Mateus Domingues da Silva PhD candidate, Brazil icon-calendar December 18, 2014 Šihāb al-Din al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191), philosopher and mystic, has developed a theory of knowledge by simple direct, visionary, and intuitive presence. This theory is rooted in a theory of the physical vision.
Aziz Hilal Doctor of Philosophy icon-calendar November 27, 2014 For al-Fārābī, philosophy is the eminent way to reach the knowledge of God and the source of religion. Religion itself is only a way to teach the “masses”.
András Mércz PhD student, Avicenna Institute, Budapest icon-calendar October 30, 2014 The Arab Christians and their endeavor in translating texts into Arabic have been twice, in the 8th and 17th centuries, the forerunners of a fruitful period for Arabic literature in general.
Īhāb Nabīl Rifāʿī PhD student in History, ʿAyn Shams University, Cairo icon-calendar October 15, 2014 Īhāb Nabīl Rifāʿī studies the ambiguous relationships that the Mongols maintained with 13th-century Islam, both Sunnite and Shiite, between sincere conversion and the political use of religion for their expansionist politics.
Dennis Halft IDEO, Free University in Berlin icon-calendar December 17, 2013 In recent years, the Muslim perceptions of the Bible have attracted increasing scholarly attention. Under the influence of Catholic missionary agitation, translations of the Bible into Arabic reached early modern Iran and were intensively studied by Shiite scholars. Their reception
Emmanuel Pisani Member of IDEO, PhD student at the University of Lyon III icon-calendar November 12, 2013 For Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, the non-Muslim is not outside the boundaries of humanity, as it has sometimes been hastily claimed. They still are inhabited by the divine breath and maintain an incomparable dignity, even
Spencer Case PhD student (University of Colorado) icon-calendar May 8, 2013 Miskawayh was an outstanding Muslim thinker of the Buyid period. This presentation examines the philosophy of Miskawayh with respect to the relationship of morality to self-interest. Lessons will be drawn for modern philosophy, particularly for those who are interested in
Yannis Warrach PhD student (INALCO) icon-calendar March 26, 2013 Mister Warrach has been working for two years with Brother Michel Cuypers to identify in the Qur’an the rhetoric forms that are specific to Semitic Literature. This method has been developed for the Bible during two and a half centuries by Christian
Dominique Avon & Anaїs-Trissa Khatchadourian, Hezbollah: A history of the “Party of God” (translated by Jane Mary Todd), Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2012, 256 pages. For thirty years, Hezbollah has played a pivotal role in Lebanese and global politics. That visibility has invited Hezbollah’s lionization and vilification by outside observers, and
Claudio Monge, « La dialectique “dialogue et conversion” au cœur de la complexe histoire turco-ottomane : le regard d’un théologien catholique en terre d’islam » dans Histoire & missions chrétiennes, n°23 (septembre 2012), pages 59‒85.
