Piotr Sękowski
Born in 1987 in Poland, Piotr Sękowski is a researcher in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome. A diocesan Catholic priest, he specializes in Islamic-Christian relations and particularly in the work of Louis Massignon.
Holder of a PhD in Dogmatic Theology, Religious Studies and Interreligious Dialogue from the University of Opole (2021), he completed his education with Arabic studies in Morocco, Egypt and Rome. His research focuses on Arabic Christology, interfaith dialogue and Islamic mysticism. He is the author of five books, including a study on Christian theology of Islam in Louis Massignon’s work (2024) and an analysis of post-Chalcedonian confessions in the Arab context (2016). His works also include articles on historical figures like ‘Ammār al-Baṣrī and aspects of Islamic-Christian dialogue.
In parallel with his academic activities, he manages the SEKO publishing house and chairs the audit committee of the Research Institute for Far Eastern Theology and Spirituality (Arabic section). He is a member of several learned societies and research networks, including the Society of Polish Dogmatists Theologians. He is responsible for the Polish section of “Badaliya” and a member of the international association “Friends of Deir Mar Musa”. As a mosaic artist, he exhibited several works inspired by religious themes.
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue
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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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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
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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Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections
- David Marshall
Abstract Published as "Christian-Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections" in a special issue of The Muslim World marking the 50th anniversary of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center (Hartford), th...
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Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Thinker on Multiple Fronts
- Guy-Raymond Sarkis
Abstract Ḥaydar Ibrāhīm ʿAlī, a Sudanese sociologist of religion, is a committed intellectual whose writings both arise from and respond to the challenges of his society. He calls for a liberati...
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Sa...