
to 19/11/21 to 20/11/21
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Conference ‘Islam and Otherness. What Islamic theology of religious pluralism?’
Conference organised by the Institut Supérieur de Théologie des Religions – ISTR – of the Theologicum (Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris). This confe...
to 16/10/21 to 17/10/21
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Conference / The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān, 1924
Organized by the Dominican Insitute for Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo) Presentation This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān made under the authority of al-Azhar co...
to 16/09/21 to 18/09/21
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International conference “The itinerant prophets. Rewritings, appropriations and metamorphoses of prophetic figures in Islamic sources”
At Institut du Monde Arabe and Sorbonne Université, Paris Bringing together scholars of Islam studies, literature and history, ‘The Itinerant Prophets’ aims to shed new light on the place prophe...
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The videos of the webinar ‘Islam and Otherness – Focus Lebanon’ are available
The opening webinar of the 3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network was held on 13 April 2021 on the theme “Islam and Otherness with a focus on the Lebanese experience. The replay has been or...
DEADLINE : 31/08/21
CALL FOR PAPER
The Qur’an in History. The History of the Qur’an. From Canonization to Critique and Semantic Hermeneutics
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), with Marco Demichelis as guest editor. Extract of the presentation: The Issue would like to explore the correlation between the Qur’an, the word of God that th...
DEADLINE : 26/03/21
CALL FOR PAPER
Itinerant Prophets
The International Colloquium « Itinerant Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam » will take p...
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Report of the conference “Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries)”
Report of the 3rd conference of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, which took place online from October 16 to 18, 2020
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A new director for the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies
A new director at IDEO, Cairo
Religion and temporality (Bonn, Germany)
Religion and temporality intersect in profound ways, shaping individuals, societies, and the course of history. From the cyclical rhythms of ritual and sacred time to the eschatological visions of the futur...
Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue (Bonn) (closed)
Research group of the University of Paderborn. The Qur’anic approach to prophecy challenges Jewish and Christian perspectives for a variety of reasons. The Qur’an seems to have some concrete features of pr...
Islam and Otherness (Paris)
In the global context of identity tensions, migratory flows, depreciation of the image of the Muslim world and its association to Daesh and al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks, the Institute of Science and Theolog...
Catholic Theology in dialogue with Islam (Frankfurt)
Catholic theology in Europe is increasingly confronted with the questions and criticisms of Muslim intellectuals who, in particular, point out the convergences between the two religions. The research projec...
Qur’anic Approaches to Jesus Christ in the Perspective of Comparative Theology (Closed)
The project will therefore scrutinize whether it is feasible, from a particularly Christian perspective, to recognize the Quranic appreciations of Jesus of Nazareth as a form of Christology, which could pos...
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Holder of the Chair “Exegesis and theology of Shia Islam” at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris)
Mehdi Azaiez
Professeur d’islamologie à l’Université catholique de Louvain
Paolo Branca
Professeur associé d’études arabes et islamiques
Malek Chaïeb
Research fellow at CECR
Valentino Cottini
Professor of Bible and Koran at PISAI, Director of the journal Islamochristiana
Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Antonio Cuciniello
Chercheur en histoire des pays islamiques
Issa Diab
Professor of Semitic Studies
Elizaveta Dorogova
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Amir Dziri
Professeur en islamologie, Directeur du centre suisse “Islam et société”
Mohammad Haghani Fazl
Postdoctoral fellow at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Professor of Quranic exegesis
Geneviève Gobillot
Professor Emeritus, Specialisation in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin
René-Vincent Du Grandlaunay
Directeur de la bibliothèque de l’Idéo
Karim Ifrak
Ingénieur d’études au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.
Mariangela Laviano
Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome) and Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Lateran University (PUL, Rome)
David Marshall
Researcher in Qur’anic Studies, Guest Editor for Islamochristiana (PISAI)
Hamideh Mohagheghi
Research Assistant in Exegesis of the Koran and Violence in the Holy Scriptures – Universität Paderborn
Adnane Mokrani
Professeur agrégé à l’Université pontificale grégorienne (Rome), chercheur membre de la Fondation Jean XXIII pour les études religieuses (FSCIRE)
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Professor
Nadia Saad
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Youssouf Sangare
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization and the Arab World, University of Clermont Auvergne
Tobias Specker
Professeur adjoint pour la “Théologie catholique à la lumière de l’Islam” à Francfort
Klaus von Stosch
Professor of catholic theology
Nayla Tabbara
President of the Adyan Foundation, Professor of Religious Sciences and Islamic Studies
Christian Troll
Honorary Professor of theology
Ida Zilio-Grandi
Professor of Arabic language and litterature – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IT
videos
‘Inimitable’ Koran ?
Interview with Pr. Tobias Specker, professor of Catholic Theology in the light of Islam at Sankt Georgen Graduate school of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt, Germany, about his book : Gottes Wort und mens...
videos
New researches on the Qur’an and the origins of islam (French)
Speaker : Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi Moderator : P. Diego Sarrió Cucarella Introduction : P. Laurent Basanese S.J. Conference organized by the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, 28 February 2019
article
The Lies of Abraham
Original title : “Le menzogne di Abramo” Even Abraham, the first of Israel’s patriarchs and one of Islam’s prophets, lied. The peculiar account of his lie, concerning his wife presen...
videos
From Apology to Dialogue with Others in Shia Islamic Studies: The Case of Muhammad Jawad al-Balaghi
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological axis Speaker: Mohammad Zaraket, teacher at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon
article
The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h./18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanjī
Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large parts of the Islamic world. Indeed, empha...
videos
Unity of God and unity in God – a possible perspective and way of dialogue between the believers?
A shῑ‘ῑ perspective of dialogue developed by D. Mohammad Ali Shomali. Talking about unity between believers and calling them to act upon it is not new in Islam. The Qur’ān and the early history of Islam esp...
publication
Religion and Territories (Proceedings of the international colloquium organised by the Centre for the Study and Interpretation of Religious Fact, USJ, Beyrouth)
article
Fadl Allāh. The concept of “grace” in the Quran, similarity and contrast with the Bible
Abstract The question from which this article starts is the word “grace”. Are there in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition one or more concepts to be compared with the theological concept of grace in the Chris...
article
Fana’ al-Nar Within Early Kalam and Mysticism. An Analysis Covering the Eighth and Ninth Centuries.
First lines from the introduction “The quaestionis status is whether there will be a time in the near future when the Islamic version of hell (jahannam) will be empty or almost empty. This eschatologi...
publication
Violence in the Holy Scriptures of Islam and Christianity
article
Mercy, a new opportunity for dialogue between Muslims and Christians
Original title : La Misericordia, nueva oportunidad para el diálogo entre musulmanes y cristianos Abstract The common concept of mercy needs a clarification in its meaning for Christians and Muslims. This a...
publication
The Qur’anic motif of the falsification of the Scriptures by the Jews and Christians