The History of Devotion to the Prophet Muḥammad through its Manuscripts
N. A. Mansour PhD candidate at Princeton University icon-calendar Wednesday November 13ᵗʰ, 2019 N. A. Mansour, whose PhD dissertation deals with the transition from manuscripts to printed books, focused during this seminar on what is probably the most popular book in the Islamic tradition: Dalāʾil al-ḫayrāt wa-šawāriq al-anwār fī ḏikr al-ṣalāt ʿalā al-nabī al-muḫtār, a […]
The “Men of Religion” in Contemporary Islam (1970‒2010)
Dominique Avon Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Assistant Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) and member of IDEO icon-calendar Sunday November 3ʳᵈ, 2019 While the internal situation of the Muslim world was favorable in the early 1970s (regained independence from […]
Newsletter — October 2019
Dear friends, It is very striking to note that for several years Muslims have been taking the initiative in interreligious dialogue. The abuse Daesh has been inflicting has probably forced them to come out of the woods. As always, the media forms of this dialogue tend to overshadow academic research and joint charity work, which […]
Analyzing the Emergence of Muḥammad’s Authority in the Maġāzī Literature
Adrien de Jarmy PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université, IDEO/IFAO Fellow 2019‒2020 icon-calendar Wednesday October 30ᵗʰ, 2019 Using a quantitative method, which includes traditions related to the Prophet and the Companions, and measures their distribution in ancient works of the Muslim tradition, Adrien de Jarmy tries to identify the political-religious thresholds and dynamics that mark the […]
Newsletter — September 2019
Dear friends, 2019-2020 will undoubtedly be the year of collaborations. We have the opportunity to work very closely with the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) (MIDEO publication, purchase of books, “Bibliothèques d’Orient” portal), with the National Library of France (BnF) (“Bibliothèques d’Orient”), with the French Institute (purchase of books, “Adawāt” project, “Midan Mounira”), with […]
The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men
Dominique Avon and Amar Saïdi, “The religious prohibition of marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men”, Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica, NR 1, April 2019, pages 85‒109.
A Word of Explanation on the Language and Grammar of the Qurʾān
Dr. Abd al-Hakim Radi, Professor of Arabic Literature, Literary Criticism, and Rhetoric in the Department of Arts at Cairo University and member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo Jean Druel, O.P., Director of IDEO and scholar in the history of Arabic grammar icon-calendar Tuesday September 10ᵗʰ, 2019 At a lecture he gave last November, […]
Newsletter — July and August 2019
Dear friends, You may be surprised to find a picture of a group of Jesuits here! In July, Jean Druel, OP was invited to participate in the meeting entitled “Jesuits among Muslims” (JAM), which gathers Jesuits from all over the world who work with Muslims every two years. Most of these Jesuits work with refugees […]
Newsletter — June 2019
Dear friends, The issue 34 of MIDEO, the periodical of the IDEO, has just been published. Published and distributed by the IFAO (39 €), it is fully and freely available online on the OpenEdition website. This issue is devoted to the authority of Ḥadīṯ, a corpus of texts, very short or sometimes longer, attributed to […]
The place of the sunna in the Risāla of al-Šāfiʿī (d. 204/820)
Dr. Ahmad Wagih Professor at the Faculty of Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University icon-calendar Monday June 24ᵗʰ, 2019 In this book, considered as the foundation of the Islamic legal theory, al-Šāfiʿī (d. 204/820) discusses the position of two distinct and opposing groups, the “Iraqis” and the “Hijazis”, on the question of legal arguments: what kind of […]