The 200 Project
March 2013‒February 2016 Following its call for proposals, a contract entitled “Historic contextualization of 200 authors of the Classical Islamic heritage” was signed on 19 December 2012 with the European…
The theory of knowledge and religious polemics according to Ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī
Adrien Candiard PhD candidate in Islamic studies, Paris Wednesday June 15ᵗʰ, 2016 The theory of knowledge according to the Andalusian theologian and jurist Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064) seems to be…
Newsletter – June 2016
Dear friends, At the end of June, five members of IDEO participated in a symposium organized in Paris by the Catholic University on dialogue of religious and cultural rationales. The…
The concept of genre in medieval Arabic literature
Gyöngyi Oroszi PhD student at the Catholic University of Budapest Tuesday April 26ᵗʰ, 2016 Rather than starting from existing categories, Gyöngyi Oroszi tries to explore the understanding the ancient authors…
The concept of redemptive suffering among Twelver Shias
Amir Jajé IDEO's member, Cairo Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Classical Sunni Islam is not familiar with the concept of a savior who would be the intermediary between…
The Qurʾān, context and contextualisation
Abdullah Saeed Melbourne University Wednesday March 2nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Prof. Abdullah Saeed presented us his last book, entitled Reading the Qur’an in the twenty-first century: a contextualist approach…
The education reform according to Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Simon Conrad Master’s student at Berlin Free University Tuesday February 23ʳᵈ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Simon Conrad presented his research on Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s thought, one of the key figures of…
The Christianity of Abraha and the Quran
Emilio Platti University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Wednesday February 17ᵗʰ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Emilio Platti, member of IDEO, presented the works of Christian Robin on the inscriptions that are found…
Islam sciences, between repetition and innovation: What is the role of the commentary in Islam?
January 14‒16, 2016 From the 8th‒14th century, the commentary was the form par excellence of intellectual production in Islam, as result of the professionalization of teaching which culminated in the…
Chinese Students of Al-Azhar and their impact on Sino-Egyptians relations
Maurice Gajan MA candidate, intern at the Center for Arab West Understanding December 15, 2015 Since 1931, when the first delegation of four Chinese Muslims came to study to al-Azhar,…
The Copts and the construction of religious authority
Gaétan Du Roy University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium December 3, 2015 Gaétan Du Roy presented his doctoral research on Fr. Samʿān, an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priest born in 1941, who gained…
The Azhar Park and the Walls of Cairo
Stéphane Pradines Aga Khan University, London November 24, 2015 Stéphane Pradines has worked over fifteen years with an international team on the excavations of the walls of Cairo. These excavations…