Newsletter April-May 2022
The price of bread has soared from the bowels of the Nile Valley. Then the thud of the cannon sounded and an atmosphere of serenity enveloped everything during this month of Ramadan. With ongoing lectures and seminars, we lived to the rhythm of ifṭār-s and prayers. And yet, blood also flowed in Egypt when a […]
Call for applications: Five scholarships for Arabic and Islamic Studies (2023–2026) | Deadline: March 1ˢᵗ, 2023
Subject: five scholarships for Arabic and Islamic Studies (2023‒2026) The Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies was founded in 1953 in Cairo in order to study Islam and the Arab Muslim civilization scientifically. Our mission is to study Islam theologically and to engage in theological dialogue with Muslims. In the current context characterized by the omnipresence […]
Newsletter March-April 2022
In the contiguity of the light, in the twilight celebration where one lets himself be lulled by musical sounds, we sense an inner and outer power that announces the sun of tomorrow, that of the origin, that of the desert, that of peace. Salam, a delivered word, an exchanged word, a daring word, an offered […]
Newsletter February-March 2022
The 53ʳᵈ Cairo International Book Fair ended with the memory of evenings dedicated to poetry and Arabic calligraphy, and multiple educational suggestions for the youngest. We were delighted by these wonderful initiations. However, as we walked through this prodigious maze of corridors strewn with mounds of books, we wondered if we were not also witnessing […]
Call for applications: Three-month field scholarships for Master’s and PhD students
Three-month field scholarships for master’s and PhD students Students of the Dominican Study Centers → Purpose of the scholarship: to support the research of students in theology, history-geography, sociology, philosophy, political science or linguistics and whose study, dealing with Islam or the Islamic world, requires research work in Cairo (bibliographic sources, field survey, etc.). → […]
Newsletter January-February 2022
Happy are the Islamic Scholars who probe the literature of lovers! Simply open the edition of Leyli and Majnûn which has just been published to understand that it is not a rhetorical bliss. What a beautiful book, and how the translation is fine, subtle, poetic, inebriating, touching. It is signed by our colleague from the […]
There is Matter for Thought
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, “There is Matter for Thought. The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century”, in Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis (dir.), The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, vol. I: The Prophet Between Doctrine, Literature […]
Newsletter December-January 2022
During a study trip organized by the French NGO Œuvre d’Orient, which supports the activities of the IDEO, a visitor asked Jean Druel, O.P: What would change if we did not exist? This is a relevant question, if not a bit thorny. For it is true, what would it change? or, in other words, what […]
Newsletter November-December 2021
Dear friends, For several months, in Cairo, bridges have sprouted up like mushrooms. They are sometimes so close to the houses that on days of traffic jams, coffee could be served to the drivers from the balconies. At the IDEO, the idea of bridges is somehow our philosophy because we also want to build bridges […]
The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān 1924: Texts, history & challenges
Fourth IDEO Conference in Cairo, October 16ᵗʰ‒17ᵗʰ, 2021 Scientific committee: Omar Alí-de-Unzaga (IIS, London), Aziz Hilal (IDEO, Cairo), Davidson McLaren (Thesaurus Islamicus, Istanbul), Ahmad Wagih (IDEO, Cairo). Coordination: Asma Hilali (Lille University). Watch the contributions of Saturday, October 16th Under the auspices of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, and as part of the Adawāt […]