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Call for Papers — “Of Priests and Sufis: Revisiting Catholic Scholarship on Islamic Mysticism” (IDEO, Cairo, 6–7 June 2026)

International conference at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO), Cairo, 6–7 June 2026, within the MSCA Horizon Europe project SEMENSUF – Seminal Sufism in Motion. Coordinated by the Catholic...

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Recruitment: Associate Professor Position in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Political and Religious Thought at ENS Lyon

The École Normale Supérieure de Lyon is opening a position for an Associate Professor (M/F) specialized in “Political and Religious Thought in Modern and Contemporary Islam” as part of its 2025 ...

11/04/24

AGENDA

Webinar conference: “The Qur’an and its ancient manuscripts: a paradigm shift” by François Déroche

to 16/10/21 to 17/10/21

AGENDA

Conference / The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān, 1924

Organized by the Dominican Insitute for Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo) Presentation This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān made under the authority of al-Azhar co...

Project 200 : An historical contextualization of 200 authors from the Arab Muslim heritage (Closed)

The project is to report systematically on 200 former Arab authors (belonging to the first 10 centuries of the Hegira ) their lists of works (lost, written or edited ) and the relationships that these works...

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The Genre of the Mawlid Narrative in the mid-12th h./18th Century as Exemplified by al-Barzanjī

• Antonio Cuciniello

Among the works of Arabic literature concerning the genre of Mawlid, certainly al-Barzanjī’s Mawlid is a text that has achieved great popularity and spread to large parts of the Islamic world. Indeed, empha...

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The History of the Quran according to Muslim Sources

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

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 sources. They d...

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The use of the word kitab in the Qur’an and in an ancient Arabic version of the Gospels

• Samir Arbache

Original title : “Le terme kitab dans le Coran et dans une ancienne version arabe des Évangiles” According to A. T. Welch, the Koranic term kitab (Scripture) is one of the most difficult to inte...