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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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Hezbollah

Dominique Avon & Anaїs-Trissa Khatchadourian, Hezbollah: A history of the “Party of God” (translated by Jane Mary Todd), Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2012, 256 pages. For thirty years, Hezbollah has played…

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La dialectique « dialogue et conversion »

Claudio Monge, « La dialectique “dialogue et conversion” au cœur de la complexe histoire turco-ottomane : le regard d’un théologien catholique en terre d’islam » dans Histoire & missions chrétiennes, n°23 (septembre 2012),…

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Biblical prophecy and Coranic prophecy

Rémi Chéno, « Prophétie biblique et prophétie coranique », Nouvelle Revue théologique 132 (2010) 434–447. Islam presents itself as an all embracing system claiming total and extensive comprehension of the world. Prophecy fulfils…

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The banquet

Michel Cuypers, The banquet: A reading of the fifth Sura of the Qur’an, Convivium Press, Miami, 2009 (565 pages). Cuyper's work is a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic-Christian studies and is…

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Thinking the complex unity of the Church

Rémi Chéno, « Penser l’unité de la réalité complexe de l’Église (LG 8). Perspectives pour une nouvelle étape de la réflexion ecclésiologique catholique » [= “Thinking the complex unity of the Church (LG…

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Islam, friend or foe?

Emilio Platti, Islam, friend or foe? Peeters, Louvain-Paris-Dudley, MA; W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008, 267 pages. In this study, Emilio Platti dares to enquire directly into the compatibility between…

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A life poured out

Jean Jacques Pérennès, A life poured out: Pierre Claverie of Algeria, Orbis Books, Maryknoll (NY), 2007, 300 pages. The killing of Dominican Pierre Claverie, the bishop of Oran, and his young…