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Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam: for a France-Quebec referential | EJC 2022
The 34th Entretiens Jacques Cartier will take place in Quebec from 28 to 30 November 2022. A group of Canadian and French researchers will hold a one-day conference on the theme of radicalisation studies. A...
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Replay / Congress ‘Islam & Otherness’ in Beirut
Here is the playlist gathering all the lectures and talks of the congress. (Click on the icon in the upper right player to display the list). Watch the playlist in Youtube Direct links to lectures and talks...
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Synthesis of the congress ‘Islam & Otherness’
Synthèse du frère Emmanuel Pisani donnée le 25 mai 2022 à l’issue du 3è Congrès international de Pluriel « Islam et altérité » à Beyrouth Dans sa conférence inaugurale, Raja Sakrani a d’emblée posé la thèse...
DEADLINE : 23/01/23
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Islam and Fraternity – Call for paper for the 4th PLURIEL congress
Scheduled to take place from 2 to 6 February 2024 in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with TRENDS Research and Advisory, PLURIEL’s 4th International Congress will focus on : Islam and fraternity: impact and ...
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Replay / Conference “Religious authority in Islam”
Since 2019, the Pluriel group from Lyon group has brought together 14 researchers around the question of the legitimisation of religious authority in Islam. The closing conference of this research project w...
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International Conference On the Future of Islamic-theological Studies
The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (University of Fribourg) is organising a conference in Zurich on 9 and 10 February 30 and 31 May 2022 on the theme “On the Future of a Young Discipline – I...
to 23/05/22 to 27/05/22
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‘Islam & Otherness’ – 3rd PLURIEL International Congress
The 3rd international congress of PLURIEL, on the theme “Islam and Otherness” will take place in Beirut from Monday 23 May to Friday 27 May 2022. The final programme is available and the registr...
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...
to 18/11/21 to 19/11/21
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Conference / Religious authority in Islam
Conference organised by the Centre d’études des cultures et des religions (UCLy, Lyon) on 18 and 19 November 2021 Presentation Being a repository of authority or being recognised as a place of authori...
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...
to 14/04/21 to 26/05/21
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Webinars on the prevention of religious radicalisation
The Research Centre “Religions, Rights and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (REDESM), based at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in cooperation with the PriMED project to prevent ...
DEADLINE : 30/06/21
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Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism
Call for Papers for MIDEO 38 (2023) The Covid-19 (kūfīd-19) pandemic broke out around October-November 2019 in China. In addition to having become a global public health problem, it quickly became “a to...
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...
13/04/21
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Webinar ‘Islam & Otherness – Focus Lebanon’ April 13th, 2021
To open the 3rd International Congress of PLURIEL, which will exceptionally extend over two years, we are offering a one-afternoon webinar on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The jurist Raja...
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...
23/11/20
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Islam in Italy: the Roman case of Jamaat al-Tabligh
The Center for Interreligious Studies of the Pontifical Gregorian University is pleased to announce the next Forum addressing Islam-Christianity, entitled: “Islam in Italy: the Roman case of Jamaat al...
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An HDR on “Christian approaches to Islam
On 16 September, Mr Michel Younès defended his Habilitation to direct research at the École pratique des hautes études. The title of his work was: "Christian approaches to Islam".
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Proceedings of the first PLURIEL Congress
Publication of the proceedings of the Congress : Islam in plural. Thought, faith and society
For a preventive Islamic de-radicalization. The Re-Configuration of the Humanities within an inter-religious approach. (Milan)
Research group held by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. The return to the humanities is not only necessary, but crucial for the promotion of a de-radicalising approach to both societi...
Islamic-theological studies with a focus on “Islam and society” (Fribourg)
The Swiss Centre “Islam and Society” runs a doctoral programme “Islam and Society: Islamic-theological studies” designed to study specific, multidisciplinary themes and to support do...
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...
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 ...
HEST Cluster: Christian-Muslim Relations (Europe)
Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) programme aims to bring Higher Education institutions and Social Centres of the Society of Jesus in Europe together so that they can contribute to the real ...
Project 200 : An historical contextualization of 200 authors from the Arab Muslim heritage (Closed)
The project is to report systematically on 200 former Arab authors (belonging to the first 10 centuries of the Hegira ) their lists of works (lost, written or edited ) and the relationships that these works...
Charbel Attallah
David Marshall
Researcher in Qur’anic Studies, Guest Editor for Islamochristiana (PISAI)
Maryam Ballout
Assistant to the Cluster on Christian-Muslim Relations of the HEST Programme of the Jesuit Universities of Europe (Kircher Network)
Farid Bouchiba
Postdoctoral fellow at the EPHE in the GSRL (Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, UMR 8582)
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Holder of the Chair “Exegesis and theology of Shia Islam” at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris)
Jamel El Hamri
Researcher in History of contemporary Islam, and Consultant on Islam, Youth and Citizenship
Mohamed Gamal Ali
Research Assistant in Human Rights and Political Science. PhD Student in Political Science at Cairo University.
Alam Anwar
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Professor
Amir Dziri
Professor for Islamic Studies; Director of the Swiss Center of Islam and Society
Baptiste Brodard
Postdoctoral fellow in social sciences and Islamic studies.
Jason Welle
Dean of Studies
Davide Tacchini
Research Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller- Universität (Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies)
John L. Esposito
Professor of Religion & International Affairs and Islamic Studies
Houaria Rahaoui
Doctor of Philosophy, specialising in Islamology
Patrice Brodeur
Expert in Islamic studies and comparative Abrahamic religions
Amany Fouad Salib
Associate Researcher at the Centre of Research on Immigration, Ethnicity and Citizenship
Wael Saleh
Associate Professor at the Institut of International Studies of Montreal, UQAM, Montreal
Houssame Bentabet
Doctor in sociology and islamologist, researcher
Anna Hager
Chercheuse associée Post-doctorante Enseignante
Olga Torres
Researcher in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Seville
Agata S. Nalborczyk
Head of the Department for European Islam Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies – University of Warsaw.
