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Der Dialog muss weitergehen. Christentum und Islam in den Pontifiaten von Johannes Paul II., Benedikt XVI. und Franziskus
2020
The aim of the article is the critical presentation of the vision of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam in the pontifiates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. The pontifiate of John Paul II constitutes a quantum leap forward as far as both the practice of dialogue of the Catholic Church with Islam and systematic reflction on its signifiance and theological fundamentals are concerned. The Pope emphasized the signifiance of the common religious and cultural heritage of Christians and Muslims. Both worship the same God and have the common ancestor in faith, namely Abraham. The ties of brotherhood that join them are an obligation for mutual respect as well as shaping peaceful r…
Dignità dell'uomo e prospettive islamiche
2008
Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy – a Contradiction in Terms?
2020
This paper engages critically with Dimitri Gutas’ recent characterization of post-classical Islamic philosophy and theology as a form of paraphilosophy or intellectual activity that merely simulates philosophy. I argue that this view arises from a misguided understanding of the concept of philosophy that should provide the standard for its historiography. In order to avoid a number of problematic consequences, such as gaps in historical continuity or a disconnection from what we understand by philosophy today, we must take our cue from a sufficiently uncontroversial contemporary concept of philosophy instead of any particular historical concept, such as the Peripatetic amalgam of metaphysic…
L’archetipo cupolato: dalle chiese di Costantinopoli alle moschee di Sinan
2015
Il saggio, facendo riferimento agli spazi cultuali delle chiese di Bisanzio/Costantinopoli e alle principali moschee ideate dall’architetto Sinan, nell’individuare le differenze più evidenti tra bizantino e islamico, prova a tracciare lo sviluppo di un’idea architettonica, l’idea sicuramente dominante in ambito orientale. Si cercherà così di evidenziare la forza di «archetipo» rappresentato dalla pianta centrica a perimetro quadrangolare dominata da una cupola centrale. Questo archetipo, nei secoli radicato e richiesto dalla liturgia ortodossa (che rifiuterà invece quasi del tutto quello basilicale tanto diffuso in occidente) verrà a confrontarsi in maniera quantomai interessante con le att…
The dialogue between east and west in the construction of gender photography as support of discourse and resistance
2018
En el marco de la globalización, en las nuevas narrativas de género se han producido cambios conceptuales con nuevos posicionamientos críticos y de resistencia. Mujeres creadoras de otras culturas, diferentes al mundo occidental, han trabajado para denunciar situaciones o poner en valor el empoderamiento de las mujeres como protagonistas de su destino. Y es en esta línea donde las mujeres artistas han aportado sus propuestas feministas y de resistencia. Los objetivos de este trabajo se centran en dos ejes conceptuales: a) analizar la situación de las mujeres en el contexto de los países islámicos y b), mostrar, a través del trabajo de fotógrafas procedentes de estos países, como se está con…
The Investment Performance of U.S. Islamic Mutual Funds
2020
Islamic investment funds have become increasingly important because of high demand from many investors, including those outside the Muslim investment community. This article compares the performance and risk sensitivity of Islamic mutual funds in the United States with that of their conventional peers. This article also analyzes the performance of Islamic funds, and compares this performance with that of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)-based methodology was used for the analysis. The results suggest that over the entire study period (1987&ndash
L’etica islamica dalle origini al XII secolo: appunti di studio.
2005
The Problem of Existential Import in Metathetic Propositions: Qutb al-Din al-Tahtani contra Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
2019
This paper addresses discussions in post-Avicennan Arabic logic on various characterizations of metathetic propositions and their status vis-à-vis the existential import condition by focusing on the arguments made by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) and the counter-arguments by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī (d. 766/1365), both of whom established their positions in a framework drawn by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037), the most prominent figure in the tradition of classical Arabic logic. In his logic texts, Avicenna thoroughly discusses the problem of the existential import in metathetic propositions (ma‘dūla), and seems to have presumed the existential import to be a truth-condition for…
How Islamic are young Muslim people’s poems?
2019
In this article, I investigate poetry written by two young Muslim people during their spare time. Adopting Shahab Ahmed’s (2016) understanding of Islamic in its plenitude and complexity, I ask how Islamic their texts are. The participants, Neda and Mohammed (both pseudonyms), grew up in Islamic countries where they were socialised in faith literacy practices, including practices around sacred and devotional texts, before moving to Norway in their teens. The data used for this article were collected during two linguistic ethnographies and include poems written in and outside of school, fieldnotes from classroom observations and transcripts from multiple semi-structured interviews. The interv…
Transactional Sex, Early Marriage, and Parent-Child Relations in a Tanzanian Slum
2016
Transactional sex has been recognized as a major factor in the persistence of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet it also has implications for the persistence of poverty. Using interview data collected between 2010 and 2015, this article examines how Muslim families in Dar es Salaam are affected by transactional sexual behavior.1 Examined are motives for transactional sex, how poor families view the purpose of marriage, and religious teachings and cultural beliefs about the onset of adulthood. Familial strategies to ensure provision for daughters and to improve the family’s socio-economic situation are impeded by the fact that in a context of high unemploy ment, transactional sex of ten rep…