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2020

In Islam, why is it difficult to identify legitimate sources of authority?

Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the subject “Authority and regulation in Islam” of the Center for the study of cultures and religions (CECR, UCLy).
with Emmanuel Pisani, Yosra Garmi and Samir Arbache.

The group brings together 15 researchers from various universities and disciplines.

Éléments de réponses à une question étudiée par le groupe de recherche sur le thème “Autorité et régulation en islam” du Centre d’études des cultures et des religions (CECR, UCLy) avec Emmanuel Pisani, Yosra Garmi et Samir Arbache.

Le groupe regroupe 15 chercheurs de diverses universités et disciplines.

“عناصر الإجابات عن مسألة طرحتها مجموعة البحث حول موضوع “”السلطة والتنظيم في الإسلام”” في مركز دراسات الثقافات والأديان في الجامعة الكاثوليكية في ليون.

تضم المجموعة 15 باحثًا من جامعات وتخصّصات مختلفة.

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Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism. Proceedings of the Colloquium Held on November 20 and 21, 2021

The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research on the theme of religious pluralism in Islam. Wh...

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MIDÉO No. 37: Recitation in the early centuries of Islam

The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held in Cairo in October 2020 on reciting in the early Isl...

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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 ...

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Heterodox and non-Muslim in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī

This study addresses the question of how to view and understand religious otherness from a Muslim perspective, in the light of one of its greatest thinkers. Starting from a questioning of the statu...

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al-Ġazālī, a figure of a magisterial authority?

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 2...

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In Islam, why do certain people occupy the center of the scene more than others?

Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the theme “Authority and regulation in Islam” of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR, UCLy) The group brin...

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MIDEO 36 – Iǧtihād and taqlīd in Sunnī and Šīʿī Islam

The theme of iǧtihād and taqlīd, by pointing to the notional antagonism between independent reasoning on the one hand and submission to the argument of authority on the other, plunges us into the h...

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Islam and Otherness : presentation of the 3rd PLURIEL International Congress

Presentation of the theme and the stakes of the 3rd international congress of PLURIEL. Planned to take place in Beirut in April 2020, it had to be rescheduled and reshaped due to the global heal...

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Religions and dialogues

Founded in 1967 in the wake of the Vatican Council II at the request of the missionary congregations and of Rome, by Fathers Jean Daniélou and Henri Bouillard, the Paris Institute of Science and Th...

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