The banquet
Michel Cuypers, The banquet: A reading of the fifth Sura of the Qur’an, Convivium Press, Miami, 2009 (565 pages). Cuyper’s work is a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic-Christian studies and is being warmly received by the Islamic academic community. He applies recent methods of rhetorical textual studies to the analysis of the Qur’an, the holy book […]
Islam, friend or foe?
Emilio Platti, Islam, friend or foe? Peeters, Louvain-Paris-Dudley, MA; W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008, 267 pages. In this study, Emilio Platti dares to enquire directly into the compatibility between Islam and Christianity, as well as between Islam and modernity. He insists that the best way to answer such questions is to return to the […]
A life poured out
Jean Jacques Pérennès, A life poured out: Pierre Claverie of Algeria, Orbis Books, Maryknoll (NY), 2007, 300 pages. The killing of Dominican Pierre Claverie, the bishop of Oran, and his young Muslim assistant, on August 1, 1996, was both a symbol and the epitome of the mayhem that had gripped Algeria for several years. For Claverie, […]
Tables of content of MIDEO
To this day, 32 issues have been published. Starting with issue number 31, MIDEO is published by IFAO (Cairo) and is freely available online on OpenEdition. If you want to order a printed volume of MIDEO (including previous issues), please contact IFAO. MIDEO 1 (1954) First edition: 1954, Dār al-Maʿārif (Cairo, Egypt), 195 pages. Reprint: 1975, Librairie du […]