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Dānyāl ibn-al Ḥaṭṭāb al-Mārdīnī, I fondamenti della religione e la guarigione dei cuori dei credenti, «Kitāb Uṣūl al-Dīn wa-šifāʾ qulūb al-muʾminīn», studio, testo critico arabo, traduzione italiana, note e indici a cura di Mervat Kelli, prefazione di Bishara Ebeid, Tomo 1, Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2024, 432p.

ISBN: 9791280091093

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Bartolomeo Pirone, Guida allo studio dell'arabo. Un metodo semplice per entrare passo dopo passo nella lingua del ḍād, Bologna: Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, 2024, 2nd revised and correct edition.

ISBN: 9791280091079

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The book is the result of many years of teaching at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". As an expert guide for having taught the Arabic language to hundreds of students, the Author takes by the hand those who want to acquire the written and spoken Arabic language and, with the necessary patience for anyone wishing to acquire a language, leads the reader and explains all the elements, from the simplest to the most complex.

The book is a precious tool precisely for those who want to approach the "language of ḍād" (the letter that stands out in the cover image) and which, among the emphatic sounds of Arabic, is the one that is most peculiar to arabic speaking people; for this reason Arabic has been called by linguists "the language of ḍād".

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ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭirhānī, Notizie dei patriarchi della Chiesa dell'Oriente dal libro «al-Miǧdal»

(Aḫbār faṭārikah kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-Miǧdal)

Tomo 2: da Īšūʿ bar Nūn (m. 828) a ʿAbdīšūʿ ibn al-Muqlī (m. 1148)

testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana

a cura di Gianmaria Gianazza

Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2022, p. 474

أخبار فطاركة كرسي المشرق من كتاب المجدل

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ʿAmr ibn Mattā al-Ṭirhānī, Notizie dei patriarchi della Chiesa dell'Oriente dal libro «al-Miǧdal»

(Aḫbār faṭārikah kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-Miǧdal)

Precedute da prescrizioni, norme, obblighi e canoni degli Apostoli e dei Padri successivi

Tomo 1: da Adday a Timoteo I (m.823)

testo critico arabo e traduzione italiana

a cura di Gianmaria Gianazza

Prefazione di Louis Raphaël I SAKO

Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2022, p. 520

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Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī (893-974 d.C.), Trattato sull'unità (Maqālah fī al-tawḥīd). L’uno, il molteplice e l’unità di Dio. Testo arabo a cura di Samir Khalil Samir sj. Introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di Olga Lucia Lizzini, prefazione di Gerhard Endress.

Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2020.

مقالة في التوحيد

ليحيى ابن عدي

(م893-974)

ISBN: 9791280091000

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How can we say that God is one? When we say it, are we saying it because – as Muslims believe – we wish to affirm God’s absolute oneness and uniqueness, or because – as Christians understand it – we recognize and accept a modulation within it?

With his Treatise on Divine Unity, the Christian philosopher Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī (d. 974) sets out to demonstrate that the true meaning of the One does not contradict that of the multiple: on the contrary, it actually implies it. The Christian concept of divine Oneness, which is also simultaneously a “Trinity”, takes its solid philosophical basis from this reasoning.

The method of the Treatise is in reality philosophical, even if its purpose is purely theological: the consideration of the notion of the one (al-wāḥid) aims, in fact, to define the quiddity (māhiyyah) of God. In the wake of Plato’s Parmenides, and with particular attention to the Aristotelian discussion of the one, the different meanings of the one and unity, as Yaḥyā presents them, are conceived in polemical dialogue with the Islamic theological context: the opposition between the Christian and the Islamic conceptions of divine Oneness is implicit but constant throughout the whole Treatise.

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Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī, L'affinamento dei caratteri. (Kitāb tahḏīb al-aḫlāq). Un trattato di etica del X secolo, edizione a cura di Samir Khalil Samir; introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di Ida Zilio Grandi; indici a cura di Ida Zilio-Grandi e Davide Righi, Bologna 2019, independently published.

ISBN: 978-1985163577

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Compendium of rational ethics in the form of a systematic treatise, the Tahḏīb al-aḫlāq ("The refinement of the characters") of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī disregards a properly religious way and instead moves on the ground of Greek philosophical reflection and also on that of a simpler reasonableness. Precisely the absence of religious references meant that it was attributed over time to Muslim authors, such as al-Ǧāḥiẓ of Basra, Ibn al-ʿArabī of Murcia, or the mathematician, physicist and astronomer Ibn al-Hayṯam.

