“Nadwat Sībawayh”: strengthening the dialogue between eastern and western academic approaches The “Nadwat Sībawayh” is a joint initiative led by Jean Druel (Dominican Institute in Cairo) and Zübeyt Nalçakan (Kahramanmaraş University, Turkey). This project aims to bridge the gap between Arabophone researchers and those working in European languages in the
icon-calendar May 1ˢᵗ, 2018 ‒ April 30ᵗʰ, 2022 On March 27th, we signed a four-year (2018-2022), 500,000 € contract with the European Delegation in Egypt to finance activities with several partners: the Institute of Manuscripts of the Arab League in Cairo, Al-Azhar University, and the French Institute of Egypt. This
icon-calendar 2017 ‒ 2020 The National Library of France (BnF), as part of its international programs of shared digitalization, launched their project of a new digital web portal named “Libraries of the Orient” for the preservation, digitalization, dissemination, and enhancement of the heritage of Francophone libraries in the Mediterranean Orient. IDEO’s
Rémi Chéno After a short foray into the Jain logic and its model for the status of enunciation in a debate, Rémi Chéno pursues his research on the possibility of a pluralistic approach to religions. In his famous book, The Nature of Doctrine, 1984, George Lindbeck opposed the cultural-linguistic model, now called post-liberal model, to the
Jean Druel icon-calendar September 2015‒September 2020 In her PhD research (1992, published in 1995 under the title Les voies de la transmission du Kitāb de Sībawayhi, Brill) Geneviève Humbert has reveaIed the existence of a North African (Kairouan?) parchment of Sībawayh’s Kitāb, probably dated 5th/11th century. It’s a very rare parchment
IDEO is partner of the academic platform PLURIEL. PLURIEL has been initiated by the Federation of the Catholic Universities in Europe and Lebanon. It aims to promote the link between researchers on Islam and the Muslim-Christian dialogue, in connection with Eastern Christians, and to foster the interaction between academics, social
icon-calendar March 2013‒February 2016 Following its call for proposals, a contract entitled “Historic contextualization of 200 authors of the Classical Islamic heritage” was signed on 19 December 2012 with the European Union under the European Instrument for Human Rights & Democracy (reference EIDHR/2012 / 308 681) for an amount of
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The Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies is a research institute dedicated to the study of Islamic heritage and medieval and contemporary Egypt in its religious and cultural dimensions.
