Conférence Étienne Renaud 2022

On 12 May 2022 at 5 pm, the seventh Conférence Étienne Renaud entitled ‘Partager les senses du Coran: pour une herméneutique dialogique’, in memory of Étienne Renaud, M.Afr. (1936-2013), former professor, president and director of studies at the PISAI, was held at the Maurice Borrmans Library.

The speaker was Mehdi Azaiez, Professor of Islamics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His field of research is the Koran and the first centuries of Islam. Prof. Azaiez is author of the monograph Le contre discours coranique (De Gruyter 2015), co-editor of The Qur'ān Seminar Commentary (De Gruyter 2016) and Qur'ānic Studies, Between History, Theology and Exegesis (Lockwood Press 2022, forthcoming).

In the course of the morning, two PISAI PhD students presented their research in the presence of the Institute’s academic community. The presentation by Anna Canton, a doctoral student co-tutoring with the University of Rome La Sapienza, was entitled Al-Masīḥ al-Daǧǧāl and al-Masīḥ 'Īsā b. Maryam. The signs of the Hour in the Kitāb al-taḏkira of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī.

Next, Carol Cooke Eid, whose relator is Prof. Mehdi Azaiez, described the status of her research entitled Dieu en quête des hommes. Une approche de l'appel divin à la lumière des réponses humaines dans les sourates 96 à 112 du Coran selon l'ordre " chronologique " de sa révélation d'après al-Azhar.