Translation and Arab Christian literature
András Mércz PhD student, Avicenna Institute, Budapest October 30, 2014 The Arab Christians and their endeavor in translating texts into Arabic have been twice, in the 8th and 17th centuries,…
Islam and the ideology of power: The Mongol case
Īhāb Nabīl Rifāʿī PhD student in History, ʿAyn Shams University, Cairo October 15, 2014 Īhāb Nabīl Rifāʿī studies the ambiguous relationships that the Mongols maintained with 13th-century Islam, both Sunnite…
The Arabic Bible in Persian hands
Dennis Halft IDEO, Free University in Berlin December 17, 2013 In recent years, the Muslim perceptions of the Bible have attracted increasing scholarly attention. Under the influence of Catholic missionary…
Non-Muslims as seen by al- Ghazālī
Emmanuel Pisani Member of IDEO, PhD student at the University of Lyon III November 12, 2013 For Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, the non-Muslim is not outside the boundaries of humanity, as…
Miskawayh’s elevation of self-interest
Spencer Case PhD student (University of Colorado) May 8, 2013 Miskawayh was an outstanding Muslim thinker of the Buyid period. This presentation examines the philosophy of Miskawayh with respect to…
The rhetoric structure of Sūrat al-Nūr
Yannis Warrach PhD student (INALCO) March 26, 2013 Mister Warrach has been working for two years with Brother Michel Cuypers to identify in the Qur’an the rhetoric forms that are…
Hezbollah
Dominique Avon & Anaїs-Trissa Khatchadourian, Hezbollah: A history of the “Party of God” (translated by Jane Mary Todd), Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2012, 256 pages. For thirty years, Hezbollah has played…
La dialectique « dialogue et conversion »
Claudio Monge, « La dialectique “dialogue et conversion” au cœur de la complexe histoire turco-ottomane : le regard d’un théologien catholique en terre d’islam » dans Histoire & missions chrétiennes, n°23 (septembre 2012),…
Biblical prophecy and Coranic prophecy
Rémi Chéno, « Prophétie biblique et prophétie coranique », Nouvelle Revue théologique 132 (2010) 434–447. Islam presents itself as an all embracing system claiming total and extensive comprehension of the world. Prophecy fulfils…
The banquet
Michel Cuypers, The banquet: A reading of the fifth Sura of the Qur’an, Convivium Press, Miami, 2009 (565 pages). Cuyper's work is a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic-Christian studies and is…
Thinking the complex unity of the Church
Rémi Chéno, « Penser l’unité de la réalité complexe de l’Église (LG 8). Perspectives pour une nouvelle étape de la réflexion ecclésiologique catholique » [= “Thinking the complex unity of the Church (LG…
Islam, friend or foe?
Emilio Platti, Islam, friend or foe? Peeters, Louvain-Paris-Dudley, MA; W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008, 267 pages. In this study, Emilio Platti dares to enquire directly into the compatibility between…