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DOMUNI UNIVERSITAS

Dr. Adnane Mokrani

Dr. Adnane Mokrani

Languages

Arabic, Italian, French, English.

Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek.

Diplomas

  1. Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, (PISAI), Rome.  
    Doctorate on: Points of View of Lebanese Christians on Muslim-Christian Relations, 1990-2000, Summa Cum Laude, 2005.

  2. Al-Zaytuna University, Institute of Islamic Theology, Department of Religions and Confessions, Tunis, Tunisia. 
    Third cycle Doctorate on: Religions’ Criticism According to Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba (994-1063), 1997.
    1st year of the 3rd cycle (equivalent to DEA, Diploma of Profound Studies), 1990. 

  3. S. Thomas Aquinas University (Angelicum), Faculty of Theology, Department of Ecumenical Studies, Rome. 
    Extraordinary student with a scholarship from “Nostra Aetate” Foundation, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (Rome), three semesters 1998, 1998-9.

  4. Emir Abd-el-Kader University for Islamic Sciences, Institute of Islamic Theology, Department of Comparative Religions, Constantine, Algeria. 
    License in Islamic Sciences, 1989. 

Work

  • Aggregate Professor at the Faculty of Missiology, the Pontifical Gregorian University (PUG), Rome, since 2005.
  • Senior Research Fellow at the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre on the History and Doctrines of Islam, the Foundation of Religious Sciences John XXIII (FSCIRE), Palermo, 2020-2023. 
  • Associate Professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), Rome, 2009-2020.
  • Contract Professor at the University of Palermo, School of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Master (Laurea Magistrale) in Religions and Cultures, 2021-2023.
  • Contract Professor at the St. Pius V University, Faculty of Interpretation and Translation, Rome, 2005-2011.
  • Visiting Professor at the Institute of Religious Sciences “Santa Maria di Monte Berico”, a course on: Pilgrimage in Islam between Precept and Devotion, Master Program on: Sanctuary, a Place of Sacred Pilgrimage Center of Civilization, Vicenza, Italy, 2011.
  • Visiting Professor at the Institute of Religious Sciences of Bolzano, Seminar on: Religions in Everyday Life, Bolzano, Italy, 2011.
  • Visiting Professor at the Salesian Pontifical University, Faculty of Philosophy, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, a course on: Islam, Foundations, Origin and history, Master on: Religious and Cultural Mediation, Rome, 2011.
  • Visiting Professor at l’Institut Européen des Sciences Humaines (IESH), Paris, 2008.
  • Visiting Professor at the Valdese (Evangelical) Faculty of Theology, Rome, 2007-2008 .
  • Visiting Professor at the Institute of Religious Sciences “Mater Ecclesiae”, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, a course on : The Three Monotheistic Religions and Their Scriptures”, Rome, 2005 .
  • Journalist, Adnkronos International (AKI), a News Agency, Rome, 2005-2008.

Membership

  • Editor at St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (the Islamic section, in preparation).
  • Advisory Board Member at Kalam Research and Media (KRM), Dubai, UAE.
  • Member of the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues, University of Bonn, Germany.
  • Member of the Comparative Theology of Religions Group (CTRG), the International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues, University of Bonn, Germany.
  • Member of the European Academy of Religion (EUARE).
  • Member of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA).
  • Member of PLURIEL, the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon.
  • Member of the Cluster "Spiritual, epistemic, and political dimensions of interfaith dialogue" within the research project "Analytic Theology" (Innsbruck, Munich, Frankfurt a.M.), together with Prof. Dr. Roman Siebenrock, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Palaver (both University of Innsbruck), Doz. Fabio Dipalma (Sophia University Institute, Loppiano/Florence), Doc. Shahrzad Houshmand Zadeh (Gregorian University, Rome), and Paul Lemarie (Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Focolare Movement, Rome).
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Sophia Global Studies Center, Istituto Universitario Sophia, Loppiano, Incisa Valdarno, Italy.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Islamochristiana, Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica, Rome.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Falsafa, Year Book for Islamic Philosophy of Religion, Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, Münster, Germany .
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of Intellectual Discourse, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Member of the Editorial Committee of Jesus, monthly review of “Periodici San Paolo”, Milan,
  • Italy.  
  • Member of the Editorial Committee of Mosaico di Pace, monthly review of Pax Christi Italy.
  • Member of the Editorial Committee of OIL Tabloid, Eni’s review, Rome, 2008.
  • Member of the Scientific Council for the Promotion of “Charter of Values of Citizenship and Integration” at the Ministry of Domestic Affairs, 2006-2008 .

