Ghaleb Bencheikh (born 1960 in

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), also spelled Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; ar, , Jidda, ), is a city in the Hejaz region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the country's commercial center. Established in the 6th century BC as a fishing village, Jeddah's pro ...

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) is a

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and

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

.Interview with Ghaleb Bencheikh
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Sheikh Abbas Abbas el Hocine Bencheikh called Sheikh Abbas (1912, in Mila Algeria – 3 May 1989, in Paris), was an Algerian diplomat, cleric, writer, and rector of the Muslim Institute and the Great Mosque of Paris. After theological studies in family brother ...

Bencheikh El Hocine and brother of Soheib Bencheikh, Ghaleb Bencheikh is the President of the "Foundation of Islam in France". He hosts the TV show "Islam" which is related to philosophical training and

theology Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. Ghaleb Bencheikh chairs the

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, which leads to many interventions in

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and abroad. Speaking with ease, Ghaleb Bencheikh spread and popularize his way theses and strong ideas of his brother Soheib Bencheikh. Ghaleb Bencheikh is a member of the sponsoring committee of the French Coalition for the Decade, spreading culture of

peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

and non-violence.

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Intervention of Ghaleb Bencheikh
in the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture in 2007 on the theme "Sufism and human rights"
Première partie : la science dans les contextes islamiques
Conversation between Ghaleb Bencheikh and

Faouzia Charfi Faouzia Farida Charfi (born 1941 in Sfax, Rekik) is a Tunisian scientist, intellectual and politician. She was Minister of State for Education in 2011. Life Charfi graduated from the Sorbonne, Paris, in 1963 in physical sciences, then gained doc ...

France Culture France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France. Its programming encompasses a wide variety of features on historical, philosophical, sociopolitical, and scientific themes (including debates, discussions, and documentari ...

on January 16, 2022.
Deuxième partie : la science dans les contextes islamiques
Conversation between Ghaleb Bencheikh and

on January 23, 2022.

Bibliography

* "So, what is Islam?", Ed. Presses de la Renaissance, 2001 * "Islam and Judaism in dialogue" (with Salam Shalom and Philippe Haddad and the collaboration of Jean-Philippe Caudron), ed. the Workshop, 2002 * "Secularism under the Koran", ed. Presses de la Renaissance, 2005 * "Open letter" to the Islamists (with

Antoine Sfeir Antoine Sfeir (25 November 1948 – 1 October 2018) was a Franco-Lebanese journalist. Biography Sfeir was the editor of the French journal '' Les Cahiers de l'Orient (Notebooks from the East)'', a quarterly publication devoted to the Arab and ...

), Bayard, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bencheikh, Ghaleb Islam in France French Muslims 1960 births People from Jeddah Living people French people of Algerian descent

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