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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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Ethics and spirituality in Islam

Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen et Luca Patrizi (éd.), Ethics and spirituality in Islam: Sufi adab, Brill, Leyde, 2016, 792 pages. The notion of adab is at the heart of…

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A Persian Gospel manuscript

Dennis Halft, “A Persian Gospel manuscript and the London Polyglot”, in M. Pehlivanian, Ch. Rauch, and R. Vollandt, eds, Oriental Bible manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK: An…

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The ‘Book of books’ in Persian

Dennis Halft, “The ‘Book of books’ in Persian”, in M. Pehlivanian, Ch. Rauch, and R. Vollandt, eds, Oriental Bible manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK: An illustrated history,…

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Positive history and sacred history

Dominique Avon, « Histoire positive et histoire sacrée autour de la pensée de Louis Massignon » in Cahiers d'étude du religieux 16 (2016). Louis Massignon (1883‒1962) was one of the famous…

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The Dominican contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue

Emilio Platti, « The Dominican contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue » in: Philippiniana sacra 51/153, mai-août 2016 (“800 years of the Order of Preachers”), p. 463‒486.

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Incontro a Roma su islam e terrorismo

Alberto Ambrosio, « Incontro a Roma su islam e terrorismo ‒ Quando il dialogo si fa in moschea » in: Osservatore Romano, 13 mai 2016.

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Libertà religiosa

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, « Libertà religiosa : Diritto di libertà interiore », in: Missioni consolata 118, Gennaio-febbraio 2016, p. 63‒67.

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Dal Saladino agli Ottomani

Emilio Platti, « Dal Saladino agli Ottomani : L’Egitto, le sue scuole islamiche e l’ortodossia sunnita », in: dans : Luciano Vaccaro (éd.), Popoli, religioni e Chiese lungo il corso del…

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L’Egitto sciita

Adrien Candiard, « L’Egitto sciita : la dinastia fatimide » in: Luciano Vaccaro (éd.), Popoli, religioni e Chiese lungo il corso del Nilo, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, Gazzada…

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È brezza divina

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, È brezza divina. Parabole sufi, Jouvence, Milano, 80 pages, 2015.

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Sufism, literary production, and printing

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Rachida Chih and Rüdiger Seesemann (éd.), Sufism, literary production, and printing in the nineteenth century, (Mitteilungen zur sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, 37), Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 579 pages, 2015. Contributions: Catherine…

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Yahyā ibn ʿAdī

Emilio Platti, « Yahyâ ibn ʿAdî, disciples and masters. On questions of religious philosophy », in: The character of Christian-Muslim encounter, Brill, Leiden – Boston, 2015, p. 60‒84.