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Explore the work of the Pluriel network: scholarly articles, books and recorded lectures, from the most recent to the oldest.
In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a…
On Wednesday 20 May 2026, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) hosted in Cairo a lecture by Brother Adrien Candiard, Dominican and Islamologist,…
Article by Timo Güzelmansur published under the title Kenneth Cragg und das Ereignis des Koran on the theological portal feinschwarz.net (12 June 2026, open…
The annual report of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), the social apostolate body of the Society of Jesus in Spain, written by Josep (Pep)…
What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on…
Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of…
Published in May 2026 by PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome), this collection brings together the essays of Rémi Caucanas on…
Delivered on 21 May 2026 at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, this lecture opens the series of conferences…
In this book published by TRENDS Research & Advisory (Abu Dhabi, May 2026), Wael Saleh, a member of Pluriel‘s coordination committee, examines the place…
At the invitation of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome) and Georgetown University, Ahmet Alibašić, professor of Islamic civilization at the…
Faced with contemporary religious diversity, how can Christian theology make sense of the place that other religions occupy in God’s design? Michel Younès examines…
Because every theology is culturally situated, Christian theology is inevitably multicultural. Yet one step remains to be taken: to become intercultural. Crossing languages, contexts,…
Article by Timo Güzelmansur published under the title Glocken und Muezzin im Einklang. Der Dialog mit dem Islam als geistliche Verantwortung in Herder Korrespondenz…
In 2025-2026, we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and of the declaration Nostra aetate (28 October 1965). One century earlier, in October…
On Tuesday 10 February 2026 in Cordoba, Michel Younès, general coordinator of Pluriel and dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University…
This article offers a discursive analysis of two contemporary Islamist texts that present violence not as a deviation from religious normativity, but as its…
Publication date: April 16, 2026. Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form…
Published in De Gruyter’s series “Islam: Thought, Culture, and Society” (vol. 16, 2026), this collective volume is edited by Mohammad Gharaibeh and Bacem Dziri…
In the journal La Clé des Langues (ENS de Lyon, March 2026), Khalid El Khadiri, a PhD candidate in the history and sociology of…
In this article published in the journal Religions 17/3 (2026), Alessandro Ferrari offers a comprehensive analysis of Italy’s regime for governing religious diversity, at…
On 19 February 2026, in the Maurice Borrmans Library of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, Florence Javel, who holds…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February…
An opening presentation of the stakes of the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from…
Published as Das Ereignis des Koran. Der Islam in seiner Schrift (Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2026), this volume is the first German translation of…
In this article published in CIBEDO-Beiträge zum Gespräch zwischen Christen und Muslimen 1/2026 (pp. 2-8), Michaela Quast-Neulinger, Professor of Fundamental Theology at the University…
AbstractPublic debate on Muslims in Switzerland is characterized to a significant degree by issues of problematisation and securitisation. In this debate, imams have become…
The volume dedicated to the conference “Islam and Fraternity”, held in Abu Dhabi from February 4 to 7, 2024, under the auspices of the PLURIEL…
Report of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), prepared by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, offering a statistical portrait of the immigrant-origin population in Spain. It…
Report of the ECCA Social Foundation, prepared by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, on the immigrant-origin population in the Canary Islands, the main gateway of…
In the collective volume Gobernar la desorganización global (ed. Alfonso Chaves-Montero, Dykinson, 2026), José Luis Llaquet de Entrambasaguas, professor of state ecclesiastical law at…
Published as Theologie der Gewalt. Eine Analyse ausgewählter Suren aus dem Koran (Münster: Waxmann, 2026), this book by Hamideh Mohagheghi is the published version…
Published as Professionalising Muslim Spiritual Care in Plural Societies. Swiss and Bosnian Experiences (SZIG/CSIS-Studies 15, December 2025), this volume is the outcome of a…
Presented on 10 November 2025 at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, the volume Schede per conoscere l'Islam (“Factsheets…
The thought of Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) has profoundly shaped a wide range of religio-political movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to Salafi-jihadists, radicalizing political Islam…
Long before October 7, 2023—and even more so since—certain politicized strands of Judaism and Islam have been creating conditions that legitimize, escalate, and sacralize…
How can we live in a climate of mistrust, trapped in identity-based withdrawal, and paralyzed by an uncertain future? On what basis can we…
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the conciliar declaration Nostra aetate (28 October 1965), Roman A. Siebenrock, professor emeritus of dogmatic theology at the…
In this article published in the Jesuit journal Stimmen der Zeit 11/2025 (pp. 819-826), Tobias Specker offers a theological reflection on what he calls…
Presentation This chapter analyses the transformations of al-Azhar's position within state-society relations in Egypt, from the 2011 revolution to 2021. A centuries-old religious institution,…
Lecture given by Professor Dominique Avon on October 13, 2025, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI).
