Samir Samir-Khalil

Samir Khalil Samir, SJ, is a doctor in oriental theology and Islamic studies and is the founder and director of the Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes (CEDRAC). He is also Professor of Religious Sciences at the Université Saint-Joseph of Beirut and of Christian-Islamic Studies at the Pontificio Istituto Orientale in Rome and at other universities. The founder and director of various Christian Arab series and a number of reviews concerned with oriental studies, he is also the author of thirty-six books and more than five hundred scholarly articles on relations between the Muslim world and the West, Christian Arab thought and Islam.