De Koran herontdekt

Emilio Platti, De Koran herontdekt, Averbode: Uitgeverij Averbode|‌Erasme N.V, 2020, 96 pages. De afgelopen jaren is het wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar het ontstaan van de Koran en de vroege Islam in een stroomversnelling geraakt. Islamoloog en dominicaan Emilio Platti behandelt in dit boekje twee nieuwe belangrijke inzichten. Hij beschrijft de invloed van jodendom en christendom op […]

Abd al-Masîh al-Kindî on the Qur’an

Emilio Platti, “Abd al-Masîh al-Kindî on the Qur’an” in Arab Christians and the Qur’an from the origins of Islam to the Medieval period, edited by Mark Beaumont, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2018, 66‒82.

The oldest manuscripts of the Qurʾān

Emilio Platti IDEO, Professor Emeritus of the Catholic University of Leuven icon-calendar Tuesday January 24ᵗʰ, 2017 Following the discovery of extremely old manuscripts of the Qurʾān, and the Birmingham folios having been dated between 568 and 645 AD (56 before Hiǧra and 25 after) with Carbon 14 techniques, scholars largely refuse today the late dating […]

Dal Saladino agli Ottomani

Emilio Platti, « Dal Saladino agli Ottomani : L’Egitto, le sue scuole islamiche e l’ortodossia sunnita », in: dans : Luciano Vaccaro (éd.), Popoli, religioni e Chiese lungo il corso del Nilo, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, Gazzada Schianno : Fondazione Ambrosiana Paolo VI, 2015, p. 300-321.

Yahyā ibn ʿAdī

Emilio Platti, « Yahyâ ibn ʿAdî, disciples and masters. On questions of religious philosophy », in: The character of Christian-Muslim encounter, Brill, Leiden – Boston, 2015, p. 60‒84.

Criteria for authenticity of prophecy

Emilio Platti, « Criteria for authenticity of prophecy in ʿAbd al-Masīḥ al-Kindī’s Risāla », in: Books and written culture of the Islamic world. Studies presented to Claude Gilliot on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Andrew Rippin & Roberto Tottoli (eds.), Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2015, p. 3‒25.

The Arab Revolutions

Emilio Platti, « The Arab Revolutions and Islamic Civil Society », dans : Erkan Toguslu & Johan Leman (ed.), Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism, (Current Issues in Islam), Leuven University Press, 2014, p. 101–126.

The Christianity of Abraha and the Quran

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 archeological evidence to answer a […]

Islam, friend or foe?

Emilio Platti, Islam, friend or foe? Peeters, Louvain-Paris-Dudley, MA; W.B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008, 267 pages. In this study, Emilio Platti dares to enquire directly into the compatibility between Islam and Christianity, as well as between Islam and modernity. He insists that the best way to answer such questions is to return to the […]