The “Men of Religion” in Contemporary Islam (1970‒2010)
Dominique Avon Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Assistant Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) and member of IDEO icon-calendar Sunday November 3ʳᵈ, 2019 While the internal situation of the Muslim world was favorable in the early 1970s (regained independence from […]
The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men
Dominique Avon and Amar Saïdi, “The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men”, Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica, NR 1, April 2019, pages 85‒109.
Freedom of conscience
Dominique Avon, “Freedom of conscience (ḥurriyyat al-ḍamīr). A challenge for Arab-Islamic authorities”, dans Acta philosophica, 2017, vol. 26, fasc. 1, pages 193‒200.
Positive history and sacred history
Dominique Avon, « Histoire positive et histoire sacrée autour de la pensée de Louis Massignon » in Cahiers d’étude du religieux 16 (2016). Louis Massignon (1883‒1962) was one of the famous orientalists during the first part of the 20th c. His PHD was based on the life of a mystic Muslim, Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj (c. 858‒922), who […]
Islam und Muslime im europäischen Kontext
Dominique Avon, « Islam und Muslime im europäischen Kontext. Reden eines medienwirksamen Menschen (1993‒2013) : Tariq Ramadan », in: Sabine Schmitz et Tuba Isik (dir.), Muslimische Identitäten in Europa. Dispositive im gesellschaftlichen Wandel, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2015, p. 267‒297.
Hezbollah
Dominique Avon & Anaїs-Trissa Khatchadourian, Hezbollah: A history of the “Party of God” (translated by Jane Mary Todd), Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2012, 256 pages. For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah’s lionization and vilification by outside observers, and at the same time has […]