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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Spiritual eroticism and erotic spirituality in Sufi mystical thought
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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The gnostic constitution of aesthetic values in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Art in the face of authoritarian discourse: the contribution of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Beyond the licitness of ecstasy: the poetry of samāʿ as an aesthetic and cognitive experience in al-Ghazālī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...
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Ghaḍḍ al-baṣar as the paradigm of an Islamic aesthetics: interpretations and perspectives
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...
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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)
Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...
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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...