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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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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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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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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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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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Constance Arminjon
Director of Studies in Intellectual History of Contemporary Shi’a Islam
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Michele Brignone
Executive Director of the Oasis Foundation, Professor at the Catholic University of Milan
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Dominique Avon
Director of studies at the EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL) and director of the IISMM (Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World).
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Farid Bouchiba
Postdoctoral fellow at the EPHE in the GSRL (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, UMR 8582)
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Asli Karaca
Visiting Assistant Professor at Al-Quds Bard College, Al-Quds University, Palestine
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Rémi Caucanas
Associate researcher at IREMAM (Aix-en-Provence), lecturer in the history of Islamic-Christian relations at Saint Paul University, Ottawa,
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Florence Javel
Doctoral student at the Catholic University of Lyon
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Hamadi Redissi
Tunisian academic, Islamologist and political scientist. Professor of political science at the University of Tunis.
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Jamel El Hamri
Researcher in History of contemporary Islam, and Consultant on Islam, Youth and Citizenship
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Issa Diab
Professor of Semitic Studies
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Henar Pizzaro
Full Professor (Psicology), Comillas University
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Amin Elias
Assistant Professor of History at Antonine University and Lebanese University
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Raja Sakrani
Jurist and Reserach coordinator
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Mohammed Hashas
Faculty Member, Department of Political Science, Luiss University of Rome
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Federico Stella
Lecturer in Islamic philosophy
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Michele Esposti Ongaro
Adjunct Professor in History of the Middle East
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Lamia Kenoussi
PhD Student in Classical Studies – Archeology
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Yosra Garmi
Temporary Teaching and Research Attaché (ATER) in Arab Studies
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Geneviève Gobillot
Professor Emeritus, Specialisation in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin
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Samir Arbache
Professeur en théologie et histoire des religions
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Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Rector of PISAI, Professor
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Juan Macias Amoretti
Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies
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Paolo Gonzaga Paolo
Researcher
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Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Theologian and historian of religions, specialist in Sufism
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Justin Jones
Associate Professor in the Study of Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion
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Ahmed Gomaa
Doctor in codicology and researcher at the Centre for the Edition of Heritage Texts – Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
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Ysé Tardan Masquelier
Historian of religions, specialist in Hinduism and yoga
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Diego Alonso-Lasheras
Professor of Moral Theology and Social Ethics
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Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East
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Pablo López Chaves
Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Contemporary History Department
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Leïla Babès
Doctor habilitated to direct research in political sciences, professor of sociology of religions and Islam studies
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Michel Boivin
Director of Research at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France)
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue : the approach of the White Fathers
- Rémi Caucanas
Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known as the White Fathers, has contributed to the emergence o...
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The essentials of Islam
- Jamel Khermimoun
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Muslim as ‘Other’ in former Yugoslavia
- Cédomir Nestorovic
Balkan Islam, and in particular that of the former Yugoslavia, is plural because of its ethnic diversity. However, the collective perception does not see it that way, due to a double homogenisation (histori...
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Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī: An Historical Contextualization Between Life and Works
- Antonio Cuciniello
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyuṭī (1445-1505), as a religious scholar of the Egyptian Mamluk era, one of the most prominent scholars of the pre-modern Islamic world, is the most prolific author in all of Islamic l...
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The Quran of Historians
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
How is historical research on the Qur’an received in the Muslim world? What do we know about the historical figure of Muhammad? Interview with Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, co-director of the “Qur’a...
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Protestantism and Islam
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
How did Martin Luther and John Calvin view Islam? How have Protestant theologians contributed to research on Islam? Pierre-Olivier Léchot, professor of modern history at the Protestant Institute of Theology...
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Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps
- Adnane Mokrani
The article traces the key concepts and methodological steps that make an Islamic theology of nonviolence plausible. It offers the tools for a critical reading of classical texts, “sacred” history, and glob...
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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 ...
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Corresponding across Religious Borders: The Letter of al-Qūṭī
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Summary : This article provides an introduction to the Letter of al-Qūṭī, a short anti-Islamic polemic in Arabic purportedly written by an unknown priest active in Toledo in the mid-1140s, as well as the...
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Lavigerie and Islam, an ambiguous legacy
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that their founder’s legacy “was not without ambiguity” in this ...
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Understanding Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Minorities in Turkey
- Anja Zalta
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Blessed Ramon Llull: the character and his relationship with Islam
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
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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...