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
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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