Pluriel

University platform for research on Islam

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Roula Abi Habib Khoury

Roula Abi Habib Khoury is a sociologist, director of the Centre d’Etudes pour le Monde Arabe Moderne (CEMAM) and professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. She specializes in sociological theory and her research focuses on the sociology of the Lebanese society. She worked extensively on the concepts of gratuity, gift and on numerous aspects of non-utilitarian social relations. She is currently leading two large-scale projects on the memory of the Lebanese war through musical production and on the Youth in the Arab World. She is presently completing a manuscript on the notion of frontiers in border regions in Lebanon within a CEMAM research project entitled “Le Liban aux nombreuses frontières”.

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Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth - Lebanon

Religion in a mixed Muslim-Christian context (Closed)

The complex context of Lebanon, with its 12 Christian denominations and 4 Muslim groups, calls for an interpretation of the relationships between these denominations in all aspects. Our team is interested in studying their position in the public space, the relationship between each other, their places of worship and their shared rituals. The relationship between […]

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From Transnational Islamic Movements to Individual Religiosity: the Crisis of Religious Authority in Western European Muslim Communities

  • Baptiste Brodard

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“Christian-Muslim Relations in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Beyond the Polemics over ‘The Innocence of Muslims'”

  • Anna Hager

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Theology of Differences: New Perspectives for the Franciscan Mission of Dialogue with Islam

  • Stefano Luca

“We cannot escape, especially today, the provocation that comes from interreligious encounter. The future of humanity is linked to the ability to embrace differences.”

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Religious Diversity, Interreligious Perspectives, and Islamic Religious Education in Switzerland: Current Situation and Room for Maneuver

  • Hansjörg Schmid

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The term “dahr” (fate) in the Arabic language and its literature

  • Paolo Branca

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Islam and Scientific Examination: A Renewed Quest

  • Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
  • Dominique Avon

“How can we establish an objective, rigorous, and detached study of Islam in the face of the excesses generated by its politicization? It is to answer this burning question that the French In...

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Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism. Proceedings of the Colloquium Held on November 20 and 21, 2021

  • Emmanuel Pisani
  • Cédric Baylocq
  • Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
  • Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
  • Charbel Attallah
  • Haoues Seniguer
  • Youssouf Sangare

The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research on the theme of religious pluralism in Islam. Wh...