Authors
Oasis se sirve de la contribución de numerosos autores, personalidades académicas y exponentes religiosos tanto cristianos como musulmanes. Reconocidos a nivel internacional a través de su trabajo de investigación y las competencias en ámbitos diversos (ciencias sociales, filosofía, teología, historia, geopolítica, arte…) profundizan los temas de investigación de Oasis. Las opiniones expresadas libremente por los autores de los artículos no reflejan necesariamente las orientaciones de la Fundación Oasis y, por tanto, hay que considerarlos como responsabilidad exclusiva de cada colaborador.
Presentamos a continuación las fichas de los autores por orden alfabético.
Saif-el-Din Abdel-Fattah
Saif El-Din 'Abdel Fattah teaches Islamic political theory and political thought at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the University of Cairo. At the same university he is the executive head of the Program for Civilization Studies and Dialogue of Cultures (http://www.hewaronline.net/).
Saif El-Din 'Abdel Fattah teaches Islamic political theory and political thought at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the University of Cairo. At the same university he is the executive head of the Program for Civilization Studies and Dialogue of Cultures (http://www.hewaronline.net/).
Geneive AbdoGeneive Abdo, most recently the religion writer at the Chicago Tribune, is a regular contributor to The Economist and the International Herald Tribune. She is currently Liaison of the Alliance of Civilizations at the United Nations. She has published Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 and No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).
Hiba AbidHiba Adib. Of Tunisian origins, she started studying History of Art at the Sorbonne (Paris) in 2005. She specialised in History of Islamic Art and is now a PhD candidate at the EPHE, where she is preparing a thesis on Arab manuscripts in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa under the direction of Professor François Déroche. She is associate researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Tewfik AclimandosTewfik Aclimandos, egipcio, es investigador asociado a la Cátedra de Historia contemporánea del mundo árabe en el Collège de France desde 2009. Fue investigador en el Centre français d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ, El Cairo) de 1984 a 2009. Especialista de la vida política egipcia de la posguerra (1945-2011), ha publicado numerosos artículos sobre el ejército, sobre los Hermanos Musulmanes y sobre la política exterior de Mubarak.
Khalid Al-Jaber
Prof. Khalid al-Jabr (Qalqilya, Occupied Territories, 1964, married with four children), after obtaining a BA at the University of Nablus, a MA and a PhD in Arabic Language and Literature at the Jordanian University, is now Associate Professor at the Petra University (Amman). He is the author of several monographs on modern Arabic literature (chiefly Mahmûd Darwîsh and contemporary poetry) and of critical editions of classical texts (ar-Râzî, at-Tijânî, Ibn al-Khatîb etc.). His researches deal also with semantics of texts and he is currently writing an essay entitled Towards a contemporary understanding of the Kur’ân: essay on Sûrat al-a’là. He is the author of three collections of poems.
Prof. Khalid al-Jabr (Qalqilya, Occupied Territories, 1964, married with four children), after obtaining a BA at the University of Nablus, a MA and a PhD in Arabic Language and Literature at the Jordanian University, is now Associate Professor at the Petra University (Amman). He is the author of several monographs on modern Arabic literature (chiefly Mahmûd Darwîsh and contemporary poetry) and of critical editions of classical texts (ar-Râzî, at-Tijânî, Ibn al-Khatîb etc.). His researches deal also with semantics of texts and he is currently writing an essay entitled Towards a contemporary understanding of the Kur’ân: essay on Sûrat al-a’là. He is the author of three collections of poems.
Mohammad Al-JabriMohammed Abed al Jabri was born in Figuig (Morocco) and is one of the most famous Arab philosophers. After studying in Damascus and Rabat, he specialised in Arab-Islamic thought. Amongst his most famous publications we may list Critique de la Raison Arabe, 4 volumes (1982-1990). Presentations of this work have been published in French (Introduction à la Critique de la Raison Arabe, La Découverte, Paris, 1995) and in English (Arab-Islamic Philosophy. A Contemporary Critique, Texas University, 1999). He died in Casablanca on 3 May 2010.
Madawi Al-RasheedMadawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Social Anthropology at King’s College, London. Her research focuses on history, society, religion and politics in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, Islamist movements, and state and gender relations. Recent publications include A History of Saudi Arabia (2nd edition 2010), Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation (2007). Her forthcoming book is The Masculine State, Gender, Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia (2012).
