The Arab uprisings
Fadi Daou, « The Arab uprisings and the new challenges for national social cohesion and Arab-West relations », in: Nayla Tabbara (éd.), What about the other? : a question for cross-cultural education in the 21st century,Notre Dame University – Louaize, 2012, p. 19-31.
The 200 Project
icon-calendar March 2013‒February 2016 Following its call for proposals, a contract entitled “Historic contextualization of 200 authors of the Classical Islamic heritage” was signed on 19 December 2012 with the European Union under the European Instrument for Human Rights & Democracy (reference EIDHR/2012 / 308 681) for an amount of € 155,000. This contract offers […]
The theory of knowledge and religious polemics according to Ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī
Adrien Candiard PhD candidate in Islamic studies, Paris icon-calendar Wednesday June 15ᵗʰ, 2016 The theory of knowledge according to the Andalusian theologian and jurist Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064) seems to be paradoxical at first glance. On the one hand, he is an enthusiastic defender of the use of reason in theological discussions. And on the […]
Newsletter – June 2016
Dear friends, At the end of June, five members of IDEO participated in a symposium organized in Paris by the Catholic University on dialogue of religious and cultural rationales. The many discussions that we have in Cairo between Muslims and Christians sometimes stumble on the following point: how do we take seriously the rationale of […]
The concept of genre in medieval Arabic literature
Gyöngyi Oroszi PhD student at the Catholic University of Budapest icon-calendar Tuesday April 26ᵗʰ, 2016 Rather than starting from existing categories, Gyöngyi Oroszi tries to explore the understanding the ancient authors had for their own literary work, particularly when they compile collections of histories and modify them so they could become integrated in a new […]
The concept of redemptive suffering among Twelver Shias
Amir Jajé IDEO’s member, Cairo icon-calendar Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Classical Sunni Islam is not familiar with the concept of a savior who would be the intermediary between God and his people, and neither the concept of an intercession that could have an influence on the salvation of humanity. However, the martyrdom […]
The Qurʾān, context and contextualisation
Abdullah Saeed Melbourne University icon-calendar Wednesday March 2nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Prof. Abdullah Saeed presented us his last book, entitled Reading the Qur’an in the twenty-first century: a contextualist approach (Routledge, 2013). Even in the Islamic conception of revelation, the Qurʾān is from the very beginning a text that dialogues with its auditors, answering […]
The education reform according to Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Simon Conrad Master’s student at Berlin Free University icon-calendar Tuesday February 23ʳᵈ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Simon Conrad presented his research on Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s thought, one of the key figures of Islamic modernism in the end of the 19th century. The traditional vision on Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s thought inevitably highlights a tension that supposedly existed between […]
The Christianity of Abraha and the Quran
Emilio Platti University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium icon-calendar Wednesday February 17ᵗʰ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Emilio Platti, member of IDEO, presented the works of Christian Robin on the inscriptions that are found in the Arabian Peninsula and date back to the beginning of the 4th century. Through his research, Robin brings archeological evidence to answer a […]
Islam sciences, between repetition and innovation: What is the role of the commentary in Islam?
icon-calendar January 14‒16, 2016 From the 8th‒14th century, the commentary was the form par excellence of intellectual production in Islam, as result of the professionalization of teaching which culminated in the Ottoman network of madrasas. “Commentary” here is understood in the broad sense: tafsīr, šarḥ, ḥāšiya, taʿlīq, but also taḥqīq, taqrīr, taḥqīq… On January 14, 15 […]