Pluriel

University platform for research on Islam

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Catholic
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Federation
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Wasim Salman

Born in 1976 in Damascus, Wasim Salman is the president of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, where he has been a professor of contemporary Arab-Islamic thought since 2016. A Syrian-Italian, he is a member of the editorial board of Islamochristiana and the research platform Pluriel on Islam in Europe and Lebanon. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University (2009) and in Arabic philosophy from the University of Tor Vergata (2016), and has taught Catholic theology in Italy. He is the author of “Political Islam and the Challenges of Interpretation. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd” (Mimesis, 2017) and “Gadamer e I teologi” (UUP, 2012).

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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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Pontificia Università Gregoriana - Italy

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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