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Thinking from the Dual – Ontology, Theology and the Humanities through the Lens of the “Muthannā”
This international conference explores the philosophical and theological implications of the Arabic grammatical dual (al-muthannā). Situated between the paradigms of unity and multiplicity that have long structured philosophical thought, the dual offers a distinctive relational structure in which two terms are held together without fusion or hierarchy. Taking this linguistic form as a conceptual starting point, the conference investigates the possibility of thinking relation itself as originary. Particular attention will be given to the concept of ʿahd (covenant, pact, commitment) as a relational event in Islamic theology and beyond. Bringing together philosophers, theologians, and scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the conference seeks to open a field of inquiry devoted to the ontological, theological, and anthropological significance of the dual in contemporary thought.
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Berlin
This workshop seeks to explore the links between preaching and socio-humanitarian action in the contemporary Middle East. Contexts of social and humanitarian crises appear as privileged sites for understanding this constitutive device of faith experiences, beyond the sole framework of the sermon or religious discourse. The chosen approach is deliberately cross-cutting: it brings Islam, Judaism, and Christianity into dialogue, while situating the Middle East within a global perspective. How does preaching accompany and shape social and humanitarian action? In what forms and according to which modalities does it unfold? How does it influence the understanding and implementation of aid?
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Abu Dhabi
Philosophers and the Abrahamic Religions
Centuries of Reciprocal Influence
The Abrahamic Family House and the Munich School of Philosophy will organize a two-day conference in Abu Dhabi (UAE) to explore the contributions of the Abrahamic religions to philosophical debates and the reciprocal influence of philosophy on these traditions. Academic scholars and distinguished figures in interfaith dialogue will engage in discussions.
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Amman
Lexis, framing, timings, 19th‒21st century in the Middle East
Is preaching consubstantial with crisis? Did the different religious traditions present in the Middle East come to grip with the notion of crisis during the contemporary period? This workshop examines the similarities and divergences between preaching endeavours by the different religious traditions and the transformations in religious discourse in the Middle East from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a comparative and diachronic analysis, it aims to identify what "constitutes a crisis" for particular religious actors at a given moment in the contemporary history of the Middle East (e.g. military defeat, feelings of inferiority vis-à-vis Europe, demographic decline of a given religious group, secularisation of institutions, rise of atheism, etc.)
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Aix-en-Provence
Religious Conversions. Believing and Doing on the Move in the Mediterranean Area
This issue looks at religion in terms of its ability to mobilise institutions, groups and individuals around plural dynamics that contribute to the redefinition of the religious field itself. It looks at religious conversion through the prism of multidirectional and communicating trajectories, ’bifurcations’ in which movements of diversions, decentering and return to the self come together. Religious conversion is understood here beyond the dualistic categorisation of rupture and continuity. This leads us to think of it not simply as an opaque process of religious disaffiliation and affiliation, but as a movement from self to self, involving a constant tension of negotiation between reconfiguration of the ways in which people believe and do religion, and the significance of the identities and sensibilities of individuals in a given social environment.
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Lille
Les littératures des mondes de l’Islam à l’épreuve des contestations
Représenter, d’Europe en Orient, le refus de la norme
Ces deux journées se donnent pour objectif d’étudier les mises en forme littéraires des contestations, qu’elles soient de nature politique, sociale, culturelle, religieuse ou linguistique, en rapport avec les mondes de l’Islam (pays de langues arabe, turque et persane). Ouvertes à des chercheurs d’horizons variés pour ouvrir un dialogue interdisciplinaire et comparatiste, les journées auront pour vocation d’interroger les spécificités de l’opposition aux normes dans les littératures d’un espace traversé par des dynamiques proches. Nous réfléchirons également aux textes européens qui élaborent un discours critique sur le monde qualifié d’oriental (contestation des normes orientales, contestation des postulats européens sur l’Orient…).
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Lisbon
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
Ele trouxe uma mensagem de tempos antediluvianos
Jornadas sobre Literatura Antiga da Mesopotâmia
O Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (CH-ULisboa) organiza as Jornadas sobre Literatura Antiga da Mesopotâmia: “Ele trouxe uma mensagem de tempos antediluvianos” no âmbito das actividades de investigação do Grupo de Investigação Usos do Passado. Este evento contará com a participação de especialistas do CH-ULisboa e do CHAM/NOVA FCSH e serão apresentados trabalhos de investigação em desenvolvimento sobre história, cultura e literatura da Mesopotâmia.
