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Diego Sarrió Cucarella

Born in Spain, Diego Sarrió Cucarella was the president of the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome) from 2018 to 2024, where he teaches Arabic, Muslim theology, the Qur’an, and tafsīr (exegesis). He also teaches Islamic studies at the Pontifical Lateran University. He is the interim director of the scientific journal Islamochristiana, published by PISAI.

His research and publications focus on the intellectual history of Christian-Muslim relations and the theological perspectives bequeathed by this history to contemporary Christians and Muslims. Holding a degree in Arabic and Islamic studies from PISAI (canonical license), he earned a doctorate in theological and religious studies from Georgetown University with the thesis “The Mirror of the Other: The Splendid Responses of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī,” an Egyptian Muslim scholar of the 13th century.

A member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, better known as the “White Fathers,” Diego Sarrió Cucarella has lived in Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia, where he directed the Library of Religious Sciences and was part of the Christian-Islamic Research Group. He is also a consultor at the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue of the Vatican.

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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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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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