Sībawayh and the Knowledge Traditions of His Time Influences, Dialogues, Critiques, and Legacies A foundational figure of Arabic grammar, Sībawayh (d. ca. 180/796) occupies a singular place in the intellectual history of medieval Islam. The Kitāb, a monumental work without any known precedent, is not merely an attempt to codify
Read MIDEO online! All the articles published before 2015 are downloadable in PDF format from our catalogue. List of members of MIDEO’s Scientific committee. Guidelines for MIDEO‘s authors. You can also consult the detailed tables of content and publishing houses of MIDEO. Since issue 31 (2015), MIDEO is published by
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
The theme of iǧtihād and taqlīd, by pointing to the notional antagonism between independent reasoning on the one hand and submission to the argument of authority on the other, plunges us into the heart of the debates among Muslims, Sunnis as well as Šīʿis, on the most essential issues of their faith: What
This volume 35 is made up of a dossier gathering most of the papers presented at the conference held in April 2018 at the Institut Catholique de Paris on the interactions between Imamites and Christians. Starting from the hypothesis that history, theology, and literature bear witness to the intercultural dimension
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
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
The canonization of Ḥadīṯ has not been without theological conflicts: between the Qurʾānic scholars, the traditionalists, and the rationalists, the question raised is always that of the authority of knowledge. How has the authority of Ḥadīṯ been built and how has the science of Ḥadīṯ been transmitted and gave birth, within the schools of Fiqh and the various
Call for papers for MIDEO 36 (2021) In the context of the Islamic reformism that emerged as early as the 18th century, some Muslim voices were raised against the practice of taqlīd (‘legal conformity’), and which has been accused of being responsible for the decline of the Islamic world. Following
In the contemporary context of the emergence of a Muslim theology of religions, this edition of MIDEO approaches this theme from a historical point of view which allows us to evaluate the place given to religions from the Islamic perspective. Along with the refutations (rudūd) against Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, or
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