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Soheib BencheikhSoheib Bencheikh(Born 1961) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia graduated in Islamic Theology from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, and from the Universit Libre of Brussels. He holds a Doctorate in Religious Sciences from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris. He was nominated as Grand Mufti of the city of Marseille in 1995 by Dr. Dalil Boubakeur, the Rector of the Great Mosque of Paris. He is a member of the Conseil Franais du Culte Musulman (Council of French Muslims) since its creation in 2003. Bencheikh is an anti-fundamentalist religious leader and an assertive supporter of an Islam eager and capable to adapt itself to the modern world. He also is acknowledged as a reformer Muslim theologian committed to interreligious dialogue. He has written two books “Les Grandes Religions” and “Marianne et le Prophte : l’Islam dans la Laicit”, his famous book on the position and opportunities for Muslims in secular democrary. References - 'Marianne et le Prophte: L'Islam dans la France laque', Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1998.
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