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At the end of February, we welcomed eleven researchers from Europe, Lebanon and Canada, representing their research laboratories on Islam and members of the board of PLURIEL. They came to prepare for the conference to be held in Abu Dhabi in 2024, and which will evaluate the political and theological repercussions and the reception the Document on human fraternity (Waṯīqat al-uḫuwwa al-insāniyya) signed by Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib and Pope Francis in 2019. Whatever we think and say about this text, the issues and challenges it brings are very real for today’s thinkers. For example, if secularization began in the West, it is now spreading in the East. How were Western ideas transmitted? Is it a form of latent supremacy that decolonial studies tend to demonstrate or is it simply the expression of a global and deep societal process linked to modernity and characterized by the advent of the autonomous subject, and that spares no part of the world? As for this distinction between the West and the East, is it as fair and operative as it is said to be, especially when it takes dual accents which aim at opposing one space against the other, men against others? In any case, seen from Egypt, the hypothesis of a conflict of civilizations whose outcome will be that of the triumph of one civilization over another, is rooted in the minds of certain religious dignitaries, whether Muslim or Christian. The topic of human brotherhood can therefore not be forgotten and its acuity represents a line of research to invest.

Lectures and talks

On February 2ⁿᵈ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP gave a lecture on “Medieval Dominican and Franciscan figures in the land of Islam”, as part of a the formation day of the Catholic schools network of the diocese of Toulon.

On February 17ᵗʰ, Jean Jacques Pérennès, OP, IDEO’s member and director of the French School for Biblical and Archaeological Studies in Jerusalem (EBAF), gave a talk entitled “Father Roland de Vaux, digger of the Bible”, at the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, in Paris.

On February 25ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP gave a lecture at the Coptic-Catholic parish of al-Sharabiyya on Jesus in the Qurʾān.

Research seminar

On February 20ᵗʰ, Mr. Guillaume de Vaulx led a research seminar on the sciences of religions entitled “Codicology, philology, philosophy: where to start? Methodological thinking from the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity”, at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).

Jury thesis

On February 6ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP participated in the jury for the thesis defended by Paolo Tovo at the Centre Sèvres on the topic of “Meeting the other believer, a sign to be deciphered by theology. A reading of the writings of Christian de Chergé”. Jury members were Fr. Michel Fédou, head of the jury, and sisters Geneviève Comeau, thesis supervisor and Sylvie Robert.

Scholarship IFAO/IDEO

The French Institute for Oriental Archeology (IFAO) and the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) are partnering to fund a 10-month pre-doctoral or doctoral scholarship from September 1ˢᵗ 2023 to June 30ᵗʰ, 2024. This scholarship includes accommodation at IDEO and two hours of private Arabic classes per day, five days a week, during this period. For more information…

Visits

On February 9ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Sofiane Alsaar, from the Cairo office of the AFP.

On February 21ˢᵗ, we welcomed Mr. Marek Woźniak, prefect of the Wielkopolskie Region and Mr. Maciej Zajdel, second secretary at the Polish Embassy in Egypt.

From February 22ⁿᵈ to 26ᵗʰ, we received the board of PLURIEL made up of Mrs. Roula Talhouk, Mrs. Michaela Quast Neulinger and Mr. Jaime Flaquer, Mr. Michel Younes, Mr. Wael Saleh, Mr. Dirk Martin Ansorge, Fr. Laurent Basanese, Mr. Alessandro Ferrari, Fr. Diego Sarrio Cucarella and M. Mohamed-Ali Mostafa, in order to prepare the Abu Dhabi Conference of February 2024 on human fraternity and to evaluate the 80 or so papers that were sent.

The IDEO in the medias

Enquête exclusive (M6) devoted a reportage on Egypt during which the journalist Bernard de la Villardière met the friars of Cairo. After a succession of reports with dark overtones, the program ends with a 7-minute sequence dedicated to our Institute. It begins with these words: “Today, religious affiliation is still mentioned on the identity card of Egyptians and this divides society in two, but there is a unique place in Cairo where Christian and Muslim cultures meet in a spirit of brotherhood: the IDEO, an oasis of peace, located in the heart of an Islamic and popular district, directed by the Frenchman Emmanuel Pisani.”

On February 24ᵗʰ, al-Ahram newspaper devoted an article to the meeting of Emmanuel Pisani, OP and the board of PLURIEL with the Great Imam, Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib.

Framework agreement

On February 13ᵗʰ, Mr. Rafał Witkowski, vice-rector for international cooperation, Mr. Filip Jakubowski, director of the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, signed a memento of understanding with the director of IDEO in order to encourage, in particular, the arrival and support of researchers from the University at the IDEO.

Scholars’ House

During the month of February, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholar’s House Mr. Ilyass Amharar, post-PhD researcher at the Jacques Berque Center in Rabat; Mr. Frédéric de Dinechin, on a study visit to deepen his knowledge of literary Arabic; Mr. Francesco Antonini, master student in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne under the supervision of Marwan Rashed and student at DEAC (Department for Teaching Contemporary Arabic) in Cairo.

Upcoming activities

As part of the IDEO’s seminar on the Salaf in the Classical Age, Adrien Candiard, OP will present on Wednesday March 15ᵗʰ the topic “The Salaf in the writings of the doxographers (al-Šahrastānī, Ibn Ḥazm)”. The seminar will take place in the seminar room at 5:00 p.m. Click here to download the program of this series of seminars…

On March 15, Jean Druel, OP is organizing a study day in Paris, led by Mr. Gordon Dunsire, on the cataloguing of analog and digital archives according to the IFLA-LRM/RDA model. You can register by writing to him at .

On March 30ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP will give a lecture entitled “The Arabic language, language of God, language of men”. This conference will take place at the IDEO in partnership with the French-speaking association Caire Accueil.

