Dr Ameer JAJÉ, O.P

Professional Experience

• Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (since 2012).
• Member of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO) in Cairo (since 2012).
• Director of the Dominican Academy of Baghdad for the Humanities (since 2012).
• Founding Member of the Iraqi Council for Interreligious Dialogue (since 2013).
• Dominican Provincial Vicar for the Arab World (2011–2016).
• Superior of the Dominicans in Baghdad (2010–2013).
• Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Babel College, Baghdad (since 2004).
• Professor at the Catholic Institute of Theology in Baghdad (since 2011).
• Professor at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Cairo (2016–2017).
• Lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris (2018–2020).
• Director of Arabic Programmes at DOMUNI, the Dominican online university (since 2016).
• Vice-Rector for International Affairs at DOMUNI UNIVERSITAS (2018–2023).
• Recipient of the Stefanus Prize in Oslo for his work promoting religious freedom (2018).

Education

• 1986–1995: Studies at Saint Peter and Paul Seminary in Baghdad.
• 1995: Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from Saint Peter and Paul Seminary in Baghdad.
• 2002: Master’s Degree in Theology, University of Strasbourg (Faculty of Catholic Theology). Thesis: The Role of Women in the Eastern Church.
• 2003: DEA (Master’s Degree) in History of Religions, Faculty of Catholic Theology. Thesis: The Image of the Virgin Mary in Islam.
• 2010: PhD in History of Religions, Faculty of History, University of Strasbourg. Dissertation: The Celebration of Ashura among Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

Publications

• Arabic translation of Mahmoud Ayoub’s Redemptive Suffering in Islam: A Study of the Devotional Aspects of ‘Ashura’ in Twelver Shi'ism.
• Diaconesses : Les femmes dans l’Eglise syriaque, Domuni-Press, 2016.
• Le chiisme - Clés historiques et théologiques, Domuni-Press, 2019.
• Marie dans l'Islam, Spirituality Collection, Domuni-Press, 2020.

• « La souffrance rédemptrice chez les chiites d’Irak », MIDEO, no. 29, 2012, pp. 151–175.
• « La visite du pape en Irak », SPIRITUS, no. 243, 2021, pp. 135–139.
• « Histoire et caractéristique de l'Islam chiite », Proche-Orient Chrétien, no. 70.
• « Nawhiyat : choix du texte d’une célébration d’Ashura chiite », Cahier MIDEO, no. 6, 2013.
• « Histoire et croyances chez les Sabéens », Najim al-Mashriq (in Arabic).
• « La religion de Yazidis et leur traditions », Najim al-Mashriq (in Arabic).
• « Le Bouddhisme », Najim al-Mashriq (in Arabic).
• « Les Shabaq et leur doctrines », Najim al-Mashriq (in Arabic).
• « Le phénomène de violence dans la pensée religieuse », al-Fikr al-Masihi (in Arabic).
• « Marie dans l’islam », Revue Rosaire (in French).
• « Le Martyr dans l’islam », Wort und Antwort (in German).