Priests and Sufis Conference Revisiting Catholic Scholarship on Islamic MysticismA conference held on 6–7 June at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies.Priests and Sufis: Unexpected Connections It is a fact: among the foremost specialists in Islamic mysticism are several Catholic priests and religious figures, from Louis Massignon, Georges Anawati, and
Call for papers: The Authority of Silence Constructing the Figure of the Salafs (7ᵗʰ-15ᵗʰ Centuries) Call for Papers: The Authority of Silence – Constructing the Figure of the Salaf (7ᵗʰ-15ᵗʰ Centuries) We invite scholars and researchers to submit their contributions for an upcoming conference exploring the elusive authority of the Salaf,
Conference organized at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (Cairo) February 15ᵗʰ‒17ᵗʰ, 2024 By pointing the finger at the “literalism” or “fundamentalism” of this or that religious movement, current events willingly bring to the forefront the notion of the literal meaning of sacred texts, whether it is claimed as the
New Perspectives on the Dominican Engagement for a Catholic Dialogue with Jews and Muslims January 19‒21, 2024, in Trier (Germany) As “one of the final surprises of the Second Vatican Council”1 (Maurice Borrmans), its comparatively short declaration of Nostra Aetate “on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions” (1965)
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
Reciting in the Early Islamic Empire (7ᵗʰ‒9ᵗʰ centuries) Texts, Modalities, Issues A Conference Organised by the IDEO Cairo, October 16ᵗʰ‒18ᵗʰ, 2020 Click here to download the conference programme… Keynote Speaker: Prof. Devin J. Stewart, Emory University (Atlanta) Deadlines January 31ˢᵗ, 2020 (half a page proposal, sent to secretariat@ideo-cairo.org). May 15ᵗʰ,
International conference with the participation of Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware) and Francis Richard (CNRS, Paris), in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 11, through Friday, April 13, 2018 Click here to download the final programme… Synopsis The interactions and exchanges between Twelver Shiites and Christians, Catholics as well as
International conference with Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), Aisha Geissinger (University of Carleton) in Cairo, 11–13 January 2018 In collaboration with the French Institute of Egypt Click here to download the programme… One of the questions raised today by some Egyptian religious authorities is on the lawfulness and relevance of using
Concluding conference of the 200 Project: “Historical contextualization of 200 authors of the Arab and Islamic heritage” IDEO, Cairo, January 14-16, 2016 The Mellon Sawyer Seminar,1 held at the University of California, Berkeley, from October 12-14, 2012, addressed the issue of the literary genre of commentary in post-classical Islam (6th-13rd
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