Tobias Specker

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Born in 1971, Tobias Specker is a professor of “Catholic Theology in the Face of Islam” at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. As a Jesuit, he studied German literature, Catholic theology, and Islamic studies in Freiburg, Bochum, and Frankfurt. He holds a Ph.D. in theology with a thesis on Jean-Luc Marion and a diploma in Islamic theology with a study on the figure of Paul in Muslim thought. His habilitation thesis deals with Christian theology of revelation in dialogue with Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Qur’an. Since 2021, he has also been the superior of the Jesuit community of Sankt Georgen. Involved in numerous interreligious dialogue networks, he is an advisor to the sub-commission for interreligious dialogue of the German Bishops’ Conference and editor-in-chief of GEORG magazine. He has received several awards for his work on Christian-Muslim 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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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...

Portrait du grand imam d'al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb

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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...

Couverture de Islamic Lessons for Christians, Gabriel Said Reynolds

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Islamic Lessons for Christians

  • Gabriel Said Reynolds

Islamic Lessons for Christians (Oneworld Publications, 2026) is the latest book by Gabriel Said Reynolds, Crowley Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. What, if...

Le pape Léon XIV présente l'encyclique Magnifica Humanitas, Salle du Synode, Vatican, 25 mai 2026

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Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Pluriel working group on AI-assisted interreligious dialogue

  • Wael Saleh

Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Human...

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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...