Newsletter — November 2019
Dear friends, the eight hundredth anniversary of the meeting between Saint Francis and the Sultan al-Mālik al-Kāmil in 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, has been the occasion of many celebrations and pilgrimages. We had the opportunity to welcome a group of pilgrims at the Institute (photo). Whatever the historical truth of this event (which only Franciscan […]
Relics and the Religious Topography of Cairo
Richard McGregor Professor of Islamic Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville icon-calendar Tuesday November 26ᵗʰ, 2019 Thanks to the precise study of the path and destiny of certain relics (the heads of al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad b. Ibn Abī Bakr or Alī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, prayer mats, footprints, turbans…), it is possible to write a history of Muslim […]
The History of Devotion to the Prophet Muḥammad through its Manuscripts
N. A. Mansour PhD candidate at Princeton University icon-calendar Wednesday November 13ᵗʰ, 2019 N. A. Mansour, whose PhD dissertation deals with the transition from manuscripts to printed books, focused during this seminar on what is probably the most popular book in the Islamic tradition: Dalāʾil al-ḫayrāt wa-šawāriq al-anwār fī ḏikr al-ṣalāt ʿalā al-nabī al-muḫtār, a […]
The “Men of Religion” in Contemporary Islam (1970‒2010)
Dominique Avon Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Assistant Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) and member of IDEO icon-calendar Sunday November 3ʳᵈ, 2019 While the internal situation of the Muslim world was favorable in the early 1970s (regained independence from […]
Newsletter — October 2019
Dear friends, It is very striking to note that for several years Muslims have been taking the initiative in interreligious dialogue. The abuse Daesh has been inflicting has probably forced them to come out of the woods. As always, the media forms of this dialogue tend to overshadow academic research and joint charity work, which […]
Analyzing the Emergence of Muḥammad’s Authority in the Maġāzī Literature
Adrien de Jarmy PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université, IDEO/IFAO Fellow 2019‒2020 icon-calendar Wednesday October 30ᵗʰ, 2019 Using a quantitative method, which includes traditions related to the Prophet and the Companions, and measures their distribution in ancient works of the Muslim tradition, Adrien de Jarmy tries to identify the political-religious thresholds and dynamics that mark the […]
Newsletter — September 2019
Dear friends, 2019-2020 will undoubtedly be the year of collaborations. We have the opportunity to work very closely with the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) (MIDEO publication, purchase of books, “Bibliothèques d’Orient” portal), with the National Library of France (BnF) (“Bibliothèques d’Orient”), with the French Institute (purchase of books, “Adawāt” project, “Midan Mounira”), with […]
The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men
Dominique Avon and Amar Saïdi, “The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men”, Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica, NR 1, April 2019, pages 85‒109.
A Word of Explanation on the Language and Grammar of the Qurʾān
Dr. Abd al-Hakim Radi, Professor of Arabic Literature, Literary Criticism, and Rhetoric in the Department of Arts at Cairo University and member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo Jean Druel, O.P., Director of IDEO and scholar in the history of Arabic grammar icon-calendar Tuesday September 10ᵗʰ, 2019 At a lecture he gave last November, […]
Newsletter — July and August 2019
Dear friends, You may be surprised to find a picture of a group of Jesuits here! In July, Jean Druel, OP was invited to participate in the meeting entitled “Jesuits among Muslims” (JAM), which gathers Jesuits from all over the world who work with Muslims every two years. Most of these Jesuits work with refugees […]