Ida Zilio-Grandi
Professeur associé – Diplôme scientifique national de professeur ordinaire de langue et de littérature arabes (SSD L / OR-12) à l’Université Ca ‘Foscari de Venise, Département d’études asiatiques et méditerranéennes africaines (DSAAM). Actuellement en poste au ministère des Affaires étrangères en tant que directeur de l’Institut culturel italien à Abu Dhabi, ambassade d’Italie aux Émirats arabes unis.
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Environmentalism and sustainability as an expression of Islamic moral orientation
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract : The essay emphasizes cultural specificities, starting with the terminology currently used to describe sustainability, and investigates the lack of homogeneity of the semantic fields belo...
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The Gratitude of Man and the Gratitude of God. Notes on šukr in Traditional Islamic Thoughts
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Original title : “The Gratitude of Man and the Gratitude of God. Notes on šukr in Traditional Islamic Thoughts” SUMMARY: The present essay is intended as a contribution to the study of ...
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Return, Repentance, Amendment, Reform, Reconversion. A contribution to the study of Tawba in the Context of Islamic Ethics
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract The present essay aims to explore, within the general framework of Islamic ethics, the complex notion of tawba, whose immediate peculiarity lies in its double meaning, being akin to “repen...
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Thoughts on raḥma in Islamic religious tradition
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract : This essay deals with ‘mercy’ or rahma, not as a divine characteristic, but rather as the basic ele-ment in the relations the good Muslim must maintain with his neighbour. Looking at the...
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Ḥilm or “Judiciousness”: A Contribution to the Study of Islamic Ethics
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
First lines of the introduction “Among the ninety-nine Beautiful Names of God listed in Islamic religious literature, there appears al-ḥalīm, deriving directly from the text of the Koran. As ...
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Silence and Speech Etiquette, A Contribution to the Study of Islamic Ethics
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract: When speaking of silence, the Koran employs three different verbal roots (ṣ-m-t, s-k-t, n-ṣ-t); on the basis of this linguistic profusion, Arabic Islamic culture has elaborated a complex ...
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The History of the Quran according to Muslim Sources
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Professors Shady Nasser from Harvard and Gabriel Reynolds from the University of Notre Dame explore the history of the revelation and compilation of the Quran according to traditional Muslim source...
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Jesus in Recent Qur’an Translations | The Jesus of the Qur’an vs. the Jesus of the New Testament
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