Call for Papers International Meeting 2017 “Qur’anic Studies: Methods, Contexts and Interpretations”

Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts Département des Sciences islamiques and International Quranic Studies Association (IQSA) are co-hosting the International Qur’an Conference on “Qur’anic Studies: Methods, Contexts, and Interpretations” at the Beit al-Hikma in Carthage, Tunisia on July 4-6, 2017.

Qurʾanic studies (`Ulum al-Qur’an), which developed between the 2nd/8th and 9th/15th centuries represents one of the cornerstones of the Islamic sciences. `Ulum al-Qurʾan can be defined as the science that analyses the themes, forms and purposes of the Qurʾanic text. This conference aims to examine the principles, methods and the nature of the knowledge stemming from Qurʾanic sciences. Thus, it is the epistemological status of Qurʾanic studies that will be discussed. To this end, we will be interested, for example, by the various interpretations of the famous verse 16:89: wa-nazzalnā ʿalayka l-kitāba tibyānan li-kulli šayˈin (« We have sent down the Book to you as a clarification of all things ») or the questions of the emergence, the categories and concepts or the evolutions of Qurʾanic sciences (medieval, modern and contemporary).

Alongside this epistemological reflection, the symposium will focus on methodologies of qurʾanic analysis from traditional Qurʾanic sciences or from the latest developments in qurʾanic studies. We will analyse their assumptions, their applications and their consequences for our current understanding of the text. Particular attention will be paid to the recent developments in Qurʾanic studies in Europe and North America. The context of the emergence of the Qurʾan and the formation of the canonical text will be discussed in light of new sources: Early Qurʾanic manuscripts, unpublished or little known arabic sources, or Arabian graffiti of the 7th century. The intertextual relationship between the Qurʾan and earlier scriptural traditions in the broader context of late antiquity will also be highlighted. Here we would like to emphasize the work of rewriting and re-appropriation of biblical and parabiblical texts by the Qurʾan and Islamic exegesis. Finally, using new tools of contemporary linguistics and methods from Biblical studies, we will will raise the question of the specificities of the text in terms of argumentation, polemics and composition.

A third complementary approach to epistemological and methodological reflections will focus on Qurʾanic themes and interpretive issues they raise. An overarching theme of quranic « polemics » in the Qurʾan will be chosen. Through classical and modern exegetical literature, we will consider the rhetorical forms borrowed, the historical development of interpretation, as well as conflicts in interpretation and their implications. We will pay particular attention to the critical contributions that attempt to contextualize polemic in terms of the narrow context of tribal Arabia or more generally Late Antiquity.

The meeting will therefore focus on the following three areas:

  1. Epistemology: The Place of the Qurʾanic Studies in Islamic sciences
  1. Methods and Tools (Presuppositions, Applications and Purposes)
    1. Classical
    2. Contemporary
  2. Themes and Interpretations: Qurʾanic polemics
    1. Classical
    2. Contemporary

The colloquium will be held on July 4-6, 2017. Venue: The Academy “Beït al-Hikma” at Carthage.

We have the honor and the pleasure to solicit our colleagues to collaborate and present papers related to these plan. They are kindly invited to submit an abstract (about 500 words) including name of the proponent, title, and description of the proposal, before December 31, 2016, to the following e-mail address: mehdi.azaiez@kuleuven.be. They will be informed of the acceptation of their proposals before March 31, 2017.


Colloque International
Les études coraniques : méthodes, contextes et interprétations
Beit al-Hikma, Carthage, 4-6 juillet 2017

Argument :
Les études coraniques (ʿulūm al-Qur’ān) développées entre le 2ème/8ème et le 9ème/15ème siècles représentent un des pivots des sciences islamiques. Elles peuvent se définir comme les sciences qui interrogent les thèmes, les formes et les finalités du texte coranique. Ce colloque vise à interroger les principes et fondements, les méthodes mais aussi la nature de la connaissance issue des sciences coraniques. C’est donc le statut épistémologique des études coraniques qui sera examiné.  A cet effet, on pourra s’intéresser, par exemple, aux interprétations du célèbre verset 16:89 : wa-nazzalnā ʿalayka l-kitāba tibyānan li-kulli šay’in (« Et Nous avons fait descendre sur toi le Livre, comme un exposé explicite de toute chose ») ou encore traiter des questions de l’émergence, des catégories et concepts ou encore des évolutions des sciences coraniques (médiévale, moderne et contemporaine).

