Rachid Benzine

is one of the new generation of Muslim intellectuals, and teaches hermeneutics of the Koran in the Political Science Department in Aix en Provence.

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The new paths of modern Islam

The type of violence seen after the publication of the Mohammed cartoons is a result of a literal, essentialist reading of the Koran, says Rachid Benzine. But rather than a “modern” reading of the Koran, he advocates a new reading using the instruments of the social sciences.

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