Co-edited by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and John Tolan As Islam’s founding prophet, Muhammad stands among history’s most transformative figures, shaping both East and West.…
Published in October 2025 in the SZIG/CSIS-Studies series (no. 14) of the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society at the University of Fribourg, this…
In the journal Intus-Legere Historia (2025), Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Granada, and Laura Mijares…
In the journal Intus-Legere Historia (2025), Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Granada, analyses the press…
Abstract Egypt and Tunisia share many historical, cultural and political commonalities, yet their state-religion arrangements differ markedly, particularly regarding the scope of religious reference…
A chapter by Antonio Angelucci in Human Rights, Religions and the United Nations Agenda 2030 (A. Angelucci, R. Bottoni, G. Camilleri, A. Cupri eds.,…
Abstract Developed within the multilevel system of legal sources, the category of "religious minority" takes on particular significance within the European Union, where a…
Edited by Zishan Ghaffar (University of Paderborn) and Klaus von Stosch, professor of systematic theology at the University of Bonn and member of the…
In this article published in the journal Proche-Orient Chrétien 75/1 (2025), Michel Younès and Roula Talhouk, both members of Pluriel’s coordination committee, offer a…
Published in 2025 by Brill in the Handbook of Oriental Studies series, Contemporary Moroccan Thought: On Philosophy, Theology, Society, and Culture is a collective…
Edited by Antonio Angelucci, Flavia Cortelezzi and Alessandro Cupri (Ledizioni, 2025), this volume offers a theoretical and methodological framework for religious tourism, a continuously…
Translated by Jason Welle, this book (Treatises on the Sufi Way, Islamic Texts Society, 2025) offers an English translation of five treatises by Abū…
In this article published in the journal Studia Islamica 120/1 (Brill, 2025, pp. 109-130), Dominique Avon and Othman El Kachtoul study a fatwā issued…
In an article published in the Italian journal Coscienza e Libertà (no. 69, 2025), Antonio Angelucci, associate professor of law and religion at the…
Abstract The public-order clause, which safeguards the fundamental principles of the legal order, is today tested by the circulation of family models rooted in…
Abstract How did Christian theology, in turn, help shape the Muslim doctrine of divine oneness? Fr Romain Louge shows how the first Muslim theologians,…
Commissioned by the Swiss Confederation’s Service for Combating Racism (SLR), this study (SZIG/CSIS-Studies 12, 2025) is the first comprehensive baseline survey of anti-Muslim racism…
In this article published on February 26, 2025, on The Conversation, Ali Mostfa analyzes the evolution of the Forum of Islam in France (Forif),…
Published in late 2024, “The Return of the Turbans: Al-Azhar’s Presence in Egyptian Society” is the culmination of Mohamad Gamal Ali’s master’s thesis in…
Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor…
In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers…
Rome. In a conference given on November 28, 2024, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Professor Dominique Avon from the École…
Encounters reveal the urgency of dialogue and the difficult quest for truth. This truth sometimes appears unique but elusive, especially during Islamic-Christian encounters. What…
An article by Anja Zalta published in the journal Poligrafi (vol. 30, no. 119/120, 2025, open access).The author examines how digital platforms and social-media…
An article by Anja Zalta published in Intellectual Discourse (vol. 33, special issue, 2025).The author analyses the rise of Islamophobia in the Balkans, particularly…
A chapter by Marinko Banjac and Anja Zalta in The Enduring Legacy of the Habsburg Islam Policy: Muslim Communities in Central and Southeast Europe…
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l'esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh…
What is the Islamic doctrine of blasphemy, insult to God, religion and the Prophet? What about the prohibition of figurative representation of Muhammad? Can…
The REMiMESo project, led by Ilaria Valenzi and supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, explores the situation of religious minorities in five…
On the two Mediterranean shores, women’s agency is articulated by new social and legal actors who face the religious factor both as an asset…
Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large…
Professors Shady Nasser from Harvard and Gabriel Reynolds from the University of Notre Dame explore the history of the revelation and compilation of the…
In Italy, the migratory phenomenon has also had an impact on the school system, becoming an interesting potential field for intercultural and inter-religious encounters.…
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, this inaugural conference presents a new chair entitled "Theologies in Dialogue" at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic…
On 2 October 2024, at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), Julio L. Martínez, s.j., professor of moral theology, delivered this lecture on the theological…
Il governo della libertà religiosa in Spagna (Milan: Ledizioni, 2024), by Antonio Angelucci, examines the governance of religious freedom in Spain through the first…
“In a troubled international context where Islam is sometimes defined as an ideological marker of many conflicts, academic research drawing on history, sociology, and…
This communication challenges traditional approaches to ethnoreligious diversity in the Middle East, arguing that the focus on "protecting minority rights" is inadequate. It demonstrates…
From the 8th century onwards, the first theological writings were composed in Arabic, either in Christian communities or in Muslim communities. This communication aims,…
Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulamī (London: I.B. Tauris, 2024), by Jason Welle, is devoted to al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021), a…
The article "In search of a comparative Christian social thought" aims to propose a methodology for developing a comparative Christian social thought. To do…
The aim of the article is to explore the relationship between cosmo-anthropogony and Imamology in Shi'ism through its earliest sources in the corpus of…
Honor is a theme of reflection present in Islam, both in its sources and in its "legal", moral, and spiritual reflection. The Quran operates…
In this chapter, the author sheds light on the main sociological features and academic debates on the issue of Salafism in Europe. Through a…
Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a quintessentially Catholic nation,…
The relationship between "reason and faith" or "science and religion" is articulated in Islam in a particular way by the fact that the Koran…
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed…
Published in Publié dans Christian Perspectives on Transforming Interreligious Encounter “Christian Perspectives on Transforming Interreligious Encounter” underscores the urgency of interreligious dialogue for contemporary…
In this video, Gabriel Said Reynolds discusses the presentation of Jesus in the Qur'an and how it is interpreted and rendered in English by…
Islam has evolved in form over recent decades in Western European countries, where its lack of institutionalization and official representation allow different ideological trends,…
In September 2012, the video “The Innocence of Muslims” sparked outrage and demonstrations in the Middle East by depicting an attack against Copts by…
“We cannot escape, especially today, the provocation that comes from interreligious encounter. The future of humanity is linked to the ability to embrace differences.”
