Because the true message of Islam concerning women was rarely practiced throughout the past 14 centuries of Muslim history, women scholar‐activists who self‐identify with Islam have been taking it upon themselves to reinterpret the Qur`an and change attitudes about gender and the role of women. But...

Basé on surveys of various faith-based NGOs (France, Turkey), this article analyses the humanitarian practice of Muslim sacrifice. He highlighted the reasons and challenges of the “humanitarisation” of a ritual with complex status in contemporary societies. Making sacrifice an act of solidarity and...

Call for applications of the 2021 Theathesis Prize: Extension of the call for applications The GIS Middle East Muslim World of the CNRS and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM-UMS2000) are organising four targeted thesis prizes for the Middle East and Muslim worlds in 20...

recording the ‘revolutions’ of Arab and Muslim societies since 2011, this dossier proposes a reflex discussion on the links between the event and our social science practices. The upheavals that occurred since the end of 2010 in the south and east of the Mediterranean were marked by several characte...

The Colloquium “Islam et Laïcité” was co-organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Team on Non-Arab Muslim Mediterranean Societies (ERISM) of the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations (Paris) and the French Institute of Anatolian Etudes (IFEA) in Istanbul. The meeting consisted...

Johanna Blayac, Genesis and history of the first Indo-Muslim and Indo-Islamic Societies through Arabic and Persian inscriptions (7th-14th centuries), PhD thesis in History, EPHE, Paris, 16 December 2009. "Islamic inscriptions of the Indian subcontinent, that were collected and published since the en...

The work of Ibn Roshd (Averroès), a Córdoba philosopher whose thoughts marked the transition from Middle Age to Renaissance in Europe, was marginalised in the Arab world in favour of ideological thinking hostile to cause until the end of the 19th century. The meeting with modern Europe has brought b...

CFP: Muslim Societies and Peacebuilding in Africa   Type: Call for Papers Date: October 20, 2021 to November 20, 2021 Location: Morocco Subject Fields: African History / Studies, Islamic History / Studies, Middle East History / Studies, Peace History / Studies, Social Sciences International Conferen...

this article focuses on showing the specificities and characteristics of a new form of religious visibility for Muslim women in digital spaces, through a French women’s online magazine, Imane, created in 2011 by and for Muslim women. The purpose of this contribution is to reflect how these women app...

The analogy between the “Arab Spring” and that of the European People in 1848 is not without adversity. What is more problematic is the characterisation of these mobilisations in terms of Arabity or Islam, and their short-term frequency which prevailed, at the risk of separating them from previous s...

The analogy between the “Arab Spring” and that of the European People in 1848 is not without adversity. What is more problematic is the characterisation of these mobilisations in terms of Arabity or Islam, and their short-term frequency which prevailed, at the risk of separating them from previous s...

ANNONCE Arguments Foresight is a particularly conducive topic for the analysis of interactions between Mediterranean and European societies, especially in the pre-modern era and its research is well suited to transcend certain topical histories. How to define the role of Christian, Jewish and Muslim...

The commitments of Muslim women are multiple, diverse in their objects and forms. Some make religion a key reference, others move away from it. At the heart of the debates on Islam or gender, however, they have in common to be confronted with paradoxical identity representations or even assignments....

This study poses problems with the modernisation which, thanks to its most superficial aspects (technology and liberalism), has shaken the Muslim world, particularly for the last three decades. All Muslim societies, from Morocco to Indonesia, face the problem of reconciling the ‘permanence’ taught b...

Call for applications for the Middle East and Muslim Memes Theathesis Award 2020: the GIS Middle East and Muslim Mountains and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM, UMS 2000) are organising the seventh edition of the Middle East and Muslim Memes Theory Awards in 2020. Wor...

Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama't, arguably the world's largest Islamic missionar...

After studying rural habitats (Villa I) and then the transition from late antiquity to the Middle Ages through the rural city report (Villa 2), the third part of this series was intended to highlight the contribution of archaeology to studying the societies of the Ebro valley from the end of wisigot...

recording the “revolutions” of Arab and Muslim societies since 2011, this dossier proposes a reflexive discussion on the links between the event and our social science practices. The upheavals that occurred since the end of 2010 in the south and east of the Mediterranean were marked by several chara...

<p>Starting from the Friday woman lead prayer held in 2005 in New York, I focus in this paper on the role Muslim contemporary women play in shaping Muslim societies and communities to assert their authoritative role “in the mosque”. I begin by setting the scene of the event and, after a brief discus...

Saint Husayn and his brother Saint Hasan, the grandsons of the Prophet Muhammed, have different and special positions in Muslim societies. Saint Husayn was martyred by the soldiers of Yazîd, who has declared himself as khalifa in Karbala. Various works were produced to describe this harrowing inc...

In order to develop a comparative analysis — as regards the initial formation of communities — cycling in Muslim societies, this article takes up discussions between Elizabeth Brumfiel (1992) and Eric Wolf (1990, 1999) on the lack of understanding of the process of formation of social groups and the...

This work is a reflection and analysis of the relationship between the hijab garment and the female body, which can be understood as a field of social relations and fighting. The Muslim body covered and the meanings it entails can be understood and presented in a number of respects. The work explain...

This article explores the concept of West Asia in relationship to recent work in the global history of Islam that points toward the existence of transregional arenas of historic significance that incorporate many of Asia’s Muslim societies. Recent anthropological work has also brought attention to t...

Islamic theology is a science which aims to identify the principles of the Islamic faith and defends them in every century. The main elements are shaping this defence is cultural environment of the time and its needs. Changing of these elements requires a change in the method of the defense. Therefo...

With its blurred image Sociology of Islam having always discussions from the name and the subject to the method and the approach has a problamatic structure today. It is may be said that the most important reason of this situation is its newly being in establishment phase. Especially while New Relig...