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30/09/26
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“Islam in Asia”: IISMM’s 2026-2027 public lecture series
The Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM, EHESS/CNRS), directed by Dominique Avon, opens its new annual public lecture series on September 30, 2026, in partnership with the Universit...
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CALL FOR PAPER
Mediterranean, Religions and Societies Chair: call for applications for 2026-2027
The Mediterranean, Religions and Societies Chair, jointly established by the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome and the Institut français Centre Saint-Louis (IFCSL), has ope...
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to 11/12/26 to 12/12/26
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100 Years of PISAI: A Century Between Mission and Formation
On 11-12 December 2026, the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome hosts the international conference marking the centenary of PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies). Under the title &...
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Mediterranean Chair Summer University: Five Cities, Five Interreligious Perspectives
From 30 June to 4 July 2026, PISAI hosted in Rome the summer university of the Mediterranean, Religions and Societies Chair, led by Dominique Avon, the first holder of this French-language chair hosted by P...
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Dominique Avon: “Hezbollah, the History of an Armed Organisation”
On 25 March 2026, historian Dominique Avon was a guest on Le Cours de l’histoire on France Culture for an episode in the series Guerre au Moyen-Orient, l’histoire pour comprendre, hosted by Xavi...
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CALL FOR PAPER
100 Years of the PISAI: Call for Papers for the International Congress in Rome, 11–12 December 2026
Update (1 September 2026): the final programme of the conference has been published. PISAI, Rome. The year 2026 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studi...
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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 ...
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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...
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in the Muslim World?
Interview. Saudi researcher Abdulrahman Khalid AlKhunayfir, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo, traces his intellectual journey that led him to study the history o...
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Conference “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” in Paris with Ahmed T. Kuru
Presentation and discussion with Ahmed T. Kuru on the occasion of the French translation of his book Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment (Fenêtres editions, 2024), on October 9, 2024, at 6 PM, at ...
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11/04/24
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Webinar conference: “The Qur’an and its ancient manuscripts: a paradigm shift” by François Déroche
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Emmanuel Pisani: “The thought of al-Ghazali provides a basis for freedom of conscience”
Interview. On the occasion of the publication of his thesis about Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, which won the Mohamed Arkoun Prize in 2016, Emmanuel Pisani, director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies i...
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to 08/06/22 to 10/06/22
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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...
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Se Comprendre (1956-2013) available online
PISAI is pleased to announce the online publication of the complete collection of Se Comprendre, a bulletin launched by the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in France in 1956. The bulletin had the ini...
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to 16/09/21 to 18/09/21
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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...
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The videos of the webinar ‘Islam and Otherness – Focus Lebanon’ are available
The opening webinar of the 3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network was held on 13 April 2021 on the theme “Islam and Otherness with a focus on the Lebanese experience. The replay has been or...
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DEADLINE : 31/08/21
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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...
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16/12/20
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Webinar : Religions and secularism: the challenge of intransigence
Wednesday December 16th, 6.30PM (online) In a context marked by extremism, radicalism, separatism and communitarianism, French society is experiencing an intensification of identity-based and militant withd...
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DEADLINE : 28/02/21
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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...
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Report of the conference “Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries)”
Report of the 3rd conference of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, which took place online from October 16 to 18, 2020
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HIWAR – Building bridges with Islam (Madrid)
Project HIWAR was conceived on the grounds of a group of researchers from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas that had the committed dedication to converse, get closer to and build bridges with Islam. Makin...
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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...
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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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Diego Alonso-Lasheras
Professeur de théologie morale et d’éthique sociale (jésuite), Université pontificale grégorienne de Rome
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Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Théologien et historien des religions, spécialiste du soufisme
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Juan Macias Amoretti
Professeur (Profesor Titular) d’études arabes et islamiques, Département d’études sémitiques, Université de Grenade
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Samir Arbache
Professeur en théologie et histoire des religions
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Constance Arminjon
Directrice d’études en Histoire intellectuelle du shi’isme contemporain
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Dominique Avon
Directeur d’études à l’EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL) et directeur de l’IISMM (Institut d’études de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde musulman).
