Newsletter July 2026
It is a fact that several of the foremost specialists in Islamic mysticism have been Catholic priests and religious, from Louis Massignon, Georges Anawati, and Louis Gardet in the last century to Giuseppe Scattolin, a Comboni missionary from the Province of Trento, who passed away on 27 April this year after devoting his entire life […]
Newsletter June 2026
“Women and Religions”. This marks Season III for this certification from the “Anawati Chair”. This year, we changed how we select candidates. Because of artificial intelligence, we no longer know whose writing we are reading, what the students actually think, what their motivations are, if they have any, or if what they write is really […]
Newsletter May 2026
The visit of ISTR students from Paris provided a valuable opportunity to meet with al-Azhar’s Department of Islamic Studies, headed by Dr. Ali Abdelhakim. It also allowed for a discussion on the Document on Human Fraternity with students from the CEF of al-Azhar, directed by Dr. Mona Sabry. These encounters gave concrete expression to a […]
Newsletter March 2026
An unprecedented training week was implemented at the beginning of February on the topic “Complementarity between Religions and Human Rights.” It was organized in partnership with the Observatory for Combating Extremism and the British University in Egypt, with which we inaugurated a promising collaboration thanks to the dynamic commitment of Professor Ibrahim Salama. It is […]
Newsletter February 2026
The proceedings of the Islam and Fraternity conference, organized in Abu Dhabi by the Pluriel network with the support of the Anawati Chair, in partnership with Trends, and to which several members of the IDEO contributed, have just been published in the series Les Cahiers du Midéo (No. 7). They are fully accessible online, as […]
Call for Papers for the MIDEO 43 (2028)
Sībawayh and the Knowledge Traditions of His Time Influences, Dialogues, Critiques, and Legacies A foundational figure of Arabic grammar, Sībawayh (d. ca. 180/796) occupies a singular place in the intellectual history of medieval Islam. The Kitāb, a monumental work without any known precedent, is not merely an attempt to codify the Arabic language: it is […]
Newsletter January 2026
Sometimes a place calls upon those who inhabit it to bring it out of oblivion. When Francesco Antonini came in September 2023 as a recipient of the IDEO-Ifao-IFI predoctoral fellowship, as a philosopher and historian by training, he did not remain long deaf to this call. Because our walls are not only meant for sleep […]
Bibliogram of Sībawayh’s Kitāb: A delayed project — Will it be realised?”
Dr. Muhammad Gomaa al-Dirbi, November 7ᵗʰ, 2025 Session report Introduction Muhammad Gomaa al-Dirbi is a faculty member at the Faculty of Languages, Luxor University, Egypt. His lecture is devoted to an ambitious project he launched in 2023: the “Bibliogram of Sībawayh’s Kitāb.” Faced with the vast quantity of studies produced on Sībawayh and his book, […]
Newsletter December 2025
– €35,000! This year’s deficit has gradually decreased over the months thanks to tight management, but it still remains very significant! If you love IDEO, if you believe in our mission and in its many activities dedicated to research in Islamic studies, to supporting Egyptian and international students, to the careful development of a unique […]
Newsletter November 2025
Since October, IDEO, in partnership with the French Institute of Islamic studies (IFI), has inaugurated a seminar on methodology applied to Islamic studies, whose studies unfold within the fertile soil of the human sciences. Ten students participate: enrolled in Egypt in master’s or doctoral programs, they attempt the challenging art of interrogating—and sometimes testing—the texts […]