvin view Islam? How have Protestant theologians contributed to research on Islam? Pierre-Olivier Léchot, professor of modern history at the Protestant Institute of...

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Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps

Auteur(s) :

• Adnane Mokrani

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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Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean

Auteur(s) :

• Alessandro Ferrari
• Amin Elias

How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean to understand the diversity of legal...

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Does the pandemic affect radicalisation?

Auteur(s) :

• Patrice Brodeur

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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Environmentalism and sustainability as an expression of Islamic moral orientation

Auteur(s) :

• Ida Zilio-Grandi

Abstract : The essay emphasizes cultural specificities, starting with the terminology currently used to describe sustainability, and investigates the lack of homogeneity of the semantic fields bel...

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Corresponding across Religious Borders: The Letter of al-Qūṭī

Auteur(s) :

• Diego Sarrió Cucarella

Summary : This article provides an introduction to the Letter of al-Qūṭī, a short anti-Islamic polemic in Arabic purportedly written by an unknown priest active in Toledo in the mid-1...

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Lavigerie and Islam, an ambiguous legacy

Auteur(s) :

• Diego Sarrió Cucarella

In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that their founder’s legacy “was not without ambiguity”...

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Discourses and strategies of otherness: Crossed perspectives and analyses

Auteur(s) :

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

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

Auteur(s) :

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

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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Understanding Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Minorities in Turkey

Auteur(s) :

• Anja Zalta

Volume 26 of the journak Poligrafi, edited by Anja Zalta, Tahir Abbas, and Umut Azak Abstract : The study of ethnic minorities is of vital concern in the context of nations consisting of different...