Twenty years ago, the first pilot projects of Islamic religious education (IRE) in public schools in Switzerland caused a stir in some parts of…
It is obviously not possible to examine the entire Arab literary production: we will therefore start from the many examples of pre-Islamic verses to…
“How can we establish an objective, rigorous, and detached study of Islam in the face of the excesses generated by its politicization? It is…
The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research…
The title of this issue, “Maurice Borrmans and Mohamed Talbi: From Friendship to Rupture,” was suggested to us by a collection of articles that…
Panelists David Marshall, University of Bern (Moderator), Guest Editor of Islamochristiana Martin Accad, Arab Baptist Theological Seminary Daniel Brown, ISRME Diego Sarrio Cucarella, PISAI…
Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue,…
Dominique Avon, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, traces the evolution of the discourse of the ulama of al-Azhar on…
This article presents the innovative endeavor by Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd in interpreting the Qurʾān through a humanistic lens. Their…
At the opening of the fourth congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam Pluriel, which celebrates its tenth anniversary, Michel Younès expressed…
“In the republican context, freedom of expression involves all the players in society and mobilises a wide range of intellectual resources. What then are…
Edited by Michel Younès, Ali Mostfa and Roula Talhouk “In a contemporary context marked by a growing tendency to lock oneself into oppositional logics,…
Islam in the digital age is becoming an inescapable reality in the lives of believers, thus introducing a new modality in the understanding of…
Abstract: “A Reading of Ibn ‘Arabī in the Light of the Theology of Religions”. Ibn ‘Arabī proposes a universal religion which encompasses all religions but…
In France, as in other European countries, Muslim associations offer charitable services including the distribution of food parcels to low-income families, outreach to the…
"The relationship between the political and religious fields in Morocco is generally based on tactical choices and pragmatic issues, often far from simple ideological…
Abstract How did the concept of "person", central to Trinitarian theology, find its words in the emerging Arabic language? In this chapter, Fr Romain…
Originally published as ¿Islamofobia en las relaciones laborales? Reciente jurisprudencia acerca de la simbología musulmana en la empresa privada in the journal Laborum (no.…
For the fiftieth anniversary of the journal Islamochristiana, published by PISAI and devoted to relations between Christians and Muslims, Valentino Cottini, Islamologist and former…
“It is often said: “”no clergy in Islam””. In the absence of a hierarchical and universal magisterial authority, what are the instances and figures…
Speech by Wael Saleh 27 October, 2023, webinar "The challenges of universal fraternity" Translation Introduction The concept of human brotherhood is crystallized in the…
Speech by Franziska Honsowitz-Friessnigg Webinar, 27 October 2023, "The challenges of human fraternity" Transcription Yeah, thank you so much. And good afternoon from Vienna.…
Speech by Laurent Basanese Webinar, 27 October 2023 "The challenges of universal fraternity". Transcription Hello everyone, During this webinar and in preparation for the…
"The current war waged by Russia against Ukraine once again sheds light on the ambivalent role of religion in violent conflicts, and especially the…
“PISAI is pleased to announce the publication of Islamochristiana 48 (dated 2022), an issue devoted to the theme “The theological engagement of Christians with…
"This article briefly presents what the science of letters and alchemy meant for Ibn ʿArabī and explains why this Sufi mystic attributes the highest…
In this paper, we investigate framing in the case of an imam in Switzerland. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 175 articles from…
By Federico Biasca and Guillaume Chatagny "This article presents, describes, and analyses an event for breaking the fast organized in the public sphere by a…
“This volume takes us back to the roots of Christianity and exemplifies the significance of Syriac Theology for our time. Bringing together articles by…
“This book retraces the itinerary of Michel Younès in which he shows that otherness is part of identity. In a context where cultural and…
The book confronts us with two opposing possibilities facing contemporary Arab society, namely the caliphate and secularism. While the former refers to the Islamic…
Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World
"This article first provides an overall picture of Jesus in the Qur’anic Text, amongst the stories of the other prophets, his prophetic role during…
"This article addresses mainly two widespread prejudices. The first claims that democracy flourishes only in a Christian culture, the second wants to keep religion…
“Based on original evidence from 279 Muslim prisoners and 79 prison officers, we explore how Muslims come to be incarcerated, how the practice of…
Ali Mostfa, professor of linguistics and discourse analysis at the Catholic University of Lyon, analyses the semantic shifts about the notion of religious radicalism,…
In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be…
"A cursory reading of Rūmī’s Maṯnawī suggests that the author follows the dominant Qur’ānic interpretation denying Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion. Closer analysis demonstrates, however, that…
How did the preparatory work for the Egyptian constitutions discuss issues of freedom of religion and belief? « The term “divinely revealed religions” is…
Publisher’s presentation The logic of suspicion has become the compass of the French state. Since 2015 and the attacks of January and November, the…
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…
The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held…
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…
Conference given in Beirut on Tuesday 24 May 2022 during the Pluriel congress on the theme "Islam and Otherness".
Title of the lecture : "Re-problematizing the Religious Majority-Minority Dialectics in Post-Arab Spring Morocco: Between Subalternity and Digital Disobedience" Given the debate currently prevailing…
Etymologically, the noun âkhar from the verb âkhara, rather draws the action of postponing, أَخَّرَ العَمَلَ, or temporarily deprogramming an action. al-âkhar on some…
The purpose of the proposed paper is to question the division of the world into dār al-islām (land of Islam) and dār al-ḥarb (land…
In the era of the continuous call for the adoption of citizenship and living together (al Azhar declaration March 2017) and human brotherhood and…
Title of the lecture : 'The «Us» Against the «Others», the Populist Political Style of the Islamist party the PJD' How do religious actors…
In post 9/11, India was increasingly looked upon as successful story of integration of 3rd largest Muslim community in the world. While the rise…
Friar Emmanuel Pisani, Director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo 3rd International Congress of the PLURIEL network, from 23 to 27 May…
A shῑ‘ῑ perspective of dialogue developed by D. Mohammad Ali Shomali. Talking about unity between believers and calling them to act upon it is…
Full lecture title : 'The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse: an intra-religious otherness?' In what ways do non-Brother Muslims (especially secular,…
In his book Soi-même comme un autre (Seuil 1990), the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) builds his reflection on this 'as' which, according to…
Article by Paolo Gonzaga published in English under the title Islamic Perceptions of the Pandemic: Between Divine Decree and Political Plot in the journal…
One of the key words in Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli tutti on fraternity and social friendship is « dream ». The Pope opens with…
The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to…
This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and…
Title of the lecture : 'Embracing the Other: Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri‘s approach to Human Rights and Democracy' In the Western world, the Pakistani politician and…
Title of the lecture : 'Institutionalized Islam in Personal Status Laws and Challenged Position of Women as ‘the Other’' In most of the Muslim-majority…
Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known…
The "radical evil" that tore Europe apart in the 20th century was totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt). Today, this evil has been reincarnated into a barbaric…
Today, Islam in Europe and the West arouses curiosity, mistrust and questions. This book summarises the foundations of this religion, its history, its currents…
Full title of the conference: "Islamists and International Relations. What worldview? What diplomatic practices? Emergence, evolution and amendment of a culturalist and antagonistic theory…
Balkan Islam, and in particular that of the former Yugoslavia, is plural because of its ethnic diversity. However, the collective perception does not see…
This book, which focuses on the situation before 2019, provides keys to explaining the origins of the popular protest movement, the hirak. It shows…
