Newsletter — June 2017
Dear friends, The month of June was marked by numerous visits and preparatory meetings for the upcoming academic year. For next year, we have several projects currently under study, we hope to be able to announce some good news at the beginning of the year. Until then, we wish you all a very beautiful summer, […]
Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni
Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi (dir.), Sulle sponde del Mediterraneo: Geopolitica, guerre, religioni, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 120 pages. L’attenzione ai processi storici e sociali che attraversano l’Europa nel quadro delle relazioni mondiali si radica nel convincimento che all’interno dei contraddittori percorsi storici dell’umanità si attua una storia di salvezza, irraggiata in quelli che il Vaticano II ha […]
Interactions between Twelver Shiites and Christians: history, theology, literature
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, 2018 Click here to download the final programme… Synopsis The interactions and exchanges between Twelver Shiites and Christians, Catholics as well as Protestants, have rarely been studied […]
The emergence of Ḥadīṯ as the authority of knowledge
International conference with Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Aisha Geissinger (University of Carleton) in Cairo, 11–13 January 2018 In collaboration with the French Institute of Egypt Click here to download the programme… One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using intellectual tools foreign to the […]
Newsletter – May 2017
Dear friends, Ramadan has begun once again, and this year in the midst of violence. How can some people believe that this violence pleases God? How can they imagine that God would be satisfied with seeing his children murdered in his name? If it is clear that there are many economic and political factors that […]
The Effectiveness of Religious Discourse: Between Teaching and Reality
Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Monday May 8ᵗʰ, 2017 The third session in the series of meetings organized as part of the collaboration between the University of al-Azhar and the IDEO, aimed at examining the issue of extremism, took place on Monday, May 8, 2017 at the Faculty of Human Sciences (for Women). […]
Excavation of an Umayyad castle
Jean-Baptiste Humbert Archaeologist at the Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem icon-calendar Tuesday May 2nd, 2017 Archeology consists of luck and surprises. By searching for traces of the Aramean people (often mentioned in the Bible, but not well known), Jean-Baptiste Humbert, OP became interested in the site of Mafraq in the north of Jordan in […]
Freedom of conscience
Dominique Avon, “Freedom of conscience (ḥurriyyat al-ḍamīr). A challenge for Arab-Islamic authorities”, dans Acta philosophica, 2017, vol. 26, fasc. 1, pages 193‒200.
Newsletter – March 2017
Dear friends, We are now beginning to reap the rewards of our past efforts! As it was necessary to arm ourselves with patience to finally arrive at a signed agreement of collaboration with al-Azhar University, two encouraging sessions have already taken place. These two sessions show us that it is possible to do research with […]
An epistemological shift: From Sunna to Šarīʿa and the breach of modern times
Rocio Daga Portillo Professor of Islamology at Munich University icon-calendar Tuesday March 28ᵗʰ, 2017 It is striking to note that in the Qurʾān and the oldest texts the term Sunna is used more often than the term Šarīʿa in order to mean the law. The word Sunna used to refer to the oral law transmitted by the tradition and the forefathers. […]