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Special issue “Islam and Interreligious Dialogue” in Laval théologique et philosophique

The journal Laval théologique et philosophique has just released, in its volume 82, issue 1 (2026), a special issue devoted to Islam and interreligious dialogue, coordinated by Guy-Raymond Sarkis (Saint Jos...

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Does the term “frérisme” clarify or obscure the public debate?

In an op-ed published on May 13, 2026, in the Quebec daily Le Devoir, Mounia Aït Kabboura, a sociologist of Islam, and sociologist Samir Amghar examine the growing use of the word “frérisme” (Brotherhood-is...

14/05/26

AGENDA

Conflicts of Knowledge: Four Pluriel Researchers at the 93rd Acfas Congress (Trois-Rivières, 14 May 2026)

Trois-Rivières, Canada, 14 May 2026. Four Pluriel member researchers will take part in the symposium “Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narrativities”, held within the 93rd Cong...

to 14/05/26 to 15/05/26

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Conflicts of knowledge: the Arab world in academic narrativities

Update, April 2026: the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. The final symposium programme is now available: see the programme announcement and Pluriel researchers’ contributions. Call for pape...

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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...

17/10/24

AGENDA

Montreal: “Books in Christian and Muslim Religious Bookstores between Lyon and Montreal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of the Offer”

As part of the Jacques Cartier Dialogues 2024 at the University of Montreal, several researchers who are members of Pluriel will participate in a study day on October 17, 2024, focusing on books in Christia...

to 28/11/22 to 30/11/22

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Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam: for a France-Quebec referential | EJC 2022

The 34th Entretiens Jacques Cartier will take place in Quebec from 28 to 30 November 2022. A group of Canadian and French researchers will hold a one-day conference on the theme of radicalisation studies. A...

to 08/06/22 to 10/06/22

AGENDA

Session “Reading the Qur’an Today”

Training session organised by the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR), Institut catholique de Paris, from 8 to 10 June 2022. The publication of Le Coran des historiens is a major editorial...

14/10/21

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Conference / Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam

EPISTEMOLOGICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL APPROACHES AND ISSUES Initiated within the framework of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier in 2019, a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Cultures and R...

to 16/09/21 to 18/09/21

AGENDA

International conference “The itinerant prophets. Rewritings, appropriations and metamorphoses of prophetic figures in Islamic sources”

At Institut du Monde Arabe and Sorbonne Université, Paris Bringing together scholars of Islam studies, literature and history, ‘The Itinerant Prophets’ aims to shed new light on the place prophe...

DEADLINE : 31/08/21

CALL FOR PAPER

The Qur’an in History. The History of the Qur’an. From Canonization to Critique and Semantic Hermeneutics

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444), with Marco Demichelis as guest editor. Extract of the presentation: The Issue would like to explore the correlation between the Qur’an, the word of God that th...

DEADLINE : 26/03/21

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Itinerant Prophets

The International Colloquium « Itinerant Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam » will take p...

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

AGENDA

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...

to 07/05/20 to 08/05/20

AGENDA

[Covid-19 – Annulé] Acteurs religieux dans le monde arabe actuel : rôles, prises de position, rapports de force, impacts et enjeux

Le 88ème Congrès ACFAS n'aura pas lieu.

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...

Islam and Otherness: Contextualizations, Transformations, and Influences

From a cross-section of dogmas, discourses, doctrines and reference texts, the contributions aim to examine, from a specific angle of approach (philosophical, theological, political, religious, anthropologi...

For a preventive Islamic de-radicalization. The Re-Configuration of the Humanities within an inter-religious approach. (Milan)

Research group held by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. The return to the humanities is not only necessary, but crucial for the promotion of a de-radicalising approach to both societi...

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...

Authority and Regulation in Islam (Lyon)

After a research programme on religious, Islamic and Biblical fundamentalism, and a deconstructivist approach to fundamentalism, we thought it was important to approach the notion of authority in link with ...

Epistemological and methodological issues in studies on violence in the name of Islam (Montreal)

This group aims to provide food for thought on the following questions: Are the available conceptual and epistemological methods and tools adequate enough to decipher the specific and complex discourses, pr...

Dynamics of Islamic radicalization in Europe: prevention and educational policies (Closed)

Since the “Arab Springs” breakout in 2011, Islamist radicalization in Europe progressively grew as ISIS spread violence and chaos in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The so-called “Islamic State” brought a new vision...

Catholic Theology in dialogue with Islam (Frankfurt)

Catholic theology in Europe is increasingly confronted with the questions and criticisms of Muslim intellectuals who, in particular, point out the convergences between the two religions. The research projec...

Islam and society in contemporary Spain (Granada)

Because the presence of Muslim communities in Spain is relatively recent, and because there is not a long tradition of theological study of Islam, we want to start our dialogue with the Islamic tradition by...

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The grammar of sacred violence: A critical discourse analysis of radical Islamist writings

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

This article offers a discursive analysis of two contemporary Islamist texts that present violence not as a deviation from religious normativity, but as its necessary, even redemptive expression. It examine...

videos

From word to virtue: Ibn Ḥazm and the aesthetics of discourse

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 Islam&#...

publication

Sayyid Qutb. Architect of Radical Islamism

• Mounia Ait Kabboura

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

Speaking freely in Islam

• Hamadi Redissi

article

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...

videos

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...

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...

publication

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

• Klaus von Stosch

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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 ...

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The term “dahr” (fate) in the Arabic language and its literature

• Paolo Branca

It is obviously not possible to examine the entire Arab literary production: we will therefore start from the many examples of pre-Islamic verses to dwell then over the centuries on the reproposition of the...

formations

The management of the religious fact in companies and organizations

This training is aimed at managers, in order to enable them to master the legal framework of religion and to adopt a managerial posture adapted to the situations encountered. 2 consecutive days on June 24 a...