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Newsletter November 2026

We knew them as master’s and doctoral students. They had the look of young researchers who discover, in reading an archive, a manuscript page or in a chance encounter, the…

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Newsletter October 2026

Adrien Candiard, OP, director of MIDEO, kept to his goal of publishing MIDEO 2026 in 2026, and we thank him warmly for it, especially as the result is a very…

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Newsletter September 2026

There were no summer holidays for IDEO. The summer was hot and warm. It began for us in the first week of July, with the conference organized by the NCCMR…

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Shiʿite Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Early Modern Iran

Dennis Halft, OP, “Shiʿite Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Early Modern Iran: Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī and His Interpretation of Elijah”, in Biblia Arabica blog, 2020.

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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.

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‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’

Jean Druel and Almog Kasher, “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: The mamnūʿ min al-ṣarf (diptotes) in Arabic grammatical tradition” in Arabica 66 (2019), pages 98‒136.

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Can Ambrosiana X 56 Sup. improve our understanding of Sībawayhi’s grammar?

Jean Druel, “Can Ambrosiana X 56 Sup. improve our understanding of Sībawayhi’s grammar?” in Manuela E. B. Giolfo and Kees Versteegh (editors), The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics IV,  Brill: Leiden,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī

Dennis Halft, "Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī", in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 12 (Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 298-302.

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Hovhannes Mrk‘uz Jułayec‘i

Dennis Halft, "Hovhannes Mrk‘uz Jułayec‘i", in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 12 (Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 260-265.

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Cercare di capirsi

Jean Druel, Cercare di capirsi: Avvio al dialogo interreligioso, Brescia: Queriniana, 2018, 88 pages. «Lo scopo di questo libriccino è aiutare persone che vorrebbero imbastire un dialogo con altri credenti (o…

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The Kazan parchment fragments of Sībawayh’s Kitāb

Jean Druel, “The Kazan parchment fragments of Sībawayh’s Kitāb” in Гасырлар авазы (Эхо веков) 90/1 (2018), pages 14‒26.

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Abd al-Masîh al-Kindî on the Qur’an

Emilio Platti, “Abd al-Masîh al-Kindî on the Qur'an” in Arab Christians and the Qur'an from the origins of Islam to the Medieval period, edited by Mark Beaumont, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018, 66‒82.