Writings

  • “Rethinking Religious Engagement in a Globalized World: An Islamic Perspective: Research Article.” Religion and Development 3, no. 2 (2025): 200–217.
  • “Semantics of Freedom in Classical Islamic Thought: An Overview.” Religionen Und Freiheiten: Historische, Theologische Und Exegetische Studien. A. Mambelli, M. Mülke (eds). Göttingen:V&R unipress - Brill Deutschland GmbH, 2025.
  • “Fede, Ragione e Dialogo Alla Luce Dei Paradigmi Ontologici Ed Epistemologici Islamici.” Annali Di Scienze Religiose 16 (January 2023): 169–89.
  • “Religions in al-Ḥarāllī’s Sufi Hermeneutics: An Apolemical Understanding of the Qurʾān,” Religions, 14 (11), 2023, 1381.
  • Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence, in Dialogue with René Girard, foreword by Wolfgang Palaver, Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series, East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2022.
  • “The Cross in Rūmī’s Maṯnawī,” Religions 13 (7), 2022, 611.
  • “Islamic Hermeneutics of Nonviolence: Key Concepts and Methodological Steps,” Religions, 13 (4), 2022, 295. 
  • Review of J. Pink, Muslim Qur’ānic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and Interpretive Communities (Sheffield-Bristol, CT, Equinox Publishing, 2019, 323 pp.), Palermo Occasional Papers, Islamic History, Doctrines and Sources (PaOP), 1 (2022), pp. 71-75.
  • « Le sens d’une présence qui nous interpelle », Moines de Tibhirine, Heureux ceux qui osent la rencontre, des moines en pays d’Islam, Marie-Dominique Minassian (ed.), Les Écrits de Tibhirine 3, Paris : Cerf/Bellefontaine/Bayard, 2022, pp. 343-353.
  • Adnane Mokrani, Brunetto Salvarani, Dell’umana fratellanza e altri dubbi, Edizioni Terra Santa, Milano, 2021.
  • “Al-salām wa al-lā‘unf” [Peace and Nonviolence], al-mas’ūliyya al-iğtimā‘iyya al-islāmiyya lil-muwāṭana wa al-‘ayš ma‘an, dalīl iršādī [Islamic Social Responsibility for Citizenship and Living Together, a Manual], Nayla Tabbara (ed.), Beirut: Adyan Foundation, Danmission, Dār al-Fārābī, 2021, pp. 334-383.
  • “Religion and Politics: What Relationship in a Changing Muslim World.” Annali di studi religiosi 21 (2020): 243-259. Trento: FBK Press.
  • “Il pluralismo come sapiente volontà divina, una nota teologica islamica,” Rivista di Teologia dell’Evangelizzazione (RTE), Facoltà Teologica dell’Emilia-Romagna, XXV (2021) 50, pp. 341-351. The same text was published with modifications in: “Il pluralismo come sapiente volontà divina,”), Il Documento sulla fratellanza umana: una riflessione interdisciplinare, Laurent Basanese, Diego Sarrio Cucarella (ed.s), Roma: G & B Press, 2022, pp. 99-109
  • “Religion and Politics: What Relationship in a Changing Muslim World,” Annali di studi religiosi, 21 (2020), pp. 243-259.
  • Adnane Mokrani, Farouk Mesli (ed.s), Musulmans en chemin dans la spiritualité de l’unité, actes du séminaire des musulmans des Focolari, Algérie, Tlemcen, 1-5 novembre 2018, Tlemcen : Editions Ibn Khaldoun, 2020. I have three contributions: « Qu’est-ce que l’Islam? » pp. 47-63 ; « L’anthropologie coranique et la volonté de Dieu », pp. 81-103 ; « Comprendre le Coran », pp. 105-142.
  • “Prospettive nella fede islamica”, Prevenire il pregiudizio, educare alla convivenza, un progetto per la formazione civile e democratica dei giovani, S. Meghnagi, O. Liberanome, Firenze: Giuntina, 2020, pp. 139-160.
  • « Mort et Résurrection de Jésus Christ dans une perspective islamique : Pour une compréhension dialogique des dogmes chrétiens », Le christianisme devant l’islam : théologiens en dialogue, M. Younès., A. Wénin (ed.s), Cahiers de la Revue Théologique de Louvain, 2020, pp. 139-152.
  • “Valori condivisi e missione interreligiosa”, Fratellanza, gli scritti della Civiltà Cattolica, collana Accènti 11, gennaio 2020, pp. 208-211.
  • “Al-ta‘addudiyya al-diniyya min manẓūr qur’ānī: qirā’a ta’sīsiyya” [Religious Pluralism from a Qur’anic Perspective : Preliminary Reading], Amer Al-Hafi (co-author), in: Mu’minūn bilā ḥudūd (Mominoun Without Borders), March 2020.
