Editorial of the Third Issue Reading Islam from Europe: Towards a Renewed Academic Discourse

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Published: Jun 30, 2025
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Ijtihad Journal, Ijtihad Center, Studies of Islam in Europe, Islam in Europe, Intern Approach of Islam

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Mohammed Dahiri
Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-9503

Abstract

This editorial of the third issue of Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies, written by the managing editor Dr. Mohammed Dahiri, brings readers closer to the journal’s vision, which centers on renewing Islamic knowledge within European and Western contexts through multidisciplinary academic approaches. It also highlights the journal’s commitment to rigorous peer review and to methodological and thematic diversity, while inviting researchers to contribute to upcoming issues in order to promote a balanced and critical understanding of Islam in contemporary contexts.
In addition, Dr. Dahiri sheds light on the contents of this third issue, which includes seven peer-reviewed articles covering topics such as Orientalism, parallel diplomacy, colonial history, interfaith dialogue, Qur’anic studies, modernist interpretations, and Maliki jurisprudence. The issue also features two reviews of contemporary works in Islamic thought in Europe, along with a presentation of recent activities by the Ijtihad Center.

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Dahiri, M. (2025). Editorial of the Third Issue : Reading Islam from Europe: Towards a Renewed Academic Discourse. Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies, 2(3), 21–24. Retrieved from https://journal-ijtihadcenter.com/index.php/ijias/article/view/130
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2025): Ijtihad Journal for Islamic and Arabic Studies
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Editorial

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Author Biography

Mohammed Dahiri, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

PhD Cum Laude in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He also completed doctoral studies in Comparative Literature and Translation at the Mohamed V University of Rabat. He furthered his education at the universities of Granada and Seville, at the Università di Bologna and at ITD-Amherst (Massachusetts), obtaining a Master's degree in ‘Community Intervention in Migration Processes’, a DEA in Arab and Islamic Studies and five Higher Diplomas in International Migration, Interculturality, Muslim Minorities, Diversity Management and Human Rights. He is a lecturer in the Arab and Islamic Studies Department at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is also a researcher at the University Institute of Religious Sciences at the same University and a lecturer and founding member of the UNESCO Chair in Conflict Resolution and Culture of Peace at the University of Cordoba. He also collaborates in several research groups in Spain and Morocco. He teaches, as a guest lecturer, in doctoral and master's degree programmes at: Université Paris 8, at La Sapienza Università di Roma, at Università degli studi Napoli L'Orientale, at Université Mohamed V Rabat-Agdal, at Université Mohamed V Rabat-Souissi, at Higher Institute of Information and Communication (ISIC-Rabat) and at the University of Cordoba. He is a member of the Board of the ‘École Doctorale de l'Inalco-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité’ (USPC) and a member of the International Academic Council of the Doctorate in Cultural Diversity at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero de Buenos Aires (UNTREF). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at EuroMed University. In addition to giving numerous lectures at national and international conferences, meetings and seminars, he has devoted part of his activity to disseminating information in the press, television and radio. He is a political analyst for several international TV channels: Al-Jazeera, Russia Today Arabic, Al-Araby TV Channel, Alhurra TV, Al-Mayadeen TV and Medi1TV. He is also a regular contributor to Medi1 Radio, Chaine Inter and Radio Maroc SNRT. He is also a columnist for the Arabic newspapers Diffatah Thalithah al-Araby al-Jadid (London) and Al-Akhbar (Casablanca). For the last twenty years he has combined his university work with cultural management, coordination of social policies in the public administration and advising international organisations. Between 2003 and 2004 he was Cultural Director of the Biblioteca Viva de al-Ándalus in Cordoba and responsible for its start-up, between 2005 and 2011 he was General Coordinator of the Social Welfare Department of Cordoba City Council and between 2012 and 2014 he was commissioned by the IOM-UN Migration (International Organisation for Migration) to coordinate a project related to the ‘Socio-professional empowerment of migrants and the socio-educational reintegration of their children’. Her lines of research focus on the study of the Moroccan community in Spain and Europe and, especially, on the role of Moroccans in the diaspora in the social, political and economic transformation of Morocco, and on the analysis of Islam and the management of religious and cultural diversity in Spain and Europe. At the same time, he carries out a rich research work on ‘Moroccan literature of exile’, ‘Moroccan prison literature-Moroccan literature of commitment’ and ‘Moroccan literature of Spanish expression’. Over the last ten years, he has supervised some thirty bachelor's and master's degree theses, as well as seven doctoral theses, two of them at foreign universities. In 2022 he was appointed Academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Noble Arts of Cordoba.