Carmen Marquez
María del Carmen Márquez Beunza is a professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), in the Department of Dogmatic and Fundamental Theology, where she has taught since 2002 and heads the TUP programme (evening Bachelor of Theology). An expert in ecumenism, ecclesiology and interreligious dialogue, she has served since 2021 as a consultant to the Spanish Episcopal Subcommission for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue.
A law graduate of the University of Valencia and a doctor of theology from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, she defended a thesis on “The Christian Churches and Apartheid in South Africa: a theological analysis of the Kairos Document,” awarded the Bartolomé de las Casas Prize (University of Fribourg) and the José María Ramón de San Pedro Prize (Comillas).
Her work focuses in particular on the ecumenical movement, interreligious dialogue and dialogue with cultures, the reception of the Reformation, and the environmental dimension of ecumenical dialogue.
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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...