Newsletter — July-August 2021
Dear friends, In this new academic year, our institutions are going through many departures and arrivals. The brothers of IDEO living in Cairo are not immune to these movements. Mateus…
Newsletter — June & July 2021
Dear friends, While no one believed it anymore, the 52ⁿᵈ edition of the Book Fair took place in Cairo from June 30ᵗʰ to July 15ᵗʰ. Aside from the masks, which…
Iǧtihād and taqlīd in Sunnī and Šīʿī Islam
The theme of iǧtihād and taqlīd, by pointing to the notional antagonism between independent reasoning on the one hand and submission to the argument of authority on the other, plunges us into the…
Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship
Fadi Daou, Fabio Petito and Michael D. Driessen, Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean, Milan: Ledizioni, June 2021, 194 pages. Polarization and discrimination linked to religion have…
Newsletter — May 2021
Dear friends, The year 2021 will definitely be a year of changes in our team in Cairo. After twenty-four years as director of the IDEO’s library, René-Vincent du Grandlaunay, OP…
Dialog über das Kennen und Verstehen der muslimischen Kultur vor Ort
Jean Jacques Pérennès, « Jacques Jomier (1914-2018), Dialog über das Kennen und Verstehen der muslimischen Kultur vor Ort », Wegbereiter des Interreligiösen Dialogs, Band III (Petrus Bsteh, Brigitte Procksch ed.),…
Newsletter — April 2021
Dear friends, The pioneer work of the IDEO in the field of manuscript cataloging has been rewarded by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), on the World…
Newsletter — March 2021
Dear friends, From March 5ᵗʰ‒8ᵗʰ, Pope Francis traveled to Iraq and visited many Christian and Muslim religious leaders, both Sunni and Shia. The scars left by the successive conflicts in…
Newsletter — January/February 2021
Dear friends, On February 3ʳᵈ and 4ᵗʰ, al-Azhar celebrated the second anniversary of the signing of the Document on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi, a declaration signed by the Great…
The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān 1924: Texts, histories & challenges
Conference of the IDEO in Cairo October 16ᵗʰ‒17ᵗʰ, 2021 Click here to download the conference programme… Presentation This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān…
The question of women at the heart of the spiritual renovation of Islam
Asma Lamrabet Euro-Arab Foundation of the University of Granada Sunday February 21ˢᵗ, 2021 Click here to watch the lecture on Youtube (in French with Arabic subtitles)… Like many Muslim women…
The Qurʾān in Christian-Muslim conversations
Jean Druel, in conversation with Joseph Victor Edwin, “The Qurʾān in Christian-Muslim conversations: Negotiating through difficulties”, Vidyajyoti journal of theological reflection (Delhi), 85 (2021), pages 135-150.