The Book Fair is always an extraordinary event in the Egyptian cultural life and this year is no exception. Hundreds of exhibitors, maybe more than last year, thousands of visitors, finally freed from the constraints linked to Covid, a perfect organization, which granted this year to the IDEO a special access and circulation. The entire library team is at work selecting, purchasing and cataloging more than a hundred titles every day for ten days. In total, more than a thousand books will be added to the IDEO’s collection, for a budget of €25,000. One of these works is also extraordinary: Fatḥ al-fattāḥ of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan Abū ʿAlī al-Tadlāwī (died in 1140/1728), which is a 71-volume commentary on the Muḫtaṣar of the Egyptian Malikite jurist Ḫalīl Abū al-Mawda al-Ǧundī (died in 776/1374). This book alone symbolizes the vitality of Arabic academic publishing and the central place of jurisprudence in Islamic studies. And for the first time this year, the IDEO has been invited to participate in the cycle of round tables and lectures organized on the sidelines the Fair (photo).

Teaching

Starting January 2023, Mr. Guillaume de Vaulx teaches two courses at the University of Strasbourg on the history of the Muslim worlds: a bachelor’s degree course entitled “Theology and classical Muslim thought” and a master’s research seminar entitled “Theological Controversies in Islam: texts and contexts”.

Lectures

On January 22ⁿᵈ, Jean Druel, OP gave a lecture on contemporary Egypt and religions to a delegation of Crédit agricole members from the French region North Midi-Pyrénées.

On January 27ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP gave a lecture on the methodology of research in the history of the Arabic language to a group of Egyptian NewGen scholars. They were accompanied by Ms. Hanan Sabea, professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo. The Arab Council for Social Sciences offers scholarships to young students of all disciplines, the New Generation of Social Scientists, and organizes for them trainings in human sciences.

On January 28ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP gave a lecture to a group of young Egyptian Catholic Copts from the parish of Ezbet al-Nakhl on the conditions of possibility of interreligious dialogue.

On January 29ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP participated in a round table devoted to translation organized by Ms. Hanan Mounib, university lecturer and CEO of Meshkaty International, as part of the Book Fair (photo). He discussed the issue of multilingual online catalogs and presented the solutions offered by Diamond, the online cataloging application developed by IDEO and now supported by the non-profit association LRM-CS.

Visits

On January 3ʳᵈ, we welcomed for lunch Mr. Walid Ghali, professor at the Aga Khan University in London.

On January 5ᵗʰ, we welcomed for lunch Ms. Antonia Zafeiri, head of the political, press, and information section at the European Delegation in Cairo. She was accompanied by Ms. Pilar Villanueva and Mr. Hassan Mosa, from the same section.

On January 9ᵗʰ, we welcomed for lunch Mr. Yousef Elzalabany, master student in Islamic history at the Aga Khan University in London, and Ms. Esther Ravier, PhD student in Arabic linguistics at INALCO in Paris.

On January 24ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Neamat Medhat from the Egyptian journal al-Dustur.

Scholars’ House

During the month of January, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholar’s House Ms. Ouiza Ait Amara, professor of ancient Maghreb history at the University of Algiers; Mr. Walid Saleh, IDEO’s member and specialist in the Qurʾān and the history of its interpretation (tafsīr); Mr. Bertrand de Margerie and Mr. Benoît Caratgé, from the French NGO Œuvre d’Orient.

Upcoming activities

As part of the IDEO’s seminar on the salaf in the Classical Age, Adrien Candiard, OP will present on Wednesday February 15ᵗʰ the topic “The salaf in the theology of al-Ašʿarī”. The seminar will take place in the seminar room at 5:00 p.m. Click here to download the program of this series of seminars…

Adrien Candiard, OP in front of a distinguished jury, defended last December his PhD thesis under the direction of Christian Jambet at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). The topic was highly scholarly and not without consonance with the Dominican motto: “The Concept of Truth in Ibn Taymiyya’s Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql”. Six years ago, when he decided to reconsider the thought of shayḫ al-islām, our elders had formerly warned him: Ibn Taymiyya is a difficult author, with repetitive and digressive writing, certainly prodigious but with a roundabout style whose words roll up on themselves with obstinacy like the Convolvulaceae and forbid to reduce the writings to a clear and unified system. Moreover, he never ceases to argue with the brilliant minds who preceded him and who are not him: all of Avicenna, al-Ǧuwaynī, al-Ġazālī, Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī… come under the ax of his pen, even as he appropriates some of their arguments, with great audacity, no need to mention it. In short, he is a writer for the end of an academic career! But our young researcher, a bit of a go-getter and unafraid of taking some new challenges, has nevertheless invested in it. The result was of high quality and the jury unanimously highlighted the quality and excellence of a work that will be published this year. Another reason for us to rejoice.

Reportage

On December 7ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP, Mateus Domingues da Silva, OP and Ms. Engy Elgammal, cataloging director at the IDEO’s library, were interviewed by the YouTube channel “Minbar Wasel” as part of a reportage on the IDEO and its library.

Visits

On December 2ⁿᵈ, we welcomed for lunch Mr. Daniel Hoffman, from the NGO Middle East Concern, which defends the religious freedom of Christians in the Middle East.

On December 14ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Yasmin Amin, representative of the Beirut Institute in Cairo.

On December 15ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Hanan Sabea, professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo, who accompanied a group of Egyptian NewGen scholars. The Arab Council for Social Sciences offers scholarships to young students of all disciplines, the New Generation of Social Scientists, and organizes for them trainings in human sciences.

On December 17ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Hanan Mounib, director of Meshkaty International, as well as Mr. Magid Mostafa, professor at Ayn Shams University. 

On December 21ˢᵗ, we welcomed Mr. Mourad al-Riffi, director of the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts, and Mr. Abdelazim Sakr, head of cataloging.

On December 23ʳᵈ, we welcomed for lunch Ms. Salwa el-Awa, from Swansea University in Wales. She is writing an article on the role of the IDEO in Qurʾānic studies.