Laurent Basanese
Official member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
Ambrogio Bongiovanni
Director of the Gregorian Center for Interreligious Studies
Ziaka Angeliki
Associate Professor of Religion
Jean-Marc Balhan
Guest lecturer at the Centre Sèvres, Priest in Ankara
Adnane Mokrani
Aggregate Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), Senior Research Fellow and member of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire)
Juan Macias Amoretti
Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Giovanni Giacalone
Professor of islam in the Balkans and Caucasus
Bénédicte Du Chaffaut
Researcher at the Centre d’Etudes des Cultures et des Religions of the Catholic University of Lyon
Valentino Cottini
Professor of Bible and Koran at PISAI, Director of the journal Islamochristiana
Paolo Branca
Associated Professor of Arabic and Islam Studies
Antonio Cuciniello
Research fellow in History of Islamic Countries
Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East
Jaime Flaquer Garcia
Professor of Interreligious Dialogue, Theology of Religions and Islam Studies
Karim Ifrak
Research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.
Gonzalo Villagrán
Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Universidad Loyola in Granada. Professor of Christian social ethics
Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Lecturer on the Arab-Muslim world and intercultural representations – Catholic University of Lyon.
Mehdi Azaiez
Professeur d’islamologie à l’Université catholique de Louvain
Hicham Abdel Gawad
PhD student in religious sciences, writer and trainer of religious facts in society.
Emmanuel Pisani
Director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo).
Michel Younès
Professor of Theology and Islam Studies
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Original Sin and the Qur’an
The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the author a...
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Religious Alterities and Cultural Alterities: Issues of Debate in Islam
Conference given in Beirut on Tuesday 24 May 2022 during the Pluriel congress on the theme “Islam and Otherness”.
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The authority of the Ulemas, Glory and misery according to Abdel Jawad Yassin
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2021. Vide...
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Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in contemporary Muslim thought
The purpose of the proposed paper is to question the division of the world into dār al-islām (land of Islam) and dār al-ḥarb (land of war), which is a classification introduced by Muslim jurisconsults in th...
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Synthesis of the congress ‘Islam and Otherness’
Friar Emmanuel Pisani, Director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo 3rd International Congress of the PLURIEL network, from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Beirut. In partnership with the University ...
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The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse
Full lecture title : ‘The representation of non-Islamist Muslims in Sunni Islamist discourse: an intra-religious otherness?’ In what ways do non-Brother Muslims (especially secular, liberal and ...
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The essentials of Islam
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Jalāl Al-Dīn Al-Suyūṭī: An Historical Contextualization Between Life and Works
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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In brief: the PLURIEL congress in Lebanon
3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network, on the theme “Islam and Otherness“, from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Beirut. In partnership with Saint Joseph University of Beirut and La Sagesse Univ...
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Exploring Islamic Social Work. Between Community and the Common Good
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The other in Islamic civilization: from the immanence of cultures to divine transcendence
Lecture given at the 3rd International Congress of Pluriel on the theme “Islam and Otherness”, on 24 May 2022, at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Read abstract on the French tab.
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Does the pandemic affect radicalisation?
Collaboration between Canadian and French researchers in the framework of the Centre Jacques Cartier talks, promoting partnerships between the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Quebec.
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Master’s Degree Programme in Islamic Religious Education
The Master’s Degree Programme in Islamic Religious Education offers a thorough education in Islamic theology and teaching religious education. Graduates are qualified for work in the field of education and ...
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Bachelor’s Programme Islamic Religious Education
The Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Islamic Religious Education offers basic education in Islamic theology and teaching religious education. Graduates of this programme are well versed in applying research r...
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Diploma in Interreligious Studies
The Gregorian Center for Interreligious Studies offers, for the 2020/2021 academic year, a path in two semesters for the achievement of the Diploma in Interreligious Studies. It will be possible to deepen t...
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Doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies
The Doctorate requires a minimum of three years to complete. Applicants must hold a Licentiate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the rank of Summa cum Laude or an equivalent qualification. Admission is gover...
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Master’s degree in culture and society, ‘Theologies in Dialogue’
It is already possible to study Islamic theology at the University of Paderborn as part of the two-subject bachelor’s degree “Comparative Theology of Religions”. The Master’s courses offered by the Un...
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Licenciate in Arabic Studies and Islamic Studies
The conviction which motivates PISAI is that the Christian task to meet face to face with Muslims should be based not solely on subjective good will but also on an objective, scientifically grounded knowled...
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Diploma in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Diploma obtained at the end of the first year of the Licence It offers students an in-depth study of the Arabic language, Islam Studies and data relating to Islamic-Christian dialogue. https://fr.pisai.it/f...
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Certificate of advanced studies (CAS) Preventing Extremism. Ideologies, religions and violence(s)
Target group People working in education, prisons, security, social work and anyone interested in becoming a contact person for issues related to extremism in their professional environment. Content The phe...
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University Certificate in Islamic-Christian Initial Culture
This course aims to identify the basic principles of Christian and Islamic beliefs and the means of expressing them, as well as the historical aspects and developments that these two religions have undergon...
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Bachelor in Islamic-Christian Studies
Given the growing importance of interfaith dialogue as an entry point for achieving peace and promoting the values of coexistence in many societies, particularly in Lebanon and the Arab world, the Institute...
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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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Master in Christian-Muslim relations
In September 2007, the Institute of Islamic-Christian Studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut opened a “Master in Islamic-Christian Relations” in Arabic. In September 2011, this course is d...