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Boulogne
Judas the Galilean: the Man and his Significance
In 6 CE, while Quirinius was taking the census of Judea, the first Jewish opposition aroused against Roman presence in the region, led by a man known as Judas the Galilean (or the Gaulanite). According to Josephus, all subsequent troubles were the fact of this man. But who was Judas? Was he so important in the history? Was he even challenging Roman authorities? As usual in similar cases, the scholarly debates are endless about the man and his significance. This conference aims to survey all of the many faces of Judas in recent historiography and to discuss each evidence in order to estimate the true place of Judas in history.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Floods and Other Destructions. Stories about the End in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Le colloque porte sur la pratique de mise en récit des moments de crise, de destruction et de désagrégation sociale au sein de différentes civilisations du pourtour de la Méditerranée orientale ancienne (IIe-Ier millénaire av. J.-C.). À travers l’analyse des convergences et des divergences entre les modèles narratifs concernés – issus de la Grèce ancienne et de la Mésopotamie, du Levant et de l’ancien Israël – on examinera les éléments linguistiques et les conceptions mobilisés afin de décrire ce qui détruit – mais aussi, en contre-jour, ce qui fonde – l’identité d’une société et de ses institutions, ainsi que sa manière de se mettre en relation avec le divin et la sphère religieuse. La perspective transversale et interdisciplinaire du colloque permettra également de discuter la possibilité d’inscrire les récits et discours analysés dans un horizon culturel partagé, où chaque civilisation vient inscrire ses spécificités.
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Paris
Jews of the Arab world, why did they leave?
Dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, la quasi-totalité des populations juives ont quitté le monde arabe, dans un contexte de bouleversements entraînés notamment par la destruction des juifs d’Europe, la création de l’État d’Israël, la décolonisation et les guerres israélo-arabes. Les causes et les circonstances de ces émigrations, complexes et très diverses selon les pays, restent mal connues, mal comprises, et donnent lieu à des instrumentalisations de tous bords. Ce colloque se propose de rouvrir le dossier du départ des juifs du monde arabe dans une perspective comparatiste et ouverte aux spécialistes internationaux, à distance des usages politiques de l’histoire, pour dresser un état des lieux des connaissances sur la question.
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Paris
Ḥanbalism and Ašʿarism have been for more than a century represented as two inherently antagonistic theological schools. “Literalist”, “fideist” and “traditionalist”, Ḥanbalism is said to be the uncompromising opponent of rationalist currents. Contemporary Wahhabi-Salafism is perceived itself as a legitimate heir to this doctrine and a modern replica of this struggle. However, several academic studies are shaking up this reading grid and leading to a revision of our certainties by renewing our approaches. Through this international conference, we hope to give them more visibility, to question our representations of Ašʿarism, Ḥanbalism and the contemporary currents that claim to be the later in order to renew our understanding of theological quarrels.
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Paris
The maqālāt treaties in 3rd-9th and 4th-10th centuries
Doxography as source and gender
Notre connaissance des premiers siècles du kalām repose presque exclusivement sur des doxographies dans lesquelles ont été consignées, classées et réarrangées les différentes thèses et doctrines des théologiens. Procédant par « unités de divergence », les traités de maqālāt sont un genre doxographique qui connut un essor dans le monde islamique aux IIIe, IXe et IVe, Xe siècles. Nous examinerons lors de cette journée d’études les principaux traités de maqālāt de cette époque, à la fois en tant que source des premières grandes ontologies du kalām et en tant que genre autonome qui remplit un certain nombre de fonctions normatives, théologiques et politiques, au sein de la communauté religieuse.
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Toulouse
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
Naming the gods in the Graeco-Roman Syria
Onomastic landscapes and religious dynamics
Pour explorer l’idée selon laquelle nommer c’est convoquer des bribes de « théologie » s’enracinant dans des traditions et des innovations propres à chaque environnement, la Syrie fournit un terrain d’une richesse exceptionnelle. Dans le cadre du projet MAP (ERC Advanced Grant 741182 « Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency »), on se propose de scruter les appellations partagées ou spécifiques, répandues ou singulières, des innombrables divinités attestées avec leurs attributs onomastiques et iconographiques dans les sanctuaires syriens : Nabu, Nergal, Shamash, Zeus, Athéna, Némésis, ou encore les moins connus Durahlun, Azzanathkona, ou Shalman.