Scholars’ House

During the month of December, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholar’s House Mr. Giulio Conticelli, emeritus researcher at the University of Florence, Italy, and member of the Giorgio La Pira foundation in Florence; Mr. Sami Benkherfallah, PhD student in medieval history at the University of Poitiers; Mr. Matthew Crippen, researcher at the Pusan National University, Korea, and at the “Mind and Brain” school at the Humboldt University of Berlin and student of theology at the University of Toronto; Ms. Antoinette Ferrand, PhD student in the history of contemporary Egypt at the Sorbonne University and new editorial secretary of the MIDEO.

Upcoming activities

As part of the IDEO’s seminar on the salaf in the Classical Age, Adrien Candiard, OP will present on Wednesday January 18ᵗʰ the topic “Early ḥanbalites, supporters of the salaf”. The seminar will take place in the seminar room at 5:00 p.m. Click here to download the program of this series of seminars…

After two years without a celebration of Mawlid due to COVID-19, on Tuesday November 22ⁿᵈ Egyptian Sufis from towns and villages, both near and far, came to Islamic Cairo in the tens of thousands to celebrate the birth of Ḥusayn, whose head is believed to rest in the shrine of the mosque that bears his name. Young and old alike gathered and rejoiced together. As always, they had taken to the narrow streets of the city marked with its Fatimid architectural style, as well as filling its neighboring cemeteries. It was a festive gathering, with an atmosphere of popular piety where the dancing night vibrates and sings to the rhythm of tambourines sounding at high decibels, as praises of the grandson of the Prophet soar to reach the heights of the Ineffable. For as the ḥadīṯ inscribed on the walls of the mosque says, “he who loves Ḥusayn loves God”. This, as Father Bannerth pointed out in his time, is the meaning of this swinging movement amidst the random crackling flames and waves that flood a world still very much alive. These men, sometimes with a few women in their midst, light improvised fire-pits and string illuminated garlands between alleys, tombs and mausoleums. In this serene movement, they adore God and only God, with all their whole heart and body. Such are still the Egyptian Sufis*.

* See Bannerth, ‘Dhikr and Khalwa after Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh’, MIDÉO 12, 1974.

Lectures and talks

From November 3ʳᵈ to 4ᵗʰ, Mr. Dominique Avon participated in the conference “Hermeneutics in Contemporary Islam. Theology, exegesis and philosophy in Sunnism and duodecimal Shiism”, moderated by Mr. Rainer Brunner and Mr. Constance Arminjon and organized at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. During this conference he gave a talk entitled “Sunni Men of Religion and Secular Qurʾānic Studies (1950s‒1980s)”.

From November 3ʳᵈ to 5ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP took part in the 6ᵗʰ Foundations of Arabic Linguistics conference in Roma Tre University. He presented a paper entitled “How did Sībawayh’s Kitāb become Kitāb Sībawayh?: Canonization and transmission of grammar during the first five Hijri centuries”.

On November 9ᵗʰ, Adrien Candiard, OP participated in the conference “Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought: Corpus, Reception and Legacy” in Aix-en-Provence. He presented communication entitled: “Ibn Taymiyya and the God of the Philosophers: the refutation of Ṯābit Ibn Qurra’s (d. in 288/901) Talḫīṣ of Aristotle’s Metaphysics”.

On November 10ᵗʰ, Jean Jacques Pérennès gave a lecture on the history of the construction of the Georges Anawati Library, on the 20ᵗʰ anniversary of the new library of the IDEO.

On November 16ᵗʰ and 17ᵗʰ, the conference “Animals as Worshipers of God First and Foremost. On Animal Piety in Islam” was held in the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory in Paris (Campus CNRS of Villejuif) under the scientific direction of Guillaume de Vaulx, and with the participation of speakers coming from Germany, England, Algeria, Egypt, and Palestine. During this conference, animals have been manifested as part of the creation that adores its creator.

Library

From November 8ᵗʰ to 10ᵗʰ, Mrs. Engy Elgammal, the cataloging director at the IDEO’s library, participated in the 9ᵗʰ Sharjah International Library Conference, organized by The American Library Association (ALA) and The Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF). During this conference, she led a full day workshop entitled “Capturing history as it happens, role of the Dominican Institute Library, towards the research community”.

Thanks to “Maʿan” channel, you can listen and watch again the lectures of Jean Jacques Pérennès, OP on the history of the library, of Mr. Aziz Hilal, Emmanuel Pisani, OP and Adrien Candiard, OP on ecology and Islamic heritage. You can support IDEO by becoming a member of the association the Friends of IDEO and thus help the Institute to continue its work of research and consolidation of interreligious connections, and offer a tool of excellence for researchers from all over the world through its specialized library (in France, your contribution entitles you to a 66% tax deduction).

Publication of the MIDEO

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of MIDEO (37, 2022), dedicated to Reciting in the early Islamic Empire. It is fully available online.

Visits

On November 10ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. David Sadoulet, Cooperation and Cultural Action Counselor and Director of the French Institute in Egypt.

On November 22ⁿᵈ, we welcomed Mr. Mostafa Abdelrazik, former editor of the Egyptian journal al-Wafd.

On November 29ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Nawwaf al-Hakami, associate professor of Arabic linguistics at Najran University, Saudi Arabia.

On November 30ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Hamza Hindawi, from the Emirati Journal The National.

Scholars’ House

During the month of November, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholar’s House Mr. Denys Bourguignat, responsible for the publication of the The Friends of the IDEO’s Newsletter; Mr. Fabien Revol, lecturer at the Catholic University of Lyon and specialist in theology of ecology.

