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Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
Author(s)
Michel Younès
Professor of Theology and Islam Studies, Deputy Director of the Research Unit "CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanités", Director of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR) - UCLy
Gonzalo Villagrán
Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Universidad Loyola in Granada. Professor of Christian social ethics
Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East at the Gregorian center for interreligious studies, Ponfifical Gregorian University
Emmanuel Pisani
Director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo).
Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Professor of Fundamental Theology and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck
Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Lecturer on the Arab-Muslim world and intercultural representations - Catholic University of Lyon.
Tobias Specker
Junior professor “Catholic Theology in the Light of Islam” - Hochschule für Philosophie und Theologie Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt.
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God’s Word and Human Language Christian theology of revelation and Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Koran
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Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
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