Islam disconcerts and arouses many misunderstandings. Written to answer them, this book presents the spiritual orientation essential to this tradition as well as its main elements: man as the center of creation, and the delicate question of freedom and predestination. Roger Du Pasquier is a Swiss journalist converted to Islam, to whom he devoted several books.
Islam disconcerts and arouses many misunderstandings. Written to answer them, this book presents the spiritual orientation essential to this tradition as well as its main elements: man as the center of creation, and the delicate question of freedom and predestination. Roger Du Pasquier is a Swiss journalist converted to Islam, to whom he devoted several books.
Did you know that there are hundreds of French words in Arabic, hundreds of Arabic words in French? Distant in their origins, these two languages have intersected and enriched each other for more than a millennium. Cultural influences and historical references, etymological analyzes and playful anecdotes: here is the beautiful story of the encounters of East and West
Did you know that there are hundreds of French words in Arabic, hundreds of Arabic words in French? Distant in their origins, these two languages have intersected and enriched each other for more than a millennium. Cultural influences and historical references, etymological analyzes and playful anecdotes: here is the beautiful story of the encounters of East and West
A Sufi saint in the 20th century - Sheikh al-'Alawî (who died in 1934 in Algeria) is one of the purest and highest mystical figures of the 20th century. This book retraces the exemplary life of this Sufi master who marked several generations of Muslim disciples and European Islamologists. Drawing as much from his writings, teachings and poems as from testimonies...
A Sufi saint in the 20th century - Sheikh al-'Alawî (who died in 1934 in Algeria) is one of the purest and highest mystical figures of the 20th century. This book retraces the exemplary life of this Sufi master who marked several generations of Muslim disciples and European Islamologists. Drawing as much from his writings, teachings and poems as from testimonies...
“Me, Mélanie, French and Muslim… This title was close to my heart because I wanted by these words to show that there is no contradiction between these terms, nor incompatibility. Neither in words, nor in my heart. I am French and Muslim, I have roots and wings. »
“Me, Mélanie, French and Muslim… This title was close to my heart because I wanted by these words to show that there is no contradiction between these terms, nor incompatibility. Neither in words, nor in my heart. I am French and Muslim, I have roots and wings. »
After decolonization, this attempt to understand the Black-White relationship has kept all its prophetic value: racism, despite the horrors it has afflicted the world, remains a problem for the future.
It is approached and combated here, with all the resources of the human sciences...
After decolonization, this attempt to understand the Black-White relationship has kept all its prophetic value: racism, despite the horrors it has afflicted the world, remains a problem for the future.
It is approached and combated here, with all the resources of the human sciences...