The story that I am going to tell in this book is not the autobiography of a man remarkable for his role in public affairs; and it is not an adventure story; nor is it the story of a deliberate search for faith — for that faith has come to me, over the years, without any effort on my part to find it. My story is quite simply that of the discovery of Islam by a European...

If the modern world is said to be in crisis, what is usually meant by this is that it has reached a critical point, or, in other words, that a transformation more or less profound is imminent, that a change of direction will inevitably have to occur in the short term, willingly or by force, in a more or less abrupt way, with or without...

Étienne Dinet écrivit en 1918 une biographie de la vie du Prophète Muhammad (saw) à la demande du ministère des Armées, en hommage « à la mémoire des musulmans morts pour la France lors de la grande guerre ». Pour la réaliser, avec son ami Sliman Ben Ibrahim, ils s’appuyèrent essentiellement sur les sources islamiques et non sur les travaux des islamologues. Leur...

Access to the archives allowed the publication of the reports devoted by the colonial police to Malek Bennabi . Their content confirms the validity of his theses on "The ideological struggle".   When he arrived in Cairo in...

In 1960, Malek Bennabi tackled the problems of the democratization of power in the newly independent Muslim countries in an original way. Recent developments in Muslim countries refer to the conclusions of this in-depth analysis of the problem of democracy in the land...

Anselm Turmeda, a member of the Franciscan order, embraced Islam around 1385. He then left his native Spain to settle in Tunis, where he served Sultan Hafside Abu Al Abbas as a translator. A prolific writer, he left to posterity an autobiography entitled "Gift of the scholar to refute the supporters of La Croix". Our author, after having told his life as a...

Through these few pages, we will delve into the history of France, rich in events and above all in the teachings of the Moriscos authorized to settle in the south of France by Henri IV, in the Egyptian village of Marseilles where many Mamluks who followed Napoleon Bonaparte on his return from Egypt, passing through the Ottoman fleet sent to Toulon...

Courteous responses to critics of the Sira Etienne Dinet , a famous French painter converted to Islam, wrote his masterpiece “The Life of Muhammad” in 1918. This book received public funding. This encouragement did not prevent...