PHILIPPON Alix

Publications

• Sufism and politics in Pakistan. The Barelwi movement at a time of "war against terrorism".Paris, Karthala, collection politique comparée de Science Po Aix, 2011, pp.334
• In the shadow of shrines. Sufi traditions in Pakistan, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2016, pp.129

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Altglas, Véronique and Philippon, Alix. "Religious Minorities and Exoticism. Religious Minorities Online, edited by Erica Baffelli, Alexander van der Haven and Michael Stausberg. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/rmo.21585374. Accessed 2024-07-16.
• "Sufi (In)sensitivity and emotional habitus. From asceticism toempowerment mystical", Sensitivities2022/1 (No. 11), p. 27-35. DOI : 10.3917/sensi.011.0027. URL: https://www.cairn.info/revue-sensibilites-2022-1-page-27.htm
• "Nationalisation of Sufi shrines, Sufisation of the Pakistani state? The Anthropologists' Journal, 158-159, 2019, p.277-297
• "Positive branding and soft power: the promotion of Sufism in the War on Terror", Brookings Institution and Georgetown University, Berkley Center for religion, peace and world affairs, Washington, part of a series of analysis on the Geopolitics of religious soft power : https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/12/13/positive-branding-and-soft-power-the-promotion-of-sufism-in-the-war-on-terror/ and https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/positive-branding-and-soft-power-the-promotion-of-sufism-in-the-war-on-terror
• "Good Sufis' and 'Bad Islamists'. Sociology put to the test of ideology", Social CompassVol. 62(2), 2015, p.187-198.
• "Charisma as an emotional resource for social movements? Awareness-raising mechanisms in a Pakistani neo-confraternity", International Critics2015/1, N°66, p.105-124.
• "Sufism, Islamism, radicalism. The many faces of the Barelwi movement in Pakistan", Identity, Culture & Politics: an Afro-Asian Dialogue15 (1), July 2014, p.1-17.
• "The differentiated contribution of Sufism to the Pakistani Islamist register", International Journal of Comparative Politics, 21 (1), 2014, p.33-64.
• "A sublime, yet disputed, object of political ideology? Sufism in Pakistan at the crossroads", Journal of commonwealth and comparative politics, vol. 52 (2), April 2014, p.271-292.
• "The role of Sufism in the identity construction, mobilization and political activism of the Barelwi movement in Pakistan", Partecipazione e conflitto 7(1), March 2014, consult online : http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/index
• "From the Westernisation of Sufism to the Re-Islamisation of New Age? Sufi Order International and the globalisation of religion", Review of Muslim Worlds and the Mediterranean (MMER), 135, 2014-1, p.209-226.
• "The 'urs of the patron saint of Lahore: national popular festival and sacred union between Pakistani State and society? Social Compass, September 2012, Vol. 59 (3), p.289-297.
• "Sunnis against Sunnis. The politicization of doctrinal fractures in Pakistan", The Muslim Worldvol.100, n°1-2, April 2011, p347-368.
• "When community is no longer just imagined", in Chronos, Journal of the History of the University of BalamandLebanon, N°18, 2008, p.209-229.
• "Bridging Sufism and Islamism, ISIM Review (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World) 17, Spring 2006, p.16-17.

Chapters in collective works

• "Déradicalisation par le soufisme: le cas pakistanais", in Juliette Galonnier, Stéphane Lacroix and Nadia Marzouki (eds.), Policies to combat radicalisation, Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po, p.105-106
• "Une nation fondée sur l'islam", in François Burgat and Matthieu Rey (ed.), A history of Islamist mobilisation (nineteenth to twentieth centuries), from Afghani to Baghdadi, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2022, p.175-178
• "Soufislamisme", in François Burgat and Matthieu Rey (ed.), A history of Islamist mobilisation (nineteenth to twentieth centuries), from Afghani to Baghdadi, Paris, CNRS éditions, 2022, p.343-348
• "For the love of Prophet Muhammad: religious devotion and political mobilization among the Barelwis of Pakistan" in David Jordan, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmuth (ed.), The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, Vol. 2 Heirs of the Prophet: Authority and PowerLeiden and Boston, Brill, 2021, p.393-418
• "Sufi politics and the 'War on Terror' in Pakistan: Looking for an alternative to radical Islamism?", in Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary Corbett (ed), Modern Sufis and the Shadow of the State: Rethinking Islam, Scholarship, and Politics in South Asia and BeyondColumbia University Press, 2020, p 140-160
• "La relation maître-disciples du soufisme comme rapport de domination : charisme, clientélisme et politique électorale au Pakistan", in Pascale Absi, Françoise Bourdarias, Isabelle Guérin, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2019.
• "'We are peace-loving people'. Sufism, Orientalist Constructions of Islam and Radicalization", in Véronique Altglas and Matthew Wood (Eds.), Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion. Critical approaches, Leiden, Boston, brill, 2018, p.189-213.
• "La politique du pir. Sufism and power in Pakistan", in Sabrina Mervin and Nabil Mouline (eds.) Political Islam, currents, doctrines and ideologiesParis, CNRS Editions, 2017, p.119-125
• "Pakistani Sufism in the Gulf. Structural constraints, modes of transplant and remittances", in Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurence Louer (eds.) Pan-Islamic connections. Transnational networks between South Asia and the GulfLondon, Hurst and Company, 2017, p.155-175
• "An ambiguous and contentious politicization of Sufi shrines and pilgrimages in Pakistan" in Michel Boivin and Rémi Delage (eds.), Devotional Islam in contemporary South Asia. Shrines, journeys and wanderersLondon, Routledge, 2016, 174-189.
• "Sufism in Pakistan at the ideological crossroads", in Roger D. Long, Yunas Samad, Gurharpal Singh, Ian Talbot (eds.), State and Nation-building in Pakistan. Beyond Islam and Security, London, Routledge, 2016, p .146-165.
• "Le musée dans la cité, entre marchandisation et politisation", in Denis Chevallier (ed.) Métamorphoses des musées de société: premières rencontres scientifiques du MUCEM (in French)La documentation Française, Musées-Monde collection, Paris, 2013, p.157-166
• "When Sufi tradition reinvents Islamic modernity. The Minhaj-ul Quran, a neo-Sufi Order in Pakistan", in Clinton Bennet, Charles Ramsey (ed), South Asian Sufis. Devotion, Deviation and DestinyLondon, Continuum Publishing house, 2012, p.111-122.
• "L'islamisme pakistanais à la croisée des chemins", in Samir Amghar (ed.), Les islamistes au défi du pouvoirEvolutions d'une idéologie, Paris, Michalon, 2012, p.123-140.

