Among the Infıdels Christians and Muslims in Indıa and Tibet In the second appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Melis Savaş and Simone Costanzo will tell us about the “discovery” of the Indian and Tibetan civilizations by Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages. What were their first impressions, what did they …
Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities Relations between East and West from the twelfth to the fifteenth century In the first appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Buket Kitapçı Bayrı and Federico De Renzi will speak.They will tell us about the encounters and clashes, the fluctuation of borders and identities between East and …
For a Theology from the Mediterranean A Theological Manifesto Dear Friends, Just a year ago, a journey of reflection began between cultural centres working in contact with and in reference to the Mediterranean sea, as a space of cultural, religious and economic cross-fertilisation. This initial process of getting to know each other led to the …
Middle Ages on the Move The Lands of the East through the eyes of travelling friars A project by DoSt-I, in collaboration with Federico De Renzi and Simone Costanzo The lecture series explores the experiences of travelling religious such as Dominicans, and Franciscans and the complicated creation of new cultural ties and in the lands …
Intereligious Dialogue In an Age of Volcanoes and Refugees In this conference we would like to rediscover why fraternal encounter with people from far-off lands is so important today. We’ll try to sketch the shape of Christian-Muslim relations as they were for the first decade or so of this century. Then, we’d explore some of …
Do You Remember Abraham? an almost brandnew podcast (in Turkish) The lecture entitled ‘Do you remember Abraham… A comparative approach to the stories of Abraham in the Quran and the Bible’, presented by Dr George Bristow on 17 April has been released as a podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify or on our …
Gregory of Nazianzus new podcast (in Turkish) The lecture “Gregory of Nazianzus and the question of the divinity of the Holy Spirit, presented by Dr Elif Tokay on 15 December 2022, is now available as a podcast on Spotify or on our website. Elif Tokay works in the History of Religions Department of the Faculty …
Les mots pour dire Dieu A new book by Claudio Monge and Denis Gril Within the framework of the group “Théologie en dialogue” which brings together Christian and Muslim theologians, Father Claudio Monge, director of the Dominican Istanbul study center (Dost-I), and Denis Gril, member of the institute of research on the Arab and Muslim …
On the Incarnation “On the Incarnation of the Word“, the theological essay written by the great father of the Church Athanasius bishop of Alexandria (296-373 a.D.), has been translated in Turkish by Onur Yöş and published by Kitab-ı Mukkades Şirketi Yayınları in 2020. Onur Yöş will introduce us into the life of Athanasius and present …
Translating Utopia Tommaso Campanella and the City of the Sun Not a purely visionary philosopher, an interpreter in his own way of Machiavelli and Galileo, Campanella looks to a possible world where the reasons of politics and modern science can find renewed support in the word of a God, who is not mere ‘geometer’. This …