Parallèlement à cette réflexion épistémologique, ce colloque se portera sur les méthodologies d’analyse du Coran issues des sciences coraniques traditionnelles ou des derniers développements de la recherche coranologique. On s’intéressera à leurs présupposés, leurs applications et leurs conséquences pour notre compréhension actuelle du texte. On s’informera particulièrement des récents développements des études coraniques en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. C’est d’abord le contexte d’émergence du Coran qu’il s’agira d’étudier ainsi que la formation du texte canonique à l’appui de sources (et de méthodes) inédites : manuscrits coraniques du 7ème siècle, sources inédites ou peu connues, ou graffitis de l’Arabie du 7ème siècle. C’est ensuite les relations intertextuelles entre le Coran et les traditions scripturaires antérieures dans le contexte large de l’Antiquité tardive qu’il s’agira d’examiner. On questionnera ici le travail de réécriture et de réappropriation de textes bibliques, et parabibliques par le Coran et l’exégèse islamique. Enfin, à partir de nouveaux outils de la linguistiquecontemporaine et de méthodes issues des études bibliques on interrogera les spécificités de ce texte en matière d’argumentation, de polémique et  de composition.

Une troisième approche complémentaire aux réflexions épistémologiques et méthodologiques s’intéressera aux thématiques coraniques et aux enjeux interprétatifs qu’elles soulèvent. On choisira ici un thème transversal autour de la « polémique » dans le Coran. A travers la littérature exégétique classique et moderne, on s’interrogera sur les formes rhétoriques empruntées, sur les significations et les conséquences liées aux interprétations successives et parfois contradictoires autour de ces deux thèmes. On portera une attention particulière aux contributions critiques qui tentent de contextualiser cette violence à l’aune du contexte restreint de l’Arabie tribale ou plus largement de l’Antiquité Tardive.

Cette rencontre s’articulera donc autour des trois axes suivants :

  1. Epistémologie : le statut des études coraniques dans les sciences islamiques
  1. Méthodes : les outils d’analyse (présupposés, applications et finalités)
    1. Classiques
    2. Contemporains
  1. Thèmes et Interprétations : autour de la polémique coranique
    1. Classiques
    2. Contemporains

Le colloque se tiendra les 4 et 6 juillet 2017 à l’Académie « Beït al-Hikma » à Carthage.
Les propositions d’article, en arabe, anglais ou en français doivent être transmis, avant le 31 décembre 2016 à mehdi.azaiez@kuleuven.be.

D’une longueur d’une page, les propositions devront inclure :
– le titre de l’article,
– un argumentaire (maxi 500 mots),
– toutes les données nécessaires à l’identification de l’auteur : nom, affiliation institutionnelle, adresse professionnelle, téléphone et e-mail.

Les propositions sélectionnées seront connues avant le 31 mars 2017.


ملتقى دولي

الدراسات القرآنية: المناهج، السياقات والتأويلات

بيت الحكمة، قرطاج 4-6 جويلية 2017

تمثّل الدراسات القرآنية (علوم القرآن)، والتي طُوِّرت بين القرنين 2 و8 هجري (9 و15 م)، إحدى الركائز الأساسية للعلوم الإسلامية. ويمكن تعريفها بأنها العلوم التي تُسائل موضوعات وأشكالَ وأيضا أغراضَ النص القرآني. يهدف هذا المؤتمر إلى مناقشة مبادئ وأُسس ومناهج وكذلك طبيعة المعرفة النابعة من علوم القرآن. وبالتالي فإن الوضع المعرفي للدراسات الإسلامية هو الذي سيتم تحليله. وفي هذا الصّدد، نستطيع، على سبيل المثال، تسليط الضوء على مختلف التفسيرات للآية الشهيرة من سورة النحل: “وَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ تِبْيَانًا لِّكُلِّ شَيْءٍ” (89 :16)، أو أيضا تناول الأسئلة المتعلقة بظهور المقولات والمفاهيم بالإضافة إلى التطورات التي عرفتها العلوم القرآنية (في العصور الوسطى والحديثة والمعاصرة).

