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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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Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī: An Historical Contextualization Between Life and Works
- Antonio Cuciniello
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī, 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 Islamic lite...
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The Quran of Historians
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
How is historical research on the Quran received in the Muslim world? What do we know about the historical figure of Muhammad? Interview with Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, co-director of the “Coran of ...
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Protestantism and Islam
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
How did Martin Luther and John Calvin view Islam? How have Protestant theologians contributed to research on Islam? Pierre-Olivier Léchot, professor of modern history at the Protestant Institute of...
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Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps
- Adnane Mokrani
The article traces the key concepts and methodological steps that make an Islamic theology of nonviolence plausible. It offers the tools for a critical reading of classical texts, “sacred” history,...
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Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean
- Alessandro Ferrari
- Amin Elias
How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean to understand the diversity of legal...
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Corresponding across Religious Borders: The Letter of al-Qūṭī
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Summary : This article provides an introduction to the Letter of al-Qūṭī, a short anti-Islamic polemic in Arabic purportedly written by an unknown priest active in Toledo in the mid-1...
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Lavigerie and Islam, an ambiguous legacy
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that their founder’s legacy “was not without ambiguity”...
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Blessed Ramon Llull: the character and his relationship with Islam
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
The PISAI is pleased to announce the publication of the book Il beato Raimondo Lullo: il personaggio e il suo rapporto con l’Islam (Roma 2021), edited by Professor Diego Sarrió Cucarella, MAf...