Newsletter April-May 2023
The Scientific Council of the MIDEO was held on April 28ᵗʰ under the leadership of its director, Dennis Halft, OP a professor of theology at the University of Trier, who is carefully and zealously preparing a conference on the reception of Nostra Aetate next year. For the past ten years, we have opted for a […]
Call for applications: 10-month pre-doctoral or doctoral scholarship in Classical Arabic Studies | Deadline: April 30, 2024
Place, service The French Institute for Oriental Archeology (IFAO) and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) are partnering to fund a 10-month pre-doctoral or doctoral scholarship from September 1ˢᵗ to June 30ᵗʰ, 2024. This scholarship includes accommodation at IDEO and two hours of private Arabic classes per day, five days a week, during this […]
Newsletter March-April 2023
Miniature tirée de : ‘Les meilleures sentences et les plus précieux dictons’ d’al-Mubashir 13ᵉ s., conservé au Palais de Topkapi à İstanbul. For several years, the IDEO has been offering scholarships to allow students to benefit from the framework and the resources of our Institute for their research on the Islamic heritage and to improve their […]
Newsletter February-March 2023
At the end of February, we welcomed eleven researchers from Europe, Lebanon and Canada, representing their research laboratories on Islam and members of the board of PLURIEL. They came to prepare for the conference to be held in Abu Dhabi in 2024, and which will evaluate the political and theological repercussions and the reception the […]
Newsletter January-February 2023
The Book Fair is always an extraordinary event in the Egyptian cultural life and this year is no exception. Hundreds of exhibitors, maybe more than last year, thousands of visitors, finally freed from the constraints linked to Covid, a perfect organization, which granted this year to the IDEO a special access and circulation. The entire […]
Newsletter December-January 2023
Adrien Candiard, OP in front of a distinguished jury, defended last December his PhD thesis under the direction of Christian Jambet at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). The topic was highly scholarly and not without consonance with the Dominican motto: “The Concept of Truth in Ibn Taymiyya’s Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql”. Six years […]
Newsletter November-December 2022
After two years without a celebration of Mawlid due to COVID-19, on Tuesday November 22ⁿᵈ Egyptian Sufis from towns and villages, both near and far, came to Islamic Cairo in the tens of thousands to celebrate the birth of Ḥusayn, whose head is believed to rest in the shrine of the mosque that bears his […]
Jede Begegnung verändert uns selbst
Dennis Halft, « Jede Begegnung verändert uns selbst. Ein neuer Master “Interreligiöse Studien: Judentum, Christentum, Islam” startet in Trier », Diakonia 53, 4, 2022, pp. 270‒272 (interview avec W. Kirchhoff).
Reciting in the early Islamic Empire
The history of reciting the Quran has been rarely studied. This volume comprises most of the papers presented at the Third IDEO Conference held in Cairo in October 2020 on reciting in the early Islamic empire. It offers a space for reflecting on the different types of reciting in the Middle East from the late […]
Newsletter October-November 2022
The Council of Muslim Elders chaired by Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb met once again, in Bahrain, in the presence of different religious denominations to discuss the issue of coexistence and East-West dialogue. The director of the IDEO was present, invited by the Delegation of al-Azhar. There he met Fr. Fadi Daou, member of our Institute. Once […]