Among the earliest and most important examples of Arabic literature on the ethical topic, «The refinement of the characters» of Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī teaches and illustrates a journey of personal improvement. Rich and meticulous, vast in content and generous in intent, this small text composed in the 10th century Baghdad can speak with intelligent simplicity even to the contemporary reader.

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Paola Pizzo - Davide Righi (eds), Cristiani e musulmani nel mondo arabo ieri e oggi: conflitti e incontri culturali e religiosi. Atti del 3° convegno di studi arabo-cristiani. Roma 27-28 febbraio 2009 (Bologna: Edizioni del Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, 2026 [Reprint of 2019 edition]).

ISBN: 9791280091239

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This volume collects the proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Christian Arabic Studies, held at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome on February 27–28, 2009.

Papers by:

Vincenzo Poggi sj: All’origine della tolleranza islamica
Bartolomeo Pirone: Cristiani e musulmani negli Annali di Eutichio
Davide Righi: Bernardo di Chiaravalle e la sua predicazione della seconda crociata
Wafik Nasry: Signs and Miracles
Salvatore Santoro: Timoteo I e il califfo al-Mahdī. Prima forma di un dialogo islamo-cristiano
Philippe Luisier: I Copti e la quinta crociata. A proposito di un colofone della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Rosanna Budelli: Identità araba e identità cristiana: il contributo di Buṭrus al-Bustānī (m. 1883) alla riforma linguistica della Nahḍah
Paola Pizzo: L’evoluzione del pensiero islamico sulla condizione dei non musulmani
Samir Khalil Samir sj: Il dialogo islamo-cristiano da Regensburg (12/09/2006) ad oggi

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Paola Pizzo, Religion and Politics in 20^th Century Egypt, (Roma: Aracne 2019)

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Georg GRAF, Storia della letteratura araba cristiana. Gli scrittori melchiti, maroniti, nestoriani fino alla metà del XV secolo, vol. II tomo 1, traduzione dal tedesco con addizione di numeri e titoli redazionali a cura di Paola PIZZI.

(It is the italian translation of the first part of GCAL 2nd volume until page 219. No bibliographical update was made. Instrument of work for students who can read italian)

Independent publication by Gruppo di Ricerca Arabo-Cristiana, Bologna 2018.

ISBN: 978-1729133682

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Gianmaria Gianazza, Testi teologici di Ebedjesu, prefazione di Željko Paša [edizione araba e traduzione italiana di alcune opere teologiche di ʿAbdisho bar Berīkā (Ebedjesu), Le perle delle utilità sui fondamenti della religione e gli articoli di fede (Kitāb farāʾid al-fawāʾid fī uṣūl al-dīn wa-l-ʿaqāʾid; كتاب فرائد الفوائد في أصول الدين والعقائد); Sermone sulla Trinità e l'Unità (Ḫuṭbah fī al-taṯlīṯ wa-l-tawḥīd; خطبة في التثليث والتوحيد); Professione di fede di Abdisho di Nisibi (Amānah mār ʿAbdisho; أمانة مار عبديشوع); La perla sulla verità del cristianesimo, tradotti dall'arabo e dal siriaco] (Bologna: CreateSpace 2018).

ISBN: 978-1986847872

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"As some of those who believe (i.e. Muslims) and Jews have thought of Christians badly, by tying them with polytheism and disbelief in the things they believe in, [...] we felt compelled to explain in this book the number of things that they consider repugnant among the statements of Christians, bearing evidence on their need and credibility, among them their affirmation that God is one in three persons, Christ is the son of God, taking the cross as direction in their churches, convents and places of worship, and bowing before it and venerating it"

(from the introduction of The pearls of utility on the foundations of religion and articles of faith «Kitāb farāʾid al-fawāʾid fī uṣūl al-dīn wa-l-ʿaqāʾid»)

Theological vision of Abdisho bar Berika (Ebedjesu 1250ca-1318) in four of his theological writings.

By ʿAbdisho bar Berīkā (Ebedjesu) see also (Kitāb uṣūl al-dīn - كتاب أصول الدين) «I fondamenti della religione» (The foundations of religion)