Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī
Dennis Halft, “Mullā ʿAlī Nūrī”, in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 20 (Iran, Afghanistan and the Caucasus 1800-1914), edited by D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden, Brill, 2023, pp.…
Arabic Zoology and the tasḫīr question
Guillaume de Vaulx, “Arabic Zoology and the tasḫīr question”, Mélanges de l’Université saint Joseph, vol. 69, pp. 47-71.
Newsletter May-June 2023
The question of the relationship with others and their status is one of the most salient criteria for approaching the vitality and openness of a religious tradition. The Qurʾān and…
The literal meaning, between Christian worlds and Muslim worlds (7ᵗʰ‒15ᵗʰ centuries)
Conference organized at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (Cairo) February 15ᵗʰ‒17ᵗʰ, 2024 By pointing the finger at the “literalism” or “fundamentalism” of this or that religious movement, current events…
60 Years of Nostra Aetate
New Perspectives on the Dominican Engagement for a Catholic Dialogue with Jews and Muslims January 19‒21, 2024, in Trier (Germany) As “one of the final surprises of the Second Vatican…
Newsletter April-May 2023
The Scientific Council of the MIDEO was held on April 28ᵗʰ under the leadership of its director, Dennis Halft, OP a professor of theology at the University of Trier, who…
Call for applications: 10-month pre-doctoral or doctoral scholarship in Classical Arabic Studies | Deadline: April 30, 2024
Place, service The French Institute for Oriental Archeology (IFAO) and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) are partnering to fund a 10-month pre-doctoral or doctoral scholarship from September 1ˢᵗ…
Newsletter March-April 2023
Miniature tirée de : ‘Les meilleures sentences et les plus précieux dictons’ d’al-Mubashir 13ᵉ s., conservé au Palais de Topkapi à İstanbul. For several years, the IDEO has been offering scholarships…
Newsletter February-March 2023
At the end of February, we welcomed eleven researchers from Europe, Lebanon and Canada, representing their research laboratories on Islam and members of the board of PLURIEL. They came to…
Newsletter January-February 2023
The Book Fair is always an extraordinary event in the Egyptian cultural life and this year is no exception. Hundreds of exhibitors, maybe more than last year, thousands of visitors,…
Newsletter December-January 2023
Adrien Candiard, OP in front of a distinguished jury, defended last December his PhD thesis under the direction of Christian Jambet at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). The…
Newsletter November-December 2022
After two years without a celebration of Mawlid due to COVID-19, on Tuesday November 22ⁿᵈ Egyptian Sufis from towns and villages, both near and far, came to Islamic Cairo in…