Our conference brought together specialists in Jewish, Christian and Muslim studies, from across Europe, North American and the Middle East. Together we explored the construction (and deconstruction) of narratives of the creation of religious...
Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects....
A certain triumphalist fatalism has long dominated the historiography of the rise of Christianity and that of the expansion of Islam. Eusebius and Jerome give the tone: they celebrate a Christian cult destined to...
Debates and discussions at Lieu Unique For our second event in the IPRA-LU “Labo Utile – questions de société” program, we invited Lionel Obadia, Raphaël Liogier and Dominique Coatanéa to debate with Dominique Avon...
Lectures at the Lieu Unique For the second time, IPRA in partnership with the Lieu Unique is offering a lecture series that will happen throughout the year. This new season will start October 20th...
A conference on the theme “Critique de la religion et athéisme en terre d’islam, hier et aujourd’hui” (religious criticism and atheism in Islam, yesterday and today), co-organized by Ariel Planeix, will take place in...
