A new journal of studies on the questions of Islam and Muslims in Europe and the West, founded by the « Center for Studies and Training of Ijtihad in Belgium », which is scientifically interested in various questions of interest Western Muslims, on an intellectual and cultural level. This magazine is interested in “scientific knowledge” concerning the issues of Muslims and Muslim communities in Europe and the West, in addition to addressing other religious, intellectual, social and educational issues. Through his management of this journal and of the Center of Studies itself, the Moroccan thinker Dr. Al-Tijani Boulaouali seeks, through a statement made to Hespress, to “advance scientific and intellectual productions and produce academic knowledge on issues related to Islam and Muslims in the West », emphasizing that « the magazine is based on the scientific methodology adopted in Most scientific journals publish articles or scientific studies. The professor from the University of Leuven in Belgium said: « The dream of creating a magazine with these scientific specifications is an old dream that has haunted me for 25 years, and this scientific event is an insistence to think and produce scientific knowledge on Muslims. in the West, as Muslims have become an integral part of European society and new civilizational conditions demand an internal approach to Islam, based on authentic Islamic sources, and at the same time a rational engagement with thought and Western culture in the post-war period. modern era. » The center said that this new journal seeks to present « the various theological, jurisprudential, ethical, philosophical, social, linguistic and historical topics of Islam with an objective critical methodology starting from within Islamic authority, while by benefiting from the acquired knowledge of external research, particularly methodology”. , technology and linguistics. The editorial committee specifies that this initiative is part of a collaboration with various orientalist and contemporary studies on Islam with the aim of reviewing them to evaluate the deviants and benefit from their serious and qualitative results. Its first issue was published on Monday. , July 1, 2024. The magazine aims to « enrich the field of Arabic and Islamic studies in Europe and the West with a different approach that focuses on the internal Islamic perspective and takes into account the Western civilizational and realist context. » The journal “Ijtihad for Islamic and Arab Studies” also reviews scientific articles dealing with issues of Islam and Muslims in the West in general, and in Europe in particular, according to the scientific conditions recognized in academic circles, in the aim of constructing objective scientific knowledge. on Islam and Muslims, and not repeat the deviations and knowledge attached to orientalism. This scientific project examines « the questions that today constitute an obsession for the West to understand Islam and Muslims », by « rehabilitating the objective orientalist movement which treated Islam with scientific impartiality and an objective spirit » . It should be noted that the magazine includes « fixed main sections: articles, chapters, reviews, introductory reviews, translations and finally dialogues. » Concerning the first issue, it included “an editorial and twelve articles, including three articles in English, one in French and the rest of the articles in Arabic, three reviews and a translation”.
