'Musulmans en Occident' : parution des travaux du Groupe de réflexion sur l'adaptation du discours religieux, le 10 février 2026 Face aux manipulations et aux amalgames qui, en Occident, nourrissent l’idée d’une incompatibilité entre l’islam et les valeurs des sociétés occidentales, le Recteur de la Grande Mosquée de Paris, Che...

Parait demain sous la direction du recteur de la grande mosquée de Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz , Musulmans en Occident : pratique cultuelle immuable, présence adaptée, Paris : Al Bouraq éditions , 2026.
#islam, #ijtihad
www.grandemosqueedeparis.fr/post/musulma...

I also👍🏼the #BookReview genre, when done properly.

By 'properly' I mean that it honours others' texts by close, contextual reading, and by making new connections that can accompany further thought.

#ijtihad
#WritingIntifada
#AcademicReading
#AcWri
#AcademicPublusing

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Red cover of 'Imagining Palestine Cultures of Exile and National Identity' by Tahrir Hamdi depicting a blurred photo of a child looking sideways at the camera whilst holding a large castle-like rusty key that is in full foregrounded focus together with the fingers gripping it

Just making a start on reading this, too, by #ArabOU colleague Prof Tahrir Hamdi:

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/imagining...

#OpenUniversity
#AcWri
#WritingIntifada
#ijtihad (close reading or #hermeneutics)
#DeColonialTheory
#CriticalTheory
#EdwardSaid
#FreePalestine

New blog post from me:
"Reform of Islam, e.g. based on ijtihad, the concept of critical thinking, rejecting extremism and fundamentalism?"
#Islam, #ijtihad:
gurdur.substack.com/p/reform-of-...