  • Adnane Mokrani, Tehseen Nisar “Historical and Contemporary Challenges to Islam and the Secular State,” in: Minorities and Populism, Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe, Volker Kaul, Ananya Vajpeyi (ed.s), Springer, Cham, 2020, pp. 183-198.
  • “Waṯīqat al-uḫuwwa al-insāniyya, qiyam muštaraka wa risāla ğāmi‘a” (A Document on
  • Human Fraternity: Shared Values and Common Mission), Islamochristiana 45, Human Fraternity, 2019, pp. 1-22.
  • “Semitic Rhetoric and the Qur’ān: The Scholarship of Michel Cuypers”, New Trends in Qurʾānic Studies, Text, Context, and Interpretation, Mun’im Sirry (ed.), Lockwood Press, Atlanta, 2019, pp. 61-82.
  • « Vers une théologie islamique dialogique et a-polémique », in : L’Islam au pluriel (actes du 1er Congrès international de PLURIEL), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2018, pp. 101-116.
  • Michel Cuypers, Fī naẓm al-Qurʾān [the Composition of the Qurʾān], translated into Arabic by Adnane Mokrani, Tarek Menzou, Beirut : Dār al-Mašriq, 2018.
  • “Islamic Ecological Reflections in Dialogue with Laudato Si’”, in: Islamochristiana 43 (2017), pp. 115–122.
  • “To Read the Qur’an with the Eye of Mercy”, in: Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Pier Giorgio Gianazza SDB, edited by Michael Fitzgerald & Biju Michael, STS Publications, Jerusalem, 2017, pp. 167-180. 
  • “Un cammino di umanizzazione e di santificazione, la solidarietà interreligiosa come educazione alla pace”, in: Gen’s, Rivista di vita ecclesiale, gennaio-marzo 2017, anno XLVII, pp. 18-21.
  • “L’incontro tra culture differenti nel rispetto reciproco e nella reciproca interazione, risposte a un’intervista di Cloe Taddei Ferretti”, in: Ricerche Lonerganiane offerte a Sturnino Muratore, Edoardo Cibelli e Cloe Taddei Ferretti (edd.), Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, 2017, pp. 391-399.
  • “Naḥwa fahm jadīd li al-ta‘addudiyya al-dīniyya fī al-Qur’ān al-karīm” [Toward a New Understanding of Religious Pluralism in the Qur’an], in: Al-Tafahom, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Muscat (Oman), Issue 49, Summer 2015, pp.29-46. 
  • “The Secular State as a Religious Necessity, an Islamic Perspective”, in: Religious Plurality and the Public Space, Joint Christian–Muslim Theological Reflections, the Lutheran World Federation, Geneva (Switzerland), Centre for Islamic Theology, Münster (Germany), 2015, pp. 41-49.
  • “Al-muqārabāt al-islāmiyya al-turāthiyya lil-adyān bayna al-jidāl wa al-tafahhum” [Islamic Traditional Approaches to Religions between Polemics and Comprehension], in: Mu’minūn bilā ḥudūd (Mominoun Without Borders), September 2013.
  • “Dal trono di Saba’ al Trono di Dio” [From the throne of Saba’ to the Throne of God], in: Il trono della regina di Saba, cultura e diplomazia tra Italia e Yemen. La collezione sudarabica del Museo nazionale d’arte orientale [The throne of the Queen of Saba, culture and diplomacy between Italy and Yemen, the South Arabian Collection of the National Museum of Oriental Art], Artemide, Roma 2012, pp. 157-162.
  • “Matrimonio e famiglia nell'islam europeo” [Marriage and Family in European Islam], in: Matrimonio e famiglia in una società multireligiosa e multiculturale, giornata accademica e solenne atto accademico della Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 10 marzo 2011 [Marriage and Family in a Multireligious and Multicultural Society, Academic Day and Solemn Academic Act of the Pontifical Gregorian University, March 10, 2011], a cura di Janusz Kowal S. J., Mirjam Kovač, GBP, 2012, pp. 193-205.
  • “Al-tajriba al-dîniyya wa al-naṣṣ” [the Religious Experience and the Text], in: al-naṣṣ alkitâbî wa al-naṣṣ al-qur’ânî: al-tashakkul wa al haqîqa, a‘mâl al-mu’tamar al-lâhûtî al-sâdis fî al-jâmi‘a al-anṭûniyya, bayrût, huzayrân 2011, [The Biblical Text and the Qur’anic Text: The Formation and the Truth, Acts of the Sixth Theological Conference, the Antonian University, Beirut, June 2011], pp. 225-247. The same article is published in: Qaḍâyâ islâmiyya mu‘âṣira, Markaz dirâsât falsafat al-dîn [Center for Studies on the philosophy of religion], Baghdad, 47-48, 2011, pp. 4-29.