Publication

• Dennis Halft, « Jede Begegnung verändert uns selbst. Ein neuer Master “Interreligiöse Studien: Judentum, Christentum, Islam” startet in Trier », Diakonia 53, 4, 2022, pp. 270‒272 (interview avec W. Kirchhoff).
• Emmanuel Pisani, « Bulletin d’Islamologie (IX) », Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 3, tome 106, 2022, pp. 545‒566.
• Dominique Avon, « Le shaykh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (1926-2022) », Observatoire des Religions et de la Laïcité, novembre 2022.

Upcoming activities

On December 9ᵗʰ, Adrien Candiard, OP will defend his PhD thesis in Paris, the subject of which is “The concept of Truth in Ibn Taymiyya’s Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql”.

On December 14ᵗʰ, a seminar session will be held on the topic of “The salaf as a source of religious knowledge in the early tafāsīr”. This seminar is organized by the IDEO as part of the series of seminars entitled “The salaf in the Classical Age. Building an Authority Figure” and will take place in the seminar room at 5:00 p.m. Click here to download the program of this series of seminars…

The Council of Muslim Elders chaired by Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb met once again, in Bahrain, in the presence of different religious denominations to discuss the issue of coexistence and East-West dialogue. The director of the IDEO was present, invited by the Delegation of al-Azhar. There he met Fr. Fadi Daou, member of our Institute. Once more, the need for dialogue was affirmed. It is a sign of civilization, “the testimony of what is the most noble in man”, al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Amīn, a Shiite member of the Council, declared during the Thursday session, November 3ʳᵈ. From these exchanges, we will remember the emphasis placed on the need for intra-religious dialogue, particularly among Islam. This is a relatively new position, especially at this level of commitment. We will also remember that beyond texts and declarations, the culture of dialogue is built over time and is embodied by these meetings where bonds of friendship between Christians and Muslims are nurtured. In these days when the COP 27 is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, it is also appropriate to note the link between religious freedom and ecology. Each religion in its identity and its specificities is a well of resources to contribute to the protection of the environment. It is in this perspective that three researchers of the IDEO will speak during the anniversary of our library, this Thursday November 10ᵗʰ, by discussing and questioning the Islamic heritage on ecological issues.

Talks and lectures

From September 29ᵗʰ to October 1ˢᵗ, Michel Cuypers, PFJ participated via Zoom in the 8ᵗʰ conference of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric (RBS) at the Gregorian University, in Rome, during this conference he gave a talk on the analysis rhetoric of the first sequence of Sūra 19, Maryam.

On October 7ᵗʰ, Michel Cuypers, PFJ participated via Zoom in the launch of a new international Qurʾānic Linguistic Research Group, which will have its headquarters at the University of Swansea, Wales.

On October 14, Emmanuel Pisani, OP gave a lecture entitled “Forms of expression of being together before God. The example of Christian de Chergé”, as part of the CIBEDO days at the Sankt Georgen University in Frankfurt.

On October 14, Emmanuel Pisani, OP gave a lecture entitled “Al-Fātiḥa. Muslim cross-readings of the historical approach”. This conference took place at the IDEO in partnership with the French-speaking association Caire Accueil.

On October 27ᵗʰ, Guillaume de Vaulx gave a talk entitled “Animals as Worshipers of God First and Foremost. On Animal Piety in Islam”, as part of the study day entitled “New researches in Arabic studies” and organized by the Department of Arabic Studies of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Strasbourg.

Islamic studies session

From October 10ᵗʰ to 12ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP led a session of Islamic studies entitled “Approaches to the doxa and praxis of Muslims in the light of Sūrat al-Fātiḥa”, for the Clares sisters of Cormontreuil, France.

IDEO seminar

On October 28ᵗʰ, the fourth part of the Egyptian Muslim thinker Yassin Abd el-Gawad’s seminar on religious violence was held at the IDEO.

Summer course for learning Arabic and introduction to Islamic studies

The IDEO offers 10 scholarships for Dominican brothers in formation to learn Arabic and Islamic studies for a “Culture of encounter”, from July 17ᵗʰ to August 12ᵗʰ, 2023. For more information please check our website…

You can also watch the testimony of the brothers who came to Cairo this summer 2022…

Reportage

On October 27ᵗʰ, Mateus Domingues da Silva, OP and Emmanuel Pisani, OP were interviewed by the Emirati channel al-Ghad as part of a reportage on the IDEO and its library.

Visits

On October 19ᵗʰ, we have welcomed Mr. Wagih Mikhail, director of ScholarLeaders and InSights Journal.

Scholars’ House

During the month of October, we had the pleasure to receive Ms. Juliette Honvault, researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Ms. Vanessa Guéno, research engineer at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Mr. Romain Otal, diplomat at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris; Mr. Olivier Rampnoux, assistant professor at the Research Center in Management Sciences at the University of Poitiers; Ms. Charlotte Courreye, lecturer at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3; Mr. Nicolas Michel, professor of contemporary history at Aix-Marseille University; Mrs. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, IDEO’s member and professor of modern and contemporary history of the Arab and Islamic world at the Sorbonne University.

Publications

• Étienne Fouilloux, Claude Langlois, André Encrevé et Jacques Prévotat (dir.), Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen (coll.), Jean-Marie Mayeur. Historien du catholicisme et de la laïcité, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022, 336 pages.
• Dominique Avon, « Naître et mourir selon un mode d’humanité. Une histoire de religion et de liberté », dans Jean Birnbaum (dir.), Être humain ?, Paris, Gallimard, Folio Essais, 2022, p. 77-97.

