Spiritual progress and intellectual progress

Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Monday May 7ᵗʰ, 2018 On May 7th, the latest session of our joint seminar between Al-Azhar and IDEO took place at the Faculty of Languages and Translations at Al-Azhar University. The chosen topic was “Faith and Reason”, based on a commentary by the

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The epistemology of Ibn Taymiyya

Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Thursday March 22nd, 2018 For this new session of our joint seminar between Al-Azhar and IDEO, we chose to comment on the same text, in order to highlight the processes of interpretation we use and to exchange our approaches. We chose an extract

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Literalism

Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar  Monday November 27ᵗʰ, 2017 A new session of the joint meetings, organized as part of the collaboration between the University of al-Azhar and the IDEO to discuss the issue of extremism, took place on Monday, November 27, 2017 at the Faculty of Human

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Historical Definitions of wasaṭiyya

Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Saturday September 30ᵗʰ, 2017 On September 30th, the fourth meeting of our cooperative seminar with al-Azhar for this year took place. The chosen topic was the historical definitions of “wasaṭiyya”, usually translated as “the middle path.” Three speakers presented their research on this

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Extremism: History, Definition, and Diagnosis

Seminar al-Azhar University and the IDEO icon-calendar Saturday February 18ᵗʰ, 2017 The first meeting on the question of extremism, organized as part of the collaboration between al-Azhar and the IDEO, took place. The selected topic was: “Extremism: History, Definition, and Diagnosis”. The Seminar was in French, and the morning’s work

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Cooperation with the University of al-Azhar

On November 27, 2016, we had the pleasure to finally sign a cooperation agreement with al-Azhar University, with their two French sections, one in the Faculty of Language and Translation (for men) and one in the Faculty of Human Sciences (for women). Negotiations had been ongoing since March 2015. The

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