Ignace Ndongala Maduku

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Ignace Ndongala Maduku is an associate professor at the Institute of Religious Studies of the University of Montreal (UdeM). Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he holds a doctorate in religious studies from the UdeM. Before joining the University of Montreal, he taught for some fifteen years at the Lumen Vitae International Training Centre in Belgium.

His research concerns decolonial approaches in theology and religious studies, Christianity, rites and symbols, the decolonisation of theological knowledge, the sociopolitical discourse of African churches, priestly masculinities and sexual abuse in the clergy. He coordinates the activities of the Group of African and Afro-descendant Theologies (Canada) and those of the Research and Study Centre for Religion, Development and Culture, in the DR Congo.

He has published Religion et politique en RD Congo (Karthala, 2016) and Pour des Églises régionales en Afrique (Karthala, 1999). He is a member of the “Christian Theology and Dialogues” group of the Master’s programme of the Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology (IOTAM, Rabat).

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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...