\u2018The Qur\u2019an: Text, Society And Culture\u2019 Conference
\nThursday 10 \u2013 Saturday 12 November 2016
\nSOAS, University of London<\/p>\n
Convenors: Prof. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr Helen Blatherwick<\/p>\n
Thursday 10 November
\n(Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS main building)<\/p>\n
9.00\u20139.45 Coffee and Registration<\/p>\n
9.45\u201310.00 Opening Address (Professor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)<\/p>\n
10.00\u201311.30 Panel 1: Rhyme, Style, and Structure (chair: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)<\/p>\n
Devin J. Stewart (Emory University), \u2018Rhyme and Rhythm as Criteria for Determining Qur\u2019anic Verse Endings in the Work of Ibn Sa\u2018id al-Dani and the \u201cCounters\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
Marianna Klar (SOAS, University of London), \u2018The Structuring Force of Rhyme in The Long Qur\u2019anic Suras\u2019<\/p>\n
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11.30\u201312.00 Coffee Break<\/p>\n
12.00\u20131.00 Panel 2: Textual History and Chronology (chair: tbc)<\/p>\n
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau (Sorbonne University), \u2018Diachronic Composition of the Qur\u2019anic Text: When Argumentative Analysis Helps Chronology\u2019<\/p>\n
Adam Flowers (University of Chicago), \u2018Reconsidering Genre in Qur\u2019anic Studies\u2019<\/p>\n
1.00\u20132.30 Lunch<\/p>\n
2.30\u20134.00 Panel 3: Language, Ideas, and Discourse (chair: Deen Mohamed)<\/p>\n
Nathaniel A. Miller (University of Cambridge), \u2018Quranic Isra\u2019 and Pre-Islamic Hijazi Imagery of Rule\u2019<\/p>\n
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Thomas Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen), \u2018Taste My Punishment and My Warnings (Q. 54:39): On the Torments of Tantalus and Other Painful Metaphors of Taste in the Qur\u2019an\u2019<\/p>\n
Friday 11 November
\n(Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery)<\/p>\n
9.30\u201311.00 Panel 4: Narration and Narrative (chair: Marianna Klar)<\/p>\n
Jessica Mutter (University of Chicago), \u2018Dramatic Form and Nested Dialogue: The Use of iltifat in the Qur\u2019an\u2019<\/p>\n
Hamza M. Zafer (University of Washington), \u2018The Patriarchs in the Qur\u2019an\u2019<\/p>\n
Shawkat M. Toorawa (Yale University), \u2018Daughters in the Qur\u2019an\u2019<\/p>\n
11.00\u201311.30 Coffee Break<\/p>\n
11.30\u20131.00 Panel 5: Law (chair: Abdul Hakim al-Matroudi)<\/p>\n
Joseph Lowry (University of Pennsylvania), \u2018Legal Language and Theology in the Qur\u2019an: Excuse, Repentance, Forgiveness, and Fulfillment\u2019<\/p>\n
A. David K. Owen (Harvard University), \u2018Certainty in Interpretation: Causal Knowledge in Ibn Hazm\u2019s Account of Zahiri Qur\u2019anic Exegesis in al-Ihkam fi usul al-ahkam\u2019<\/p>\n
Ramon Harvey (Ebrahim College), \u2018Interpreting Indenture (mukataba) in the Qur\u2019an: Q. 24:33 Revisited\u2019<\/p>\n
1.00\u20132.45 Lunch<\/p>\n
2.45\u20134.45 Panel 6: Contemporary Approaches (chair: Devin Stewart)<\/p>\n
Ulrika M\u00e5rtensson (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), \u2018\u2018Abd al-Aziz Duri: The Significance of his Historiographical Model for Current Qur\u2019an Research\u2019<\/p>\n
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Joseph Lumbard (American University in Sharjah), \u2018Decolonialising Qur\u2019anic Studies\u2019<\/p>\n
Saturday 12 November
\n(Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery)<\/p>\n
9.30\u201311.00 Panel 7: Theology and Tafsir (chair: tbc)<\/p>\n
Hannah Erlwein (SOAS, University of London), \u2018A Reappraisal of Classical Islamic Arguments for God\u2019s Existence: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi\u2019s Tafsir as a Case in Point\u2019<\/p>\n
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Aisha Geissinger (Carleton University), \u2018al-Maturidi\u2019s Exegetical Use of Variant Readings: The Strange Case of \u201charf Hafsa\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
11.00\u201311.30 Coffee Break<\/p>\n
11.30\u201312.30 Panel 8: Political Dimensions of Interpretation and Translation 1 (chair: Hannah Erlwein)<\/p>\n
Teresa Bernheimer (SOAS, University of London), \u2018Opposition Groups, Coins, and the Qur\u2019an\u2019<\/p>\n
Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), \u2018The Political in tafsir: Q. 43:44 as an Example\u2019<\/p>\n
12:30\u20131.45 Lunch<\/p>\n
1.45\u20133.15 Panel 9: Political Dimensions of Interpretation and Translation 2 (chair: Helen Blatherwick)<\/p>\n
Noureddine Miladi (Qatar University), \u2018The Representation of the Qur\u2019an in the Western Media\u2019<\/p>\n
Bur\u00e7in K. Mustafa (SOAS, University of London), \u2018The Translation of Ambiguous Qur\u2019anic Terms in the Realm of Doctrine Propagation\u2019<\/p>\n
Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg), \u2018Contested Form, Contested Meaning: Literal, Literary and Exegetical Translations of the Qur\u2019an in Contemporary Indonesia\u2019<\/p>\n
3.15\u20133:30 Closing Remarks (Professor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem)<\/p>\n
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