Upcoming activities

On November 16ᵗʰ and 17ᵗʰ, the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory in Paris (Campus CNRS of Villejuif) will organize the international conference “Animals as Worshipers of God First and Foremost. On Animal Piety in Islam”. The conference is under the scientific direction of Guillaume de Vaulx and Nicolas Payen, in partnership with the French Ministry of the Interior, section of religious affairs and the National Center for Scientific Research. Click here to download the program…

Closing night on the Nile, language summer session 2022

The International Forum of Social Sciences and Humanities (Insaniyyat) will be held from September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, 2022 in Tunis. Several researchers from the IDEO will be present and four of us will lead an “IDEO Workshop” in which we will present the results of our latest researches. It will be an opportunity for us to meet again with well-known researchers of the IDEO, to make new contacts and to deepen the bond between Islamic studies and human and social sciences. We should benefit from such a forum, the spirit and purpose of which is to “react to the partitioning between academic traditions, between generations, as well as to the linguistic and logistical barriers between bibliographies and reference tools” and thus contribute to the circulation of scientific knowledge. Our integration in the Egyptian environment will allow us, without any doubt, to take into consideration the Egyptian intellectual dynamics beyond traditional academic circles.

Contributions and lectures

During the month of August, Jean Jacques Pérennès, OP gave a lecture entitled “Charles de Foucauld and Islam”, he gave it in Tréguier and in Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer.

From August 2ⁿᵈ to 26ᵗʰ, Mateus Domingues da Silva participated in the 15ᵗʰ conference organized by the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM) in Paris on the topic of “Radical thinking in Medieval philosophy”, during which he gave a talk entitled “Plato, pure quiddities and forms according to Suhrawardī’s metaphysics of lights”.

Exhibition of the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts

On July 20ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP participated in the exhibition “Calligraphy and Manuscript” organized by the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts in Cairo in partnership with the Museums Sector of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Midād Association for Arabic Calligraphy. This exhibition took place at the Mohammed Ali Palace in Cairo, on the anniversary of the foundation of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (Alecso).

Introductory session in Arabic language at the IDEO

From July 18ᵗʰ to August 12ᵗʰ, an introductory session in Arabic was held for Dominicans brothers in formation. In addition to Arabic classes, the students have been initiated into Islamic studies, Codicology, Christian Arabic liturgy and the history of the Arabic language. During the session, we organized a visit to Islamic Cairo, exchanges with Egyptian thinkers, meetings with young Muslims and Christians within the framework of the Dominican Youth, and a visit to the library of Alexandria.

Interviews and meetings

On July 4ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP was interviewed by Soheir Abdel-Hamid for al-Ahram newspaper on the history of the IDEO and the future of the Islamic-Christian dialogue. Read the interview (in Arabic)…

On August 9ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP went to the al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism to meet the new director, Mrs. Reham Salama.

Visits

From May 13ᵗʰ to July 15ᵗʰ, we received Aquinas Beale, OP, PhD student in Comparative Religion at Notre Dame University in Indiana, USA.

From July 15ᵗʰ to August 17ᵗʰ, we received four young Dominican brothers, Donald Bikioli Martimien, OP, Jonathan Kamgang Nzegang, OP, Patryk Pajęcki, OP et Matthew Wanner, OP as part of the introductory session in Islamic studies and in the Arabic language organized by the IDEO.

On August 11ᵗʰ we received Mr. Amr Nour el-Din, from the Hindawī Foundation for Education and Culture.

From August 26ᵗʰ to September 2ⁿᵈ, we received Dennis Halft, OP director of the publication of the periodical MIDEO, the journal of the IDEO.

Scholars’ House

During the months of July and August, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholars’ House Dr. Matthew Crippen, a researcher at Pusan National University, Korea, and at “Mind and Brain” school at Humboldt University of Berlin and a student of theology at the University of Toronto; Professor Karim Ifrak, researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and specialist of Qurʾānic manuscripts; Mr. Matthias Ausloos, PhD student in religious sciences at the Faculties of Theology at the Catholic Universities of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve; Miss Antoinette Ferrand, PhD student in the history of contemporary Egypt at the Sorbonne University and new editorial secretary of the MIDEO; Mr. Robin Schmahl, PhD student in modern Egyptian history at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, and on a doctoral exchange program with the American University in Cairo.

Publications

• Dominique Avon, « Guerre, religion et territoire : positions de juristes sunnites contemporains », dans Maria Paiano (dir.), Violenza sacra. Guerra santa, sacrificio e martirio in età contemporanea, Viella, Rome, 2022, p. 299‒333.
• Dominique Avon, « Hommes de religion, femmes, féminismes », Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études, tome 129 (2020‒2021), 2022, p. 499‒508.
• Dominique Avon, « La problématique de l’apostasie et ses déclinaisons dans les États à référence musulmane. Autour de l’article 18 de la Déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme », dans Valentine Zuber, Emmanuel Decaux et Alexandre Boza (dir.), Histoire et postérité de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme. Nouvelles approches, Rennes, PUR, « L’univers des Normes », 2022, p. 167‒178.
• Emmanuel Pisani, « Emilio Platti. De Molenbeek à Molenbeek », En dialogue 18, janvier – juillet 2022, p. 20-23.
• Ilyass Amharar & Jean Druel, “‘A little yesterday’: The canonical text of Sībawayhi’s teaching confronted to two unedited manuscripts of the Kitāb”, dans Manuel Sartori & Francesco Binaghi (éd.), The Foundations of Arab Linguistics V, Brill, 2022, p. 37‒51.

Upcoming activities

From September 20ᵗʰ to 24ᵗʰ, Adrien Candiard, OP, Jean Druel, OP, Dennis Halft, OP, and Emmanuel Pisani, OP will participate in the International Forum for humanities and social Sciences “Insaniyyat”.

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The notion of otherness crosses all social sciences today; it is therefore not surprising that Islamic Studies are also interested in it. It must be said that there is a topicality of otherness. It is linked to the awareness, since the Second World War, of the drama of the Shoah and the creation of the State of Israel, and the need to start from the reality of the other, both as a person, as an experience and as an event. The conference organized in Beirut by the academic platform PLURIEL from May 23ʳᵈ to 27ᵗʰ, 2022 addressed the way in which contemporary Muslim thinkers question otherness in its religious dimensions but also in relation to the reality of gender and citizenship. Many speakers have emphasized the gap or delay between the Islamic theological thought and the contribution of the human sciences to the understanding of the other. But this delay is not absolute and through art, whether theater, painting or caricatures, reflection in Islam is engaged. Amir Jajé, OP and Emmanuel Pisani, OP were present on behalf of the IDEO. They were accompanied by Mr. Oussama Nabil and Mr. Abdel Rahman Fouda, professors at al-Azhar University, who came to the conference as part of the project Adawāt.

