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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…

Research projects

Post-liberal models of religious pluralism

Rémi Chéno After a short foray into the Jain logic and its model for the status of enunciation in a debate, Rémi Chéno pursues his research on the possibility of a pluralistic approach to religions. In…

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The reception of Sībawayh’s Kitāb in the West

Jean Druel  September 2015‒September 2020 In her PhD research (1992, published in 1995 under the title Les voies de la transmission du Kitāb de Sībawayhi, Brill) Geneviève Humbert has reveaIed…

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PLURIEL

IDEO is partner of the academic platform PLURIEL. PLURIEL has been initiated by the Federation of the Catholic Universities in Europe and Lebanon. It aims to promote the link between…

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Ibn Taymiyya (728/1328) et son Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql

Ahmad Wagih Doctorant en théologie musulmane à Dār al-ʿUlūm (Université du Caire) Mardi 19 mai 2015 à 17h00 Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) occupe une place très particulière dans la tradition…

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Muslim theology of religions

Call for papers: MIDEO 33 (2018) Islam and religions. The topic is not new. At the time of early Islam, it referred to the relations and interactions between Muslims and non-Muslims.…

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The Dominican contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue

Emilio Platti, « The Dominican contribution to Christian-Muslim dialogue » in: Philippiniana sacra 51/153, mai-août 2016 (“800 years of the Order of Preachers”), p. 463‒486.

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Incontro a Roma su islam e terrorismo

Alberto Ambrosio, « Incontro a Roma su islam e terrorismo ‒ Quando il dialogo si fa in moschea » in: Osservatore Romano, 13 mai 2016.

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Libertà religiosa

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, « Libertà religiosa : Diritto di libertà interiore », in: Missioni consolata 118, Gennaio-febbraio 2016, p. 63‒67.

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Dal Saladino agli Ottomani

Emilio Platti, « Dal Saladino agli Ottomani : L’Egitto, le sue scuole islamiche e l’ortodossia sunnita », in: dans : Luciano Vaccaro (éd.), Popoli, religioni e Chiese lungo il corso del…

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L’Egitto sciita

Adrien Candiard, « L’Egitto sciita : la dinastia fatimide » in: Luciano Vaccaro (éd.), Popoli, religioni e Chiese lungo il corso del Nilo, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, Gazzada…

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È brezza divina

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, È brezza divina. Parabole sufi, Jouvence, Milano, 80 pages, 2015.

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Sufism, literary production, and printing

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Rachida Chih and Rüdiger Seesemann (éd.), Sufism, literary production, and printing in the nineteenth century, (Mitteilungen zur sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, 37), Ergon Verlag, Würzburg, 579 pages, 2015. Contributions: Catherine…