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Toulouse
Seminar - Prehistory and Antiquity
Who named the gods? Utterers, addressers, ritual agents
The ERC MAP Seminar “The Names of the Gods! 5: Who named the gods? Utterers, addressers, ritual agents” pursues the investigation on the systems of naming of the divine. This year, it focuses on the human agents in the process of naming the divine, whether they are producers of a discourse on the deities, addressers in a communication with the deities, or even experts in charge of a ritual knowledge. What agency do men and women exercise in the production of a specific denomination of the divine? How can we question their choices, their anchoring in a tradition or their innovation strategies?
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” Thought
The aim of this meeting is to bring together confirmed and emerging specialists in order to gain some perspective on the current academic research on Ibn ʿArabī and “Akbarī” thought and to discuss research directions for the future. It will also bring to light questions arising from the reading and use of Ibn ʿArabī’s ideas today, taking into account the new approaches and better access to the texts provided by recent tools for textual analysis, and evaluating how our present-day situation shapes our understanding of his works, and conversely, what an informed reading can bring to current re-appropriations and (mis)use.
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Paris
Myths of origin in Asian societies
Un proverbe indien dit qu’il ne faut pas chercher l’origine d’un fleuve, ni l’origine d’un saint. L’observation directe conduit à peu de chose. Mais l’esprit va au-delà. Il crée un mythe. Qui n’a pas rêvé de son origine, de l’origine d’une nation, d’une langue, d’un thème littéraire ou artistique, de l’origine de l’homme, de l’origine du monde, de l’origine des dieux ? Le mythe n’est cependant pas le rêve incontrôlé. Il est un imaginaire qui transpose la nature profonde d’une âme humaine, d’une société, d’une religion, d’une civilisation. Un mythe d’origine définit un commencement, pose une limite initiale. Or la raison ne peut concevoir une origine absolue. Un mythe d’origine pose un jalon, un repère dans un continuum de temps ou d’espace. Chaque civilisation d’Asie dit par un mythe d’origine quel repère elle a choisi pour le début de son histoire. Et ceci est révélateur des caractères dans lesquels elle s'affirme.
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"Iǧtihād" and "taqlīd" in Sunni and Shiite Islam
L'histoire de la pensée musulmane montre que la relation entre le taqlīd et l’iǧtihād est complexe. Le dossier de ce MIDÉO se propose d’approfondir les deux logiques à la lumière du patrimoine islamique. Les contributions pourront souligner les discours théologiques de légitimité ou de réfutation, mais aussi leur articulation. Au-delà de la rivalité entre les deux logiques, il conviendra de vérifier si l’on reste bien dans un continuum, et de vérifier que si les perspectives hégémoniques sont rivales, elles ne sont pas incompatibles.
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Study days - Prehistory and Antiquity
Religion of the Ancient Near East: New Developments (RANEND)
Among the Near Eastern research programs of interest to Ghent, ULille and UCLouvain universities, the study of religion in the Near East has been chosen as a central theme of a new cooperation project, as several teachers-researchers, doctoral and post-doctoral students are already involved in this field. in 2018, we will start with a masterclass on Hittite religion with Dr Alice Mouton (CNRS - UMR 8167), a well-known scholar of the Hittite world and a specialist of religion in ancient Anatolia, first step to renew the approaches and to develop a reflection of the importance of this subject in ancien Near Eastern societies. Other conferences on the theme of religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt will be delivered on the same day by other scholars from England, France and Belgium.
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Conference, symposium - Thought
Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context
This conference would like to engage with one specific context among all those which were and still are, as it were, “affected” by philosophical hermeneutics: the Islamicate context. The latter seems particularly relevant: on the one hand because it is intimately intertwined with the Western context; on the other hand because the Islamicate context retains a clear reference to religion that makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. The universality of the hermeneutic order should be put to the test of the Islamicate context within three different angles: the exegetical aspect, in order to see in what extend philosophical hermeneutics can contribute to rethink the understanding of the Koran in the contemporary context; the interpretative aspect, to address different contemporary attempts to reinterpret the classical – philosophical, spiritual or legal – heritage; the critical aspect, to present different political and critical issues raised by the question of the encounter between philosophical hermeneutics and Islamic thought.
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Angers
Conference, symposium - Religion
The Bible and its readings - rumours and renown
Rumeurs et renommées
Ce colloque international est consacré à l’étude des rumeurs et des renommées dans le « monde biblique », c’est-à-dire d’une part dans les textes bibliques et apparentés (Bible hébraïque, Bible grecque, Nouveau Testament, littératures intertestamentaire et apocryphe etc.), et relativement à leurs différents contextes sociohistoriques de production (Proche-Orient et Méditerranée), et d’autre part, dans le cadre des réceptions les plus immédiates de ces textes, principalement au sein des communautés juives et chrétiennes antiques.
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