Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

For other uses, see College of Islamic and Arabic Studies.

Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), Viale di Trastevere 89, Roma

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Miguel Ayuso Guixot MCCJ, President PISAI

The Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Latin: Pontificium Institutum Studiorum Arabicorum et Islamisticae, Italian: Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica, P.I.S.A.I.) is a Roman Catholic academic organization in Rome, Italy.^[1]

The Institute was created in 1926 in Tunis by the Society of Missionaries of Africa (the White Fathers). Its aim was the specific formation of missionaries to live in an Arab-Muslim environment.

In 1949, the centre of studies was moved to Manouba, near Tunis, where the Arab language and Islamic sciences were taught, while the Tunis centre was becoming what up to today is called Institute of Arab Literature.

In 1960, the centre was established as a pontifical institute and, in 1964, because of the policy of nationalisations, it was transferred from Tunis to Rome, where it received the support of Pope Paul VI as an instrument for interreligious dialogue, "in keeping with the new spirit of the Second Vatican Council".^[2]

External links

PISAI Home Page

References

Pontifical universities in Rome

Universities	University Antonianum Gregorian University Lateran University Salesian University University of the Holy Cross University of St. Thomas Aquinas Urban University

Academies	Academy of Arcadia Alphonsian Academy Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon Sciences Theology Archaeology Martyrs St. Thomas Aquinas Immaculate Conception Mary Life Social Sciences Latin

Other	Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum Pontificio Ateneo Sant Anselmo Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Pontifical Biblical Institute The Pontifical Colleges Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life Claretianum Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Pontifical Oriental Institute Pastorale Universitaria Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum Patristic Institute Augustinianum

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Coordinates: 41°53′13″N 12°28′22″E / 41.88694°N 12.47278°E / 41.88694; 12.47278

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