We recognize that the problems of the Islamic world which are yet to be resolved date back before the geopolitical changes that we have witnessed in recent years throughout the whole world and particularly in the Middle East. However, it is also a fact that the developments affecting international order, and in particular the increasing power of globalizat […].
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Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East -3-
To speak of dictatorship as being the immemorial way of doing things in the Middle East is simply untrue. It shows ignorance of the Arab past, contempt for the Arab present, and lack of concern for the Arab future. Creating a democratic political and social order in Iraq or elsewhere in the region will not be easy. But it is possible, and there are increas […].
Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East -2-
To speak of dictatorship as being the immemorial way of doing things in the Middle East is simply untrue. It shows ignorance of the Arab past, contempt for the Arab present, and lack of concern for the Arab future. Creating a democratic political and social order in Iraq or elsewhere in the region will not be easy. But it is possible, and there are increas […].
Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East -1-
To speak of dictatorship as being the immemorial way of doing things in the Middle East is simply untrue. It shows ignorance of the Arab past, contempt for the Arab present, and lack of concern for the Arab future. Creating a democratic political and social order in Iraq or elsewhere in the region will not be easy. But it is possible, and there are increas […].
France : l’islam entre laïcité et discours anti-immigration
“La France vit à travers l’islam la crise de son identité.” Dans un entretien avec Mehdi Ben Smida, Olivier Roy soulève d’importantes questions, notamment sur la tendance à “essentialiser” l’islam qu’il dit observer aujourd’hui. […].
Entretien avec l’islamologue tunisien Abdelmajid Charfi : Le pari sur le progrès et la raison
Comment est-on arrivé à lier l’islam au terrorisme ? Qui est responsable de la faiblesse des sociétés musulmanes ? Peu-on espérer que l’islam extrémiste connaîtra le même sort que les partis démocrates-chrétiens en Europe ? le professeur A. charfi, répondra à toutes ces interrogations. […].
Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam : Mutual Distrust ?
Orientalism is Western when it takes the West not as an event, but as an idea preordained in all eternity, complete and final from the beginning. And if it starts from this point, it has to construct its subject-matter as an explicitly, totally different item, reduced to the form it had at its birth. The two assumptions are clearly related ; if the West is […].
A humane Muslim future
Islam can move beyond its association with oppression and violence by being true to itself and its past, says Fareena Alam. “Islam means peace”, they exclaim. “Islam condemns terrorism”, they insist. “The vast majority of Muslims reject violence”, they wail. Even before 11 September 2001, Muslim leaderships in Britain and elsewhere went to great pains to […].
Islam et pouvoir séculier
Certaines vérités élémentaires sont toujours bonnes à rappeler. Le propos s’en trouve souvent éclairé. Entre philosophie et religion il est une différence essentielle. La première est une démarche individuelle : même lorsqu’elle aboutit à former système ou doctrine, elle reste du domaine de la construction que fait chaque individu pour son propre compte. E […].
The trail of political Islam
Gilles Kepel, one of the world’s foremost experts on the modern Middle East, has written Jihad : the Trail of Political Islam, the first comprehensive attempt to follow the history and spread of Islamist political movements. In a talk given at the Institut Français in London as part of a collaboration between European cultural institutes on the relationshi […].
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