And Yet It Moves: Reflection on an Essay by Nicolai Sinai
Michel Cuypers, “And Yet It Moves: Reflection on an Essay by Nicolai Sinai” in Journal of Qur’anic Studies 22.2 (2020), 86‒104.
Seeking Fullness of Life in an ‘Oasis of Peace’
Dennis Halft, “Seeking Fullness of Life in an ‘Oasis of Peace’ Bruno Hussar’s Vision of a Shared Jewish-Palestinian Community,” in E. Van Stichel, Th. Eggensperger, M. Kalsky, and U. Engel…
Newsletter — August 2020
Dear friends, For many of us, the new academic year may be further disrupted by the Covid-19 epidemic. However, I hope you had a good summer, in Dahab (photo) or…
Call for Papers: Islamic Theologies of Disasters
Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism Thematic issue edited by Abdessamad Belhaj (Catholic University of Louvain, CISMOC) and Haoues Seniguer (Sciences-Po Lyon, Triangle UMR 5206, Lyon) Call…
Newsletter — June 2020
Dear friends, We are happy to announce the appointment of Emmanuel Pisani, OP as the new director of the IDEO. Emmanuel is a specialist in the theological thought of Abū…
The Kitāb Sībawayh of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr
Jean Druel, “The Kitāb Sībawayh of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr: A non-Sīrāfian recension of the Kitāb”, in Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 71 (2020), pages 29‒56. The Milan-Kazan codex of…
Islam of the Qurʾān vs Islam of the Hadith: Overcoming the divide between the “new thinkers of Islam” and the “Ulamas”
Youssouf Sangaré University of Clermont-Auvergne (France) June 21, 2020 Click here to watch the lecture on Youtube (in French with Arabic subtitles)… The Iraqi Shiite theologian al-Sayyid Kamāl al-Haydarī (born…
Call for papers: Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire
Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries) MIDEO 37 (2022) Deadlines February 1ˢᵗ, 2021 (full paper, sent to mideo@ideo-cairo.org for double-blind peer-review evaluation). Click here for the guidelines… Keywords…
Newsletter — March 2020
Dear friends, this epidemic that has so much overturned our lives in recent weeks is unfortunately an indicator that much more work remains to be done to better integrate religion…
A sparkle in the debate about the word ʾāmīn
Jean Druel, “A sparkle in the debate about the word ʾāmīn used in supplication and its rules in Arabic, by ʾAbū Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḫaššāb (d. 567/1172), an annotated translation”, in…
Newsletter — February 2020
Dear friends, one of the books we acquired at the Book Fair this year deserves a special mention. It is an edition of Ansāb al-ašrāf of al-Balāḏurī (d. 279/892?), a…
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.