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Faced with intolerance and religious extremism, men and women have chosen to engage in scientific, historical, historical-critical work on the texts and origins of religions. Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi has been engaged in this path for over 40 years. He succeeded Louis Massignon and Henri Corbin as director of studies in classical Islamology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études. He is one of the world's specialists in the origins of Islam and Shiism in particular. He directed "The Historians' Quran", a monumental work of over 3,400 pages considered a summation of current knowledge in the history of Islam. He is now the president of the Scientific Council of the French Institute of Islamology, founded in February 2022 by the will of President Emmanuel Macron. In this program Visages, Mohammad Ali Amir Moezzi takes us to discover the origins of Islam and the Quran. He does not hesitate to question certain elements of Islamist apologetics.