to 08/06/26 to 09/06/26

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Conference “The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself” (Paris, 8–9 June 2026)

Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today? On 8 and 9 June 2026, the Faculty of Theology of the Institut...

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Christian–Muslim Dialogue in Focus: symposium of the Higher Education for Social Transformation research group in Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria. From October 29–31, 2024, the Faculty of Theology at the University of Innsbruck hosted the Kircher Network’s Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) workshop on Christia...

CALL FOR PAPER

100 Years of the PISAI: Call for Papers for the International Congress in Rome, 11–12 December 2026

PISAI, Rome. The year 2026 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), a training, study, and research institute dedicated to religious dialogue...

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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...

14/02/25

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Marian devotion in Christianity and Islam

On Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM, the Catholic Institute of Paris is hosting a study day dedicated to Mary, a figure shared between Christians and Muslims. In a world where interfaith dialog...

25/09/24

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Conference “Christian Thought, Muslim Thought, and Societal Issues” with Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Launch event for the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair on the theme “Christian thought, Muslim thought and societal issues” on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM at the Carnot campus of...

to 02/12/22 to 04/12/22

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Defining Islamic Comparative Theology / Conference

This conference aims to be a first step to programmatically and conceptionally explore the possibility of a genuinely Islamic Comparative Theology. Organized by the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultu...

to 16/06/22 to 01/01/70

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‘Religion and Health’ – International meeting on comparative theology

At the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paderborn, from May 16th to 18th, 2022. A cooperation between the Center of Comparative Theology (ZeKK/Paderborn) and the newly founded Center of Comparative ...

DEADLINE : 15/03/22

CALL FOR PAPER

Call for papers / Religion and Health

International Meeting on Comparative Theology Theological Faculty Paderborn June 16-18th, 2022. In partnership with Bonn University Health, healing and religious believes are linked in various ways. Sufferi...

to 24/09/21 to 19/10/21

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PriMED Webinars : Religion, Law and Economy in the Mediterranean Space

The PriMED Project, in partnership with the Research Centre “Religion, Law and Economics in the Mediterranean Space” (REDESM, University of Insubria) are organising a new online conference progr...

DEADLINE : 12/03/21

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Call for Papers “Friendship”

Conference on Comparative Theology 2021, June 10th-11th

to 09/08/21 to 13/08/21

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Summer School 2020: Justice and Mercy. Discussing the Divine Attributes in Muslim-Christian Dialogue.

Organised by the University of Paderborn, Germany; and part of the project “Building bridges between traditional thought and analytical philosophy – Rethinking Divine Attributes in Islam and Christianity” w...

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“The word of God and the language of men” rewarded

P. Tobias SPECKER S.J., holder of the chair of Catholic theology in the light of Islam at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology “Sankt Georgen” in Frankfurt, is the first winner of the &...

Publication

Conversaciones transformadoras. Una metodología para el diálogo islamo-cristiano en el campo del pensamiento social religioso

Inaugural Speech of the Academic year at the Faculty of Theology of Granada, Spain

Religion and temporality (Bonn, Germany)

Religion and temporality intersect in profound ways, shaping individuals, societies, and the course of history. From the cyclical rhythms of ritual and sacred time to the eschatological visions of the futur...

Comparative study on religious freedom across the two Mediterranean shores (Como and Varese)

The Research Centre “Religion, Law and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (“Religioni, Diritti ed Economie nello Spazio Mediterraneo” – REDESM), established within the University of Insubria, aims to foster...

Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue (Bonn) (closed)

Research group of the University of Paderborn. The Qur’anic approach to prophecy challenges Jewish and Christian perspectives for a variety of reasons. The Qur’an seems to have some concrete features of pr...

Qur’anic Approaches to Jesus Christ in the Perspective of Comparative Theology (Closed)

The project will therefore scrutinize whether it is feasible, from a particularly Christian perspective, to recognize the Quranic appreciations of Jesus of Nazareth as a form of Christology, which could pos...

videos

The Foundations of Arabic Grammatical Theory

Cairo. In a lecture delivered in Arabic on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo, Professor Ramzi Baalbaki, holder of the Chair of Arabic Studies ...

publication

Revival and Dynamics of Islamic Studies in Europe

• Michel Younès
• Emmanuel Pisani
• Cédric Baylocq
• Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
• Michele Brignone
• Haoues Seniguer

videos

For a dialogical theological fraternity: a rereading of the Document on Human Fraternity in light of the earliest Arabic theological writings

• Romain Louge

From the 8th century onwards, the first theological writings were composed in Arabic, either in Christian communities or in Muslim communities. This communication aims, through the study of these early Chri...

videos

What does the reformation of religion mean?

Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious reform within t...

publication

Can Christians Learn from Qur’anic Christology? Leo Lefebure’s Theology of Judaism and Islam

• Klaus von Stosch

videos

Jesus in Recent Qur’an Translations | The Jesus of the Qur’an vs. the Jesus of the New Testament

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

In this video, Gabriel Said Reynolds discusses the presentation of Jesus in the Qur’an and how it is interpreted and rendered in English by recent translations of the Qur’an. I show that recent ...

videos

From the Declaration “Nostra Aetate” to the Document of Abu Dhabi: Reexamining a Historical and Theological Trajectory in the Catholic Approach to Islamic-Christian Dialogue

• Jean-Jacques Pérennès

Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue, from the Nostra Aetate...

publication

Syriac Theology: Past and Present

• Klaus von Stosch

publication

Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

• Klaus von Stosch
• Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar

article

Original Sin and the Qur’an

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the author a...

videos

Islam and Christianity: mutual views and challenges of otherness

• Michel Younès

In his book Soi-même comme un autre (Seuil 1990), the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) builds his reflection on this ‘as’ which, according to him, allows us to escape from two harmful...

publication

God’s Word and Human Language Christian theology of revelation and Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Koran

• Tobias Specker

formations

Bachelor in comparative theology of religions

Dealing with religions and their claims to truth is more urgent today than ever. A peaceful coexistence of the religions will only become a reality if the religions are taken seriously in their validity cla...