Lectures and contributions

From May 3ʳᵈ to 6ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP gave a 24-hour course on the religious traditions at the Institute of Religious and Pastoral Studies of Toulouse.

On May 12ᵗʰ^, Emmanuel Pisani, OP gave a lecture entitled “No salvation outside Islam? Jews, Christians and heterodox in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī, at the cultural center Les Dominicains de Lille.

On May 20ᵗʰ, Mr. Aziz Hilal gave a talk entitled “Dialectic as a philosophical activity par excellence. Fārābī and the art of conversation”, at a study day on the art of conversation in the Majālis, organized at the University of Rennes-II by the Research Team on Literatures, Imaginaries and Societies (ERLIS) of the University of Caen-Normandy and the research project Languages, Knowledge and Imaginaries in the Arab World (LASIMA) of the University of Rennes-II.

From May 23ʳᵈ to 27ᵗʰ, Amir Jajé, OP and Emmanuel Pisani, OP participated in the conference “Islam and Otherness”, organized by the academic platform PLURIEL and held in Beirut at Saint Joseph University. At the opening, Emmanuel Pisani, OP talked about the general problematic of the conference. He also wrote the final report (in French).

Conferences

On May 28ᵗʰ, Dominique Avon participated in the conference entitled “The World is a Sea. Catholics and the Mediterranean under the pontificate of Pope Pius XII”, organized by the University of ta’Malta in Valletta.

Seminars

On May 17ᵗʰ, we received the CEDEJ as part of the launching of the Network of Urban Studies in Egypt (NUSE).

On May 20ᵗʰ, we received the seminar of Professor Yassin Abdel Gawad on the topic of “Islam and demography in Europe”.

Library

On May 20ᵗʰ, Messrs. Samuel Douglas Gillette, Joshua Ray Wainner and Rafael Ordonez completed their internships at the library of the IDEO, as part of internship agreements signed with the American University in Cairo.

Teaching

On May 9ᵗʰ, Jean Druel, OP launched an online introductory course in the Arabic alphabet for Dominican students who will come to Cairo this summer for a one-month Arabic course. The (experimental!) lessons are available online… [j’ai changé et j’ai mis le lien vers les vidéos en anglais.]

Round table

On May 26ᵗʰ, Dennis Halft, OP led a round table at the 102ⁿᵈ Katholikentag in Stuttgart on the topic of “I need the truth of the others. Interreligious dialogue in the footprints of Pierre Claverie”, with Professor Mouez Khalfaoui of the University of Tübingen, Nicolas Tixier, OP, Prior Provincial of the Dominicans of France, Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Algiers, and Dr. Katja Voges from the international missionary work MISSIO.

Workshop

On May 23ʳᵈ, Jean Druel, OP led an Islamic-Christian workshop at the Louvre Abu Dhabi for the team of curators and librarians.

Visits

On May 18ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Brahim Jhilil, contractual PhD student at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), who is working on the literature of faḍāʾil al-Shām (the virtues of the Syro-Palestinian land).

Scholars’ House

In May, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholars’ House Mrs. Asma Hilali, lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Lille, Ms. Ida Nitter, PhD student in Islamic studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Manal Belhajali, postdoctoral researcher at the French research group GIS-Momm, and Ms. Lilli Baručić, a master’s student in Islamic studies at the American University in Cairo.

Publications

Emmanuel Pisani, entretien avec Nathalie Duplan sur « le blasphème en islam », paru dans Les Annales d’Issoudun, mai 2022, pages 8-11.

Call for papers

On November 5ᵗʰ and 6ᵗʰ, 2022, an international conference will be held at the Erbil branch of the IFPO (Iraqi Kurdistan) on the topic of “From the disconnected letters to the science of letters. A meeting of knowledge in the Middle East”. Read the call for papers.

Upcoming activities

On June 15ᵗʰ and 16ᵗʰ, Dominique Avon will participate in the conference entitled “The army and Islam. Issues and debates in France, from the 19ᵗʰ to the 21^ˢᵗ centuries”, organized by Julie d’Andurain, Jérôme Bocquet, Xavier Boniface, Olivier Dard and Jacques Frémeaux at the Academy of Overseas Sciences, in Paris.

On June 22ⁿᵈ, Jean Druel, OP will participate in the round table devoted to the collection of Qayrawān manuscripts and organized by Mrs. Asma Hilali at the University of Lille. He will give a talk entitled “Copying and transmitting the Kitāb in the Maghreb in 5ᵗʰ/11^ᵗʰ Century”. You can join this round table on Zoom.

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Every year in June, the Delegation of the European Union in Lebanon awards the Samir Kassir Prize to journalists for the quality of their work and their commitment to human rights and democracy. For this 17ᵗʰ cycle, 261 journalists from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen participated. Of the three categories designated, two were won by Egyptians. They are Ezzat al-Kamhawi (b. 1961) for his article entitled “Suspicious architecture: the obsession with tall buildings and wide streets”, in which he questions the subtle and sometimes cryptic link between architecture and power, and Iman Adel (b. 1986). In her video report, the journalist presents a 21-year-old woman called Rania Rashwan who decided to remove her veil even though she lives in an Egyptian village, a stronghold of a jihadist group. But it is her village and she refuses to leave it despite the disruptions it will cause for her and her family. Her smile and her testimony are those of an anthem to courage, determination and freedom that enlightens consciences and sparks renewal. These prizes awarded to our Egyptian friends also give full meaning to the partnership we have established over the past four years as part of the project Adawāt with the Delegation of the European Union in Egypt.

