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𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 "𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬" 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐏𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐈As part of the seminar "Plural Approaches to Islamic Studies/Approches plurielles des études islamologiques" organized within the Master track on Islamic Studies with the support of the Amidex Project TAMAM (Dir. Olga L. Lizzini), we are pleased to welcome Samuela PAGANI (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy), for a series of three lectures on: ““𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 (𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒚𝒚𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍-𝒌𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒂): 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚, 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒉𝒎𝒖𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒉𝒂”.
𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 14:00–18:00 PM, Mmsh, Room A101, Aix-en-Provence: “Mahmud Muhammad Taha’s life and intellectual approach”.
𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐 , 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 14:00–18:00 PM, Mmsh, Room A101, Aix-en-Provence: “The legal philosophy of the Republican Brothers and its relationship with Sufism”.
𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟑 , 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
Session 3, March 6, 2026, 09:00 AM – 13:00 PM, Mmsh, Room A101, Aix-en-Provence: “The city and soul analogy and the Homo Imago Dei motif”.
𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨: mariem.jabri [at] etu.univ-amu.fr
𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭: One might define M.M. Taha as a thinker of ahadiyyat al-kathra even more so than of wahdat al-wujud. 'Unity within multiplicity' is the conceptual tool through which he thinks theology (the relationship between the one and the multiple in God, the notion of 'triplicity', its relationship to the image of man), politics (how to make Sudan a 'unified' nation), and psychology (how to make the 'multiples within the soul' into a harmonious community). In Taha's thought, open to the influence of modern thinkers, both Muslim and non-Muslim, as diverse as Muhammad Iqbal and Mahatma Gandhi, there resurge profound and sometimes repressed tendencies from the Muslim mystical and philosophical tradition that deserve to be highlighted. We shall see this by analysing his concept of natural law and its relationship to prophecy.
𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐏𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐈 teaches Arabic language and literature at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). She works on the history of ideas in the Muslim world and is a literary translator from Arabic into Italian. Her research revolves around the major interpretative controversies that have affected Islam from its origins to the present day. Sufi sources occupy a privileged place in her research perspective. Among her recent publications: « ‘La perla bianca’. L’acqua come sostanza e come metafora nel culto del Profeta », in "Fonti, flussi, onde. L’acqua tra realtà e metafora nel pensiero antico, medievale e moderno", ed. M. Lenzi, O. L. Lizzini, P. Totaro, L. Valente, Firenze, 2022, p. 309-354; « The Reality and Image of the Prophet according to the Theologian and Poet ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī », in "The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, vol. I: The Prophet Between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Historical Legacies and Their Unfolding", ed. D. Gril, S. Reichmuth, D. Sarmis, Leyde-Boston, 2022, p. 501-534. She edited, with M. Cassarino, A. Ghersetti et Letizia Osti, "Antologia della letteratura araba. Dalle origini al XVIII secolo", Rome, 2024, and with L. Demiri and A. Meier: "ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143/1731). A Bilingual Reader", Tuebingen, 2025.
À retrouver sur le site de l'IREMAM : https://iremam.mmsh.fr/fr/seminar-plural-approaches-islamic-studies-samuela-pagani
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MMSH (Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme), 5 rue du Château de l'Horloge, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France, 5 Rue Château de l'Horloge, 13090 Aix-en-Provence, France, Aix-en-provence
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