Pietro della Valle. Risāla-yi Piṭrūs dillā Vāllī
Dennis Halft, “Pietro della Valle. Risāla-yi Piṭrūs dillā Vāllī,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 457‒460.
Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī
Dennis Halft, “Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlavī,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 467‒483.
Paolo Piromalli
Dennis Halft, “Paolo Piromalli,” in: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, vol. 10 (Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600‒1700), ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 518‒523.
The word āmīn in Arabic
Jean Druel Director of IDEO icon-calendar Tuesday November 7ᵗʰ, 2017 In his short treatise entitled A glitter in the debate about the word āmīn used in supplication and its rules in Arabic, Ibn al-Ḫaššāb al-Baġdādī (d. 567/1172) presents the state of the art of the grammatical knowledge on the word āmīn in his time. All […]
Certainty and probability, from theology to the ‘servant’ sciences
Ahmad Wagih Doctor in Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Dār al-ʿUlūm, Cairo University icon-calendar Wednesday October 18ᵗʰ, 2017 Muslim theologians (al-mutakallimūn) relied on the concepts of ‘certainty’ (al-qaṭʿiyya) and ‘probability’ (al-ẓanniyya) to build their theological argumentation and classify knowledge, in order to distinguish between what could be relied on and what could not. Practically speaking, however, each […]
Web Portal of Libraries of the Orient
icon-calendar 2017 ‒ 2020 The National Library of France (BnF), as part of its international programs of shared digitalization, launched their project of a new digital web portal named “Libraries of the Orient” for the preservation, digitalization, dissemination, and enhancement of the heritage of Francophone libraries in the Mediterranean Orient. IDEO’s library was selected to participate […]
Newsletter — September 2017
Dear friends, from September 18‒22nd, the 33rd German Oriental Day Conference (DOT) organized by the German Orientalist Association (DMG) was held in Jena (Germany). More than 950 lectures were presented, on topics ranging from Africa to Japan, including Semitic languages, Eastern Christians, the ancient Near East, Islamic Studies and the contemporary Arab World. We were […]
Historical Definitions of wasaṭiyya
Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Saturday September 30ᵗʰ, 2017 On September 30th, the fourth meeting of our cooperative seminar with al-Azhar for this year took place. The chosen topic was the historical definitions of “wasaṭiyya”, usually translated as “the middle path.” Three speakers presented their research on this topic: Ms. Inès Ata from […]
Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī
Dennis Halft, Ismāʿīl Qazvīnī A twelfth/eighteenth-century Jewish convert to Imāmī Šīʿism and his critique of Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the four kingdoms (Daniel 231‒45). Senses of scripture, treasures of tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims, edited by M. L. Hjälm. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 280‒304. Click here to buy the book from Brill Online Books and […]
Newsletter — July and August 2017
Dear friends, A new academic year begins and it is an opportunity for us to invite you to once again participate in all our activities. The library welcomes researchers in Arab-Muslim culture, its online catalog contains a wealth of cultural and contextual information, you can subscribe to receive invitations to our seminars and read the […]