A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic

L'importance du monde arabe dans la politique internationale, la présence d'immigrés musulmans dans nos pays et le réveil de l'Islam provoquent notre réflexion. Au-delà des stéréotypes et des craintes, il faut aller au cœur même de la foi de l'Islam : le Coran, la loi, la Tradition, la mystique. On peut ainsi redécouvrir des sources communes, que souligne la comparaison entre la Bible, la Torah et le Coran, et des convergences profondes, tout en reconnaissant les différences entre chrétien...

Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic Studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism. This Festschrift honours Arkoun AZs scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven distinguished scholars of history, religious stu...