Day conference

On June 1ˢᵗ, Mrs. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen organized a day conference entitled: “Quest for the ansâb, quest for the ashrâf. On the importance of the genealogies of descendants of the Prophet in modern and contemporary times” at the Center Jacques Berque in Morocco.

Jury

On June 6ᵗʰ, Mr. Dominque Avon participated in the jury of the thesis defense of Mrs. Paola Pizzi, entitled “Non-violence as a tool of change in Islam: the contribution of Gâwdat Saʿīd”, that was under his supervision with professor Francesco Zappa, at the Sapienza University of Rome.

On June 22ⁿᵈ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP participated in the jury of the master’s defense of Mr. Mehmet Balsever, entitled “Evaluation of the interpretation of The Cavern with Ali Ünal’s translation in the light of Paul Ricœur’s philosophical hermeneutic”, a dissertation of which he was the supervisor, at the Catholic Institute of Paris (Faculty of Arts).

IDEO/IFAO scholarship

The 10-month scholarship was awarded this year to Mr. Flavio Canuzzi (PISAI) and Mr. Timothée Gaeremynck (INALCO), in partnership with the new French Institute for Islamic studies.

Conferences

On June 15ᵗʰ and 16ᵗʰ, Mr. Dominique Avon participated in a conference entitled “The army and Islam. Issues and debates in France, from the 19ᵗʰ to the 21ˢᵗ centuries”, organized by Julie d’Andurain, Jérôme Bocquet, Xavier Boniface, Olivier Dard and Jacques Frémeaux at the Academy of Overseas Sciences, in Paris.

Round table

On June 22ⁿᵈ, Jean Duel, OP participated in a round table devoted to the collection of the Qayrawān manuscripts and organized by Mrs. Asma Hilali at the University of Lille. He gave a talk entitled “Copying and transmitting the Kitāb in the Maghreb in 5ᵗʰ/11ᵗʰ Century”.

Library

On June 7ᵗʰ and 8ᵗʰ, Mrs. Engy Elgammal, the cataloging director at the IDEO’s library, participated in a forum on successful management experiences and practices, organized by the Arab Administrative Development Organization in cooperation with the Arab Manuscripts Institute on the topic of “Management of heritage institutions”. During this forum, she gave a lecture entitled “The efforts of the IDEO to share the Arab-Islamic heritage”.

Visits

On June 7ᵗʰ, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Harald Suermann, Dr. Simone Paganini, from the Catholic Theology Institute at the RWTH Aachen University and Dr. Katja Voges. They accompanied a group of students of the international missionary work MISSIO from Aachen.

On June 8ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mrs. Viola Raheb, from the Pro Oriente Foundation (Vienna) and Father Gabriel Hashem, editor of Proche Orient chrétien and president of the Jean Corbon Foundation.

On June 9ᵗʰ, we welcomed Dr. Mohammed Kamel Gad, director general of Juma al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage (Dubai).

Scholars’ House

In June, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholars’ House Mr. İlhan Ozan, PhD student in the department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, Mr. Alon Ben Yehouda, a master’s student in the department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University and Professor Walid Saleh, IDEO’s member and specialist in the Qurʾān and the history of its interpretation (tafsīr).

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The price of bread has soared from the bowels of the Nile Valley. Then the thud of the cannon sounded and an atmosphere of serenity enveloped everything during this month of Ramadan. With ongoing lectures and seminars, we lived to the rhythm of ifṭār-s and prayers. And yet, blood also flowed in Egypt when a Coptic priest in Alexandria had his throat cut after giving his Lent alms to his attacker. Was he insane? Was he a terrorist? Definitely a lost one. Then resounds the happy and consoling prayer of everyday life, the one that joins the rhymes of the psalmist, when from the top of the minaret or in intimate spaces, Muslims implore to remain on the straight path of salvation and life. To avoid the ambush of the bitter and painful traps to which we are sent back, we should rather refine our hearts with the voice of the muezzin, that ink way that announces the word.

Lectures and seminars

From April 5ᵗʰ to 7ᵗʰ, Ms. Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau participated in the international conference “Esotericism and the Qurʾān”, organized by the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. She gave a lecture entitled “Is the Qurʾān an esoteric text?”.

On April 10ᵗʰ, Ms. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen gave a lecture on the topic of “Pilgrimages in Islam: the example of Egyptian Islam”, as part of the “Midan Mounira” lectures series.

On April 11ᵗʰ, Ms. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen led a seminar entitled “The Cult of Muslim saints: methodological issues and historiographical debates” for students of the Faculty of Languages and Translation at al-Azhar University, as part of the project Adawāt.

On April 28ᵗʰ, Adrien Candiard, OP gave a lecture for the Friends of the IDEO on the topic of “Is Islamic theology useful for anything? Watch the lecture on YouTube (in French)…

Visits

On April 10ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Pilar Villanueva, Minister-Counselor of the Spanish Embassy, and Mr. Álvaro Travesedo, the Spanish Consul in Egypt.

On April 14ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Mourad Wahba, the new president of the Society for Coptic Archaeology, and Mr. Nabil Farouk, the director.

On April 20ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mr. Adrien Cluzet, in charge of the project “Debate of ideas and books” at the French Institute.

On April 26ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Fatiha Bouzidi, graphic designer, as well as Mr. Alaa al-Habashi, Islamic heritage architect, and his wife Ms. Ola Salah Saïd, both owners of Bayt Yakan in al-Darb al-Ahmar, the site of the NGO Center for Revitalization of the City which organizes events and workshops focusing on heritage, art and culture.

On April 27ᵗʰ, we welcomed Ms. Camille Thiébaut, political advisor of the French Embassy, in charge of religious affairs.

