Abdessamad BELHAJ
Degrees: PhD (2008- Political and Social Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium); PhD (2001- Humanities (Islamic Studies), Muhammad V University, Morocco)
Research interests: Islam and society; Islam and politics; the ethics of Islam; Muslim political philosophy; sociology of religion
Publications: MTMT
Contact: belhaj.abdessamad[at]uni-nke.hu
Projects: Authority and dissent; Islam and ethics: modern moral dilemmas; secularism and Islam: challenges, uncertainties, debates and limits
Abdessamad Belhaj (1974) obtained a PhD in Islamic Studies from Muhammad V University in Rabat, (2001) and then a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium, 2008). He has been a guest lecturer and researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain between 2004 and 2008 and then since 2012 on the topic of Islam as a religious tradition defined by transmitted norms, interpretations and sources (teaching courses in this regard at the Faculty of Theology) and as a social process pertaining to societal and political dynamics (conducting research in social sciences on Islam at CISMOC). From 2014 to 2019, he worked as a research fellow of the MTA-SZTE religious culture research group in Szeged. In 2016, he was a research fellow at the Academy of Finland. He was a guest lecturer or researcher in Germany, France, Finland and Belgium.
Selected publications:
Alessandra Luciano, Abdessamad Belhaj et al. Islam des lumières : illuminisme spirituel du troisième millénaire, Milano, Mimésis, 2019. ISBN 9788878855748.
La pensée évidente: Étude des notions fondamentales de la pensée musulmane contemporaine, Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2018. ISBN 978287586704.
“The Fall of The Western Family” Ṭāhā ‘Abd al-Raḥmān’s Critical Islamic Ethics”, ReOrient : The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 4, 2018, pp. 24-43.
“L'autorité musulmane rencontre l'Europe. Et se transforme”, Oasis 25, 2017, pp. 79-87.
“Jawdat Saʻīd and the Philosophy of Peace”, in: Islamic Peace Ethics, edited by Heydar Shadi, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017, pp. 229-247.