Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī
Dennis Halft, “Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 467‒483.
Paolo Piromalli
Dennis Halft, “Paolo Piromalli,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 518‒523.
The word āmīn in Arabic
Jean Druel Director of IDEO Tuesday November 7ᵗʰ, 2017 In his short treatise entitled A glitter in the debate about the word āmīn used in supplication and its rules in…
Certainty and probability, from theology to the ‘servant’ sciences
Ahmad Wagih Doctor in Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University Wednesday October 18ᵗʰ, 2017 Muslim theologians (al-mutakallimūn) relied on the concepts of 'certainty' (al-qaṭʿiyya) and 'probability' (al-ẓanniyya) to…
Web Portal of Libraries of the Orient
2017 ‒ 2020 The National Library of France (BnF), as part of its international programs of shared digitalization, launched their project of a new digital web portal named “Libraries of…
Newsletter — September 2017
Dear friends, from September 18‒22nd, the 33rd German Oriental Day Conference (DOT) organized by the German Orientalist Association (DMG) was held in Jena (Germany). More than 950 lectures were presented,…
Historical Definitions of wasaṭiyya
Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO Saturday September 30ᵗʰ, 2017 On September 30th, the fourth meeting of our cooperative seminar with al-Azhar for this year took place. The chosen topic…
Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī
Dennis Halft, Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī A twelfth/eighteenth-century Jewish convert to Imāmī Šīʿism and his critique of Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the four kingdoms (Daniel 231‒45). Senses of scripture, treasures of tradition: The Bible in…
Newsletter — July and August 2017
Dear friends, A new academic year begins and it is an opportunity for us to invite you to once again participate in all our activities. The library welcomes researchers in…
Newsletter — June 2017
Dear friends, The month of June was marked by numerous visits and preparatory meetings for the upcoming academic year. For next year, we have several projects currently under study, we…
Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni
Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi (dir.), Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 120 pages. L’attenzione ai processi storici e sociali che attraversano l’Europa nel quadro delle relazioni mondiali…
Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: history, theology, literature
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, 2018 Click…