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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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Divine Hospitality

Fadi Daou and Nayla Tabbara, Divine Hospitality: A Christian-Muslim Conversation, Amsterdam, World Council of Churches, July 2017, 180 pages. In face of unprecedented awareness of religious diversity, as well as…

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Pietro della Valle. Risāla-yi Piṭrūs dillā Vāllī

Dennis Halft, “Pietro della Valle. Risāla-yi Piṭrūs dillā Vāllī,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017,…

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Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī

Dennis Halft, “Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 467‒483.

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Paolo Piromalli

Dennis Halft, “Paolo Piromalli,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 518‒523.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Towards a New Perception of Islam

Dennis Halft, « Towards a New Perception of Islam: The Influence of Marie-Dominique Chenu’s Theology of Incarnation on Christian-Muslim Relations », in: M. Attridge, D. Dias, M. Eaton, and N. Olkovich, eds,…

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Domenicani a Costantinopoli prima e dopo l’impero ottomano

Claudio Monge & Silvia Pedone (dir.), Domenicani a Costantinopoli prima e dopo l’impero ottomano, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 326 pages. Il volume racconta la storia dei Domenicani in Asia Minore attraverso…

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Linee di frattura: sfide e frontiere

Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi (dir.), Linee di frattura: sfide e frontiere, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 128 pages. Questa pubblicazione presenta il frutto del lavoro e del confronto sincero e prolungato…

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Religionsfreiheit und islamische Staaten

Emmanuel Pisani, « Religionsfreiheit und islamische Staaten. Die Verquickung von Theologie und Politik » in Concilium, Oktober 2016, pages 436‒447.

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What happened to the grammar of numerals after Sībawayhi?

Jean Druel, What happened to the grammar of numerals after Sībawayhi? Amal E. Marogy and Kees Versteegh (Editors). The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics II. Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2015. 81‒99.