This study addresses the question of how to view and understand religious otherness from a Muslim perspective, in the light of one of its…
Like many countries, French society is facing the rise of violent radicalisation phenomena with a politico-religious referential. From the factors of jihadist commitment to…
Already present since the colonisation process, the question of Islam within the French army has reappeared strongly with the settling down of the populations…
This talk addresses the issue of Islam and otherness from the perspective of Christians in the Middle East. At the heart of the multiple…
How is historical research on the Qur'an received in the Muslim world? What do we know about the historical figure of Muhammad? Interview with…
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,…
The concept of "citizenship" in the Al-Azhar discourse, problems and contradictions Al-Azhar Foundation announces on various occasions its full adoption of the concept of…
"At the Pluriel conference on “Islam and Otherness” I will argue the Qur’an’s emphasis on divine freedom provides an opening for inclusivism. The Qur’an…
3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network, on the theme "Islam and Otherness", from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Beirut. In partnership with…
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social…
The volume, published in the series “Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations” (No. 14), brings together contributions from ten international scholars on the Document on Human…
Lecture given at the 3rd International Congress of Pluriel on the theme "Islam and Otherness", on 24 May 2022, at Saint Joseph University in…
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…
The article traces the key concepts and methodological steps that make an Islamic theology of nonviolence plausible. It offers the tools for a critical…
Abstract : The essay emphasizes cultural specificities, starting with the terminology currently used to describe sustainability, and investigates the lack of homogeneity of the…
How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the…
In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that…
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…
Summary: The interest of discourse analysis is to highlight the articulations of texts and social locations (Maingueneau, 2012). Questioning the functioning of these formations…
Introduction : I would like to seize the opportunity of my first participation to the Mediterranean website to raise the issue of radicalisation as…
Online conference organised by Trends Research and Advisory, on the theme The Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World: Signs of Decline and Strategies to…
Volume 26 of the journak Poligrafi, edited by Anja Zalta, Tahir Abbas, and Umut Azak Abstract : The study of ethnic minorities is of…
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…
In the collective volume Un Moyen-Orient ordinaire (eds. Thierry Boissière and Yoann Morvan, Diacritiques Éditions, 2022), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS),…
Edited by Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Granada, this volume (Dámqrata, an Arabic coinage for…
Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter :…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the…
Conference "Religious Authority in Islam", organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of…
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference "Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam,…
Edited by : Rachad Antonius and Normand Baillargeon In recent years, there has been much debate in civil society and universities about freedom of…
This article explores the phenomena of violence and jihad in three parts: their emergence and trajectory in the Qur’anic text, their meanings, and their entanglement with the religious…
This short biography of Blessed Charles De Foucauld highlights the salient points of his spirituality and pastoral work. The author opens his essay with…
Interview with Pr. Tobias Specker, professor of Catholic Theology in the light of Islam at Sankt Georgen Graduate school of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt,…
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…
God’s Word is at the centre of both the Christian and Islamic faiths. Revelation and language are thus closely related in both religions. Tobias…
The theme of iǧtihād and taqlīd, by pointing to the notional antagonism between independent reasoning on the one hand and submission to the argument of…
Collaboration between Canadian and French researchers in the framework of the Centre Jacques Cartier talks, promoting partnerships between the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Quebec.
It was in 2006 that the secular idea (al-‘almâniyya), which the master Boutros al-Bustanî forged in 1861 in his journal Nafîr Sûriyâ, took a…
This volume gathers the contributions from the forums organised by the Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University on the religions…
Author : Maurice de Fenoyl, sj Resource related to the group « Islam and society in contemporary Spain » Résumé : This compilation of Sufi texts…
Western modernity has engaged the religious question, over the past thirty years in processes that show an increased interaction between religiosity, visibility and urban…
The notion of khatm al-nubuwwa, as the end of prophethood, has emerged as a fundamental theological doctrine in Islam. From the death of Muḥammad…
On the eve of the first centenary of the proclamation of the State of Greater Lebanon (September 1, 1920), this intervention proposes to expose…
The Why and How of a New Theology of Religion in Islam The question of salvation The perception of the other and the perception…
Salim Daccache, Rector of Saint Joseph University since 2012. Doctor of Letters and Philosophy and in Educational Sciences. Argument: How does Lebanese Islam look at…
Proceedings of the conference organised by the Cathoilic University of Milan on October 9th, 2019. Abstract : Religions have regained a considerable role in…
Argument: How did Muslims represent the other? Here is a questioning overloaded with history, memory and narrative Islamic identity difficult to decode. Fourteen long…
Following the lecture: "The question of Otherness in Classical Islam" given by Raja SAKRANI, three members of the scientific committee of the PLURIEL network…
Author : Francisco de Borja Medina Rojas Resource related to the group "Islam and society in contemporary Spain" Abstract : Two cultures, the Islamic…
In Switzerland, specific issues related to Muslims have recently emerged in public debates. In addition to the question of radicalization, Muslim migrant populations are…
As the public discourse on Islam is strongly influenced by the issue of radicalisation, the topic of prevention is gaining in importance and legitimacy.…
Mary – Bridge Figure between Christianity and Islam An entire sura bears her name. She is the only woman the Koran mentions by name…
Presentation: The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated…
Abstract “Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men; he is God’s messenger and the Seal of the Prophets: God knows…
Beginning with the Document on Human Brotherhood, signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyib on 5…
The figure of ḏhimmī is certainly the most emblematic juristic figure in the history of Islamic law. Strangely, it also has the juristic status of being…
Abstract As the Other is indispensable for the construction of self-identity and collective identity, the question of the Other is viscerally linked not only…
Original tile : ‘Géographie d’une terre interdite, le corps des femmes : l’image des femmes dans les fatwas hanbalites d’ouvrages francophones’ This work aims…
Original title: Studenti musulmani a scuola What questions do children and young people, especially the ‘second generation’, who profess the Islamic religion pose to…
Abstract This article contributes to the study of Christian Arabic literature by providing an introduction and English translation of the treatise entitled Kayfiyyat idrāk…
In the journal Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), offers an anthropological analysis of the ziyāra, the pious…
Original Title : La vocation civilisationnelle de l’islam dans l’oeuvre de Malek Bennabi This is an injunction for Muslim society to make history. Rather…
More and more Christians are questioning the reality of Islam and the place of a religion that appeared after the advent of Christ, confessed…
Original title : Malattia, morte e cura. I musulmani e l’emergenza sanitaria The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has also had a strong impact…
Founded in 1967 in the wake of the Vatican Council II at the request of the missionary congregations and of Rome, by Fathers Jean…
Synthesis of the second International Congrès of PLURIEL in Rome, by Laurent BASANÈSE, director of the Gregorian Center for Inter-religious Studies
Article by Paolo Gonzaga published under the title Political Islam: from Reformism to Jihadism in the journal Annali di Scienze Religiose (vol. 13, 2020),…
Original title : La Misericordia, nueva oportunidad para el diálogo entre musulmanes y cristianos Abstract The common concept of mercy needs a clarification in…
