Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
Born	1977 Algiers, Algeria

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is the founder imam of the first European inclusive mosque in Paris, France, with the goal of accommodating the LGBT and feminist Muslim communities. Zahed is the first French Muslim man to be civilly married with another man (in South Africa).

He was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1977. or 1978. He just performed a doctoral study on how "Sexual Minorities are at the Vanguard of Changes in the Islam of France", and published already his social psychology doctoral thesis about "LGBT Muslims facing obscurantisms and homo-nationalisms" (2016).

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed calls for an Islam that is neither homophobic nor misogynistic. In France, he has openly taken the position in favor of same-sex marriage. Zahed is the founder of the group 'Homosexual Muslims of France' and, in November 2012, he set up a prayer room in Paris. It was described by the press as the first gay-friendly mosque in Europe. The reaction from the rest of the Muslim community in France has been mixed, the opening has been condemned by the Grand Mosque of Paris.

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