Jean Patrick Nkolo Fanga
Born in 1974 in Yaoundé (Cameroon), Jean Patrick Nkolo Fanga has served as Director of the Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology in Rabat (Morocco) since July 2024 and holds the position of Full Professor of Practical Theology.
At the helm of Al Mowafaqa, he leads a unique institution that trains Christian and Muslim students within an ecumenical and interreligious framework. Long committed to interreligious dialogue, he has contributed to organizing interreligious celebrations as well as awareness-raising sessions for traditional chiefs in the Centre region of Cameroon. As part of his responsibilities within the Council of Protestant Churches of Cameroon, he participated in various activities of ACADIR (Cameroon Association for Religious Dialogue, Yaoundé).
His research focuses on the exercise of pastoral ministry, homiletics, church governance, and conflict resolution. He is also engaged in intercultural dialogue, particularly through his research on the reception of migrants of African origin in France, as well as the search for an African expression of religion through dialogue between exogenous and endogenous religions in Africa.
President of the International Society of Practical Theology (ISPT) from 2018 to 2022, he has authored several landmark works, including Le Pasteur et le management d’une église locale (Langham Publishing, 2021), Le profil du pasteur dans les Églises d’Afrique contemporaine (Presses Bibliques africaines, 2019), and Le processus homilétique (Éditions CLE, 2016).
He holds a PhD in Practical Theology from the Protestant University of Central Africa (Yaoundé, Cameroon, 2011) and has undertaken several postdoctoral research stays in Europe, notably at the Institut protestant de théologie in Montpellier and Paris (France), the Protestant Theological University of Groningen (Netherlands), and the Faculty of Evangelical Theology in Leuven (Belgium). He also served as Rector of the Institut supérieur presbytérien Camille Chazeaud in Foulassi (Cameroon, 2022–2025).
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Islam Seen through the Work of Aziz al-Azmeh
- Wasim Salman
Abstract Published in Arabic in issue 50 (2024) of Islamochristiana (PISAI, released in April 2025), this essay by Wasim Salman, president of PISAI and director of the journal, examines the rela...
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov (Blo...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title "Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit" in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...
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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...
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The Virtues of the Good Muslim
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Published in 2025 by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari in Venice, this monograph by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University) is the augmented English translation of Le virtù del buon Musulmano, fir...
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Without Judaism, No Islam. The Denied Source
- Mouhanad Khorchide
Published under the original title Ohne Judentum kein Islam. Die verleugnete Quelle, with the subtitle Die Wurzeln des muslimischen Antisemitismus. Eine aktuelle Analyse (“The Roots of Muslim...