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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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Newsletter November 2024

The Anawati Chair has opened three postdoctoral fellowships in partnership with the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts. This month, our three researchers presented, as part of the IDEO seminars, the progress,…

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Newsletter October 2024

Dennis Halft, OP, Director of MIDEO (2021-2024); Adrien Candiard, OP, Director from October 1ˢᵗ, 2024. MIDEO 39, scheduled to be published this year and dedicated to the 1924 edition of…

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Newsletter September 2024

The students of the 2024 Certificate. Religions and Human Sciences. The summer at IDEO was marked by diligent labor and the serious dedication that accompanies the pursuit of knowledge. For…

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Newsletter July 2024

The second phase of the Bibliothèques d’Orient project is coming to an end. The National Library of France (BnF) and the Bibliothèques d’Orient network organized three study days dedicated to…

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Newsletter June 2024

May saw the inauguration of the Anawati Chair’s the “Religions and humanities” certificate, under the direction of Aziz Hilal. This innovative course brought together contemporary Muslim thinkers who are re-thinking…

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Newsletter May 2024

Here are some updates about Diamond-ILS, the cataloging application designed by Fr. René-Vincent du Grandlaunay back in the 1990s (initially under the name AlKindi). Thirty years later, the adventure continues!…

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Newsletter April 2024

Rawan Anani, Larmes de Gaza 2023 For the past six months, Gaza has witnessed the most odious and horrific scenes of its history. How does one describe the indescribable? How does…

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Call for applications: 10-month pre-doctoral/doctoral scholarship in Islamic Studies | Deadline: April 30, 2024

Call of 20.02.2024; closed on 30.04.2024 The French Institute for Islamic Studies, the French Institute for Oriental Archeology (IFAO) and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) are partnering to…

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Newsletter March 2024

Twenty-two young people from the Middle East, including Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, participated in the Abu Dhabi Congress on Human Fraternity from February 4ᵗʰ to 8ᵗʰ, 2024. Jean Jacques…

Publications

 Ausdrucksformen des Zusammenseins vor Gott

Emmanuel Pisani, « Ausdrucksformen des Zusammenseins vor Gott. Das Beispiel von Christian de Chergé », CIBEDO-Beiträge 3, 2023, pp. 98-105.

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Newsletter February 2024

If it is true that we are but dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants, and if we are striving to avoid being reduced to mere gnomes who, immersed in…

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The Paradox of Creation

Guillaume de Vaulx, The Paradox of Creation. Theology of (De)nature and Physics of Worship in the 3ʳᵈ/9ᵗʰ Century Kalām and Falsafa, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 18 (1-2), pp. 304-332.