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University platform for research on Islam

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2016

Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL

With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee

 

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Not without others: recognition of others and unity in Christ – on the relationship between mission and dialogue

Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World

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Is God a Lawgiver? Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Ius divinum

Law that invokes divine appointment or other religious justifications is repeatedly the focus of general attention in Germany. Beyond the concrete religious legal provisions, there is a reflection ...

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‘Inimitable’ Koran ?

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...

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God’s Word and Human Language Christian theology of revelation and Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Koran

God’s Word is at the centre of both the Christian and Islamic faiths. Revelation and language are thus closely related in both religions. Tobias Specker brings Islamic and Christian theology,...

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The Question of Otherness in Classical Islam | Respondents

Following the lecture: "The question of Otherness in Classical Islam" given by Raja SAKRANI, three members of the scientific committee of the PLURIEL network give answers according to the three axe...

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What power does religion have? Questions for Christianity and Islam

Das Thema „Religion und Macht“ ist umfangreicher als die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der Religion zum Staat und zu demokratischen Strukturen. Im Namen Gottes wird in menschliches Leben eingegriffen, ...

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Is God a lawgiver? Christian and Muslim perspectives on Ius divinum

videos

Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL

With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee  

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Islam in Europe or European Islam?

In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers an in-depth analysis of the Muslim prese...

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Theology of Islamic-Christian Dialogue: Role of Interlocutors in the Example of Senegal

  • Jean-Claude Angoula

Encounters reveal the urgency of dialogue and the difficult quest for truth. This truth sometimes appears unique but elusive, especially during Islamic-Christian encounters. What model of dialogue ...

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Speaking freely in Islam

  • Hamadi Redissi

What is the Islamic doctrine of blasphemy, insult to God, religion and the Prophet? What about the prohibition of figurative representation of Muhammad? Can one openly believe or abjure in Islam? T...

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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 source...

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Christian Thought, Muslim Thought and Societal Issues: Launch of the “Theologies in Dialogue” Chair

  • Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
  • Michel Younès

On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, this inaugural conference presents a new chair entitled "Theologies in Dialogue" at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon. The speakers, Miche...

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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. Inde...

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Revival and Dynamics of Islamic Studies in Europe

  • Michel Younès
  • Emmanuel Pisani
  • Cédric Baylocq
  • Zohra Aziadé Zemirli
  • Michele Brignone
  • Haoues Seniguer

“In a troubled international context where Islam is sometimes defined as an ideological marker of many conflicts, academic research drawing on history, sociology, and political science has mu...

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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 tra...