Dear friends, Study, the serious search for the truth, the attentive hearing of the contradictory positions, takes infinitely more time than hate polemics. When everything is complex, we attempt to lump everything together in a block rather than trying to enter into the complexity of things. To this day, we
Aziz Hilal PhD in Arabic philosophy icon-calendar Tuesday October 25ᵗʰ, 2016 In his Kitāb al-ǧadal, al-Fārābī (d. 339/950) mentions a “fourth philosophy”. What he intends with this expression is a philosophy that would be adapted to non-specialists, both technicians in a particular given art (medicine, grammar, poetry…) and simple people
Dear friends, During the month of September, many brothers have joined our community. Brother Amir Jajé, OP (Iraq) has a Ph. D. in Islamic studies and is a specialist of Shiism. Brothers Luke Barder, OP (United States), Paul Akpomie, OP (Nigeria), Pierre-Marie Niang, OP (Senegal) and Taufiq Younis, OP (Pakistan)
Dear friends, Fr. René-Vincent participated in the IFLA congress (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) which was held in Colombus, Ohio (USA) from August 13‒19. Over the years, fr. René-Vincent and the IDEO library team worked to complete an enormous project to not only catalogue books and scientifics articles,
Search the catalogue of our library TitlePeople and organisationsAll the catalogISBN/ISSNCall numberID The IDEO’s library is operated by the software suite Diamond-ILS, developed by us.
Dominique Avon, « Histoire positive et histoire sacrée autour de la pensée de Louis Massignon » in Cahiers d’étude du religieux 16 (2016). Louis Massignon (1883‒1962) was one of the famous orientalists during the first part of the 20th c. His PHD was based on the life of a mystic Muslim,
Dear friends, we are excited to introduce to you our new website. The previous site was becoming old and we could not update it easily. This new site is designed to primarily highlight our activities and news, rather than our identity and values. Next to the fixed pages (“IDEO’s Members”, “Our
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
