University platform for research on Islam
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the Federation
of European
Catholic
Universities
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the International
Federation
of Catholic
Universities
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Professor Emeritus at PISAI, died in 2017
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Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim theologians on how the former view Islam and ...
videos
PISAI from Tunis to Rome 1964-2014
Lecture given at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, 22 January 2015.
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The emergence of the Nostra Ætate Declaration at Vatican Council II
“The text of the Declaration on the Church’s Relations with Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) was undoubtedly one of the final surprises of the Second Vatican Council, because no one ha...
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Muslim morality, Islamic ethics, Šarī’a in situations
Original title : “Morale musulmane, déontologie islamique, Šarī‘a en situations” Sumary Does necessity make legal, in Islam, what is prohibited? It is to this question that this article...
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Massignon, Jesus and Mary, Ḥallāj and Fāṭima
Extract “This admission of the ‘Christian re-born’ that was then Louis Massignon says quite how decisive were, in his conversion of 1908, the crossed intercessions of Huysmans, Ḥa...
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Louis Massignon, Muhammad Hamidullah and his French translation of the Koran
First lines of the introduction “In 1959, in the luxurious collection of the French Book Club, appeared the first translation of the Koran into French made by a Muslim, Mr. Muhammad Hamidulla...
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Christians and Muslims: Similarities and Diversity
Publisher Overview Throughout the ages, the Qur’an, the “sacred book”, has often been presented in a polemical form vis-à-vis Jews and Christians, which has given rise to an initi...
