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Salah ABOUJAOUDE s.j.

Premier vice-recteur - Organisation centrale
Doyen - FSR

Enseignant Cadré - Professeur - PhD - Cultures and Societies in the Arab and Muslim World

Faculty of Religious Sciences (FSR)
Center for Research and Analysis (CAR)

(+961) 1 421 000 ext 5701 salah.aboujaoude@usj.edu.lb

As First Vice-Rector, I participate in several commissions and councils that are responsible for the smooth running of the university and its strategy. As Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, I perform the usual duties of this position and teach courses on confessionalism, democracy and religions, the state in Islam, and church and state. I also supervise doctoral students and master's students.


• Phd in cultures and societies in the Arab and Muslim world
• Phd in Religious Studies
• DEA in language and thought in the medieval and contemporary Arab and Muslim world
• Master in Theology
• Bachelor in Theology
• Bachelor in Philosophy

Confessionalism, democracy and religions, the state in Islam, as well as church and state.


Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences

Confessionalism in Lebanon - Democracy and religions - National life - The State in Islam - Church and State - Concepts of political action in Lebanon.

- The barren years. The Ambitions of a Democratic Transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World, Dar el-Machreq, Beirut, 2018.

- The Lost State. The Conditions for Democratic Transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World, Dar el-Machreq, Beirut, 2023.

- The National Identity of Lebanon: Its Confessional Evolution and its Problems, Dar el-Machreq, 2008.

- The Birth of Democracy in Lebanon and the Middle East, Dar el-Machreq, 2014.

- Le Liban en Turbulence, Dar el-Machreq, 2024.


Les méthodes de ressourcement incluent la lecture des livres dans le domaine de la spécialisation et de la culture générale, ainsi que la rédaction des articles scientifiques et des articles pour les journaux traitant des questions philosophique et politique.