Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī
Dennis Halft, Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī A twelfth/eighteenth-century Jewish convert to Imāmī Šīʿism and his critique of Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the four kingdoms (Daniel 231‒45). Senses of scripture, treasures of tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims, edited by M. L. Hjälm. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 280‒304. Click here to buy the book from Brill Online Books and […]
Newsletter — July and August 2017
Dear friends, A new academic year begins and it is an opportunity for us to invite you to once again participate in all our activities. The library welcomes researchers in Arab-Muslim culture, its online catalog contains a wealth of cultural and contextual information, you can subscribe to receive invitations to our seminars and read the […]
Newsletter — June 2017
Dear friends, The month of June was marked by numerous visits and preparatory meetings for the upcoming academic year. For next year, we have several projects currently under study, we hope to be able to announce some good news at the beginning of the year. Until then, we wish you all a very beautiful summer, […]
Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni
Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi (dir.), Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 120 pages. L’attenzione ai processi storici e sociali che attraversano l’Europa nel quadro delle relazioni mondiali si radica nel convincimento che all’interno dei contraddittori percorsi storici dell’umanità si attua una storia di salvezza, irraggiata in quelli che il Vaticano II ha […]
Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: history, theology, literature
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, 2018 Click here to download the final programme… Synopsis The interactions and exchanges between Twelver Shiites and Christians, Catholics as well as Protestants, have rarely been studied […]
The emergence of Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge
International conference with Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Aisha Geissinger (University of Carleton) in Cairo, 11–13 January 2018 In collaboration with the French Institute of Egypt Click here to download the programme… One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using intellectual tools foreign to the […]
Newsletter – May 2017
Dear friends, Ramadan has begun once again, and this year in the midst of violence. How can some people believe that this violence pleases God? How can they imagine that God would be satisfied with seeing his children murdered in his name? If it is clear that there are many economic and political factors that […]
The Effectiveness of Religious Discourse: Between Teaching and Reality
Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Monday May 8ᵗʰ, 2017 The third session in the series of meetings organized as part of the collaboration between the University of al-Azhar and the IDEO, aimed at examining the issue of extremism, took place on Monday, May 8, 2017 at the Faculty of Human Sciences (for Women). […]
Excavation of an Umayyad castle
Jean-Baptiste Humbert Archaeologist at the Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem icon-calendar Tuesday May 2nd, 2017 Archeology consists of luck and surprises. By searching for traces of the Aramean people (often mentioned in the Bible, but not well known), Jean-Baptiste Humbert, OP became interested in the site of Mafraq in the north of Jordan in […]
Freedom of conscience
Dominique Avon, “Freedom of conscience (ḥurriyyat al-ḍamīr). A challenge for Arab-Islamic authorities”, dans Acta philosophica, 2017, vol. 26, fasc. 1, pages 193‒200.