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The Pluriel network, coordinated by the Catholic University of Lyon, promotes research on Islam.

18/04/2026

📖 New publication

Edited by Olivier Bauer, Jean Patrick Nkolo Fanga, Mathieu Tchyombo, and Nérée Zabsonré, "Intercultural Theology"
Labor et Fides — Published February 18, 2026

Because every theology is culturally situated, Christian theology is inevitably multicultural. Yet one step remains to be taken: to become intercultural. Crossing languages, contexts, origins, ages, sexes, genders, social classes, and spiritualities, in order to bring to light both particularities and possible constants, so that theology may finally become the space for dialogue it is called to be.

👉 https://pluriel.fuce.eu/publication/intercultural-theology/?lang=en

15/04/2026

📅 Upcoming conference

"The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself. Ecumenical Approaches"
Institut Catholique de Paris, 8 and 9 June 2026 (in person and online)

Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today?

This international conference is jointly hosted by the Higher Institute of Ecumenical Studies (ISEO), the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions (ISTR), the Department of Fundamental, Dogmatic and Patristic Theology of the ICP, the Institut Protestant de Théologie, and the Saint-Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute.

Speakers will include Reinhold Bernhardt, Michaël Seewald, Catherine Cornille, Michel Younès, alongside many other academics and international experts.

👉 https://pluriel.fuce.eu/conference-the-theology-of-religions-reinventing-and-transforming-itself-icp-8-9-june-2026/?lang=en

25/03/2026

📖 Upcoming publication

Michel Younès, "Islam and Muslims: Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends"
Cerf Patrimoines — Coming April 16, 2026

Islam, as a historical, religious, and civilizational reality, is difficult to define. It can be perceived as a form of political governance, an expression of faith, a social conception with regulatory practices, or as a civilizational and cultural heritage. From its emergence and throughout its history, Islam has transformed the way these realities are inhabited. This makes it impossible to speak of it as a monolithic reality. Islam is, in fact, plural.

👉 https://pluriel.fuce.eu/publication/islam-and-muslims-doctrines-schools-of-thought-and-current-trends/?lang=en

22/09/2025

WEBINAR
Thursday, October 16, 2025, at 4:00 PM (Paris time)

In preparation for the international congress in Córdoba (February 10–14, 2026), Pluriel's Scientific Committee invites you to a webinar on "Ethics and Aesthetics in Islamic Heritage: Continuities, Transformations and Reinventions in Muslim Societies."

Registration: https://forms.gle/H6dYvioPDeRLh9S99

Introduction: Beate Bengard, Member of Pluriel's Scientific Committee, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Autonomous Faculty of Theology, University of Geneva

Speakers:
María del Mar Griera Llonch
Spanish sociologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Emilio González Ferrín
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Thought at the University of Seville, Director of Research on Comparative Religion and the History of al-Andalus

Mohamed El Maâzouz
Moroccan Anthropologist

Conclusion: Wasim Salman, Member of Pluriel's Scientific Committee, Syrian-Italian Academic, President of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), Rome

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21/08/2025

📚 France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs offers mobility grants in Islamic studies for students and early-career researchers. The program funds research stays within the UMIFRE network (French Research Institutes Abroad). Second-year Master's students may receive €1,000 per month for 1–3 months, while PhD candidates and recent PhD holders receive €1,700 per month for six months. Islamic studies is understood in a broad sense, encompassing archaeology, Islamic art, the study of religious texts, political history, and the social sciences. Applicants must be affiliated with a French university and must not hold any other French government scholarship. Deadline: 15 September 2025.

https://pluriel.fuce.eu/islamic-studies-research-grants-call-for-applications-for-students-and-early-career-researchers/?lang=en

26/05/2025

Lyon: Call for Applications for a Doctoral Excellence Scholarship in Catholic Theology

The Catholic University of Lyon is issuing a call for applications for an excellence scholarship aimed at supporting a doctoral project in Catholic theology. Eligible fields include: Christian theology of religions, theology of interreligious dialogue, and theology of Christian-Muslim relations.

https://pluriel.fuce.eu/lyon-call-for-applications-for-a-doctoral-excellence-scholarship-in-catholic-theology/?lang=en

25/01/2025

🔴 Diego Sarrió Cucarella, member of Pluriel and specialist in Islamic-Christian dialogue, appointed bishop in Algeria

https://pluriel.fuce.eu/diego-sarrio-cucarella-member-of-pluriel-and-specialist-in-islamic-christian-dialogue-appointed-bishop-in-algeria/?lang=en

29/08/2024

📅 Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM

Launch event for the "Theologies in Dialogue" chair on the theme "Christian Thought, Muslim Thought, and Societal Issues" on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM at the Carnot campus of the Catholic University of Lyon.

Featuring:
- Michel Younès, Dean of the Theology and Religious Sciences department at the Catholic University of Lyon and general coordinator of Pluriel
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Islamic studies scholar, Director of Studies in the Religious Sciences section at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, holding the chair of "Exegesis and Theology of Shi'ite Islam"

Registration before September 23:
https://pluriel.fuce.eu/conference-christian-thought-muslim-thought-and-societal-issues-with-michel-younes-and-mohammad-ali-amir-moezzi/?lang=en

07/06/2024

🟥Wasim Salman appointed president of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome

https://pluriel.fuce.eu/wasim-salman-appointed-president-of-the-pontifical-institute-for-arabic-and-islamic-studies-in-rome/?lang=en

On Wednesday, June 5th, PISAI announced the appointment of Wasim Salman for a three-year term at the head of the institution, a long-standing partner of Pluriel. He succeeds Diego Sarrió Cucarella, former member of the coordination committee of Pluriel, who actively contributed to our projects and the congress in Abu Dhabi last February for six years.

Born in Damascus, Wasim Salman has been a professor of contemporary Arab-Islamic thought at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) since 2016. Syrian-Italian, he holds a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University (2009) and in Arabic philosophy from the University of Tor Vergata (2016) and is a member of the editorial board of Islamochristiana.

In 2024, he participates in the Pluriel congress in Abu Dhabi on the theme “Impacts and perspectives of the Document on Human Fraternity” with a paper entitled: “Dialogue, Plurality and Brotherhood in the Thought of Imam Al-Tayeb”. He is also the author of Political Islam and the Stakes of Interpretation. Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd (Mimesis, 2017) and Gadamer e I teologi (UUP, 2012).

13/04/2024

📘 Islam and Scientific Examination: A Renewed Quest

✒️ Edited by Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

➡️ https://pluriel.fuce.eu/publication/islam-and-scientific-examination/?lang=en

"How can we establish an objective, rigorous, and detached study of Islam in the face of the excesses generated by its politicization? It is to answer this burning question that the French Institute of Islamology (IFI) was created in 2022, at the request of the President of the Republic. This public institution's mission is to develop high-level Islamology by promoting, on a national scale, the scientific examination of belief systems, knowledge, and practices specific to the various currents of the Islamic religion.

Here are the inaugural lectures given at the Sorbonne on June 15, 2023, by internationally renowned scholars: Christian Robin, specialist in the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula; François Déroche, specialist in the Quran; Samuela Pagani, specialist in Sufism; and Dominique Avon, specialist in contemporary Islam.

This book constitutes the first volume of the IFI Library which, under the aegis of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and Juliette Dumas, aims to publish the major texts of Islamology in order to dispel fundamentalist and militant interpretations. An indispensable introduction."

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