Wasim Salman
Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’IslamisticaItaly
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Wasim Salman

Full professor Member of Research groups Scientific Committee

Born in 1976 in Damascus, Wasim Salman is the president of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, where he has been a professor of contemporary Arab-Islamic thought since 2016. A Syrian-Italian, he is a member of the editorial board of Islamochristiana and the research platform Pluriel on Islam in Europe and Lebanon. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University (2009) and in Arabic philosophy from the University of Tor Vergata (2016), and has taught Catholic theology in Italy. He is the author of “Political Islam and the Challenges of Interpretation. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd” (Mimesis, 2017) and “Gadamer e I teologi” (UUP, 2012).

Disciplines

Philosophy Theology

Topics

Theology of Religions

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Research Group

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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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...

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Spiritual eroticism and erotic spirituality in Sufi mystical thought

Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...

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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms

Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...

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The gnostic constitution of aesthetic values in Ibn ʿArabī

Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...

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Art in the face of authoritarian discourse: the contribution of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...

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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)

Paper presented at the 5th international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Isla...

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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...

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Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: from bodily healing to the aesthetics of the soul — a study of the “Risālat Dhamm Ladhdhāt al-Dunyā”

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme "Ethics and Aesthetics in Is...