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Laurent Basanese

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Born in Lyon (France), Laurent Basanese is Head of Office at the Holy See’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, a position to which he was appointed by Pope Leo XIV in 2025, and Secretary of the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims. He is also professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he teaches Systems of Thought, Arabic, Oriental and Islamic Civilizations, and Muslim-Christian Dialogue.

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1997, he holds a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome) and a doctorate in Religious Sciences and Systems of Thought from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Sorbonne University, Paris). He founded and directed the Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 2015 to 2021, and relaunched the series Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations, which he directed from 2018 to 2021.

Co-founder and co-leader of the Pluriel research group in Rome (since 2019), in cooperation with the Pontifical Gregorian University and PISAI, he was also a member of the Coordinating and Scientific Committee of Pluriel from 2017 to 2024. He serves on the Board of Directors of KAICIID (King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, since 2024) and is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Class of World Religions (since 2018).

Disciplines

Islam Studies Theology

Topics

Eastern Christianism Muslim-Christian Dialogue Religious Pluralism Theology of Religions Violence and religion

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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 the theme of the Mediterranean: "For a new Mediterranean. Space for dialogue and prophecies of peace". This transversal theme, necessary also because of the diversity of our …

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