  • “Il dialogo del Movimento dei Focolari con i musulmani”, Islamochristiana 34, Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI), Roma, 2008, pp. 79–86. Republished in: Comunione e innovazione sociale, il contributo di Chiara Lubich, A. Leonardi (ed.), Città Nuova, Università degli Studi di Trento, Roma, 2012, pp. 273-283.
  • “Dialogo interreligioso ? Sì, ma non basta. Intervista ad Adnane Mokrani”, in: Libertà civili, bimestrale di Studi e documentazione sui temi dell’immigrazione, Ministero dell’Interno, Roma, settembre – ottobre 2011, pp. 20-23.
  • “Âshûrâ’ in Sunnite Mirrors: Confused Borders between Joy and Sadness”, Islamochristiana 36, PISAI, Roma, 2010, pp. 47–62.
  • “La visita all’Imam al–Husayn: dal libro Mafâtîh al–jinân dello Shaykh ‘Abbâs al–Qummî”, Islamochristiana 36, PISAI, Roma, 2010, pp. 77–99.
  • Leggere il Corano a Roma, (in Italian, Reading the Qur’an in Rome), Icone, Roma, 2010, 192  pp.
  • Sîra fikriyya, muqâbala ma‘a al-ab Samîr Khalîl Samîr al-yasû‘î (in Arabic, An Intellectual Biography, An Interview With F. Samir Khalil Samir sj, (Supplement to: Lebanese Christians’ Points of Views on Muslim-Christian Relations), Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes CEDRAC, the Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, 2010, 142 pp.
  • Nazarât al-masîhiyyîn al-lubnâniyyîn lil-‘alâqât al-islâmiyya al-masîhiyya 1990-2000 (in Arabic, The Points of View of Lebanese Christians on Muslim-Christian Relations1990-2000), Centre de documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes CEDRAC, the Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, 2009, 2 vol., 768 pp. 
  • Naqd al-adyân ‘inda Ibn Hazm al-Andalusî 994-1063 (in Arabic: Criticism of Religions according to Ibn Hazm 994-1063), The International Institute of Islamic Thought IIIT, Virginia, USA, 2008. 
  • “Quando il testo spiega l’uomo, per una lettura esistenziale del Corano” (When the Text Explains the Human Being, for an Existential Reading of the Qur’an), in: Testo sacro e religioni, ermeneutiche a confronto, a cura di Gaspare Mura, Urbaniana University Press, Roma, 2006, pp. 407-414.
  • La Nostra Aetate vista da un musulmano (Nostra Aetate as seen by a Muslim), in: Confronti, gennaio 2006, p. 29.
  • Healing Memories, First Gathering Between Muslim And Christian Young People In Post War Lebanon, in : Journal of Middle Eastern Geopolitics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Year I, Vol. I, July-September 2005, N.1, pp. 61-68.
  • Les festivités dans l’Islam (Feasts in Islam), in: La Fête rencontre du sacré et du profane, Notre vie liturgique, ètudes Inter-Religieuses, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Orientales, Ordre Atonin Maronite, Antélias, 2004, t. II, pp. 83-106.
  • Le Vie della Pace secondo l’Islam (The Paths of Peace according to Islam). In: Amicizia, UCSEI, Rome, anno XXXVIII, N. 5/6, 2002, pp. 22-25.
  • A Dialogical Pilgrimage, in: Reflections on Dialogue: Life Experience, Muslim Students in Rome. Encounter (Documents for Muslim-Christian Understanding), N° 282. PISAI, Rome, February 2002, pp. 7-10.
  • Il Digiuno: un Atto d’Amore e di Pace (Fasting: an Act of Love and Peace), in: Amicizia, UCSEI, anno XXXVII - N° 11/12, 2001, pp. 7-8.
  • Riflessioni Islamiche sul Liber (Islamic Reflections on the Liber), in: Convivium Assisiense. Atti del convegno tenuto in Assisi e Foligno nei giorni 1 e 2 dicembre 2000. Anno III, n. 2, luglio-dicembre 2001, pp. 65-74.
  • Ta’ammulat maryamiyya (Marian Reflections, in Arabic), postface of Mgr. George Khodr, the Greek-Orthodox Archbishop of Monte Lebanon, Center of Christian-Islamic Studies, University of Balamand, Balamand, Lebanon, 2001. 
  • “The Liberation of the Human Being from the Market’s Idolatry” (in Arabic), in: Religion, Pluralism and Globalization, Center of Christian-Islamic Studies, University of Balamand, Balamand, Lebanon, 2000, pp. 127-136.
  • « The Spiritual Dialogue : a Mystical Approach » (in Arabic), in: Islamochristiana, PISAI, Rome, 2000. N° 26, pp. 11-23.