Shiʿite Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Early Modern Iran
Dennis Halft, OP, “Shiʿite Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Early Modern Iran: Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī and His Interpretation of Elijah”, in Biblia Arabica blog, 2020.
How to talk about Islam in a Catholic newspaper?
Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner Journalist at La Croix icon-calendar Sunday February 16ᵗʰ, 2020 We asked Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner, who was in charge of the section on Islam for several years at the newspaper La Croix, to reflect on her experience. Knowing practically nothing about Islam when she accepted that position, she embarked on the adventure to cover […]
A first reading of Le Coran des historiens (Cerf, 2019)
Adrien de Jarmy PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université, IDEO/IFAO Fellow icon-calendar Tuesday February 11ᵗʰ, 2020 While the classical Muslim exegetical tradition considers the Qurʾān as a starting point, and focuses on clarifying its obscure points by referring to the life of the Prophet and His sayings, the contemporary tendency of many researchers in the West […]
Newsletter — January 2020
Dear friends, we had the opportunity with the participants of the intensive Arabic course (see below), to visit Al-Sheikh Zayed Center for Teaching Arabic for non-natives (photo). Located on the campus of al-Azhar University, this center that was founded in 2011 welcomes 3,000 foreign students to prepare them to study in one of al-Azhar’s faculties. […]
Reports
We organise seminars and conferences: A public seminar, devoted to the Classical Arab-Muslim culture. About two sessions monthly, either in Arabic, or French or English. Free of charge and open to all. Subscribe here to receive the invitations. Click here to read the reports of the previous sessions. The Massignon Seminar, a research seminar for the […]
Searching for the Takārīr in medieval Egypt: a quest to bridge over fragmentary evidence
Hadrien Collet French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo icon-calendar Wednesday January 22ⁿᵈ, 2020 Historically, the kingdom of Takrūr is one of the first regions in West Africa have adopted Islam, in the middle of the 5ᵗʰ/11ᵗʰ century. This kingdom is not unknown to Arab authors: al-Masʿūdī (d. 345/956) mentions it in a book attributed […]
Newsletter — December 2019
Dear friends, On December 18th, we had the pleasure and the honor of paying tribute to Dr. Aly Elsamman (1929‒2017), who played a decisive role in obtaining the construction permission for our new library inaugurated in 2002. Aly Elsamman was a pioneer of interreligious dialogue at a time when few people thought it was possible […]
Call for papers: Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire
Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries) Texts, Modalities, Issues A Conference Organised by the IDEO Cairo, October 16ᵗʰ‒18ᵗʰ, 2020 Click here to download the conference programme… Keynote Speaker: Prof. Devin J. Stewart, Emory University (Atlanta) Deadlines January 31ˢᵗ, 2020 (half a page proposal, sent to secretariat@ideo-cairo.org). May 15ᵗʰ, 2020 (three-page summary, sent to […]
Newsletter — November 2019
Dear friends, the eight hundredth anniversary of the meeting between Saint Francis and the Sultan al-Mālik al-Kāmil in 1219 in Damietta, Egypt, has been the occasion of many celebrations and pilgrimages. We had the opportunity to welcome a group of pilgrims at the Institute (photo). Whatever the historical truth of this event (which only Franciscan […]
Relics and the Religious Topography of Cairo
Richard McGregor Professor of Islamic Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville icon-calendar Tuesday November 26ᵗʰ, 2019 Thanks to the precise study of the path and destiny of certain relics (the heads of al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad b. Ibn Abī Bakr or Alī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, prayer mats, footprints, turbans…), it is possible to write a history of Muslim […]