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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…

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Yahyā ibn ʿAdī

Emilio Platti, « Yahyâ ibn ʿAdî, disciples and masters. On questions of religious philosophy », in: The character of Christian-Muslim encounter, Brill, Leiden – Boston, 2015, p. 60‒84.

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Islam und Muslime im europäischen Kontext

Dominique Avon, « Islam und Muslime im europäischen Kontext. Reden eines medienwirksamen Menschen (1993‒2013) : Tariq Ramadan », in: Sabine Schmitz et Tuba Isik (dir.), Muslimische Identitäten in Europa. Dispositive…

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Migrazioni – territori – democrazia

Claudio Monge, « Migrazioni – territori – democrazia », in: A. Cortesi (éd.), Islam. Popoli in movimento, democrazia, Nerbini, Florence, 2015, p. 83–104 ; « Verso una convivenza plurale »,…

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Iscrizione in arabo

Adrien de Fouchier, « Iscrizione in arabo del monte Tabor », in: A. Tartuferi et F. D’Arelli (éd.), L’arte di Francesco, capolavori d’arte italiana e terre d’Asia dal XIII al…

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Why is it difficult to date when qalqala became unintelligible?

Jean Druel, « Why is it difficult to date when qalqala became unintelligible to Qurʾānic reciters and grammarians? », Arabica 62, 2015, p. 19‒52.

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Criteria for authenticity of prophecy

Emilio Platti, « Criteria for authenticity of prophecy in ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī’s Risāla », in: Books and written culture of the Islamic world. Studies presented to Claude Gilliot on the occasion…

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Francesco e Bartolomeo

Claudio Monge, « Francesco e Bartolomeo : la lunga metanoia verso la comunione », Il Regno, Bologne.

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Der islamische Humanismus

Emmanuel Pisani, « Der islamische Humanismus — Denkanstösse von Abū Ḥāmid al–Ġazālī », Cibedo 2 (2014), p. 60–66.

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The Arab Revolutions

Emilio Platti, « The Arab Revolutions and Islamic Civil Society », dans : Erkan Toguslu & Johan Leman (ed.), Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism, (Current Issues in Islam), Leuven University…

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ʿAbd al-Mālik al-Kharkūshī

Giuseppe Scattolin, « ʿAbd al-Mālik al-Kharkūshī (d. 407/1016). His sufi treatise Tahdhīb al-asrār », in: Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies (ed. V. Klemm & N. Al-Sha’ar), collection…

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Hebrew Bible Quotations in Arabic Transcription

Dennis Halft, « Hebrew Bible Quotations in Arabic Transcription in Safavid Iran of the 11th/17th Century: Sayyed Aḥmad ʿAlavī’s Persian Refutations of Christianity », Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 1…

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The Arab uprisings

Fadi Daou, « The Arab uprisings and the new challenges for national social cohesion and Arab-West relations », in: Nayla Tabbara (éd.), What about the other? : a question for cross-cultural…