Dalil Boubakeur

Dalil Boubakeur (also: Dalil Bu -Bakr, born November 2, 1940 in Ville Philippe, today Skikda in northeastern Algeria) is a high Islamic dignitaries in France. Currently (2011) he is rector of the Grande Mosquée de Paris. From 2003-2008 he was the first chairman of the Islamic umbrella organization Conseil français du culte musulman.

Boubakeur applies - in addition to the Imam Hassen Chalghoumi in Drancy near Paris and the Mufti Soheib Bencheikh from Marseille - as a representative of the "liberal" secular Islam in Europe. He "belongs to the Euro - Muslims affirm not only European constitutions and the separation between religion and politics, but also have the courage, the ' name of Islam ' perpetrated blood massacre in its original homeland Algeria openly on the basis of an enlightened Islam condemn ". Boubakeur has repeatedly spoken out against the full veiling of Muslim and against demonstrative minarets and Muezzinrufe. Boubakeur calls that " Muslims must open European society further ."

For his attitude he has been threatened by Islamic extremists with death and was therefore placed under protection of persons.

Bibliography

• Le choc des religions: juifs, chrétiens, musulmans, la coexistence est elle possible?
• Les Défis de l' Islam
• L' Appel au dialogue
• Non, l' Islam n'est pas une politique (along with Virginie Malabard ), 2003
• L' Islam de France sera libéral
• La Charte du culte musulman
• Le Licite et l' Illicite dans l' Islam

Papers

• Dalil Boubakeur: Islam in Europe - the French experience, in: Peter Graf ( ed.), " Islam in the West - the West in Islam"