INTERNATIONAL MEETING 2017
Co-hosted by Bayt al Hikma and the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA)
Carthage, Tunisia.
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الدراسات القرآنية: المناهج، السياقات والتأويلات
Quranic Studies: Methods, Contexts and Interpretations
Les études coraniques : méthodes, contextes et interprétations
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July, 4-6 2017
This international meeting is convened by Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi and Pr. Mokdad Arfa (for Beit al Hikma) and by Pr. Mehdi Azaiez (for IQSA).
S C H E D U L E
Bayt al Hikma
25, Avenue de la République Carthage Hannibal
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DAY 1
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Time | Sessions | Room |
9:00am
– 9:50am |
Welcome Addresses
9.10 Abdelmajid Charfi, President of Beït al Hikma 9.20 Gerald Hawting, President-elect of IQSA 9.30 Mokdad Arfa, Beït al Hikma 9.40 Mehdi Azaiez, KU Leuven |
Main Room | |
10:00am
– 12:00am |
Plenary Session 1
Quranic Studies in/and Islamic Studies Chair: Samir Rashwani, University of Tübingen, Germany
10. فريدة زمرد, Dar El Hadith El Hassania Institution for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Rabat, Morocco
من “علوم القرآن” إلى “الدراسات القرآنيّة”. دراسة في تطوّر التسمية والمفهوم
10.20 Yusuf Rahman, Faculty of Usuluddin and Graduate School, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta, Indonesia
“The Transformation of Western Qur’ānic Scholarship to the Academic Study of The Qur’ān and Tafsīr In Indonesia”
Questions (20mn)
11.00 محمد الطاهر الميساوي, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
الدراسات القرآنيّة والتفسير بين التداخل والتخارج الاصطلاحي والموضوعي
11.20 David R. Vishanoff, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA
“An Anthropological Turn in the Qur’anic Sciences: European and Islamic Contributions to Aksin Wijaya’s Indonesian Hermeneutic”
Questions (20mn) |
Main Room |
12:00am
– 3:00pm |
Lunch |
3:00pm
– 4:30pm
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Panel 1: Intertextuality: The Qur’an and the
Biblical Tradition Chair: Mehdi Azaiez, KU Leuven
3. Johanna Pink, Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
“Bringing the Bible and the Qur’an into Conversation. From Interreligious Polemics to Scriptural Exegesis”
3.20 Jacqueline Chabbi, University of Paris VIII, France
“Récits bibliques vus du Coran”
3.40 Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston, USA
مسائل الكنائس السريانية وإجابة الرسالة القرآنية- نماذج متفاوتة
Questions (30mn)
Panel 2: Early manuscripts & Qirâ’ât Chair: Hmida Ennayfer, Al-Zaytuna University, Tunis, Tunisia
3. Asma Hilali, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK
“The Sanaa palimpsest, 40 years after”
3.20 نادر الحمامي , Faculty of Arts, Sfax, Tunisia
تقديم كتاب ‘المصحف وقراءاته’ (تصنيف مجموعة من الباحثين، بإشراف عبد المجيد الشرفي)
3.40 ياسين كرامتي, Center for Islamic Studies, Kairouan, Tunisia
ديناميكيّة الشأن المصحفي: مقاربة سوسيو-انتربولوجيّة لسلطتي التلاوة والخطاطة
Questions (30mn) |
Conference
Rooms -1&2- |
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5:00pm
– 6:45 |
Panel 3: “Approaches to Quranic Studies & Hermeneutics I”
Chair: Farida Zomorrod , Dar El Hadith El Hassania, Rabat, Morocco
5.00 Devin Stewart, Emory University, Atlanta, USA “A Comparison of John Wansbrough’s The Sectarian Milieu and Rudolf Bultmann’s Das Urchristentum im Rahmen den antiken Religionen
5.20 حافظ قويعة, Faculty of Arts, Sfax, Tunisia
مقولة ‘عصمة النبيّ’ واستتباعاتها على التفسير
5.40 Mun’im Sirry, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, USA
“ ‘Christian Favoritism’ in the Qur’an and Its Exegesis”
Questions (25mn)
Panel 4: Approaches to Quranic Studies & Hermeneutics II Chair: Mohammed Tahir Missawi
5.00pm محمد الشتيوي , Higher Institute for Usul al-Din, Al-Zaytuna University, Tunis, Tunisia
التأويل من الاستعمال القرآني إلى التوظيف الاصطلاحي
5.20pm Thomas Hoffmann, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“Loopholes and Invitations in Qur’anic Polemic”
5.40 Fred Donner, University of Chicago, USA
“An inscriptional context for the Qur’an?”
