A Qurʾānic apocalypse
Michel Cuypers, A Qurʾānic apocalypse: A reading of the thirty-three last Sūrahs of the Qurʾān, Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2018, 384 pages (collection “International Qurʾānic Studies Association, Studies in the Qurʾān”, 1). The present volume…
Inflation in the Mamluk Era
Mr. Oussama al-Saadouni Gamil PhD student at Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University Tuesday November 13ᵗʰ, 2018 Mr. Oussama al-Saadouni Gamil is preparing his doctoral thesis at Dār al-ʿUlūm on inflation during…
Iǧtihād and taqlīd in Sunnī and Šīʿī Islam
Call for papers for MIDEO 36 (2021) In the context of the Islamic reformism that emerged as early as the 18th century, some Muslim voices were raised against the practice…
Newsletter — October 2018
Dear friends, This month I would like to go into some technical detail about our library’s catalogue, because things are evolving very quickly. Since 2001, René-Vincent du Grandlaunay, OP has…
Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī
Dennis Halft, "Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī", in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 12 (Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 298-302.
Hovhannes Mrk‘uz Jułayec‘i
Dennis Halft, "Hovhannes Mrk‘uz Jułayec‘i", in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 12 (Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 260-265.
From the liberal education market to an Egypt on the move: a return to a path of research
Frédéric Abécassis Director of Studies at the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) in Cairo Tuesday October 16ᵗʰ, 2018 Frédéric Abécassis is the new Director of Studies at the French…
Newsletter — September 2018
Dear friends, The talk on the principles of interreligious dialogue, given by Bishop Jean-Marc Aveline at the second gala of IDEO (see the picture above), was inaugural in several ways.…
The legacy of al-Fārābī (d. 339/950) in the philosophical thinking in al-Andalus
Aziz Hilal Doctor of Arabic Philosophy Wednesday October 3ʳᵈ, 2018 Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Ǧābirī (d. 2010) supported the idea of an epistemological break between the philosophical thought of the Arab East…
The theological principles of interreligious dialogue
Jean-Marc Aveline Auxiliary Bishop of Marseille President of the Council for Interreligious Relations at the Bishop’s Conference of France Wednesday September 12ᵗʰ, 2018 Listen to the lecture (in French): Interreligious…
Cercare di capirsi
Jean Druel, Cercare di capirsi: Avvio al dialogo interreligioso, Brescia: Queriniana, 2018, 88 pages. «Lo scopo di questo libriccino è aiutare persone che vorrebbero imbastire un dialogo con altri credenti (o…
Newsletter — July-August 2018
Dear friends, I hope you had a good summer, fruitful yet relaxing at the same time. We often receive messages from friends lamenting the fact that this Newsletter reports past…