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

2024

• 4 June: Study day on "Muslim political parties: a vehicle for secularisation", organised by the GSRL, paper title: "Between hybrid regime, charismatic populism and crypto-Islamism: the case of Imran Khan's Tehreek-e Insaf (Pakistan Justice Movement)".
• 29-31 May: Conference on "Cities and circulations: challenging theoretical frameworks in Gulf studies and geographies", organised by Asseel Al-Ragam, Hélène Thiollet, Eric Verdeil, Chantal Verdeil, title of paper: "Redefining Baghdad through the shrines: translocal devotion, mobilities and urban politics in post-2003 Iraq", Inalco/Sciences Po Paris.

2023

• 14 December, GSRL general seminar, title of paper: "Sufism and politics in Pakistan and Iraq", GSRL, Paris.
• 5 October: Conference, photo exhibition and documentary films, "Sufism in Iraq", Institut Français de Baghdad, Iraq.
• 23 June, "Religious Institutions and urban politics in Middle Eastern cities" organised by Azadeh Mashayekhi, Hair Jacobi, Hélène Thiollet and Eric Verdeil, Sciences Po, Paris.
• 16 June, "Religious Institutions and urban politics in Middle Eastern cities" workshop organised by Azadeh Mashayekhi, Hair Jacobi, Hélène Thiollet and Eric Verdeil, paper entitled "The shrines, the waqf and sectarianism in Iraq: From charity to the construction of a public space", UCL, London.
• 28 February: Lecture and documentary screening, title of paper, "Party time? The pilgrimage to the shrine of the saint Abd al-Qader al-Gilani in Baghdad, between communion and contention", Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan

2021

• 4-5 october 2021: international colloquium in honour of Professor Firouzeh Nahavandi, Université libre de Bruxelles, focusing on south-west Asia: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, title of paper: "nationalism, authoritarianism and critical thinking: Pakistan through the prism of its university".

2020

• 5 March 2020, seminar Muslim Worlds in Transition. Asie musulmane non arabe, Centre d'études de la coopération internationale et du développement, Université libre de Bruxelles, title of paper: "Mysticism, syncretism and politics in Indonesia".

2019

• 13 December, seminar "Représentations des islams : regards et vécus panchroniques", organised by Saomé Deboos and Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, title of paper: "Vécus féminins au sein du soufisme pakistanais : devenir soufie au Pakistan", MISHA, Strasbourg
• 12 December, "Fabrique des autorités religieuses: qualifications, légitimations et ancrage des 'clercs' de l'islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée" seminar, organised by Katia Boissevain, Marie-Laure Boursin, Franck Frégosi, Sabrina Mervin and Norig Neveu, session on "Construction des images et autorités religieuses", title of paper: "La construction du charisme soufi au Pakistan: le cas controversé des pirs barelwis", MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
• 28 November, IMAF seminar "Universalisation, spiritualisation et patrimonialisation du soufisme" organised by Nadège Chabloz, title of paper: "(De)politicisation of Sufism in Pakistan in the war against terrorism: from the promotion of a culturalised Sufism to the radicalisation of Islamist Sufis", EHESS, Paris
• 31 October, seminar "Fabrique des autorités religieuses:qualifications, legitimations et ancrage des 'clercs' de l'islam, du christianisme et du judaïsme en Méditerranée", organised by Katia Boissevain, Marie-Laure Boursin, Franck Frégosi, Sabrina Mervin, Norig Neveu, paper on the terms of Sufi authority in Pakistan and the use of languages in the construction of authority, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence.
• 8-10 October: International Congress of the GIS Religions-texts, pratiques, pouvoirs, "La tradition", panel "D'une spiritualité antinomique à une dissidence politique: regards croisés sur la tradition soufie au sein de l'islam aujourd'hui", title of paper: "Les soufis islamistes au Pakistan: de la politisation à la radicalisation du mouvement barelwi", Maison Internationale des Langues et des Cultures, Lyon.
• 24 June, Study day on pilgrimages organised by IDEMEC, title of paper "Pèlerinages (de) pakistanais", MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
• 16 January, "Sufism, Muslim politics and public action in Pakistan", lecture at Indus Valley University, Karachi.