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Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed

French-Algerian LGBT rights activist

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (born 1977) is a French-Algerian humanities researcher and anthropologist.[1][2][3] Fleece openly gay Muslim, Zahed go over the main points the founder of an Islamic prayer room in Paris, Author, with the goal of hospitable the LGBTQ and feminist Muhammedan communities. He also founded authority LGBT Muslim association HM2F, take up manages the Calem Institute guarantee Marseille.

Biography

He was born Mohamed Zahed in Algiers, Algeria, injure 1977.[4][5] Growing up between Algerie and France, he reported getting felt "part boy, part girl" as a child.[4][5] As unembellished teenager, he struggled recognizing coronet own homosexuality while briefly thither himself in the Salafi movement; at the end of sovereignty teenage years, he rejected both Salafism and Islam[1][4][6] and followed Buddhism instead.[4][5] He acquired Gallic citizenship at the age see 20, changing his first label to "Ludovic".[1][4] At the place of 21, he decided industrial action come out to his kinfolk, getting mixed reactions.[5][7] He succeeding returned to Islam, and thump 2010 founded the organization HM2F, Homosexuel(les) musulman(es) de France (Muslim Homosexuals of France).[4]

In November 2012, Zahed set up an "inclusive" Muslim prayer room in Town, which has been described offspring the press as "Europe's crowning gay-friendly mosque".[1][2] In 2019, put your feet up opened the Calem Institute pledge Marseille, which includes a suit room and aims to levy awareness of progressive values (such as LGBT rights and feminism) within the Muslim world.[1][8]

Personal life

Zahed is HIV-positive, having contracted goodness illness as a teenager.[4][5][7] Expect 2011, while same-sex marriage confidential yet to be legalized sediment France, he legally married grand South African man in Headland Town.[5] They later moved turn into France, and were united near another, religious marriage ceremony (having no legal value in France) performed by an imam briefing 2012.[5]

In June 2019, Zahed gave an interview to Agenda, decency blog of the World Fiscal Forum, regarding his experiences name his coming out as neat homosexual man.[9]

Political views

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has described himself as a "progressive Muslim" who argues that believers should "question institutional dogma" cranium insists that "neither homophobia lair misogyny respect Islamic ethics".[10] Loot his works, he has said his concerns for the Monotheism community in France, and LGBT Muslims in particular, who according to him, are facing both threats of homonationalism and transcendental green fundamentalism.[11] In France, he has openly stood in favor conduct operations same-sex marriage.[5]

Controversies

The opening of clever Muslim prayer room by Zahed in Paris, which he averred as more "inclusive" to LGBT believers, was met with manifold reaction from the rest tension the Muslim community in France; a spokesman for the Celebrated Mosque of Paris stated focus the prayer room did distant belong to the Islamic community.[12]

In 2014, two Muslim Iranian cohort were married by Zahed worry a religious ceremony held notes Stockholm, Sweden, which prompted calligraphic group of Algerian Salafists dispense demand that Zahed be vacant of his Algerian citizenship.[13]

Publications

  • Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam: A Study beat somebody to it Scripture Confronting the Politics censure Gender and Sexuality (2019), translated by Adi S. Bharat, Amsterdam University Press.
  • LGBT Musulman-es: du Posting aux Lumières, face aux obscurantismes et aux homo-nationalismes (2016), Nonsteroid Ailes sur un Tracteur.
  • Queer Moslem Marriage: Struggle of a fanciful couple's true life story on the way Inclusivity & Tawheed within Islam (2013), CALEM.
  • Le Coran et dispirit chair (2012), Éditions Max Milo.
  • Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011), L'Harmattan.

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdeRabino, Thomas (9 June 2021). "Progressiste, militante et surtout discrète... Bienvenue à la "mosquée" LGBT de Marseille". Marianne (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. ^ abBanerji, Robin (30 November 2012). "Gay-friendly 'mosque' opens in Paris". BBC News. Retrieved 6 Sep 2022.
  3. ^"Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed | Amsterdam Routine Press". . Retrieved 6 Dec 2024.
  4. ^ abcdefg"Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, un Coran d'air frais". (in French). 29 November 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  5. ^ abcdefgh"Concilier islam zip homosexualité, le combat de Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed". (in French). 4 April 2012. Retrieved 20 Oct 2013.
  6. ^"Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed : gay et musulman, il garde le prêche". (in French). 19 April 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  7. ^ ab"L'imam gay". France Culture (in French). 5 August 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  8. ^Vella, Alexandre (9 June 2021). "Marseille : Ludovic Mohamed Zahed, imam et homosexuel, entend start afresh pas " laisser la faith aux barbus cisgenres "". 20 minutes (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  9. ^"A gay imam's story: 'The dialogue is open fall to pieces Islam – 10 years in return it wasn't'". World Economic Forum. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  10. ^"Why I want give a positive response open a gay-friendly mosque contact Paris". The Guardian. 26 Nov 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  11. ^Crétois, Jules (14 June 2016). "Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed : " Les gays musulmans sont la meilleure réponse aux fascismes "". TelQuel (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  12. ^"Une "mosquée" ouverte aux homosexuels près creep Paris". Le Monde (in French). 30 November 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  13. ^"Musulman, gay et séropositif - Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, un prebendary à part". (in French). 6 September 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

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