Islamic reformism is an increasingly popular concept in Europe. However, it refers to distinct currents of thought. Baptiste Brodard proposes to explore a particular…
Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the theme "Authority and regulation in Islam" of the Centre for the…
This volume 35 is made up of a dossier gathering most of the papers presented at the conference held in April 2018 at the…
On the 24th of July 2018, the Australian Intercultural Society (AIS) hosted a conversation with Professor Anwar Alam of the Policy Perspectives Foundation from…
Original title : Invertebrate Islam in Catalonia: a problematic anchor Abstract In this paper I study the presence of Islam in the history and…
Original title : "Circoncisione e cittadinanza europea" Abstract Circumcision is a practice that mainly conforms to Jewish and Muslim religious identities. However, some documents…
“Should Islam be reformed today? “Is a simple question in appearance, but complex in reality, which often comes up in view of the many…
A dedicated Islamic environmental theology is still a recent academic phenomenon. How can a contemporary environmental ethic be defined, which environmental theological approaches can…
What resources are religions endowed with to educate for a more fraternal humanity? To respond to this question, a study day was organised on…
Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim…
La gestion démocratique du pluralisme religieux et culturel Le Liban en perspective arabe et comparée Collectif - Antoine Messara (dir.) L’ouvrage qui vient de…
Original title : "Les études de la radicalisation menant à la violence au nom de l’islam : cartographier les acteurs théoriques pour mieux comprendre…
Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the theme “Authority and regulation in Islam” of the Centre for the Study of…
Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the subject "Authority and regulation in Islam" of the Center for the…
Presentation of the research group on "Authority and Regulation in Islam" of the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies (CECR, UCLy) with Michel Younès,…
After its first international congress in Lyon from 6 to 9 September 2016 on the theme “Islam in the Plural: Faith, Thought, Society”[1], the…
Abstract The object of the essay is prophecy in the Qur’ān, through the stories of the prophets and the language they use. Specifically, the…
Published in 2020 by Presses universitaires de Rennes, La liberté de conscience. Histoire d’une notion et d’un droit is the landmark work of Dominique…
Thom Sicking, avec la collaboration de Jocelyne Gérard Adjizian, Nada Badaro Saliba et Rita Zaarour. Ouvrage publié dans le cadre du groupe de recherche…
Originally published as Transparencia e Islam en España: indicadores de transparencia en los portales web institucionales de los musulmanes in the collective volume La…
In a thematic issue of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (Brill, 2020) that she co-edited, Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at…
Edited by Yohei Kondo and Angeliki Ziaka, this thirteenth volume of the Studies on Ibadism and Oman series (Georg Olms Verlag, 2020) explores Ibadi…
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Original title : "El marco jurídico de los centros de culto en Cataluña: 10 años de expectativas" Abstract Ten years ago the Law of…
On the occasion of the 800th anniversary (1219-2019) of the meeting between Francis of Assisi and the Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil, this volume aims to…
Edited by Anne-Laure Zwilling This unique book, bringing together nearly 80 sociologists, ethnologists, anthropologists, historian, wants to allow a better knowledge of the religious…
This volume, which is one of the initiatives promoted by the Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue Office of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, aims to illustrate…
The canonization of Ḥadīṯ has not been without theological conflicts: between the Qurʾānic scholars, the traditionalists, and the rationalists, the question raised is always…
Original title : La Teoría de la Inclusión/Moderación como puerta hacia el Populismo Islámico: El caso de los Hermanos Musulmanes (Egipto, Palestina, Jordania y…
The publication of the Series Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations has been restarted. “The Series Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations” started in 1999. Its purpose is…
Das Thema „Religion und Macht“ ist umfangreicher als die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der Religion zum Staat und zu demokratischen Strukturen. Im Namen Gottes…
Issue number 44 of Islamochristiana is entirely dedicated to Maurice Borrmans, MAfr, who, together with the PISAI staff, founded the journal in 1975 and…
How to approach the different facets of the religious when it arises in the field of the enterprise? What role can the common law…
Publication of the proceedings of the first congress of PLURIEL held from 6 to 9 September 2016 at the Catholic University of Lyon. Edited…
Original title : «Perspectives et opportunités de la finance islamique» Speaker : Prof. Cédomir Nestorovic Moderator : Laurent Basanese, S.J. Islam-Cristianesimo Forum 2017-2018, Event…
Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Ferrari Moderator: P. Laurent Basanese, S.J. Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, November 19th, 2018 Original title : "È diritto di libertà religiosa tra…
Original title : "Le Ḥalāl et sa diffusion dans les sociétés européennes" Speaker: Prof. Cédomir Nestorovic Moderator: P. Laurent Basanese, S.J. Pontificia Universita Gregoriana,…
Lecture given at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, on January 10, 2019
Original title : "Dall‘Islam alla Compagnia di Gesù: le due vite di Muhammed-Baldassarre Loyola Mandes SJ" Speaker: Dott. Federico Stella Moderator: Dott.ssa Irene Pedretti…
Speaker : Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi Moderator : P. Diego Sarrió Cucarella Introduction : P. Laurent Basanese S.J. Conference organized by the Pontifical Gregorian University…
Lecturers : Adnane Mokrani, P. Laurent Basanese S.J. Moderator: Valentino Cottini Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, April 8th, 2019 This conference marks the launch of the research group…
Proceedings of the international colloquium organised by the Centre for the Study and Interpretation of Religious Fact of the Faculty of Religious Sciences of…
Original title : "La evolución del terrorismo de Al Qaeda al ISIS: organización, metodología y perfiles" Abstract In the last 25 years international terrorism…
Retrospective on the Second International Congress of PLURIEL that has been held at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Roma, in June 2018, on the…
Great appreciation (Cum aestimatione) has been characteristic of the dialogue of the Catholic Chruch with Islam since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Nevertheless, essentials…
Presentation of the theme and the stakes of the 3rd international congress of PLURIEL. Planned to take place in Beirut in April 2020, it…
Original title : “Zwischen Dolorismus und Perfektionismus. Konturen einer politischen Theologie der Verwundbarkeit” Even after centuries of confrontation, the relationship between politics and religion…
Presentation : Salvation and Hell in Classical Islamic Thought uses classical Islamic sources to trace the development of Islamic eschatology during the formative centuries of…
Law that invokes divine appointment or other religious justifications is repeatedly the focus of general attention in Germany. Beyond the concrete religious legal provisions,…
Number 85-86 of the scientific journal “POLIGRAFI” about “Islam and Democracy” It is co-edited by Anja ZALTA, who gave a speech titled ““House of…
Ali MOSTFA is interviewed during the Conference "The Narrative of Islamic Violence in History. Creation, Artifice and Reality" at the University of Navarra in…
Originally published as El Islam invertebrado en Cataluña: un anclaje problemático in the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (no.…
Originally published as El marco jurídico de los centros de culto en Cataluña: 10 años de expectativas in the journal Derecho y religión (no.…
Since antiquity, religious violence based on political motives has been and remains a common practice: the atrocities committed by the Roman Empire against the…
Original title : "La naissance du prophète Muhammad - Approche thématique et littéraire des textes traditionnels" Abstract Our approach of the texts surrounding the…
Original title : "Le terme kitab dans le Coran et dans une ancienne version arabe des Évangiles" According to A. T. Welch, the Koranic…
Original title : "Islam salafiste, despotisme et modernité d'après Abdel-Jawâd Yassine" The societies of the Middle East remain more marked than elsewhere by the…
Original title: "Fundamentalismo, extremismo, fanatismo y terrorismo religioso. una clarificación de los conceptos" Abstract In recent years, we have witnessed an increase in terrorist…
Alberto Priego, International Relations professor at Comillas Pontifical University, interviews John L. Esposito on the ocassion of his appointmet as Doctor Honoris Causa.
