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Rémi Caucanas
Former director of the Institut Catholique de la Méditerranée (ICM, Marseille), Rémi Caucanas is an associate researcher at the Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur le Monde Arabo-Musulman (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence) and the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome). He taught at Tangaza University College (TUC, Nairobi) from 2018 to 2021. He now lives in Ottawa where he teaches the history of Muslim-Christian relations at Saint Paul University.
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue : the approach of the White Fathers
- Rémi Caucanas
Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known as the White Fathers, has contributed to the em...
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Jacques Lanfry. A lion, the Church and Islam
- Rémi Caucanas
Jacques Lanfry (1910-2000) joined the White Fathers in 1933 and is one of the missionary figures whose commitment illustrates that of the Catholic Church in favour of a dialogue with Muslims. Passi...
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MIDÉO No. 37: Recitation in the early centuries of Islam
- Emmanuel Pisani
The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held in Cairo in October 2020 on reciting in the early Isl...
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Luther and Mohammed. Western European Protestantism and Islam (16th-18th centuries)
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
Publisher’s presentation Autumn 1611: while visiting France, a young Dutch Protestant student refines his knowledge of Arabic with a Muslim of Castilian origin he met in the Paris region. Tho...
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Original Sin and the Qur’an
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the...
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The 19th century as a new ‘axial era’. Some epistemological aspects of the authority crisis
- Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2...
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue : the approach of the White Fathers
- Rémi Caucanas
Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known as the White Fathers, has contributed to the em...
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The essentials of Islam
- Jamel Khermimoun
Today, Islam in Europe and the West arouses curiosity, mistrust and questions. This book summarises the foundations of this religion, its history, its currents and the challenges it faces today, in...
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Muslim as ‘Other’ in former Yugoslavia
- Cédomir Nestorovic
Balkan Islam, and in particular that of the former Yugoslavia, is plural because of its ethnic diversity. However, the collective perception does not see it that way, due to a double homogenisation...
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Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī: An Historical Contextualization Between Life and Works
- Antonio Cuciniello
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī (1445-1505), as a religious scholar of the Egyptian Mamluk era, one of the most prominent scholars of the pre-modern Islamic world, is the most prolific author in all of ...