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Bencheikh graduated in Islamic theology at First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, and at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
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He holds a doctorate in Religious Sciences from the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Paris, France. He was nominated as Grand Mufti of Marseille, France, in 1995 by the Great Mosque of Paris. Among other "modernist" points of view, he stated that education is the best protection of women"s honor and well-being (and not the headscarf, which he says is not mandatory).
Bencheikh attempted to run for president in the French presidential election, 2007 but failed to get the 500 endorsements needed in order to become an official candidate.
He created the movement “Elan Républicain” specifically for this purpose.