وإلى جانب هذه المقاربة المعرفيّة سيركِّز هذا المؤتمر على مناهج تحليل القرآن الكريم سواء كانت منبَثِقة عن العلوم القرآنيّة التقليدية أو عن أحدث التطورات التي تشهدها البحوث والدراسات القرآنية. ومن هنا سيقع التطرق إلى الافتراضات التي بُنيت عليها هذه المناهج، وإلى تطبيقاتها وتداعياتها على فهمنا الحالي للنّص. كما سيتم تسليط اهتمام خاص على التطورات الأخيرة للدراسات القرآنية في أوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية. قبل كلّ شيئ سيتعلّق الأمر بمناقشة السياق الذي ظهر فيه القرآن وأدّى إلى تَشكُّل النصّ القانوني (المقدّس) بالاعتماد على مصادر (ومناهج) مُبتَكرة: مخطوطات قرآنية من القرن 7 ميلادي، مصادر لم تكن معروفة أو معروفة بشكل محدود، أو نقوش من الجزيرة العربيّة تعود إلى القرن 7 ميلادي. ثمّ بعد هذا سيتمّ تسليط الضوء على علاقات التّناص بين القرآن والتقاليد الكتابيّة الدينيّة السابقة، وذلك في سياق أوسع يشمل أواخر العصور القديمة. وسوف نبحث هنا عمليّة إعادة كتابة النصوص البيبليّة (الكتاب المقدّس) وشبه البيبليّة والتّطابق معها التي اعتمدها القرآن الكريم والتفسير الإسلامي. وأخيرا، انطلاقا من الأدوات الجديدة لعلوم اللّسانيّات المعاصرة ومناهج مُنبَثقة عن الدراسات البيبليّة، سيقع طرح الأسئلة حول خصوصيات هذا النص فيما يتعلّق بالحِجاج، والجدل والتأليف.

هناك مقاربة ثالثة مُكمِّلة للمقاربات المعرفيّة والمنهجيّة ستهتمّ بدورها بالموضوعات القرآنية والرّهانات التفسيريّة التي تثيرها. وسيقع هنا اختيار موضوع محوري يدور حول الجدل في القرآن. كما سيقع، من خلال الأدب التفسيري الكلاسيكي والحديث، التِماس الأشكال البلاغيّة المتوخاة والدّلالات وكذلك النتائج المترتّبة على التفسيرات المتتالية والمتناقضة أحيانا حول هذين الموضوعين. كما أنّه سيقع إعطاء اهتمام خاصّ للمساهمات النقديّة التي تحاول تناول هذا العنف في ضوء السّياق القَبَلي الضيِّق داخل الجزيرة العربيّة أو في سياق العصور القديمة المتأخّرة بشكل أوسع.

سيتمحور هذا الملتقى حول المحاور الثلاثة التالية:

  • 1- نظريّة المعرفة: مكانة الدراسات القرآنيّة في العلوم الإسلاميّة
  • 2- المناهج: أدوات التحليل (الافتراضات، التطبيقات والأغراض)
  • أ- أدوات التحليل التقليديةة
  • ب- أدوات التحليل المعاصرة
  • 3- المواضيع والتفاسير: حول الجدل في القرآن
  • أ- التقليدية
  • ب- المعاصرة

IM2017

Les trois piliers de l’Islam: Une lecture anthropologique du Coran

chabbi-coverIn the latest installment of the Review of Qur’anic Research, Gabriel Said Reynolds reviews Jacqueline Chabbi’s Les trois piliers de l’Islam: Une lecture anthropologique du Coran. In this volume, Chabbi makes the case that Islam as we know it from medieval sources is not the same as Islam as it was in its original Arabian context. According to Chabbi, academic scholars and pious Muslims alike too often fail to recognize elements of Islam which were introduced in later centuries, and too often assume that medieval ideas about the Qurʾan reflect what the Qurʾan meant to its original, Arabian audience. Les trois piliers de l’Islam is her effort to set things straight, to recover Islam’s original message.

