Rationality and Affectivity in Religious and Extremist Discourse: The Model of Fraternity
A closed seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO Saturday March 25ᵗʰ, 2017 On March 25th, the second meeting between the IDEO and the DEIF (Department of Islamic Studies in French) in the School of Languages and Translation (for Men) at Al-Azhar University was held. The meeting focused on “Rationality and Affectivity in Religious and Extremist […]
Newsletter – February 2017
Dear Friends, Last February 22nd and 23rd the IDEO had the pleasure of being part of the official resumption of the dialogue between al-Azhar and the Vatican which had been interrupted since 2006. Even though informal meetings never ceased, it was the first time that the two important delegations met in an official capacity. The […]
Extremism: History, Definition, and Diagnosis
Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Saturday February 18ᵗʰ, 2017 The first meeting on the question of extremism, organized as part of the collaboration between al-Azhar and the IDEO, took place. The selected topic was: “Extremism: History, Definition, and Diagnosis”. The Seminar was in French, and the morning’s work was followed by a lunch […]
The first edition of the commentary of al-Tilimsānī on ʿUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ’s poem
Giuseppe Scattolin Professor of Sufism and Islamology With Mr. ʿAbd al-Samīʿ Salāma, editor of manuscripts at the Egyptian National Library icon-calendar Tuesday February 14ᵗʰ, 2017 The commentary of al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291) on ʿUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ’s (d. 632/1235) poem entitled al-Tāʾiyya al-kubrā is one of the oldest commentaries of this poem, after the one by Saʿīd al-Dīn al-Farġānī (d. 699/1300). Al-Farġānī and al-Tilimsānī lived at the […]
Cairo International Book Fair 2017
The 48th edition of Cairo International Book Fair has just finished. This is a key moment for the life of the library and its acquisition of monographs and journals. This year the book fair kept us busy for 10 days, between January 26 and February 8, 2017. Our team included René-Vincent du Grandlaunay and Ahmad Chleilat (monographs acquisition), Magdi Azab and […]
Newsletter — January 2017
Dear friends, January 2017 has been a very busy month at the IDEO. Several new projects were started which are very promising. I’ll leave it to you to discover them below, and we thank you once again for your support and encouragement! February also looks like it will be a busy month, especially with the […]
Domenicani a Costantinopoli prima e dopo l’impero ottomano
Claudio Monge & Silvia Pedone (dir.), Domenicani a Costantinopoli prima e dopo l’impero ottomano, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 326 pages. Il volume racconta la storia dei Domenicani in Asia Minore attraverso la vita della comunità italiana di Istanbul, e non solo. Grazie allo studio dei documenti custoditi nell’Archivio domenicano del convento di Sen Piyer (Santi Pietro […]
Linee di frattura: sfide e frontiere
Claudio Monge & Alessandro Cortesi (dir.), Linee di frattura: sfide e frontiere, Firenze, Nerbini, 2017, 128 pages. Questa pubblicazione presenta il frutto del lavoro e del confronto sincero e prolungato dei membri di un gruppo composto da frati domenicani appartenenti a diverse province dell’Ordine dei Predicatori, che vivono in varie regioni dell’Europa, dal Belgio alla […]
Newsletter — November 2016
Dear friends, Some have reacted to our previous newsletter, finding it very elitist and not very down-to-earth. November was full of all kinds of down-to-earth activities, which are always beautiful and instructive, activities which sent us back to our books and our scholarly studies. Our life here is like a round-trip! Thank you for following […]
Newsletter – October 2016
Dear friends, Study, the serious search for the truth, the attentive hearing of the contradictory positions, takes infinitely more time than hate polemics. When everything is complex, we attempt to lump everything together in a block rather than trying to enter into the complexity of things. To this day, we have not found a better […]