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17/02/27
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“The Pride of the Demiurge and the Column of Light”: Two Gnostic-Manichaean Themes in Ismaili Shi’ism, by Daniel de Smet
As part of the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme) at the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), co-directed by Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Daniel de Smet, research...
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01/09/26
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“Christianity, Islam, and Gnosis”
As part of its “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme), the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) offers the seminar “Christianity, Islam, and Gnosis”, led by Michel Younès...
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01/09/26
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“The World and Its Salvation”: Christian and Muslim approaches in dialogue
As part of its “Theologies in Dialogue” chair (2026-2027 programme), the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy) offers the course “The World and Its Salvation: Christian and Muslim approaches ...
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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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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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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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DEADLINE : 15/09/21
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Religions and Freedom of speech
Conference organized by Lyon catholic University on May, 9th and 10th, 2022 Présentation Le 16 octobre 2020, Samuel Paty professeur de l’Éducation Nationale, perdait la vie sous les coups d’...
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Interreligious Dialogue Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
This group aims to build a lasting scholarly dynamic, bringing together researchers in the humanities and social sciences, AI specialists, theologians and actors engaged in interreligious dialogue. Its purp...
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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...
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For a new Mediterranean. Space for dialogue and prophecies of peace
Following the research work on the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019, ...
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The document on Human Fraternity: theological, philosophical and social reflections and developments (Rome)
Study on the theme of fraternity from the Abu Dhabi Document on HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHETR, signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar on February 4, 2019
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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 ...
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Yadh Ben Achour
Jurist, specialist in Islamic political theory and public law
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Abdul Rahman Al-Khunayfer
Postdoctoral researcher at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo)
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Samir Arbache
Professeur en théologie et histoire des religions
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Ghaleb Bencheikh
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Ridouane Bisdaoune
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Salim Daccache
Recteur de l’Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth, Docteur en lettres et philosophie et en sciences de l’éducation.
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Amin Elias
Professeur assistant en Histoire à l’Université Antonine et l’Université libanaise
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Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Professeur de dialogue interreligieux, théologie des religions et islamologie
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Yosra Garmi
Attachée Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) en Etudes arabes
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Geneviève Gobillot
Professeur émérite, Spécialité Etudes arabes et islamiques
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René-Vincent Du Grandlaunay
Directeur de la bibliothèque de l’Idéo
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Anna Hager
Chercheuse à l’Institut d’études orientales de l’université de Vienne.
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Mounia Ait Kabboura
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Toni Kahwaji
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Yesmine Karray
ATER en études arabes à l’ENS de Lyon, doctorante en philosophie et études arabes (laboratoire Triangle, CNRS)
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Ahmed Kaza
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Faisal Kenanah
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Essaid Labib
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Mohamed Ben Mansour
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Myriam Di Marco
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Julio Martinez
Professeur de théologie morale à l’Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ancien recteur), spécialiste de la liberté religieuse et du dialogue interreligieux
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Claudio Monge
Director of the Dominican Study Institute in Istanbul (DoSt-İ)
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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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Emmanuel Pisani
Directeur de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales (IDEO, Le Caire)
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Ignacio Sepúlveda del Río
Professeur de philosophie, directeur du Département de philosophie et sciences humaines et président du Comité d’éthique de la recherche, Universidad Loyola Andalucía
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Wasim Salman
Professeur de pensée arabo-islamique contemporaine à l’Institut pontifical d’études arabes et islamiques (PISAI)
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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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Wael Tahhan
Temporary teaching and research fellow (ATER) and doctoral candidate in aesthetics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Literary, Semiotic and Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur’an in the Modern Period
- Wasim Salman
Abstract In this contribution to issue 51 (Mélanges) of the journal Islamochristiana, published in Italian as Approcci letterari, semiotici ed ermeneutici al Corano nel periodo moderno, Wasim Salman surveys...
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Spiritual eroticism and erotic spirituality in Sufi mystical thought
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&#...
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The gnostic constitution of aesthetic values in Ibn ʿArabī
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&#...
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Defining the beautiful in Islam: between submission to and transgression of ethical norms
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&#...
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Art in the face of authoritarian discourse: the contribution of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
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&#...
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Ghaḍḍ al-baṣar as the paradigm of an Islamic aesthetics: interpretations and perspectives
- Wael Tahhan
Paper presented at the fifth 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...
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Beyond the licitness of ecstasy: the poetry of samāʿ as an aesthetic and cognitive experience in al-Ghazālī
Paper presented at the fifth 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...
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Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: from bodily healing to the aesthetics of the soul — a study of the “Risālat Dhamm Ladhdhāt al-Dunyā”
Paper presented at the fifth 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...
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Annihilation in beauty, subsistence in ethics: the unity of unveiling and ethics in Ibn ʿArabī
Paper presented at the fifth 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...
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Ethics and aesthetics in the thought of Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (d. 414/1023)
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&#...
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Averroes and the Universal Intellect: an ethics of truth and an aesthetics of thought in al-Andalus
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&#...
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The foundations of the beautiful in al-Fārābī
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&#...
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University degree “Religion, freedom of religion, secularization (laïcité)”
University degree jointly delivered by the University of Lyon 3 and the Catholic University of Lyon, in partnership with the French Institute of Muslim Civilization and the Conseil Régional du Culte Musulma...
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Master ‘Islam and Society”
The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (CSIS) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Fribourg is offering a Master’s degree course “Islam and Society” as a main subject...
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University Diploma Interculturality, Secularism, Religions
The training “Interculturality, secularity, religions”, created in 2008 within the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris, in partnership with the Central Of...