Conference by Anna HAGER at the second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME This intervention aims to address an issue that is at the…
Conference of Anja ZALTA during the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME. The syntagma "house of agreement" was coined by former Bosnian reisu-l-ulema…
Lecture by Jose-Luis LLAQUET at the second International Congress of PLURIEL in Rome. I recently studied the presence of contemporary Islam in Spain from…
Conference of Michaela NEULINGER during the second international Congress of PLURIEL in Rome. In contemporary times, the principle “citizenship” is defended as an inclusive…
Conference of Gianluca PAROLIN the Second PLURIEL International Congress in Rome. Nation-states have added a further level of complexity to the multiple dimensions of belonging: that…
Original title : "Il diritto di libertà religiosa: strumento di gestione del pluralismo cittadino sulle due rive del mediterraneo" Lecture by Alessandro FERRARI at…
Lecture by Wael SALEH, at the second International Congress of PLURIEL in Rome. As Syrian thinker Burhan Ghalioun [1] French historian Dominique Avon [2],…
Conference of Gonzalo VILLAGRAN, at the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME Abstract Recently, Afifi Al-Akiti and Joshua Horden proposed the development of…
Lecture by Ali MOSTFA at the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in Rome The experience of a Muslim born in France leads him to…
Conference of Marco DEMICHELIS, at the second international Congress of PLURIEL Abstract Since the nineteenth century, the dynamics of inter-religious conflict within the Arab…
Conference of Jaume FLAQUER at the second international Congress of PLURIEL in Rome The actual implementation of the right to Islamic religious education, despite being…
Lecture of Dirk ANSORGE, at the PLURIEL second international Congress in Rome Abstract It is well known that in Christianity – particularly in the…
Lecture by Emmanuel PISANI, during the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in Rome The concepts of wala and bara [loyalty/friendship – disloyalty/enmity] have led…
Lecture of Ghaleb BENCHEIKH, Chairman of the World Conference of Religions for Peace and president of the Fondation de l'islam de France Lecture given…
Introduction of Leïla Babès at the second international Congress of PLURIEL, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
Lecture by Hamadi REDISSI, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tunis, given on 26 June 2018 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in…
Rector of the Gregorian University / P. Nuno da Silva Gonçalves President of the PISAI / Valentino Cottini PLURIEL Coordinator / Michel Younès
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
Today, we can speak of a crisis within Islam. Based on a rigorist vision of the Qur’an and tradition, extremist speeches have been very…
Jesus is considered in Islam as one of the most important prophets, and in the Koran as a divine sign. Yet his place in…
Klaus von Stosch offers, among other things, an overview of the biblical, dogmatic and theological-historical foundations of the central question of the triune God.…
Can the upheavals in the Arab-Muslim world lead to an aggiornamento regulating the link between religion and politics and making it possible to live…
Does Islam belong to Europe? How should the West relate to Islam? Not only the West, but also Christian theology has difficulties with Islam.…
Original title : "El populismo islámico: una respuesta no occidental a la globalización" Abstract Globalisation’s excesses, the Muslim world’s hybrid regimes and the lack…
Original title : "Vivre ensemble avec des Musulmans en Europe. Dépasser la peur : un « exercice spirituel" In many European countries, the recent…
Original title : "Cattolici e musulmani in difesa dell’ambiente" In the encyclical Laudato si, Pope Francis addresses the greatest challenges facing humanity in astonishing…
Introduction This is certainly not the first time the Brotherhood has had to reinvent itself. A first re-founding of the Muslim Brotherhood took place…
Political repression in Egypt ravaged the Jama’at al Ikhwan al Muslimiin, the Muslim Brotherhood, formerly the strongest and most organized opposition group in the country.…
Original title : “Dietro la circoncisione. La sfida della cittadinanza e lo spazio di libertà religiosa in Europa” ‘The documents of the Parliamentary Assembly…
Published as Islam in movimento. Tra riformismo e jihadismo (Ananke Lab, 2018), this book by Paolo Gonzaga explores the contemporary currents of political Islam.…
Original title : "Ser musulmán en un colegio jesuita" Paper by Lea FIEDLER, under the direction of Gonzalo VILLAGRÁN Abstract This article presents the…
In this book, Prof. Villagran proposes to enter the debate on comparative theology, a trend proposed by the American theologian Frank Clooney, to show…
Original title : "Puentes entre el Servicio Jesuita a Migrantes y los centros jesuitas de educación superior para el diálogo interreligioso con el Islam"…
Abstract The Miḥna has usually been attributed to the Mu‘tazilite theological school as expression of something unusual, a bid‘ah (Islamic innovation) related to a rationalist group…
Abstract In a recent publication entitled Ibn Taymiyya’s Theological Ethics, Sophia Vasalou tackles the moral objectivism that Ibn Taymiyya would reworked inspired to the…
Abstract The historical interaction between Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa is profoundly connected with the region’s specifi c historical, linguistic and…
Tome 67 de la revue fondée par les Pères blancs en 1965 et éditée depuis 2005 par l’Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth. Il est…
Original title : “Mensch werden. Grundlagen einer interreligiösen Religionspädagogik und didaktik au muslimisch-christlicher Perspektive” Authentic interreligious cooperation in research and teaching begins with intra-…
This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries, namely Morocco,…
More than at any other time in recent history, “making community” appears as a requirement for cohesion, unity and solidarity. At a time when…
Abstract After introducing Ṣāliḥ b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ǧa‘farī (d. 668/1270), the Egyptian Muslim author of an important work of anti-Christian polemic entitled Taḫǧīl man ḥarrafa…
"Community" and "communitarianism" are generally ill-defined terms and can be used in a derogatory way. However, "community" is not synonymous with "communitarianism" and does…
The fundamentalist attitude has several variations. In the Moroccan context, the mechanisms of state fundamentalism are linked in particular to the genealogical referent of…
It is ridiculous if not absurd to think of God as someone whose intention is to “defeat”. His omnipotence stops before our freedom, called…
Part One: Thinking About Cultural and Religious Rationals Interreligious Epistemoligical and Hermneutic Paradigms Jean-Jacques Wunenburger An Observation on the Thought Patterns of the Han…
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Actes du colloque du centre d’études et d’interprétation du fait religieux, Université Saint Joseph, 20-21 février 2015. Sommaire Afrique du Nord : Nelly Amri…
The year 2016 will be remembered in the history of the Catholic Church as the “Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy”. We know that mercy is…
The articles gathered in the MIDEO 32 incorporate most of the contributions presented at the symposium organized by IDEO in Cairo on the 14th,…
Under the direction of Michel Younès and Pierre Diarra, this book brings together the contributions of the many speakers at the colloquium “Quand le…
Lecture given at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, 23 January 2015.