Scott AlexanderScott Alexander is Associate Professor of Islam and Director, Catholic-Muslim Studies at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Trained at Harvard University, he held M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include medieval Muslim sectarianism, the mystical traditions of Muslim spirituality, Quranic studies, and the history and future of Muslim-Christian relations and interreligious dialogue. His current book project is entitled The Race to Goodness: an End to Triumphalism in Christianity and Islam.
Luigi AliciLuigi Alici Luigi Alici was born in Grottazzolina (AP) on 14 March 1950. Married with two children, he is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at LUMSA, Rome. Amongst his various activities, he works with the Centro di Studi Agostiniani of Perugia in the organisation of international study seminars, directs the series Le ragioni del bene published by San Paolo, and is the editor of the quarterly review Dialoghi (Rome). Since 31 May 2005 he has been president of Azione Cattolica Italiana.
Alberto-Fabio AmbrosioAlberto Fabio Ambrosio, a Dominican, is a specialist in the history of Ottoman Sufism. He lives in Istanbul, an active member of the Dosti Institute of Research and guest professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is a member of the research group on Ottoman history of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and of the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes. Amongst his publications: Dervisci. Storia, antropologia, Mistica (2011) and Vie d’un derviche tourneur. Doctrine et rituels du soufisme au XVIIe siècle (2010).
Mohammad-Ali Amir-MoezziMohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi was born in Iran and is Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (the Sorbonne). He is the author of a large number of books and articles, in particular La religion discrète : croyances et pratiques spirituelles dans l’islam shi’ite (Vrin, 2006) and Le Guide divin dansle shi’isme originel (Verdier, 2007). He is the editor and co-author of Dictionnaire du Coran (Robert Laffont, 2007; Dizionario del Corano, Mondadori, 2007). He is also the scientific co-editor of the Islamica series published by Mondadori.
Abdullahi-Ahmed An-Na'im
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was born in the Sudan, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at the Emory Law School (USA). A scholar of international standing on Islam and human rights from an inter-cultural perspective, he holds courses on international law, comparative constitutional law and human rights, and religion and human rights. His research interests include secularity, constitutionalism and citizenship in Islamic societies, and constitutionalism in African countries.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was born in the Sudan, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at the Emory Law School (USA). A scholar of international standing on Islam and human rights from an inter-cultural perspective, he holds courses on international law, comparative constitutional law and human rights, and religion and human rights. His research interests include secularity, constitutionalism and citizenship in Islamic societies, and constitutionalism in African countries.
Carl AndersonCarl A. Anderson is Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. He graduated in philosophy and law and is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Commission on Civil Rights of the United States of America.
Mohammed ArkounBorn in Taourirt-Mimoun, in the great Cabilia (Algeria), Mohammed Arkoun is emeritus professor at the Sorbonne (Paris III), visiting professor at the Institute of Ismailî Studies of London and scientific director of the review Arabica.
Antoine AudoMar Antoine Audo S.J. has been a bishop of the Chaldean Church of Syria since 1992. After studies in philosophy and theology in Paris (Sèvres), he dedicated himself to biblical studies (Rome), to the study of Arab thinkers (his thesis at the Sorbonne) and to exegesis (the Faculty of the Middle East). He contributed to the translation into Arabic of the Bible. He also promotes dialogue with Muslims and communion between Churches.
Dominique AvonDominique Avon is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université du Maine and lectures at the Sciences Po (Paris). Having graduated in Arabic at the INALCO, he specialised in the comparative study of religions. Member of the CERHIO (a CNRS laboratory), he coordinates the network of interdisciplinary research ‘dynamics of citizenship in Europe’. He has published Les religions monothéistes (2009) and Le Hezbollah (2010) with A.-T. Khatchadourian.
Miguel AyusoMiguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot is a Combonian missionary. He took a degree in Arab studies and Islamic studies and has a doctorate in theology. He has been a parish priest in Cairo (Egypt), a professor of Islamic studies in various Catholic institutions of the Sudan, the director of the Catechetical Centre of the diocese of El-Obeid (the Sudan), and the director of studies at the Dar Comboni Centre in Cairo. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer in Islamic studies at the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, of which he has been the dean since 2006.
Azyumardi AzraAzyumardi Azra earned his MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in History from Columbia University. At present he is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate School of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He was Deputy for Social Welfare at the Office of Vice-President of the Republic of Indonesia (April 2007 -20 October 2009) and Rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University for two terms (1998-2002 and 2002-2006.
