Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies

The Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO / Arabic: معهد الدراسات الشرقية للآباء الدومنكيين - Maʿhad ad-Dirāsāt aš-Šarqiyya li-l-Ābāʾ ad-Dūmnikiyyīn) is a center for fundamental research on the sources of Arab-Islamic civilization.

[1] IDEO remains above all a research center that gathers around a common object of study: the original texts of the first ten centuries of Islam.

The journal has been directed successively by Georges Anawati, Régis Morelon, Emilio Platti [nl].

The library is intended to cover all disciplines in the field of Islamic studies: Arabic language, Quranic exegesis, theology, law and jurisprudence, history, geography, philosophy, Sufism, science, etc.

It maintains relations with other religious authorities in Cairo and in the Middle East, including al-Azhar University and the Coptic Church.