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
Ahmad Wagih Doctorant en théologie musulmane à Dār al-ʿUlūm (Université du Caire) icon-calendar Mardi 19 mai 2015 à 17h00 Ibn Taymiyya (m. 728/1328) occupe une place très particulière dans la tradition musulmane. Il accusait régulièrement les oulémas de son époque d’avoir une approche non critique des sciences musulmanes, ce qui
Adrien Candiard PhD candidate in Islamic studies, Paris icon-calendar Wednesday June 15ᵗʰ, 2016 The theory of knowledge according to the Andalusian theologian and jurist Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064) seems to be paradoxical at first glance. On the one hand, he is an enthusiastic defender of the use of reason in
Gyöngyi Oroszi PhD student at the Catholic University of Budapest icon-calendar Tuesday April 26ᵗʰ, 2016 Rather than starting from existing categories, Gyöngyi Oroszi tries to explore the understanding the ancient authors had for their own literary work, particularly when they compile collections of histories and modify them so they could
Amir Jajé IDEO’s member, Cairo icon-calendar Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Classical Sunni Islam is not familiar with the concept of a savior who would be the intermediary between God and his people, and neither the concept of an intercession that could have an influence on the salvation
Abdullah Saeed Melbourne University icon-calendar Wednesday March 2nd, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Prof. Abdullah Saeed presented us his last book, entitled Reading the Qur’an in the twenty-first century: a contextualist approach (Routledge, 2013). Even in the Islamic conception of revelation, the Qurʾān is from the very beginning a text that
Simon Conrad Master’s student at Berlin Free University icon-calendar Tuesday February 23ʳᵈ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Simon Conrad presented his research on Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s thought, one of the key figures of Islamic modernism in the end of the 19th century. The traditional vision on Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s thought inevitably highlights a
Emilio Platti University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium icon-calendar Wednesday February 17ᵗʰ, 2016 at 5:00 p.m Emilio Platti, member of IDEO, presented the works of Christian Robin on the inscriptions that are found in the Arabian Peninsula and date back to the beginning of the 4th century. Through his research, Robin brings
Maurice Gajan MA candidate, intern at the Center for Arab West Understanding icon-calendar December 15, 2015 Since 1931, when the first delegation of four Chinese Muslims came to study to al-Azhar, and today, when they are an estimated of 1,000 to 2,000 students (among a total of 160,000 foreign students altogether),
Gaétan Du Roy University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium icon-calendar December 3, 2015 Gaétan Du Roy presented his doctoral research on Fr. Samʿān, an Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priest born in 1941, who gained celebrity by building a huge church complex in the neighborhood of Muqaṭṭam in Cairo, home of 30,000 ragpickers since the
