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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...

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...

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...

NEWS

Diego Sarrió Cucarella, member of Pluriel and specialist in Islamic-Christian dialogue, appointed bishop in Algeria

Saturday, January 25, 2025. Pope Francis has appointed Father Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella as the new bishop of the Diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaïa in Algeria on January 25, 2025. President of the Pontifical I...

17/10/24

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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...

NEWS

Photo report: exploring the Lebanese religious diversity

Muslim diversity, Christian diversity: the program of the PLURIEL congress in Beirut from May 23 to 28 included many meetings to discover the religious plurality of Lebanon. Raphaël Georgy/Pluriel

DEADLINE : 28/02/21

CALL FOR PAPER

Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology

Call launched by Les Presses de l’Ifpo following an international round table organized on 4 and 5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) which highlighted the interest of a collective...

publication

Religious Higher Education in Lebanon: A Comparative Study of Curricula

• Roula Talhouk
• Michel Younès

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

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 ...

publication

Syriac Theology: Past and Present

• Klaus von Stosch

videos

Education And Otherness: What are the Issues in a Context of Diversity?

• Salim Daccache

In the era of the continuous call for the adoption of citizenship and living together (al Azhar declaration March 2017) and human brotherhood and common coexistence (Abu Dhabi document February 2019) as the...

videos

Otherness and nationalisms, the threat of identity to openness

• Antoine Fleyfel

This talk addresses the issue of Islam and otherness from the perspective of Christians in the Middle East. At the heart of the multiple constructions of identity since the mid-nineteenth century is the tho...

videos

The concept of “citizenship” in the Azhari discourse. Problems and contradictions

• Mohamed Gamal Ali

The concept of “citizenship” in the Al-Azhar discourse, problems and contradictions Al-Azhar Foundation announces on various occasions its full adoption of the concept of “citizenship,” and the ...

videos

Understanding freedom of religion around the Mediterranean

• Alessandro Ferrari
• Amin Elias

How to manage religious plurality? Three researchers from our network look back at the history of the northern, eastern and southern shores of the Mediterranean to understand the diversity of legal regimes ...

videos

The view of Lebanese Islam on the other: what specificity?

• Salim Daccache

Salim Daccache, Rector of Saint Joseph University since 2012. Doctor of Letters and Philosophy and in Educational Sciences. Argument: How does Lebanese Islam look at the other, the Christian, its counterpar...

article

‘On how to discern the truth of religion’, by Hunayn b. Isḥāq. The impersonal recension

• Diego Sarrió Cucarella

Abstract This article contributes to the study of Christian Arabic literature by providing an introduction and English translation of the treatise entitled Kayfiyyat idrāk ḥaqīqat al-diyāna, ‘On how to disc...

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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...

videos

When religion divides the “community”. Dynamics of violence and pacification within Arab Levant

• Marco Demichelis

Conference of Marco DEMICHELIS, at the second international Congress of PLURIEL Abstract Since the nineteenth century, the dynamics of inter-religious conflict within the Arab world accentuated a growing in...