Newsletter — January 2019
Dear friends, Following numerous rumors in recent months, we feared that the famous Cairo Book Fair would be too remote, too difficult for the public to access, and burdened with discouraging formalities for international publishers. This has not been the case! The organization of this fiftieth Cairo Book Fair is remarkable. Though the premises are […]
Mediterraneo. Il dramma dei
Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi & Pietro Domenico Giovannoni & Marco Giovannoni, Mediterraneo. Il dramma dei “senza diritti”, Firenze, Nerbini, 2019, 168 pages. La frontiera dell’accoglienza rappresenta un ambito cruciale su cui impostare prospettive di impegno e di prassi per il futuro. I saggi presentati in questo volume costituiscono l’esito di un lavoro di ricerca […]
Newsletter — December 2018
Dear Friends, From December 13‒20th, in Iraq, Amir Jajé organized the second part of the conference devoted to relations between Twelver Shiites and Christians (Paris, April 2018). This second part of the conference consisted of a workshop on Arabic manuscripts in Najaf and a one-day study session with the al-Khoei Institute. This trip was also […]
The Ḥadīṯ as authority of knowledge
The canonization of Ḥadīṯ has not been without theological conflicts: between the Qurʾānic scholars, the traditionalists, and the rationalists, the question raised is always that of the authority of knowledge. How has the authority of Ḥadīṯ been built and how has the science of Ḥadīṯ been transmitted and gave birth, within the schools of Fiqh and the various currents of Islam (kalām, philosophy, […]
Muslim perspectives on interreligious dialogue
Djamel Djazouli, Denis Gril and Omero Marongiu-Perria A round table leaded by Adrien Candiard, OP (IDEO) At the French Institute in Egypt icon-calendar Friday November 30ᵗʰ, 2018 at 6:00 p.m It is true that interreligious dialogue has long been the initiative of Christians, however, more and more Muslim voices are now being heard, calling for […]
Newsletter — November 2018
Dear friends, The visit of the Islamic-Christian group for theological reflection, organized by the SNRM (National Service of the Bishops of France for Relations with Muslims), was a beautiful occasion of exchange and reflection (photo). The members of this group are as follows: Christian representatives: P. Vincent Feroldi, Director of the SNRM, Sister Colette Hamza, […]
Il martirio dell’ospitalità
Claudio Monge et Gilles Routhier, Il martirio dell’ospitalità. La testimonianza di Christian de Chergé e Pierre Claverie, Bologne, EDB, 2018, 160 pages. È negli anni terribili del «decennio nero», che in Algeria contrappone islamisti e forze armate, che si colloca la straordinaria testimonianza di due uomini. Sono Christian de Chergé, priore del monastero trappista di Tibhirine, rapito e […]
A Qurʾānic apocalypse
Michel Cuypers, A Qurʾānic apocalypse: A reading of the thirty-three last Sūrahs of the Qurʾān, Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018, 384 pages (collection “International Qurʾānic Studies Association, Studies in the Qurʾān”, 1). The present volume closes a trilogy devoted to the exegesis of the Qurʾān analyzed according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric, a method of textual analysis developed in […]
Inflation in the Mamluk Era
Mr. Oussama al-Saadouni Gamil PhD student at Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University icon-calendar Tuesday November 13ᵗʰ, 2018 Mr. Oussama al-Saadouni Gamil is preparing his doctoral thesis at Dār al-ʿUlūm on inflation during the Mamluk era. He chose to focus on a ten-year period, from 800/1397 to 810/1408, in order to study in as much detail as […]
Iǧtihād and taqlīd in Sunnī and Šīʿī Islam
Call for papers for MIDEO 36 (2021) In the context of the Islamic reformism that emerged as early as the 18th century, some Muslim voices were raised against the practice of taqlīd (‘legal conformity’), and which has been accused of being responsible for the decline of the Islamic world. Following the thought of Ibn Taymiyya […]