Pluriel

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Diego Sarrió Cucarella

Born in Spain, Diego Sarrió Cucarella has been president of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic Studies and Islamology (PISAI, Rome) since 2018, where he teaches Arabic, Muslim theology, the Qur’an and tafsīr (exegesis). He also teaches Islamic studies at the Pontifical Lateran University. He is acting director of the scientific journal Islamochristiana, published by the PISAI.

His research and publications focus on the intellectual history of Muslim-Christian relations and the theological insights that this history has bequeathed to Christians and Muslims today. A PISAI graduate in Arabic Studies and Islamology (canonical degree), he holds a doctorate in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University, having defended his thesis entitled “The mirror of the other: the splendid responses of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī”, a thirteenth-century Egyptian Muslim scholar.

A member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, better known as the “White Fathers”, Diego Sarrió Cucarella has lived in Sudan, Algeria, Egypt and Tunis, where he directed the Library of Religious Sciences and was a member of the Christian-Muslim Research Group. He is also a consultor to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.

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Pontificia Università Gregoriana - Italy

Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica - Italy

For a new Mediterranean. Space for dialogue and prophecies of peace

Following the research work on the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019, the Roman group of Pluriel Pontifical Gregorian University – PISAI wishes to continue the reflection with an interdisciplinary approach to […]

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The document on Human Fraternity: theological, philosophical and social reflections and developments (Rome)

Study on the theme of fraternity from the Abu Dhabi Document on HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHETR, signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar on February 4, 2019

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