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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”.
Conférence donnée à l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth le mardi 24 mai 2022 lors du congrès de “Pluriel” sur le thème “Islam et altérité”.
قُدمت المحاضرة في بيروت يوم الثلاثاء 24 أيار/مايو 2022 في مؤتمر حول موضوع “الإسلام والغيرية”
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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 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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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...
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The birth of the prophet Muhammad : thematic and literary approach to traditional texts
Original title : "La naissance du prophète Muhammad - Approche thématique et littéraire des textes traditionnels" Abstract Our approach of the texts surrounding the birth and childhood of the...
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The use of the word kitab in the Qur’an and in an ancient Arabic version of the Gospels
Original title : "Le terme kitab dans le Coran et dans une ancienne version arabe des Évangiles" According to A. T. Welch, the Koranic term kitab (Scripture) is one of the most difficult to inte...
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Salafist Islam, despotism and modernity according to Abdel-Jawâd Yassine
Original title : "Islam salafiste, despotisme et modernité d'après Abdel-Jawâd Yassine" The societies of the Middle East remain more marked than elsewhere by the omnipresence of the religious fa...
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Not without others: recognition of others and unity in Christ – on the relationship between mission and dialogue
- Tobias Specker
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Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World
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Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
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In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be understood as directly given by God an...
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Religious Alterities and Cultural Alterities: Issues of Debate in Islam
- Samir Arbache
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Conference given in Beirut on Tuesday 24 May 2022 during the Pluriel congress on the theme "Islam and Otherness".
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Heterodox and non-Muslim in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī
- Emmanuel Pisani
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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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Islam and the Salvation of non- Muslims: The Qur’anic Perspective
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
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"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...
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‘Inimitable’ Koran ?
- Tobias Specker
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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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Christian approaches to Islam: tensions, displacement, issues
- Michel Younès
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More and more Christians are questioning the reality of Islam and the place of a religion that appeared after the advent of Christ, confessed as the ultimate manifestation of God to the world. But ...
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‘On how to discern the truth of religion’, by Hunayn b. Isḥāq. The impersonal recension
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
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Abstract This article contributes to the study of Christian Arabic literature by providing an introduction and English translation of the treatise entitled Kayfiyyat idrāk ḥaqīqat al-diyāna, ‘On...
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Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
- Michel Younès
- Adnane Mokrani
- Maurice Borrmans
- Klaus von Stosch
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Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim theologians on how the former view Islam and ...
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Islamochristiana 44 – In memory of Maurice Borrmans
- Valentino Cottini
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Issue number 44 of Islamochristiana is entirely dedicated to Maurice Borrmans, MAfr, who, together with the PISAI staff, founded the journal in 1975 and remained its editor almost interruptedly unt...