Newsletter —December 2020
Dear friends, As the pandemic continues to take its toll everywhere in the world, Egypt is currently being hit by a second wave of contamination. It is impossible to know…
Newsletter — November 2020
Dear friends, As the sanitary situation is still lasting, this is a good time for strategic thinking. On November 26ᵗʰ, the IDEO was invited to participate in a meeting of…
What is the horizon of Qurʾānic studies in the West? (12ᵗʰ‒18ᵗʰ centuries)
Sana Bou Antoun PhD student at Paris-IV Sorbonne Université Tuesday November 10ᵗʰ, 2020 Western studies of the Qurʾān have a very ancient history, dating back to the 12ᵗʰ century, and…
The Periodical MIDEO
Read MIDEO online! All the articles published before 2015 are downloadable in PDF format from our catalogue. List of members of MIDEO’s Scientific committee. Guidelines for MIDEO's authors. You can…
Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians
This volume 35 is made up of a dossier gathering most of the papers presented at the conference held in April 2018 at the Institut Catholique de Paris on the…
Newsletter — October 2020
Dear friends, Current events and international tensions remind us that there is a difference between rights and friendship. Yes, we all have the right to be mocking, sarcastic, or even…
De Koran herontdekt
Emilio Platti, De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages. De afgelopen jaren is het wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar het ontstaan van de Koran en de vroege Islam in…
Mysticism Comes to School
Notes on a Work in Progress, by Simon Conrad PhD student at Princeton University icon-calen Tuesday October 20ᵗʰ, 2020 When he returned from Cambridge in 1930 with his doctorate in…
Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries)
Third IDEO Conference in Cairo (and on Zoom) October 16ᵗʰ‒18ᵗʰ, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Devin J. Stewart, Emory University (Atlanta) Scientific coordination: Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (IDEO, Strasbourg) & Asma Hilali (Lille)…
Newsletter — September 2020
Dear friends, We hope that the developments of the health crisis do not disrupt your activities too much. Circumstances force us to organize our next conference online. Dedicated to recitation…
Review of The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
Dennis Halft, Review of Adam J. Silverstein and Guy G. Stroumsa (eds); Moshe Blidstein (associate ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, Medieval Encounters…
Hospitalidad y reciprocidad en Egipto
Jean Druel, «Hospitalidad y reciprocidad en Egipto», Concilium, Revista internacional de teología 387 (2020/4), pages 117‒124 (573‒580).