Soheib Bencheikh: Liberal Model of the European Islam

Abstract

The article deals with socio-political views of one of the representatives of European Islam, popular in France religious leader and philosopher Soheib Bencheikh. Continuing to fulfill a function of «intellectual mediator», he has slightly lost his talent of the «excellent communicator» between different layers of French society. Meanwhile, liberal reformism has not exhausted its ideological and resource potential and interest in it will be retained. That is conditioned by both assimilation processes in the Europe and social instability in the Islamic world.