A journal About Cultural And Civilizational Interaction
BRIIFS is intended to provide a venue for interdisciplinary academic inquiry into all fields of the humanities and social sciences that bear upon cultural or civilizational interaction such as anthropology, archaeology, fine arts, history, literature, politics, and sociology, and to situate cultural contact in a global context.
M.J. Lagrange, The Pontifical Biblical Commission and the Mosaic Authenticity of the Pentateuch
In his SOUVENIRS PERSONNELS, published posthumously in 1967,1 Marie-Joseph Lagrange (1855-1938), founder of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem, comments the publication in 1906 of the answers given by the Pontifical Biblical Commission to four doubts about the…
The Figure of Moses in Islam: An Interpretative Hypothesis
The figure of Moses is very complex in the Islamic tradition, both in terms of the interpretation of the Qur’anic passages concerning him, as well as what is mentioned in the Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ (Tales of the Prophets), that is the…
The Vision of Moses in Early Christianity: The Case of the Transfiguration of Jesus
“In the Hebrew Bible and in its ancient Greek and Aramaic versions, the figure of Moses is presented in a multitude of perspectives. Our focus is on the supernatural visions that, according to biblical texts, he experienced. In the Book…
Moses: Unity and Diversity – Abrahamic Perspectives
This contribution will explore the extent to which Abrahamic dialogue is dependent upon unity rather than diversity and will make reference to scriptural readings as well as interpretations about Moses. The setting of our conference is appropriate as it takes…
Desert Roots and Global Branches: the Journey of the Coptic Orthodox Church
In the twenty-first century, the Coptic Orthodox Church is reaping the benefits of an ongoing renewal process that commenced in the early decades of the twen-tieth. Drawing inspiration from its heritage, especially monasticism and mar-tyrdom, the Church has been able…
From Edessa to Urmia: Christianity in Iran
Christianity in Iran goes back to the Apostolic Age, when it was first established in Edessa and Adiabene. However, for doctrinal and ecclesiastical reasons, the Church in the East separated from the Antiochian Syrian Church and proclaimed itself the ‘Church…
Syriac-speaking Churches: Their Origins and History to the Eighteenth Century
Leaving aside a discussion of the making of the Syriac-speaking world that built upon the heritage of Arameans, Greeks, Nabateans and Jews. This article traces some major trajectories of the development of Syriac-speaking Churches from the early Byzantine period to…
Faces of Exchangers, Facets of Exchange in Early Shurāt (Khārijī) Poetry
Throughout the early Islamic period, people from various Shurāt subgroups identified themselves in their poetry and to others as ‘the exchangers’ (al-shurāt), an appellation derived, along with related words, from Qur’an 2:207. The faces of different categories of exchangers-the ideal,…
Call for papers
The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies is dedicating a special number of BRIIFS (Volume 20) to publish the proceedings of the Conference “Arab Non-Muslim contribution to Islamic Civilisation Heritage”, which was held in Amman, Jordan on 14th February 2024, organised by RIIFS and IFPO with the support of the French Embassy in Amman. This special issue is edited by Mehdi Berriah (Ifpo) and Renee Hattar (RIIFS).
Deadline for submission is 30 November 2024.
Read the submission guidelines.