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Newsletter November 2026

We knew them as master’s and doctoral students. They had the look of young researchers who discover, in reading an archive, a manuscript page or in a chance encounter, the…

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Newsletter October 2026

Adrien Candiard, OP, director of MIDEO, kept to his goal of publishing MIDEO 2026 in 2026, and we thank him warmly for it, especially as the result is a very…

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Newsletter September 2026

There were no summer holidays for IDEO. The summer was hot and warm. It began for us in the first week of July, with the conference organized by the NCCMR…

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« Nadwat Sībawayh »

“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…

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Adawāt: Tools for Critical Thinking in Islamic Studies

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: …

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Web Portal of Libraries of the Orient

 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…

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Post-liberal models of religious pluralism

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…

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The reception of Sībawayh’s Kitāb in the West

Jean Druel  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…

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PLURIEL

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…

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The 200 Project

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…