‘The Qur’an: Text, Society And Culture’ Conference
Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 November 2016
SOAS, University of London
Convenors: Prof. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr Helen Blatherwick
Thursday 10 November
(Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS main building)
9.00–9.45 Coffee and Registration
9.45–10.00 Opening Address (Professor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)
10.00–11.30 Panel 1: Rhyme, Style, and Structure (chair: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)
Devin J. Stewart (Emory University), ‘Rhyme and Rhythm as Criteria for Determining Qur’anic Verse Endings in the Work of Ibn Sa‘id al-Dani and the “Counters”’
Marianna Klar (SOAS, University of London), ‘The Structuring Force of Rhyme in The Long Qur’anic Suras’
فايز حسان سليمان أبو عمرة (جامعة الأقصى)، السياق القرآني ودوره في فهم النصوص القرآنية
11.30–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00–1.00 Panel 2: Textual History and Chronology (chair: tbc)
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Sorbonne University), ‘Diachronic Composition of the Qur’anic Text: When Argumentative Analysis Helps Chronology’
Adam Flowers (University of Chicago), ‘Reconsidering Genre in Qur’anic Studies’
1.00–2.30 Lunch
2.30–4.00 Panel 3: Language, Ideas, and Discourse (chair: Deen Mohamed)
Nathaniel A. Miller (University of Cambridge), ‘Quranic Isra’ and Pre-Islamic Hijazi Imagery of Rule’
عبد الرحيم بن أحمد شنين (جامعة قاصدي مرباح ورقلة)، درء شبهة تغليب المذكّر على المؤنث عند العرب من خلال القرآن الكريم
Thomas Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen), ‘Taste My Punishment and My Warnings (Q. 54:39): On the Torments of Tantalus and Other Painful Metaphors of Taste in the Qur’an’
Friday 11 November
(Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery)
9.30–11.00 Panel 4: Narration and Narrative (chair: Marianna Klar)
Jessica Mutter (University of Chicago), ‘Dramatic Form and Nested Dialogue: The Use of iltifat in the Qur’an’
Hamza M. Zafer (University of Washington), ‘The Patriarchs in the Qur’an’
Shawkat M. Toorawa (Yale University), ‘Daughters in the Qur’an’
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–1.00 Panel 5: Law (chair: Abdul Hakim al-Matroudi)
Joseph Lowry (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Legal Language and Theology in the Qur’an: Excuse, Repentance, Forgiveness, and Fulfillment’
A. David K. Owen (Harvard University), ‘Certainty in Interpretation: Causal Knowledge in Ibn Hazm’s Account of Zahiri Qur’anic Exegesis in al-Ihkam fi usul al-ahkam’
Ramon Harvey (Ebrahim College), ‘Interpreting Indenture (mukataba) in the Qur’an: Q. 24:33 Revisited’
1.00–2.45 Lunch
2.45–4.45 Panel 6: Contemporary Approaches (chair: Devin Stewart)
Ulrika Mårtensson (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), ‘‘Abd al-Aziz Duri: The Significance of his Historiographical Model for Current Qur’an Research’
عبد القادر بوشيبة (جامعة تلمسان)، لسانيات النص وآفاق قراءة النص القرآني
نزار خورشيد مامه (جامعة دهوك)، نظرية التلقي في القرآن الكريم: دراسة تحليلية
Joseph Lumbard (American University in Sharjah), ‘Decolonialising Qur’anic Studies’
Saturday 12 November
(Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery)
9.30–11.00 Panel 7: Theology and Tafsir (chair: tbc)
Hannah Erlwein (SOAS, University of London), ‘A Reappraisal of Classical Islamic Arguments for God’s Existence: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Tafsir as a Case in Point’
مشرف بن أحمد الزهراني (جامعة الأمير سطام بن عبد العزيز)، القيم المعنوية والجمالية في استطرادات القاسمي التفسيرية
Aisha Geissinger (Carleton University), ‘al-Maturidi’s Exegetical Use of Variant Readings: The Strange Case of “harf Hafsa”’
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.30 Panel 8: Political Dimensions of Interpretation and Translation 1 (chair: Hannah Erlwein)
Teresa Bernheimer (SOAS, University of London), ‘Opposition Groups, Coins, and the Qur’an’
Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), ‘The Political in tafsir: Q. 43:44 as an Example’
12:30–1.45 Lunch
1.45–3.15 Panel 9: Political Dimensions of Interpretation and Translation 2 (chair: Helen Blatherwick)
Noureddine Miladi (Qatar University), ‘The Representation of the Qur’an in the Western Media’
Burçin K. Mustafa (SOAS, University of London), ‘The Translation of Ambiguous Qur’anic Terms in the Realm of Doctrine Propagation’
Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg), ‘Contested Form, Contested Meaning: Literal, Literary and Exegetical Translations of the Qur’an in Contemporary Indonesia’
3.15–3:30 Closing Remarks (Professor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)
Further Information:
If you would like further information on the conference series, please visit the conference website at https://www.soas.ac.uk/quran-2016/. This will be updated on an ongoing basis.
For general enquiries, please contact the conference administrator at quran.conference@soas.ac.uk. For academic enquiries only contact Helen Blatherwick at hb20@soas.ac.uk.