Call for applications: IDEO Summer 2023 Program on Arabic and Islamic Studies in Cairo | Deadline: March 15, 2023
Learn Arabic and Islamic Studies for a “culture of encounter”? It is possible this summer 2023 in Cairo at the IDEO For the summer of 2023, IDEO is offering Dominican friars in philosophical or theological training a one-month course in Cairo to learn about Arabic and Islamic Studies. This internship should open the brothers during […]
Warum forschen Dominikaner*innen?
Dennis Halft, “Warum forschen Dominikaner*innen? Eine ordenstheologische Begründung”, Wort und Antwort 63, 3, 2022, pp. 124‒129.
Newsletter Septembre-October 2022
Tunis, Brothers Jean, Emmanuel, Dennis and Adrien. The Forum Insaniyyat, a social sciences forum in which four members of the IDEO participated, was held in Tunis from September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, 2022. It opened with a fundamental question: the crisis. But as Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia, historian of the Maghreb, remarkably introduced in her opening lecture, […]
Manifestazioni spirituali nell’Islam
Giuseppe Scattolin & Riccardo Paredi, Manifestazioni spirituali nell’Islam. Antologia di alcuni testi fondamentali del sufismo classico (secoli I/VII‒VII/XIII) tradotti e commentati, Ediz. Integrale, Officina di Studi Medievali, 2021. In questa Antologia sono racchiusi i testi fondanti della più importante corrente spirituale in seno all’Islam, il Sufismo. Attraverso le parole dei Sufi stessi e la loro instancabile ricerca del Divino, […]
Newsletter July-September 2022
Closing night on the Nile, language summer session 2022 The International Forum of Social Sciences and Humanities (Insaniyyat) will be held from September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, 2022 in Tunis. Several researchers from the IDEO will be present and four of us will lead an “IDEO Workshop” in which we will present the results of our […]
A little yesterday
Ilyass Amharar & Jean Druel, “‘A little yesterday’: The canonical text of Sībawayhi’s teaching confronted to two unedited manuscripts of the Kitāb”, in: Manuel Sartori & Francesco Binaghi (éd.), The Foundations of Arab Linguistics V, Brill, 2022, p. 37‒51.
Newsletter May-June 2022
The notion of otherness crosses all social sciences today; it is therefore not surprising that Islamic Studies are also interested in it. It must be said that there is a topicality of otherness. It is linked to the awareness, since the Second World War, of the drama of the Shoah and the creation of the […]
Newsletter June-July 2022
Every year in June, the Delegation of the European Union in Lebanon awards the Samir Kassir Prize to journalists for the quality of their work and their commitment to human rights and democracy. For this 17ᵗʰ cycle, 261 journalists from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen participated. Of […]
Newsletter April-May 2022
The price of bread has soared from the bowels of the Nile Valley. Then the thud of the cannon sounded and an atmosphere of serenity enveloped everything during this month of Ramadan. With ongoing lectures and seminars, we lived to the rhythm of ifṭār-s and prayers. And yet, blood also flowed in Egypt when a […]
Call for applications: Five scholarships for Arabic and Islamic Studies (2023–2026) | Deadline: March 1ˢᵗ, 2023
Subject: five scholarships for Arabic and Islamic Studies (2023‒2026) The Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies was founded in 1953 in Cairo in order to study Islam and the Arab Muslim civilization scientifically. Our mission is to study Islam theologically and to engage in theological dialogue with Muslims. In the current context characterized by the omnipresence […]