Jean-Pierre Filiu (Paris, 1961) is a French scholar, specialized in contemporary Islam, with an emphasis on jihadi movements and Al-Qaeda.[1] Professor at Sciences Po Paris, he teaches in French, English and Arabic at Gilles Kepel's Middle East Chair. He has also been visiting professor at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He published with Fayard (Paris) "Mitterrand and Palestine" (2005) and "The boundaries of jihad" (2006). His "Apocalypse in Islam" (2008)[2] was awarded the main prize (Augustin-Thierry) by the French History convention (Rendez-vous de l'Histoire), held every October in the city of Blois (this book is a in-depth study of Islamic eschatology and its contemporary narratives). His recent research focuses on the multi-faceted adaptation of Islam to globalized modernity. He described the conflicting dialectics between local and global jihad. And he highlighted how radical movements try to "modernize" traditional concepts, giving them a new meaning previously unknown in Islam, for instance in the case of the caliphate.[3]