Major Jacques Carret, Arabist and renowned for the quality of his work as well as his impartiality, was commissioned in 1958 to conduct a study on the situation of the Oulamas in Algeria. He wrote a comprehensive account of the Ulama Association, its members and its activities. His testimony is of some use, because it allows us...

To illustrate his thesis on "the social value of the Koranic notion", Malek Bennabi preferred to write a novel on "the pilgrimage of the poor" where he makes known the experience of the colonized Algerian Muslim. While in French literature, the consumption of alcohol was often supposed to be a sign of "emancipation", Bennabi underlines the possibilities of...

The West was able to make its revolution at the right time, by deploying its mastery of technology and equipment, and by reinventing, in a way, the way of considering the present and the future. The East has not forgotten its history nor its past influence on the rest of the world. It is on these lands, and nowhere else, that the great monotheistic religious...

Étienne Dinet (d. 1929) gave a lecture in Cairo in French, which was simultaneously translated into Arabic. This was subsequently published in the Arab world. In order to help promote the French-speaking Islamic heritage, we are pleased to be able to make this publication available to the general public. In this speech, Étienne Dinet shows erudition and religious...

Documents on Muslim diplomacy at the time of the Prophet and the Orthodox Caliphs (PhD thesis Paris.1935), by Muhammad Hamidullah, Héritage Éditions The thesis defended in 1935 in Paris on "Documents of Muslim Diplomacy at the time of the Prophet and the Orthodox Caliphs" was...

The fables of Luqman enjoy among all the peoples of the East, a celebrity all the better deserved, as their origin, going back according to the best established opinion, to the most remote antiquity, they must consequently to serve as a model and a manner for the other fabulists, all of whom only existed at much later...

Translated and commented by Mohamed Benchili Renowned for their conciseness, eloquence and relevance, the Hikam are among the most famous esoteric works in Islam. we have worked for this book , striving to translate the...

Comptes rendus des discussions et résolutions de l'Assemblée d'An Nahdah Al Islamiyyah  ("Le réveil islamique") qui s'est tenue à La MECQUE EN 1316 h (1898 G) Figure majeure du réformisme arabo-musulman, il rédigea sous le pseudonyme de Sayyid Al-Furâtî le livre La Mère...

Originally mostly from the Eurasian steppes of Kipchak, a region famous for its people of horsemen, and bought to be trained for war, those known as Mamluks were propelled to the fore in the wake of the Seventh Crusade. Who would have thought that it is on the shoulders of these foreign slave-soldiers and newly converted to Islam that the fate of...

If the Muslim wants to fill this void in thirsty souls, souls eager for new motivations, he would first have to raise his level to that of civilization in order to be able to raise it to the level of the sacredness of existence ( …) I say all these words as a testament that I leave...». ( Malek BENNABI, Damascus, Syria,...

"This Law of Ours" and Other Essays Do we still need to introduce Muhammad Asad ? One of the most famous Muslim thinkers of the 20th century, and arguably the most influential European Muslim of that era,...

Colonization produced a "world cut in two", in the words of Frantz Fanon, racially hierarchical based on the dehumanization of the colonized... This book tries to understand how, more than fifty years after independence, colonial management of non-white populations, their cultures and the spaces in which they live, continues in France? How does the colonial...