Marco Demichelis
Pontificia Università Gregoriana Pontificia Università GregorianaItaly
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Marco Demichelis

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Marco Demichelis (Turin, 1979) is a researcher in Islamic studies and History of the Middle East within the Gregorian center for interreligious studies, Ponfifical Gregorian University. Previously, he worked as Marie Curie Fellow (IF 2016) within the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, as a researcher in the religious studies department of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan (2013-2016) and as a professor assistant in the history of Islam at the University of Turin (2010-2012). He obtained his doctorate (2010) from the University of Genoa, Department of Political Studies.

Disciplines

History Islam Studies Political Sciences

Topics

Discourse Analysis - Hermeneutics Faith and Reason Islamic Theology Liberal Islam Secularism Violence and religion

Resources of this researcher

Research Group

For a preventive Islamic de-radicalization. The Re-Configuration of the Humanities within an inter-religious approach. (Milan)

Returning to the humanities, they are not only necessary, but crucial in promoting a de-radicalizing approach to both societies: the Islamic and the European, wondering that this research project intends to work none solely in relation to the Islamic World or the Old continent, but with both. The idea is to create a project of preventive deradicalization of Muslim citizens and society working on a dual methodological and interdisciplinary attitude: the teaching of Islam, its history, its religious tradition, socio…

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy
Référent Paolo Branca 9 chercheurs
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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

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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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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Religious Freedom in Italy. An Unfinished Path (1848-2024)

  • Alessandro Ferrari

Published under the original title La libertà religiosa in Italia. Un percorso incompiuto (1848-2024), this synthesis by Alessandro Ferrari, professor of ecclesiastical law and comparative religiou...

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The Recognition of a Hummingbird. Essays on Interreligious Dialogue and Missionary Work (2007-2025)

  • Rémi Caucanas

Published in May 2026 by PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Rome), this collection brings together the essays of Rémi Caucanas on interreligious dialogue and missionary wor...

videos

From Lavigerie to PISAI: The Institutional History of the Missionaries of Africa’s Engagement with Islam

Delivered on 21 May 2026 at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, this lecture opens the series of conferences marking the institute's centenary (1926-2026). Fr. ...

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Maurice Borrmans and the Crisis of Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Islamic studies in Question?

  • Florence Javel

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 1925, Maurice Borrmans was born ...