ABSTRACT
Since the 1950s, a few Muslims go on pilgrimage to Brittany (France) at the end of July to visit a little Catholic shrine dedicated to the Seven Sleepers, also known in Islam as ahl al-kahf (People of the Cave). This unusual and not well-known phenomenon is a unique case of Muslim pilgrimages in Europe. In fact, it is more a ‘Christian-Muslim pilgrimage’, founded by the French Catholic islamologist Louis Massignon in a perspective of ‘interreligious hospitality’. Still active today, this pilgrimage is an arena animated by contradictions towards Islam, like in the French society in general.
