The question of women at the heart of the spiritual renovation of Islam
Asma Lamrabet Euro-Arab Foundation of the University of Granada icon-calendar Sunday February 21ˢᵗ, 2021 Click here to watch the lecture on Youtube (in French with Arabic subtitles)… Like many Muslim women working in intellectual and activist networks (Karamah in the United States, or Musawah in Malaysia), Mrs. Asma Lamrabet tries to go beyond the misogynistic, […]
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.
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 the exact number of patients suffering of Covid-19 because, the cost of a PCR test being almost 150 euros, only a tiny percentage of Egyptians […]
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 the Egyptian members of the GIS MOMM. Behind this code name hides a Scientific Interest Groupment of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), […]
What is the horizon of Qurʾānic studies in the West? (12ᵗʰ‒18ᵗʰ centuries)
Sana Bou Antoun PhD student at Paris-IV Sorbonne Université icon-calendar Tuesday November 10ᵗʰ, 2020 Western studies of the Qurʾān have a very ancient history, dating back to the 12ᵗʰ century, and it is important to study this history in order to better understand the stakes of the current situation. Consisting mainly of translations exercises accompanied […]
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 also consult the detailed tables of content and publishing houses of MIDEO. Since issue 31 (2015), MIDEO is published by IFAO and is also freely […]
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 interactions between Imamites and Christians. Starting from the hypothesis that history, theology, and literature bear witness to the intercultural dimension of encounters and relationships, 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 hateful, but no, this is not the desirable mode of our relationships with each other. There is no inalienable right to ridicule the sensibility of […]
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 een stroomversnelling geraakt. Islamoloog en dominicaan Emilio Platti behandelt in dit boekje twee nieuwe belangrijke inzichten. Hij beschrijft de invloed van jodendom en christendom op […]
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 his pocket after nine years of study, Abū al-ʿIlā ʿAfīfī (1897‒1966) was determined to introduce Sufi studies at the Egyptian University. This idea was considered […]