Ziaka Angeliki
Born in Greece, Angeliki Ziaka is Professor of the Study of Religion at the School of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), where she serves as scientific head of the committee of the undergraduate programme in Islamic Studies.
She holds a doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (2002), with a thesis entitled “La recherche grecque contemporaine et l’islam”, and trained at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome), the Catholic Faculty of Theology of Strasbourg and the History Department of the University of Amman, conducting fieldwork in Iran and Oman.
Her research focuses on early and medieval Islamic historiography and kalām, Ibadism, Byzantine and post-Byzantine literature on Islam, the re-articulation of Muslim identities in the Middle East, interreligious dialogue and religious education. She is a board member of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, where she heads the sector of interreligious relations, and a member of the international scholarly network on Ibadi Studies.
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Local and Global Ibadi Identities
- Ziaka Angeliki
Edited by Yohei Kondo and Angeliki Ziaka, this thirteenth volume of the Studies on Ibadism and Oman series (Georg Olms Verlag, 2020) explores Ibadi identities and their evolution within Islamic con...
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Religious Tolerance: A Vision for a New World
- Ziaka Angeliki
A volume edited by Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Salmi and Angeliki Ziaka (Georg Olms Verlag, 2016), devoted to religious tolerance as the foundation of a more peaceful world order. It gathers co...
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Orthodoxy and Islam: Major Concerns for Orthodox Engagement
- Ziaka Angeliki
Abstract In this chapter of the Orthodox Handbook on Ecumenism (ed. Pantelis Kalaitzidis et al., Volos Academy, World Council of Churches and Regnum Books, 2014), Angeliki Ziaka analyses the stakes...
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Gregory Palamas and the Dialogue with Islam
- Ziaka Angeliki
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 of the Byzan...
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The Implementation of Sharīʿa in Greece
- Ziaka Angeliki
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, long the only European ...
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Religion and Conflict: Essays on the Origins of Religious Conflicts and Resolution Approaches
- Ziaka Angeliki
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 towards their resolution. The collect...
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Contemporary Greek Scholarship and Islam
- Ziaka Angeliki
Drawn from her doctoral thesis defended at the University of Strasbourg in 2002, this book by Angeliki Ziaka (Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004) analyses how contemporary Greek scholarshi...
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Understanding Salafism
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in the series The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, this book by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, professor at Sorbonne Par...
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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion
- Guillaume Chatagny
Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title "Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion", this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...
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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
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
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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
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
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