This conference is part of the research project “The taymiyyan corpus of jihad: reception, decontextualization and instrumentalization by the contemporary jihadist movements” (Mehdi Berriah), winning project of the call for projects 2020 « Islam, religion et society » of the French Ministry of Interior – Central Bureau of Cults and the PhD Project “Questioning the Quiescence of the Ottoman Ḥanbalīs: The Genesis of Conservative Salafism” (Sarah Van Eyken) and organised in partnership with the VU Amsterdam, KU Leuven, the Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT-VU), the CNRS-UMR 8167 Orient et Méditérannée, Aix-Marseille University, the IREMAM (The Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds), the CEFREPA (The French Research Centre of the Arabian Peninsula) and the IISMM (Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman).
Organizers: Mehdi Berriah, VU Amsterdam, Arjan Post, KU Leuven, Sarah Van Eyken, KU Leuven, Nadjet Zouggar, Aix-Marseille University, Iremam.