Full access to the Review of Qur’anic Research (RQR) is available in the members-only area of our IQSA website. Not an IQSA member? Join today to enjoy RQR and additional member benefits!

Call for Nominations

The IQSA Nominations Committee welcomes nominations for several positions. The IQSA Board of Directors needs to appoint a President Elect for 2018. Furthermore, the term of two members of the nominations committee, as well as the first term of two members of the board will expire by the end of 2017. Please see the IQSA bylaws for the description of the roles.

It is crucial that we receive nominations especially for the presidency and the nominations committee. As for the board, we expect the two members who are eligible for a second term to be willing to continue with their stellar work, yet it is crucial that we also receive nominations for these positions in case any new appointments should become necessary.

The Nominations Committee would like to ask all IQSA members to nominate possible candidates for these roles. Please note that the Nominations Committee strives for diversity in professional and academic participation. The consultation and discussion of nominations and submissions is done with great care and will ensure confidentiality.

You must be a paid member to nominate. If you are not a member join today. Please send your nominations to holger.zellentin@nottingham.ac.uk by November 10, 2016.

Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage

Edited by Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan

Recent events in the Islamic world have demonstrated the endurance, neglect and careful 9781474403115_1reshaping of the classical Islamic heritage. A range of modern Islamic movements and intellectuals has sought to reclaim certain concepts, ideas, persons and trends from the Islamic tradition. Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage profiles some of the fundamental debates that have defined the conversation between the past and the present in the Islamic world. Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic law, gender, violence and eschatology are just some of the key themes in this study of the Islamic tradition’s vitality in the modern Islamic world. This book will allow readers to situate modern developments in the Islamic world within the longue durée of Islamic history and thought.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Elisabeth Kendall & Ahmad Khan

1. Modern Shiʿite Legal Theory and the Classical Tradition, Robert Gleave

2. Muḥammad Nāṣīr al-Dīn al-Albānī and Traditional Hadith Criticism, Christopher Melchert

3. Islamic Tradition in an Age of Print: Editing, Printing, and Publishing the Classical Tradition, Ahmad Khan

4. Reaching into the Obscure Past: The Islamic Legal Heritage and Reform in the Modern Period, Jonathan A. C. Brown

5. Reading Sūrat al-Anʿām with Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and Sayyid Quṭb, Nicolai Sinai

6. Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qur’an and Tradition on Women’s Testimony, Karen Bauer

7. Ibn Taymiyya between Moderation and Radicalism, Jon Hoover

8. The Impact of a Sixteenth-Century Jihad Treatise on Colonial and Modern India, Carole Hillenbrand

9. Jihadist Propaganda and Its Exploitation of the Arab Poetic Tradition, Elisabeth Kendall

10. Contemporary Salafi Literature on Paradise and Hell: The Case of ʿUmar Sulaymān al-Ashqar, Christian Lange

Index

The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur’an

9780198783336Edited by Annabel Keeler and Sajjad H. Rizvi, this volume is the first to focus specifically on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur’anic exegesis and to show the plurality of ways it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions. Concern with the inner, spiritual implications of the Qur’an has usually been associated with mystical and Sufi trends in Islam. However, there have also been exegetes among the Shi’a, as well as among philosophers, who sought to supplement their understanding of the Qur’an’s apparent meaning by eliciting deeper significations through contemplation of the verses.

The Spirit and the Letter examines the multiplicity of these esoteric approaches, covering a period that extends from the third/ninth century to the present. It includes chapters on philosophical and Shi’i exegetes, such as Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1045/1635-6), in addition to studies of a range of Sufi perspectives, from al-Sulamī (d. 412/1021) and al-Qushayrī (d. 465/1072) to Rūzbihān Baqlī (d. 606/1209), as well as representatives of the Ibn ‘Arabī and Kubrāwī schools. Considered together, the range of studies in this volume enable us to see what these approaches have in common and how they differ, and how the hermeneutics and content of exegesis are affected by doctrinal and ideological perspectives of various traditions and periods. Furthermore, they deepen our understanding of what actually constitutes esoteric interpretation and the need to look beyond the letter to the spirit of the Qur’anic word.