Lecture given at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, 22 January 2015.
Originally published as El reconocimiento jurídico del Islam contemporáneo en España in the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (no.…
Preface by Rachid Benzine Presentation of the publisher It was time to give up and give the floor to young people. In everything that…
Michel Younès, coordinator of PLURIEL presents the first international congress of PLURIEL which was held at the Catholic University of Lyon from 6 to…
First lines of the introduction "The stereotype of the grim-faced Arab brandishing a scimitar is part of our collective imagination and is the result…
"The text of the Declaration on the Church’s Relations with Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) was undoubtedly one of the final surprises of the Second…
Original title : "Morale musulmane, déontologie islamique, Šarī‘a en situations" Sumary Does necessity make legal, in Islam, what is prohibited? It is to this question…
Extract "This admission of the 'Christian re-born' that was then Louis Massignon says quite how decisive were, in his conversion of 1908, the crossed…
Abstract The question from which this article starts is the word “grace”. Are there in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition one or more concepts…
Abstract Professor Sánchez Nogales explains in this article the question about training imams in Europe. The most of these believers who work as spiritual…
Summary This article starts unfolding a brief outline of the history of the relations between Islam and Europe from four geographical view points and…
Often these terms are used by writers with little precision. In journalistic literature they are sometimes used with notable confusion, making them interchangeable. However,…
Extract from the introduction "In approaching the forum of inter-religious dialogue with Islam, with a view to coexistence and collaboration, it is necessary to…
Inaugural Conference of the First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL), by Yadh Ben Achour,…
Lecture by Georges Corm, professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, given during the first international congress of…
First International Congress of the University Platform on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): geopolitical axis Speaker: Jaume Flaquer, professor of interreligious dialogue at…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological axis Speaker: Gabriel Said Reynolds, Professor of…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Adnane Mokrani, Associate Professor at…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Michel Younès, coordinator of PLURIEL,…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL), Lyon, 2016: societal axis Speaker: Stefano Allievi, Professor…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): societal axis Speaker: Michel Terestchenko, lecturer in philosophy…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological axis Speaker: Mohammad Zaraket, teacher at Saint…
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): geopolitical axis Speaker: Haoues Seniguer, Lecturer in Political…
Full title : 'The historical debate on secularisation between F. Antun and M. Abduh. God's absolutism and Islam's irrationality as cornerstones of orientalist islamic-christian…
Abstract I intend to deepen through this paper a comparative analysis between Greek cosmology, Christian Patristic and Early Islamic theology. Origen, Gregory of Nyssa,…
First lines from the introduction "The quaestionis status is whether there will be a time in the near future when the Islamic version of…
Abstract Several factors account for the primacy of Baúra in Islamic studies, some attributable to objective reasons, some to prevailing anthropological, historical and political…
Summary Our time is witnessing a rise in religious fundamentalism. In environments in crisis of deep identity, this type of conviction can secure by…
Original title : "The Gratitude of Man and the Gratitude of God. Notes on šukr in Traditional Islamic Thoughts" SUMMARY: The present essay is…
Abstract The present essay aims to explore, within the general framework of Islamic ethics, the complex notion of tawba, whose immediate peculiarity lies in…
Abstract : This essay deals with ‘mercy’ or rahma, not as a divine characteristic, but rather as the basic ele-ment in the relations the…
Original title : "Il dialogo del Movimento dei Focolari con i Musulmani" Abstract : Academic meetings and relationships between official representatives of the Christian…
Original title : "Le menzogne di Abramo" Even Abraham, the first of Israel's patriarchs and one of Islam's prophets, lied. The peculiar account of…
First lines of the introduction "In 1959, in the luxurious collection of the French Book Club, appeared the first translation of the Koran into…
First lines of the introduction "Among the ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God listed in Islamic religious literature, there appears al-ḥalīm, deriving directly from the…
First lines of the introduction "A major demand of Muslim intellectuals concerned with reconciling the Muslim world with modernity is that of a new…
SUMMARY: This article analyzes the Sunnite views of ‘Āshūrā’ and the assassination/martyrdom of al–Ḥusayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muḥammad. It is not an…
SUMMARY: Presentation of Taqī al–dīn Aḥmad ibn Taymiyya‘s Al–risāla al–qubruṣiyya, a letter written to a crusader baron in Cyprus, probably John II of Giblet,…
Abstract: When speaking of silence, the Koran employs three different verbal roots (ṣ-m-t, s-k-t, n-ṣ-t); on the basis of this linguistic profusion, Arabic Islamic…
Original title : "Se battre pour la cause de Dieu : vice ou vertu ? Vues de ŠIHĀB AL–DĪN AL–QARĀFĪ (m. 1285)" ABSTRACT: This…
Summary: Muslim presence in Spain is much more recent than in other European countries so at times it is not clear if there is…
Summary: A study of the stories of the foundation of certain sanctuaries in Lebanon reveals the fluidity of the frontiers between different communities. A…
First lines of the introduction "Hermeneutics is one of the privileged places where the question of relation to the text arises. In Christianity as…
First lines of the introduction "This first contribution is not a study per se. It presents itself only as an introduction to the monographic…
Abstract : To be able to speak seriously about interreligious dialogue, we must first clarify what is meant by religion. It is necessary to…
