Analyzing the Emergence of Muḥammad’s Authority in the Maġāzī Literature
Adrien de Jarmy PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université, IDEO/IFAO Fellow 2019‒2020 Wednesday October 30ᵗʰ, 2019 Using a quantitative method, which includes traditions related to the Prophet and the Companions, and…
Newsletter — September 2019
Dear friends, 2019-2020 will undoubtedly be the year of collaborations. We have the opportunity to work very closely with the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) (MIDEO publication, purchase of…
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.
A Word of Explanation on the Language and Grammar of the Qurʾān
Dr. Abd al-Hakim Radi, Professor of Arabic Literature, Literary Criticism, and Rhetoric in the Department of Arts at Cairo University and member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo Jean…
Newsletter — July and August 2019
Dear friends, You may be surprised to find a picture of a group of Jesuits here! In July, Jean Druel, OP was invited to participate in the meeting entitled “Jesuits…
Newsletter — June 2019
Dear friends, The issue 34 of MIDEO, the periodical of the IDEO, has just been published. Published and distributed by the IFAO (39 €), it is fully and freely available…
The place of the sunna in the Risāla of al-Šāfiʿī (d. 204/820)
Dr. Ahmad Wagih Professor at the Faculty of Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University Monday June 24ᵗʰ, 2019 In this book, considered as the foundation of the Islamic legal theory, al-Šāfiʿī (d.…
Newsletter — May 2019
Dear friends, from May 1 to 5th, DoSt-İ, the Dominican Study Institute in Istanbul, directed by Claudio Monge, OP organized an international conference devoted to holiness in Islam and in…
Newsletter — April 2019
Dear friends, We are often asked the question —without animosity— what the IDEO is for and who benefits from our research, beyond a limited circle of academics? Your encouraging messages,…
‘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.
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,…
Ibn Taymiyya and the God of the Philosophers
Adrien Candiard, O.P. PhD candidate and IDEO member Tuesday April 23ʳᵈ, 2019 In the ninth volume of his large book Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql, which constitutes a precise and extremely informed…