Table of contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction Annabel Keeler and Sajjad Rizvi
Part I: Comparative Hermeneutics
1: The Countless Faces of Understanding: On Istinbā, Mystical Listening and Sufi Exegesis, Sara Sviri
2: The Interpretation of the Arabic Letters in Early Sufism: Sulamī’s Shar ma‘ānī al-urūf, Gerhard Böwering
3: Towards a Prophetology of Love: The Figure of Jacob in Sufi Commentaries on Sūrat YūsufAnnabel Keeler
4: Making it Plain: Sufi Commentaries in English in the Twentieth Century, Kristin Zahra Sands
Part II: Commentators and Texts in Focus
5: Outlines of Early Ismaili-Fatimid Qur’an Exegesis, Meir M. Bar-Asher
6: Ibn Sīnā’s Qur’anic Hermeneutics, Peter Heath
7: Qushayrī’s Exegetical Encounter with the Mi‘rājMartin Nguyen
8: Shahrastānī’s Mafātī al-Asrār: A Medieval Ismaili System of Hermeneutics?, Toby Mayer
9: Qūnawī’s Scriptural Hermeneutics, Richard Todd
10: Eschatology and Hermeneutics in Kāshānī’s Ta’wīlāt al-Qur’ānPierre Lory
11: Simnānī and Hermeneutics, Paul Ballanfat
12: Speech, Book, and Healing Knowledge: The Qur’anic Hermeneutics of Mullā Ṣadrā, Janis Esots
13: Aspects of Mystical Hermeneutics and the Theory of the Oneness of Being (wadat al-wujūd) in the work of ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143/1731), Bakri Aladdin
14: The Sufi Hermeneutics of Ibn ‘Ajība (d. 1224/1809): A Study of Some Eschatological Verses of the Qur’an, Mahmut Ay
15: Beyond the Letter: Explanation (tafsīr) versus Adaptation (tabīq) in Ṭabāṭabā’ī s al-MīzānAmin Ehteshami and Sajjad Rizvi

Important Reminders & Requests

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are still over one month away from the 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Qur’anic Studies Association taking place in San Antonio, Texas, USA, November 18-21. We are looking forward to another exciting meeting of scholars and friends. The preliminary conference program has been posted HERE; the official Program Book PDF will be published next month.

Please do not forget our first Panel, Presidential/Keynote Address and General Reception all taking place on Friday, Nov 18 (one day before the official start of AAR or SBL). Our Presidential/Keynote Address will be delivered by IQSA president prof. Farid Esack, with a Response by IQSA member prof. Shari Lowin. All Friday events are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Furthermore, I invite all IQSA members to fulfill their duty as members by attending our Business MeetingSunday, Nov 20 at 11:30 am. The program this year also celebrates the launch of the Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA & Lockwood Press), the launch of The Quran Seminar / Le Qur’an Seminar Book (DeGruyter Press), and it features Doctoral Dissertation “Lightning Talks” as the theme of our Graduate Student Reception, a film screening of Jesus and Islam / Jésus et l’Islam and over six dozen cutting edge presentations and contributions.

IQSA was founded in 2012 as an independent learned society whose mission is to foster Qur’an scholarship, as well as peace and mutual understanding through scholarship. We are able to hold conferences and publish research thanks to your membership and donations. Running IQSA costs money. So I call upon your loyalty and generosity once again. If you have not already, please join IQSA and enjoy our member benefits (most members pay just $25 annually). If you are already a member–thank you–and please consider making a tax deductible donation. Finally, an organization is only as effective as the sum of its parts. Therefore, I request all members and friends of IQSA to subscribe to our Blog, the IQSA Discussion Groups and spread the world over social media (especially Facebook and Twitter).

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On behalf of the Board of Directors, Standing Committees and our partners we would like to express our deepest gratitude to all friends of IQSA, and we look forward to seeing you next month in San Antonio.