Translated and introduced by Paolo Gonzaga (Istituto Italiano di Studi Islamici, Milan, 2016), this work is the first complete Italian translation of the Tafsir…
A volume edited by Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Salmi and Angeliki Ziaka (Georg Olms Verlag, 2016), devoted to religious tolerance as the foundation…
Muslims and Christians meet more and more and Muslims often ask for the faith of Christians. This volume discusses 12 of the most important…
Muslims sometimes question Christians. But what is behind their questions? Here is a book to avoid misunderstandings. Too often, the same words mean different…
Suhrawardī made a turning point in Arab thought by developing a philosophical model based on a descending order of lights that constitute all that…
Migration is undoubtedly one of the most obvious and urgent realities we encounter. It is true that societies are becoming increasingly multicultural. To deal…
This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to…
Islamic anthropology is relatively seldom treated as a particular concern even though much of the contemporary debate on the modernisation of Islam, its acceptance…
Presentation by the publisher The integration of Islam in Western European immigration countries presupposes an understanding of the fundamental issues of coexistence. The relationship…
Publisher’s Introduction The contemporary evolution of Islam worries or fascinates. It involves millions of believers, living in societies with a Muslim “tradition” in the…
Publisher Overview “A totally new discourse in the history of Islam has been spreading for some years in France, according to which the veil…
How do Muslims in Europe acquire discursive and practical knowledge of Islam? How are conceptions of Islamic beliefs, values and practices transmitted and how…
For the first time in the German-speaking world: a contemporary Islamic theology. Mouhanad Khorchide shows how Islam can come from within itself to a…
Presentation of the publisher Few terms refer to Islam as “sharia”. Mouhanad Khorchide, exploring new foundations of an Islamic theology (“Islam is mercy”) and…
The message of Mouhanad Khorchide is clear: we need a global humanism that pays tribute to the people as a global family. By recognizing…
Dans les débats sociaux et politiques, il est souvent question d’une relation directe entre la religion et la violence, qui vise à désigner la…
Publisher Overview Throughout the ages, the Qur’an, the “sacred book”, has often been presented in a polemical form vis-à-vis Jews and Christians, which has…
Original title : “Voci dell’Islam moderno. Il pensiero arabo-musulmano fra rinnovamento e tradizione” Review by Filoramo, G., in L’Indice 1993, n. 3 Since Weber,…
If it is the result of radical currents that pervert Islamic sources, the violence that takes place in the name of Islam, and of…
Summary In our discourse on the action of God, we touch on the central category of the discourse of Christian God. The living God…
Publisher’s Introduction Recognition of the writings of divine revelation to Jews and Christians is one of the six principles of the Islamic faith. Before…
Volume 2 of the CIBEDO publication series With a preface by Karl Cardinal Lehmann The Alevis of Anatolia are considered another important group in…
Publisher’s Introduction In their dialogue with Muslims, Christians are repeatedly confronted with the claim that Jesus announced the coming of Muhammad as the last…
Subtitle: National Reports on Safeguarding Religious Freedom: An Alternative Paradigm? In the era of the "Arab Spring" and the profound transformations that the Muslim-majority…
Publisher’s Introduction Increasingly large communities of Arabs and Muslims are changing the face of many Italian cities. This phenomenon, combined with the legitimate concerns…
Conference of the Centre for Study and Interpretation of Religious Facts, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. February 27-28, 2014. Contents 1. Thom SICKING …
Extracts from the foreword by Louis Boisset s.j., Holder of the Unesco Chair of Comparative Studies of Religions, Mediation and Dialogue, USJ and Honorary…
This book traces the history of the theological position of Rev. Anawati, an expert at the Second Vatican Council on questions relating to Islam,…
Contrary to popular belief, Islam is not limited to a single school of thought or legal school. It is marked by a quasi-constitutive diversity,…
Edited by Michel Younès Not being the object of its own quest, mysticism aims, according to the figures and the cultural and religious contexts,…
The growing interest in fatwâs and the different ways of regulating the overabundance of muftîs in Europe and in the world, in particular in…
We are currently witnessing a significant growth in religious demands, which are increasingly interfering with professional life and have impacted the world of work.…
Created in 1987 in the footsteps of the ‘French Union of Young Muslims’, the Tawhid publishing house was launched by second-generation Muslims who often…
Originally published as El particularismo normativo musulmán en materia funeraria y su relevancia en la reglamentación de policía sanitaria mortuoria en España in the…
Abstract In this chapter of the Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism (ed. Pantelis Kalaitzidis et al., Volos Academy, World Council of Churches and Regnum Books,…
Abstract In this chapter of Applying Sharīʿa in the West (ed. Maurits S. Berger, Leiden University Press, 2013), Angeliki Ziaka examines Greece's singular arrangement,…
Abstract This study by Angeliki Ziaka, published in L'actualité de la pensée byzantine (ed. Georges Arabatzis, Byzantinische Forschungen, vol. XXXI, 2013), revisits the encounter…
Published as Islam e democrazia. I Fratelli Musulmani in Egitto (Ananke, Turin, 2011), with a preface by Franco Cardini, this book by Paolo Gonzaga…
A book co-edited by Angeliki Ziaka and Erik Eynikel (Harptree Publishing, London, 2011) that examines the origins of religiously framed conflicts and the paths…
In this book (San Pablo / Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2009), Julio L. Martínez, s.j., examines the connection between religious freedom and human dignity in…
In this book, Juan Antonio Macías Amoretti, professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Granada, explores the paths of political thought…
In the Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil, the reference commentary on the Second Vatican Council edited by Peter Hünermann and Bernd Jochen…
Drawn from her doctoral thesis defended at the University of Strasbourg in 2002, this book by Angeliki Ziaka (Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004) analyses…