1ST EDITION: MUSLIMS IN THE WEST: CONTRADUCTIONS AND CHALLENGES, CAIRO: MARKAZ AL HADARA AL ARABIA, 2006

2ND EDITION: MUSLIMS IN THE WEST: CONTRADUCTIONS AND CHALLENGES, CASABLANCA: AFRIQUE ORIENT, 2009

This book seeks to address the reality of Muslims in the West. It is a complex reality that knows astonishing contradictions, which are problematic, making it difficult to find immediate solutions to them. In the various chapters of the book, the writer Tijani Boulaouali has dealt with a group of Muslim issues in Europe and the West, in their various historical, cultural, political, social, religious, economic and other dimensions. The book has been divided into two main parts:

In the first section, the writer diagnoses the current situation of Muslims in the West in general. And then he tries to understand it in a moderate way, balancing between two options: preserving the original identity of Muslims, and at the same time the necessity of accepting Western civilization. Of course, if this acceptance does not lead to cultural and identitarian assimilation. The researcher devoted this part to various issues, such as the history of migration, generations of immigrants, the culture of dialogue, the issue of coexistence, the policy of integration, and the jurisprudence of dealing.

The second section deepens what was mentioned in the first chapter of ideas, visions and propositions, through concrete examples of the current Muslims in the West, and also by analyzing a group of current issues, which may make us understand the various aspects of Muslim society within the pluralistic European and Western context. This would bring us closer to the nature of the Islamic presence in the West, whether in the media, politics or education. The focus in this regard was on the issues of Islamic education, the veil, the immigration of Moroccans to Spain, Islamophobia, populist hostility to Islam, and others.

THE IMAGE OF ISLAM IN THE DUTCH ACADEMIC APPROACH, DUBAI: EMIRATES CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 2013

There is near consensus that the image of Islam in many western media is negative. Many scholars and experts in both East and West have been looking at this problem, analyzing and deconstructing its aspects and formulations, or examining public and covert reasons behind it. They all seek to develop strategies of conceptual rectification, and mechanisms of removing historical and ideological stereotypes of Islam and Muslims in the West. Academic scholarship plays an essential role in the study of Islam and its traditional and contemporary chalenges, including no doubt, the Dutch academic scholarship in which Islam has a substantial place that warrants close analytical research.
This study of Tijani Boulaouali belongs to the area of research into the Islam-West duality. It explores the nature of Islam's presence in some contemporary Dutch academic works to identify its image, its main determinants and manifestations, and the kind of mechanisms that are adopted by a part of Dutch academic and research institutions in dealing with issues related to Islam and Muslim.
In addition, this knouledge can play an important role to advance the concept of peaceful coexistence between the Muslim community and other segments of the multi-cultural Dutch society.

THE IMAGE OF THE ISLAM ACCORDING TO THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE PHILOSOPHER JACQUES DERRIDA, (BOOK CHAPTER), IN: ISLAM IN THE WEST, (RELIGIOUS STUDIES), RABAT: MOMINOUN WITHOUT BORDERS, 2017

The name of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) is often related to deconstruction, especially in literature, linguistics and philosophy. He had left almost no real contribution on theology, except for some interviews, meetings and ordinary statements. Shortly before his death, he had an extensive and very interesting interview about the relationship between Islam and the West, introducing an objective view of his positive experience with Islamic culture. This approach is included in the book: Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Religion and Postmodernism), which was published in 2008. This article deals with the so-called deconstructive approach to the perception of Islam in the West. This approach can be situated in the context of pluralism, where religions, cultures and people in Western post-modern society are on an equal footing, just as with Hans Küng, Henk Vroom, Karen Armstrong, John Esposito and others. But the added value in Derrida's point of view is that he breaks down and deconstructs a number of stereotyping concepts, including the conflict between the West and the East, eurocentrism, la democracy du futur, etc. This article consists of three parts. First about Jacques Derrida and his deconstruction. Secondly, about the relationship between deconstruction and pluralism as the legal and organizational framework for modern societies characterized by religious, ethnic and socio-cultural diversity. Finally, the relationship between Islam and the West from the point of view of the deconstruction of Derrida.

MUTUAL FEAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST: AN CONCEPTUAL AND DECONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH, CASABLANCA: AFRIQUE ORIENT, (2021)

After more than two decades of intellectual and media interest in the duality of Islam and the West on various occasions and meetings, and through different writings and publications, today Tijani Boulaouali has the opportunity to formulate a set of ideas on an important issue, which is the phenomenon of Islamophobia. About this topic, a number of studies, research, articles and papers have been written in record time, but our main purpose is not to describe this issue and to make a general inventory of its manifestations and events. The books, articles and reports that the predecessors have written are sufficient.