Questions (25mn) |
Conference
Rooms -1&2- |
DAY 2
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Time | Sessions | Room | |
9:00am
– 12:00am |
Panel 5: Quran and Philosophical Approaches
Chair: Najia Ouriemmi, ISLT, University of Carthage
9.00 أبو يعرب المرزوقي Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tunis- Beït al-Hikma
الحكم والسياق أو منزلة الديني في الأرشيتاكتونيك الفلسفية 9.20 مقداد عرفة, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tunis – Beït al Hikma, Carthage
الفهم الفلسفي لمتشابه الشّرع على رأي ابن رشد
9.40 Massimo Campanini, University of Trento, Ambrosian Academy Milano – Italy
“Beauty in the Qur’an: an esthetical approach”
Questions & Break (30mn)
Panel 6: Quran and Exegesis Chair: Mohammed Bouhlal, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia
10.30 Gerald Hawting, SOAS, London, UK
“Al-Ṣafā and al-Marwa are among God’s signs”: Q2: 158 and its problems”
10.50 احميدة النيفر, Higher Institute of Usul al-Din, Al-Zaytuna University, Tunis, Tunisia- Beït al-Hikma
الجديد في تفسير القرآن الكريم: قراءة في المنهج من الداخل الثقافي
11.20 Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
“The Qur’an on Black and White – Searching for Germs or Traces of Race and Racism in Tafsir Literature”
Questions (20mn) |
Main Room |
12:00am –
2:00pm |
Lunch |
2:00pm – 6:00pm |
Visit of the National Bardo Museum |
DAY 3
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Time | Sessions | Room | |
9:00am
– 12:00am |
Plenary Session 2
Quranic Polemics Chair: Gerald Hawting, SOAS
9.00 Michel Cuypers, & Sami Larbes, IDEO, Egypt and Algeria
L’analyse rhétorique de la sourate 9, al-Tawba (40mn)
9.40 سامر رشواني, Institute of Islamic Sciences, University of Tübingen, Germany
الدرس المقارن للقرآن والكتب المقدّسة: المنهج والإشكالات
Questions & Break (20 mn)
10.30 Andrew J. O’ Connor, University of Notre-Dame, South Bend, USA
“When is this victory, if you are truthful?”: Apocalyptic as Polemic in the Qur’ān
10.50 Mehdi Azaiez KUL, Leuven, Belgium
“Dieu est pauvre et nous sommes riches!” : un contre-discours coranique à la lumière des littératures biblique, talmudique et islamique.
11. 10 محمد بوهلال, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia
تيبولوجيا القرآن من خلال جواهر القرآن للغزالي
Questions (30mn) |
Main Room | |
12:00am
– 3:00pm |
Lunch |
3:00pm
– 5:00pm |
Panel 7
Quranic Themes Chair: Abu Ya’rub Marzouki, University of Tunis-Beït al-Hikma
3.00 Carol Bakhos, University of California Los Angeles, USA
“Constituting Community: Biblical and Qur’anic Concepts of Covenant”
3.20 ناجي الحجلاوي, Higher Institute for Islamic Civilization, Al-Zaytuna University, Tunis, Tunisia
سؤال المنهج في قراءة المصحف
3.40 Sarra Tlili, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
“Qur’anic Creation: Anthropocentric Readings and Eco-Centric Possibilities”
4.00 إيمان مخينيني Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sousse, Tunisia
المنظور الأخلاقي في الدّراسات القرآنيّة، قراءة في فكر طه عبد الرّحمان
Questions & Break (40mn)
Panel 8 Quranic Themes
Chair: Asma Hilali, IIS, London
3.00 Hamza M. Zafer, University of Washington, USA
“The Quran’s ‘News of the Cities’ as a Historiographical Genre”
3.20محمد الحاج سالم , Religious and Political Anthropology الديانة الجاهليّة من خلال القرآن الكريم
3.40 Rufino Enno H. Dango, University of Notre-Dame, South Bend, USA
“lahā mā kasabat walakum maa kasabtum (Q. 2:134), Exploring the Qur’anic Concept of Individual Responsibility as an Allusive Critique to the Alleged Concept of Predestination of its Jewish and Christian Audience.”
Questions & Break (40mn) |
Conference
Rooms -1&2- |
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5:00pm
– 7:00pm |
General discussion / Closing Remarks
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Main Room |