Endeavors & perspectives
(PPT presentation, click here)
Press release (1st January 2018)

CALEM    Institute



This year, participants to the Progressive Islamic Training (PIT) come from a dozen different countries.
Our meetings ("halaqat" in French, English and Arabic) take place mainly on Skype, but also, three times a year, at the CALEM Institute (Marseille, France):

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At the end of our personalized or group training, the certificate issued by the CALEM institute will allow them, inch'Allah, to give more credit to their future commitments in various environments (mosques, universities, prisons, social centers, etc.), and especially within progressive and inclusive Muslim communities which are emerging around the world today.

We also work with progressive & inclusive communities, mosque and organizations, helping them to create their own curriculum or manuals: info@calem.eu. Our training manuals (in seven volumes of about one hundred pages each) are available (for our participants exclusively) in paperback:

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Thanks to the progressive imam-as who joined us at certain times to give us the benefit of their lights: Musab Joshua, Ani Zonneveld, Seyran Atesh and many others to come inch'Allah.




Rumi's Isiphephelo


The CALEM Institute offers you the opportunity to benefit its trainings, on the basis of renowned studies, in relationship to the reform of our representations of contemporary Islam, respecting human rights and towards universally egalitarian societies.



> OUR VISION: make of Islam a factor of emancipation

>  OUR MISSION: training imams, teachers and students, in Islamic liberation theology

> OUR GOAL
: sustaining efforts of progressive Muslims around the world, towards inclusive 
& egalitarian societies, fully aware of their universal potential.


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PIT (Progressive Islamic Trainings) for:

- imam (« guide » : men, women, trans...),

- ustadh («teacher »),

- daa'iya (« engaged citizen »),

- tilmidh (« student ») :


You have the desire to commit yourself to a progressive, universally inclusive Islam, adapted to our modern socio-politic reality, and based on humanistic values?

Whatever are your origins, your gender, your religious convictions, get involved and join us! The reform of Islam is our collective responsibility, inch'Allah!







CALEM    Editions


Our latest publications online





CALL FOR PAPERS

The CALEM editions (a structure that has existed since the beginning of the 2000s) are intended to propose a rich catalog of references dealing with theological, sociological, sexual and cultural themes, particularly in relation to Islam, so-called "Arab" cultures, feminisms, homosexuality and trans-identities.
Our benefits are entirely devoted to our future projetcs. The CALEM editions decline an editorial line inscribed on three axes.

Address us your manuscripts and proposals by email:

info@calem.eu


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OUR COLLECTIONS


The CALEM thematic collections are as follow: 

°   AVERROES
(sociology, historiography)

°    JALALUDIN RUMÎ
(autobiographies, essais)
 
°   IBN 'ARABI
(Inclusive Liberation theologies, progressive trainings)

°   But also our collaborations with our partners



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HOW TO BUY OUR BOOKS?


Three possibilities:

°   Paypal (pay on this website, free delivery - around 4 weeks)   
°    Amazon (paying delivery, but faster - Paper or Kindle format)
°   Bookshops & professionals (Pro. Invoice / - 30 to 40%)








CALEM    Cabinet




Follow the activities of our Cabinet on the
Facebook page of our rector:








In 2018, our Cabinet (co)organized or participated to around twenty international events
(updated presentation here):


- conferences or public debates
- khoutbah (religious inclusive sermons)
- interviews (national & international medias)
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We also celebrate more and more inter-religious or same sex marriages, in France and Europe:







 


(PS - CALEM activities are legally administered by TDM-ES: declaration n°W751170222, SIRET n° 824 568 778 00016)