Upcoming activities

On May 12^ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP will give a lecture entitled “No salvation outside Islam? Jews, Christians and heterodox in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī”. The lecture will take place at the cultural center Les Dominicains de Lille (France) at 8:30 pm.

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In the contiguity of the light, in the twilight celebration where one lets himself be lulled by musical sounds, we sense an inner and outer power that announces the sun of tomorrow, that of the origin, that of the desert, that of peace. Salam, a delivered word, an exchanged word, a daring word, an offered word, a human coruscation that carries a renewed meaning since the decay of humanity in the Garden. Word of the future, holy word, creative word. Salam is the word that, in the desert, conjures the enemy silences and the dunes of blood. A word of future and hope that connects and cauterizes the wound of a broken communion. In a world of pandemics and ever more acute manifestations of the prophecies of collapsology, the gala of the IDEO of this Wednesday March 30ᵗʰ shared something of these originel parties, we experienced it not as the homo festivus who seeks by the festival to ward off the emptiness or let his mind go blank, but in the spirit of the rooting of the being with, of the being with all, even with the absent ones. To be together, to exchange the word of peace to extinguish the speeches and the wars that hide or bury the faces of men and women that some would like to see disappear, to be together to build and rebuild together.

Lectures

On March 4ᵗʰ, Guillaume de Vaulx gave a lecture entitled “Friendship between natural enemies. Thematization of friendship from Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ to the Iḫwān al-ṣafā”, in the seminar “Enemies and friends: ‘the other’ in the Muslim world”, organized at the Faculty of Historical Sciences of the University of Strasbourg.

Courses

From February 14ᵗʰ to March 4ᵗʰ, Dennis Halft, OP taught a classroom course entitled “Shi‘a texts on interreligious meetings, written by Muḥammad Ǧawād al-Balāġī (d. 1933)”, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome.

From March 7ᵗʰ to 26ᵗʰ, Adrien Candiard, OP gave an online course on Islamic theological texts at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome: “Testi di teologia islamica: al-qaḍāʾ wa-l-qadar”.

On March 14ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP started to give a six-session online course on the topic of “Islam and Otherness” at the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris (ISTR).

IDEO seminar

On March 15ᵗʰ, the IDEO resumed its seminars with Professor Youssouf Sangaré on the topic of “The Islamic heritage under debate”. This seminar is organized by the IDEO as part of the project Adawāt.

Conferences and study days

On March 18ᵗʰ, Emmanuel Pisani, OP participated in the conference “Religions and nationalism”, organized by the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris (ISTR), as well as in the study day organized on March 23ʳᵈ by the French Ministry of the Interior for the world of research and administrations.

Nomination

On March 21ˢᵗ, Mateus Domingues da Silva, OP and René du Grandlaunay, OP were appointed by the Master of the Dominican Order as members of the committee of librarians to think about and define the mission of Dominican libraries, according to the General Chapter of Biên Hòa (ACG 2019 Biên Hòa, 323).

Library

From March 8ᵗʰ to 23ʳᵈ, Ms. Juliette Chevée, class of 2021, museum specialty at the National Heritage Institute, completed her internship at the library of the IDEO.

On March 27ᵗʰ, Mrs. Engy Elgammal, the cataloging director at the IDEO’s library, participated in the Annual Conference for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Entrepreneurship and Creative Achievement (EURECA), organized by the American University in Cairo. Our interns, Mr. Samuel Gillette, Mr. Joshua Wainner and Mr. Rafael Ordonez, presented their work at the IDEO and the specificities of our cataloguing. The discussions focused on the evaluation of our contribution to the education process of the Egyptian community.

On March 31ˢᵗ, Mateus Domingues Da Silva, OP director of the IDEO’s library, Mrs. Engy Elgammal, director of the cataloging department, Mr. Magdy Yackoub, developer of the Diamond cataloging application, and Mr. Emad Habib, head of the manuscript cataloging team at the Arab Manuscripts Institute, participated in the International Day of the Arabic Manuscript in order to present the outcome of the European Union funded project of cataloging more than 6,000 manuscripts in Diamond according to the FRBR/RAD standards. Click here to view these manuscripts records…

Visits

On March 8ᵗʰ, we welcomed Mrs. Graziella Rizza, from the Delegation of the European Union in Cairo.

From March 12ᵗʰ to 16ᵗʰ, we received Professor Youssouf Sangaré, lecturer at the University of Clermont-Auvergne in order to, give a talk at the French Language Teaching Center and the Faculty of Humanities at al-Azhar, and to lead a seminar at the IDEO on the turāth.

On March 8ᵗʰ and 31ˢᵗ, we welcomed around twenty Indonesian students enrolled in the faculties of al-Azhar in order to present them our library and the mission of our Institute.

Scholars’ House

In March 2022, we had the pleasure to receive in the Scholars’ House Mr. Simon Conrad, PhD student in Islamic Studies at Princeton University, Professor Andreas Kaplony and Professor Rocio Daga accompanied by a group of Master students from the Institute for Near and Middle East Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Publications

Dominique Avon, L’histoire religieuse contemporaine en France, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2022, 295 pages.

Guillaume de Vaulx, Identités de papier. Essai documenté sur la logique identitaire, Liban, Dergham, 2022, 376 pages.

Upcoming activities

On April 10ᵗʰ, Mrs. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen will give a lecture, as part of the “Midan Mounira” lectures series, on the topic of “Pilgrimages in Islam: the example of Egyptian Islam” (in French with Arabic simultaneous translation). This lecture will take place at the IFAO from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. You can join the lecture online.

On November 16ᵗʰ and 17ᵗʰ, 2022, the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory will organize the international conference “Animals as Worshipers of God First of All. On Animal Piety in Islam”. The conference is under the scientific direction of Guillaume de Vaulx and in partnership with the French Ministry of the Interior, section of religious affairs and the National Center for Scientific Research. 

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