Qur’anic Studies
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to 19/03/27 to 20/03/27
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The Composition of the Qur’an: Structure, Style and Meaning
On 19 and 20 March 2027, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo will host the international conference “The Composition of the Qur’an: Structure, Style & Meaning,” co-o...
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IDEO and Orient-Institut Beirut issue a call for papers on the composition of the Qur’an
The Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo and the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) have issued a call for papers for the international conference “The Composition of the Qur’an: Structu...
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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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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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to 19/11/21 to 20/11/21
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Conference ‘Islam and Otherness. What Islamic theology of religious pluralism?’
Conference organised by the Institut Supérieur de Théologie des Religions – ISTR – of the Theologicum (Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris). This confe...
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to 16/10/21 to 17/10/21
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Conference / The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān, 1924
Organized by the Dominican Insitute for Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo) Presentation This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān made under the authority of al-Azhar co...
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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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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...
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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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A new director for the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies
A new director at IDEO, Cairo
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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...
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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...
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Islam and Otherness (Paris)
In the global context of identity tensions, migratory flows, depreciation of the image of the Muslim world and its association to Daesh and al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks, the Institute of Science and Theolog...
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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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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...
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Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Titulaire de la Chaire “Exégèse et théologie de l’islam shi’ite” à l’École pratique des hautes études
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Mehdi Azaiez
Professeur d’islamologie à l’Université catholique de Louvain
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Paolo Branca
Professeur associé d’études arabes et islamiques
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Malek Chaïeb
Chercheur associé au CECR
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Valentino Cottini
Islamologue, ancien doyen et professeur du PISAI (Rome), ancien directeur de la revue Islamochristiana ; chanoine de la cathédrale de Vérone
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Diego Sarrió Cucarella
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Antonio Cuciniello
Chercheur en histoire des pays islamiques
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Issa Diab
Professeur en études sémitiques
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Elizaveta Dorogova
Docteure, ancienne assistante de recherche au Séminaire de théologie islamique de l’Université de Paderborn
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Amir Dziri
Professeur en islamologie, Directeur du centre suisse “Islam et société”
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Mohammad Haghani Fazl
Postdoctorant au sein du Séminaire de Théologie islamique de l’Université de Paderborn.
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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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Mariangela Laviano
Professeur adjoint à l’Institut pontifical d’études arabes et islamiques (PISAI, Rome) et professeur adjoint à l’Université pontificale du Latran (PUL, Rome)
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David Marshall
Chercheur en études coraniques, éditeur invité de la revue Islamochristiana (PISAI)
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Adnane Mokrani
Professeur agrégé à l’Université pontificale grégorienne (Rome), chercheur membre de la Fondation Jean XXIII pour les études religieuses (FSCIRE)
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Gabriel Said Reynolds
Professeur en théologie et islamologie
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Youssouf Sangare
Maître de conférences en Civilisation contemporaine et monde arabe, Université Clermont Auvergne
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Tobias Specker
Professeur adjoint pour la “Théologie catholique à la lumière de l’Islam” à Francfort
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Klaus von Stosch
Professeur de théologie catholique
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Nayla Tabbara
Présidente de la Fondation Adyan, professeur en Sciences des Religions et Etudes Islamiques
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Christian Troll
Professeur de théologie honoraire
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Ida Zilio-Grandi
Professeur de langue et littérature arabes, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IT
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Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends
- Michel Younès
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The Event of the Qur’an: Islam in its Scripture
- Timo Güzelmansur
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A Theology of Violence: An Analysis of Selected Surahs from the Qur’an
- Hamideh Mohagheghi
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Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
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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...
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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...
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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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Islam and Scientific Examination: A Renewed Quest
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
- Dominique Avon
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Islamochristiana Journal 49 (2024): “Maurice Borrmans and Mohamed Talbi: From Friendship to Rupture”
- David Marshall
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
- Rémi Caucanas
- Michel Younès
- Geneviève Gobillot
- Florence Javel
- Yosra Garmi
- Tobias Specker
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Redefining Qurʾānic Hermeneutics: Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd’s Humanistic Interpretations
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
This article presents the innovative endeavor by Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Jābrī and Nasr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd in interpreting the Qurʾān through a humanistic lens. Their approach marks a pivotal shift, viewing the Qurʾā...
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Otherness And Spatial Dimension In The Arabic Language And Culture
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Etymologically, the noun âkhar from the verb âkhara, rather draws the action of postponing, أَخَّرَ العَمَلَ, or temporarily deprogramming an action. al-âkhar on some other hand does not establish a binary ...
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Unity of God and unity in God – a possible perspective and way of dialogue between the believers?
- Vanessa Breidy
A shῑ‘ῑ perspective of dialogue developed by D. Mohammad Ali Shomali. Talking about unity between believers and calling them to act upon it is not new in Islam. The Qur’ān and the early history of Islam esp...