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Ridouane Bisdaoune
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Michel Boivin
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
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Farid Bouchiba
Postdoctorant à l’EPHE au sein du laboratoire GSRL, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (UMR 8582), département d’études arabes de l’université de Lyon 2 (Lumière)
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Michele Brignone
Directeur exécutif de la Fondation Oasis, Professeur à l’Université catholique de Milan
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Anna Canton
Docteure en études islamiques, arabes et iraniennes (Université Sapienza et PISAI, Rome)
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Rémi Caucanas
Chercheur associé à l’IREMAM, enseignant en histoire des relations islamo-chrétiennes à l’Université Saint-Paul, Ottawa,
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Pablo López Chaves
Chargé d’enseignement post-doctoral, Département d’histoire contemporaine
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Diego Sarrió Cucarella
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Marie-Laure Davigo
Independent researcher in the art history of the Christian East (EPHE-PSL)
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Marco Demichelis
Chercheur en études islamiques et histoire du Moyen-Orient
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Issa Diab
Professeur en études sémitiques
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Amin Elias
Professeur assistant en Histoire à l’Université Antonine et l’Université libanaise
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Yosra Garmi
Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) en Etudes arabes
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Raphaël Georgy
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Geneviève Gobillot
Professeur émérite, Spécialité Etudes arabes et islamiques
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Ahmed Gomaa
Doctor in codicology and textual editing, research associate at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo
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Jamel El Hamri
Docteur en histoire de l’islam contemporain ; chercheur associé à l’Institut catholique de Paris ; consultant islam, jeunesse et citoyenneté
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Mohammed Hashas
Professeur auxiliaire, département de sciences politiques, université Luiss de Rome
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Florence Javel
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Justin Jones
Professeur associé en Sciences des religions, Faculté de théologie et de religion
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Chadi Kahwaji
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Faisal Kenanah
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Lamia Kenoussi
Doctorante en Sciences de l’Antiquité – Archéologie
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Khalid El Khadiri
Doctorant en histoire et sociologie des religions à l’École pratique des hautes études (EPHE-PSL), au sein du GSRL
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Essaid Labib
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Pierre-Olivier Léchot
Professeur d’histoire du christianisme à l’époque moderne à la Faculté protestante de théologie à Paris
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Mohamed Ben Mansour
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Ysé Tardan Masquelier
Historienne des religions, spécialiste de l’hindouisme et du yoga
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Florence Ollivry
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Michele Esposti Ongaro
Professeur d’histoire, d’éthique et de philosophie à l’École européenne de Varèse ; historien du Moyen-Orient
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Hamadi Redissi
Universitaire, islamologue et politologue tunisien. Professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université de Tunis.
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Raja Sakrani
Senior Researcher and Scientific Coordinator, Horizon Europe project JCILC (University of Bonn)
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Piotr Sękowski
Chercheur en études arabes et islamiques à l’Institut pontifical d’études arabes et d’islamologie (PISAI) de Rome
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Federico Stella
Chercheur en philosophie islamique et en histoire des relations islamo-chrétiennes (Université de Naples L’Orientale ; Université pontificale grégorienne)
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Leïla Tauil
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Asli Karaca Yanger
PhD from Central European University, specialist in the politics of gender and religion in the Middle East
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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion
- Guillaume Chatagny
Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title “Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion“, this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...
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Islam Seen through the Work of Aziz al-Azmeh
- Wasim Salman
Abstract Published in Arabic in issue 50 (2024) of Islamochristiana (PISAI, released in April 2025), this essay by Wasim Salman, president of PISAI and director of the journal, examines the relationship bet...
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov (Bloomsbur...
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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title “Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit” in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...
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Religious Freedom in Italy. An Unfinished Path (1848-2024)
- Alessandro Ferrari
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The Recognition of a Hummingbird. Essays on Interreligious Dialogue and Missionary Work (2007-2025)
- Rémi Caucanas
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videos
From Lavigerie to PISAI: The Institutional History of the Missionaries of Africa’s Engagement with Islam
Delivered on 21 May 2026 at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, this lecture opens the series of conferences marking the institute’s centenary (1926-2026). Fr. Mou...
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Maurice Borrmans and the Crisis of Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Islamic studies in Question?
- Florence Javel
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videos
Muhammad in Modern Art, by Alice Bombardier
- Alice Bombardier
Lecture given by Alice Bombardier (Professeure agrégée at Sorbonne Université) as part of the Théologies en dialogue Chair of the Faculty of Theology at UCLy, in Lyon, on 25 March 2026. Working against the ...
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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends
- Michel Younès
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Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History
- Amir Dziri
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videos
Maurice Borrmans (1925-2017), an Islamologist Defending Christian-Muslim Dialogue
- Florence Javel
On 19 February 2026, in the Maurice Borrmans Library of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome, Florence Javel, who holds a PhD in theology from the Catholic University of L...
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Master in Middle-Eastern Studies
The Master in Middle Eastern Studies – MIMES is tailored for graduates of various disciplines and backgrounds, who are interested in obtaining a better knowledge of the Middle East region, taking into...
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University Diploma Religious facts – Religion, religions
Understanding the religious phenomenon is one of the major keys to understanding cultures and the complexity of the world. It appears more and more as an antidote to religious fundamentalism as well as to t...
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University Diploma “World Religions. History and theology”
This course, which leads to a university diploma from the ICP, to be followed over one or two years, is an opportunity to specialise in a specific question in the field of world religions: theology of missi...