University platform for research on Islam
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the Federation
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Catholic
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Federation
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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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NEWS
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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NEWS
A new director for the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies
A new director at IDEO, Cairo
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Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue (Bonn)
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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Mariangela Laviano
Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI, Rome) and Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Lateran University (PUL, Rome)
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David Marshall
Researcher in Qur’anic Studies, Guest Editor for Islamochristiana (PISAI)
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Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Holder of the Chair “Exegesis and theology of Shia Islam” at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris)
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Mohammad Haghani Fazl
Postdoctoral fellow at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
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Elizaveta Dorogova
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
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Nadia Saad
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
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Issa Diab
Professor of Semitic Studies
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Nayla Tabbara
President of the Adyan Foundation, Professor of Religious Sciences and Islamic Studies
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Gabriel Said Reynolds
Professor
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Amir Dziri
Professor for Islamic Studies; Director of the Swiss Center of Islam and Society
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Youssouf Sangare
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization and the Arab World, University of Clermont Auvergne
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Geneviève Gobillot
Professor Emeritus, Specialisation in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin
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Diego Sarrió Cucarella
Rector of PISAI, Professor
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Adnane Mokrani
Aggregate Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), Senior Research Fellow and member of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies (Fscire)
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Ida Zilio-Grandi
Professor of Arabic language and litterature – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IT
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René-Vincent Du Grandlaunay
Director of the library of IDEO
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Tobias Specker
Junior professor “Catholic Theology in the Light of Islam”
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Christian Troll
Honorary Professor of theology
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Hamideh Mohagheghi
Research Assistant in Exegesis of the Koran and Violence in the Holy Scriptures – Universität Paderborn
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Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Professor of Quranic exegesis
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Valentino Cottini
Professor of Bible and Koran at PISAI, Director of the journal Islamochristiana
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Paolo Branca
Associated Professor of Arabic and Islam Studies
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Malek Chaïeb
Research fellow at CECR
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Antonio Cuciniello
Research fellow in History of Islamic Countries
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Karim Ifrak
Research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris.
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Mehdi Azaiez
Professeur d’islamologie à l’Université catholique de Louvain
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Klaus von Stosch
Professor of catholic theology
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videos
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...
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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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Islam and the Salvation of non- Muslims: The Qur’anic Perspective
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
“At the Pluriel conference on “Islam and Otherness” I will argue the Qur’an’s emphasis on divine freedom provides an opening for inclusivism. The Qur’an emphasizes God’s mercy, using al-Raḥmān as a na...
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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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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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Environmentalism and sustainability as an expression of Islamic moral orientation
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract : The essay emphasizes cultural specificities, starting with the terminology currently used to describe sustainability, and investigates the lack of homogeneity of the semantic fields belonging res...
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Authority according to the Qur’an and the authority of the Qur’an: from model to realisation
- Geneviève Gobillot
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. . Vi...
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Violence and Jihad in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
This article explores the phenomena of violence and jihad in three parts: their emergence and trajectory in the Qur’anic text, their meanings, and their entanglement with the religious cause. The objective ...
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‘Inimitable’ Koran ?
- Tobias Specker
Interview with Pr. Tobias Specker, professor of Catholic Theology in the light of Islam at Sankt Georgen Graduate school of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt, Germany, about his book : Gottes Wort und mens...
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The sealing of prophethood in Islam
- Youssouf Sangare
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Islam and Otherness : A Muslim theologian’s viewpoint
- Nayla Tabbara
The Why and How of a New Theology of Religion in Islam The question of salvation The perception of the other and the perception of the self This lecture is part of the PLURIEL webinar ‘Islam & Otherness...
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The Khatim an-Nabiyyin (The Seal of the Prophets) and Its Inclusive Abrahamic Perspective: Muhammad and ‘Isa ibn Maryam in Dialogue
- Marco Demichelis
Abstract “Muhammad is not the father of any one of your men; he is God’s messenger and the Seal of the Prophets: God knows everything.” (33:40). The deconstruction of the concept of “the Seal of the Prophet...