Sincerely,

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Book Launch: The Qur’an Seminar Commentary

quran-seminar-book-coverMehdi Azaiez and Gabriel Said Reynolds (editors) along with De Gruyter Press are pleased to announce a book launch in celebration of: The Qur’an Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur’anic Passages / Le Qur’an Seminar: Commentaire collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques, to take place during the 2016 annual meeting of the International Quranic Studies Association in San Antonio (Sunday November 20, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Room: Texas C, 4th Level, Grand Hyatt). The Qurʾān seminar volume is a bilingual (French/English) commentary presented in an unprecedented collaborative format with the rich analysis of 25 different scholars of diverse specializations including Patricia Crone, Michel Cuypers Gerald Hawting, Andrew Rippin, Devin Stewart, and Shawkat Toorawa (see below for a full list of contributors).  The work includes commentary on fifty Qurʾānic passages including:

– Q 1, al-Fatiha
– Q 2:30-39, the angelic prostration before Adam
– Q 2:255, the “Throne Verse”
– Q 3:7, the muhkamat and mutashabihat
– Q 4:3, polygamy and monogamy
– Q 5:112-15, the table (al-ma’ida) from heaven
– Q 9:29, fighting the People of the Book and the jizya
– Q 12, the story of Joseph
– Q 24:45, the “Light Verse”
– Q 33:40, the “seal of the prophets”
– Q 53, the “satanic verses”
– Q 96, including the passage often described as the “first revelation”
– Q 97, the “night of qadr
– Q 105, the “Companions of the Elephant”
– Q 112, on God and the denial of a divine son

Each section of commentary includes the Arabic text of the Qurʾān along with the English Qurʾān translation of Tarif Khalidi and the French Qurʾān translation of Muhammad Hamidullah. At the Book Launch a number of contributors, among them Mehdi Azaiez, Emran El-Badawi, Sidney Griffith, Daniel Madigan, Michael Pregill, and Gabriel Said Reynolds will offer their reflections on the importance of this book to the field of Qurʾānic Studies. Tokens will also be distributed which will give attendees free access to sections of the digital version of the The Qur’an Seminar Commentary.

Contributors to the Qurʾān Seminar Commentary

Azaiez, Mehdi
Crone, Patricia
Cuypers, Michel
Dye, Guillaume
El-Badawi, Emran
Firestone, Reuven
Grodzki: Marcin
Hawting, Gerald
Hilali, Asma
Imbert, Frédéric
Khalfallah, Nejmeddine
Kropp, Manfred
Madigan, Daniel
Pregill, Michael
Reynolds, Gabriel Said
Rippin, Andrew
Sirry, Mun’im
Stefanidis, Emmanuelle
Stewart, Devin
Tengour, Esma
Tesei, Tommaso
Toorawa, Shawkat
Winitzer, Abraham
Younes, Munther
Zellentin, Holger

New Volume: Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran, Herausgegeben von Nora Schmidt, Angelika Neuwirth, Nora Katharina Schmid

1669_111Spätantike‘ ist nicht nur ein hochgradig ambivalenter Begriff in der europäischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Lange Zeit bezeichnete er eine Epoche, die durch den Niedergang einer ehemals blühenden antiken Hochkultur geprägt war. In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten ist die Spätantike zunehmend zu einem internationalen und interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt geworden, und ein Durchbruch zu einer inklusiveren Sicht zeichnet sich ab.

Die Autoren dieses Bandes setzen sich aus ihrer jeweiligen Fachperspektive heraus mit spätantiken Wissensformen und -beständen in der formativen Phase des Islams auseinander und führen den Lesern auf diese Weise unterschiedliche Reflexionen von Antiken im unmittelbaren und weiteren Umfeld des Korans vor Augen. Soziale Praktiken, Textkulturen und Materialitäten rücken dabei gleichermaßen in den Blick; historiografische Modelle werden hinterfragt und neu perspektiviert.

