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Valentino Cottini

Diocesan priest in Verona since 1975. He obtained the Licentiate and Doctorate in Theology with a Biblical specialization at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem and then the Licentiate in Arabic Studies and Islamology at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic Studies and Islamology (PISAI) in Rome. He was its president from 2012 to summer 2018. Currently he is an ordinary professor and director of the journal Islamochristiana and visiting professor of Islamology at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and the Alfonsian Academy of Rome. His research interests focus on the study of the Bible, the Qur’an and Muslim-Christian relations.

(Source : Fondation Oasis)

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Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica - Italy

Pontificia Università Gregoriana - Italy

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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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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