The Cairo Edition of the Qurʾān 1924: Texts, histories & challenges
Conference of the IDEO in Cairo October 16ᵗʰ‒17ᵗʰ, 2021 Click here to download the conference programme… Presentation This conference offers an historical reflection on the Cairo edition of the Qurʾān made under the authority of al-Azhar committee in 1924 and also known as the “King Fuʾād’s edition”. This edition, which will celebrate its hundred’s anniversary […]
Call for Papers: Islamic Theologies of Disasters
Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism Thematic issue edited by Abdessamad Belhaj (Catholic University of Louvain, CISMOC) and Haoues Seniguer (Sciences-Po Lyon, Triangle UMR 5206, Lyon) Call for Papers for MIDEO 38 (2023) Click here to download the PDF version… The Covid-19 (kūfīd-19) pandemic broke out around October-November 2019 in China. In […]
The Kitāb Sībawayh of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr
Jean Druel, “The Kitāb Sībawayh of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʾAḥmad b. Naṣr: A non-Sīrāfian recension of the Kitāb”, in Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 71 (2020), pages 29‒56. The Milan-Kazan codex of SĪBAWAYH’s (d. ca 180/796) Kitāb is a 5ᵗʰ/11ᵗʰ century North-African parchment today split between three collections: 1) Milan, Ambrosiana, X 56 sup. (115 folios), 2) […]
Islam of the Qurʾān vs Islam of the Hadith: Overcoming the divide between the “new thinkers of Islam” and the “Ulamas”
Youssouf Sangaré University of Clermont-Auvergne (France) icon-calendar June 21, 2020 Click here to watch the lecture on Youtube (in French with Arabic subtitles)… The Iraqi Shiite theologian al-Sayyid Kamāl al-Haydarī (born in 1956) is one of the most active theologians on social networks, where he is highly followed. In his writings, he states that after […]
Call for papers: Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire
Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries) MIDEO 37 (2022) Deadlines February 1ˢᵗ, 2021 (full paper, sent to mideo@ideo-cairo.org for double-blind peer-review evaluation). Click here for the guidelines… Keywords Qurʾānic Recitation ‒ Psalmody ‒ Orality ‒ Transmission. Islam ‒ Judaism ‒ Christianity ‒ Zoroastrianism ‒ Late Antiquity and Early Islam. Torah ‒ Bible ‒ […]
‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’
Jean Druel and Almog Kasher, “‘Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t’: The mamnūʿ min al-ṣarf (diptotes) in Arabic grammatical tradition” in Arabica 66 (2019), pages 98‒136.
Can Ambrosiana X 56 Sup. improve our understanding of Sībawayhi’s grammar?
Jean Druel, “Can Ambrosiana X 56 Sup. improve our understanding of Sībawayhi’s grammar?” in Manuela E. B. Giolfo and Kees Versteegh (editors), The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics IV, Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2019, pages 133‒156.
The oldest manuscripts of the Qurʾān
Emilio Platti IDEO, Professor Emeritus of the Catholic University of Leuven icon-calendar Tuesday January 24ᵗʰ, 2017 Following the discovery of extremely old manuscripts of the Qurʾān, and the Birmingham folios having been dated between 568 and 645 AD (56 before Hiǧra and 25 after) with Carbon 14 techniques, scholars largely refuse today the late dating […]
Newsletter ‒ December 2016
Dear friends, Sirte, Mosul, Homs, Madagali, Aden, Istanbul, Mogadishu, Cairo, Kamuya, Berlin, al-Bab… Each time blind violence hits an innocent crowd, the whole of humanity is hit. And when this violence pretends to act in the name of God, whole believers are humiliated in turn. What is there that lies in humans that generates all […]
Archeology and water in medieval Morocco
Thomas Soubira Archeologist, PhD student in Toulouse University icon-calendar Monday December 19ᵗʰ, 2016 The archeological site of Sijilmasa is being excavated by a French Moroccan team. This “harbour” of transsaharian trade between the 8th and the 15th centuries has remarkable hydrolic archeological remnants that can be observed on the entire excavation zone: water harvesting, transportation, […]