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Newsletter November 2026

We knew them as master’s and doctoral students. They had the look of young researchers who discover, in reading an archive, a manuscript page or in a chance encounter, the…

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Newsletter October 2026

Adrien Candiard, OP, director of MIDEO, kept to his goal of publishing MIDEO 2026 in 2026, and we thank him warmly for it, especially as the result is a very…

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Newsletter September 2026

There were no summer holidays for IDEO. The summer was hot and warm. It began for us in the first week of July, with the conference organized by the NCCMR…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…