Statt ‚Spätantike‘ als eine Epoche zu fassen, die mit der Verkündigung des Korans ihr Ende findet, wird diese neu als ein ‚Denkraum‘ konturiert, in dem Religionen, Sprachen, Institutionen und soziale Praktiken in vielfältigen Beziehungen stehen. In einem so aufgespannten epistemischen Raum vollzieht sich Wissenswandel innerhalb komplexer Netzwerke. Die frühislamischen Wissensbestände werden so, anders als die Forschung zum Koran und den frühislamischen Wissenschaften lange postulierte, als Teil des spätantiken Denkraums erkennbar.

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Russian orientalist S. Pissaref's 1905 facsimile edition of the famous Samarkand Qur’an (now Tashkent), attributed to the third caliph Uthman (r. 644-656 C.E.).

Russian orientalist S. Pissaref’s 1905 facsimile edition of the famous Samarkand Qur’an (now Tashkent), attributed to the third caliph Uthman (r. 644-656 C.E.).

Public Lecture Series: The Qurʾān between Judaism and Christianity

unnamedA Public Engagement Initiative funded by the British Academy

Hosted at the University of Nottingham, co-Sponsored by the Karimia Institute

What can the Qurʾān, the Holy Scripture of Islam, teach us about Judaism and Christianity? How does knowledge about Judaism and Christianity help us better to understand the Qurʾān? This public lecture series seeks to make cutting edge research in Islamic Studies accessible to the broader public. The speakers integrate literary and historical approaches in order to illustrate the intricate relationship between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. A better understanding of the past may in turn help us to reconsider the present in a more nuanced way, and to formulate answers to the challenges faced by the Muslim communities in the Western World and beyond. The talks will be followed by a response and a discussion. Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For the conference website, please click here, for registration, please see below.

September 17, 2016, 1 – 6  pm, A1 Highfield House, University Park

1:00 pm -1:10 pm: Welcome, Dr. Holger Zellentin, The University of Nottingham

  • How to Study the Qurʾān – ‘Traditional’ and ‘Academic’ Approaches

1:10 pm – 2:00 pm: Prof. Islam Dayeh, Free University, Berlin

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Prof. Mehdi Azaiez, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2:50 pm – 3:20 pm: Response by Dr. Marianna Klar, School of Oriental and African Studies

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm: Coffee Break

  • The Qurʾān and the Bible

3:50 pm – 4:40 pm: Prof. Angelika Neuwirth, Free University, Berlin

4:40 pm – 5:30 pm: Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Response by Dr. Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, Ismaili Institute, London

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October 16, 2016, 1 – 6 pm, A48 Sir Clive Granger Building

1:00 pm – 1:05 pm: Welcome, Dr. Musharraf Hussain, OBE, DL, Karimia Institute

1:05 pm – 1:10 pm: The Lecture Series, Dr. Holger Zellentin, The University of Nottingham

  • The Qurʾān’s Arabian Background

1:10 pm – 2:00 pm: Prof. Devin Stewart, Emory University

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Dr. Nora K. Schmid, Free University of Berlin

2:50 pm – 3:20 pm: Response by Dr. Asma Hilali, Ismaili Institute, London

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm: Coffee Break

  • The Qurʾān and Christianity

 3:50 pm – 4:40 pm: Dr. Nicolai Sinai, University of Oxford

4:40 pm – 5:30 pm: Prof. Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Response by Dr. Jon Hoover, The University of Nottingham

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December 4, 2016, 1 – 6 pm, A48 Sir Clive Granger Building

1:00 pm – 1:10 pm: Welcome, Dr. Jon Hoover, The University of Nottingham

  • The Qurʾān and Judaism

1:10 pm – 2:00 pm: Dirk Hartwig, Free University, Berlin

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Prof. Walid Saleh, University of Toronto

2:50 pm – 3:20 pm: Response by Dr. Harith bin Ramli, Cambridge Muslim College

3:20 pm – 3:50 pm: Coffee Break

  • Law from the Bible to the Qurʾān

3:50 pm – 4:40 pm: Dr. Holger Zellentin, The University of Nottingham

4:40 pm – 5:30 pm: Prof. Lena Salaymeh, University of Tel Aviv

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Response by Dr. Shuruq Naguib, University of Lancaster

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