Mohamed Mestiri

Mohamed Mestiri (born 1964 ) is a Tunisian - French thinker and a figure of Islam in Europe . At the Sorbonne in Paris he did his doctorate in philosophy and at the University of Ez-Zitouna in Tunis his theology diploma .

He was director (of the former French branch) of the International Institute for Islamic Thought (abbr. IIIT) near Paris .

"The IIIT was founded in 1981 and is headed by Taha Jaber Al Alwani. Its Saint-Ouen office is run by Mohamed Mestiri, a Tunisian with a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne who was earlier consulted by Daniel Rivet for his 2003 report on imam training for education minister Luc Ferry. For the past five years, the IIIT has held an annual dinner that is well attended by political élites. "

- Nicolas Mom and Assmaâ Rakho Mom : “Dìner débat annuel de l'IIIT sous le signe de laïcité” [“Annual dinner-debate of the IIIT under the banner of laïcité”], October 30, 2005 (www.oumma.com ).

Mestiri was one of the signatories of the Amman Message (Amman Message) .

Fonts (selection)

• Mohamed Mestiri: “From the Fiqh of Minorities to the Fiqh of Citizenship: Challenges of Conceptualization and Implementation”. In: Jasser Auda (Ed.): Rethinking Islamic law for minorities. Towards a Western-Muslim identity , n. D., P 33-43 ( here visible)
• Le livre des animaux / Al-Jāhiẓ  ; trad. et préf. par Mohamed Mestiri, 2003 ( idref.fr )

data.bnf.fr lists the following four titles with Mestiri as editor:

• Identitaire et universel dans l'Islam contemporain. (Following the fourth annual congress of Islam researchers, organized by IIIT France and IISMM - EHESS in June 2005.) Paris: IIIT France; [Paris]: IISMM-EHESS, DL 2007
• Islamophobia in the modern world. (Originated from the international colloquium of the University of Berkeley and IIIT France, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, June 2nd and 3rd, 2006). Saint-Ouen: IIIT France, DL 2008
• Penser la modernité et l'islamregards croisés. (Following the third annual congress of Islam researchers, organized by IIIT France at UNESCO in June 2004). Paris: IIIT France, DL 2005
• Pluralisme et reconnaissance défis des particularismes et des minorités. Saint-Ouen: IIIT France, DL 2008 ( unesdoc.unesco.org )

See also

• Taha Jabir al-Alwani
• Beddy Ebnou
• Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis)

literature

• Jonathan Laurence and Justin Vaïsse : Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France. 2007 ( partial online view in Google Book Search)
• Thorsten Gerald Schneiders , Lamya Kaddor (ed.): Muslims in the rule of law. With contributions by Lord Nazir Ahmed, Wolfgang Bock, Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Muhammad Kalisch, Matthias Koenig, Mohamed Mestiri, Janbernd Oebbecke, Günter Renner, Andreas Abu Bakr Rieger, Anas Schakfeh. Publications of the Center for Religious Studies Münster, Volume 3, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8258-8024-8 ( partial online view in Google book search)

Web links

• Short biography (p. 74)
• Library catalogs (1) , (2) worldcat.org

References and footnotes

1. ↑ On some of the book titles by Mestiri published by IIIT France / Institut international de la pensée islamique, cf. the section 'Fonts (selection)' and orient-lib.com
2. ↑ cf. Book trade link : “Cet ouvrage fait suite au troisième congrès des chercheurs sur l'islam organisé par l'IIIT France à l'UNESCO en juin 2004. Initialement, cet ouvrage a voulu réunir des chercheurs de différentes disciplines des sciences sociales et des sciences religieuses ou patrimoniales islamiques afin de proposer une approche inédite plus complexe: un "regard croisé" du fait islamique sur la modernité et de la modernité sur l'islam. ”
3. ↑ On the current IIIT website ( iiit.org: Offices and Affiliates ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. , accessed on April 5, 2017) this Institut international de la pensée islamique (IIIT) is no longer listed in France. 
4. ↑ Jonathan Laurence / Justin Vaïsse, p. 296, note 97.
5. ↑ chrishewer.org ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .