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PV19-102a
The Qur’an: Surah Studies
11/19/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Virtual
Shawkat Toorawa, Presiding
Nevin Reda, Presiding
Valentina A. Grasso, University of Cambridge
Jinn among Humans and Birds: The Making of Qur’anic Cosmology (30 min)
Johanne Louise Christiansen, University of Southern Denmark
The Metaphorical Problem of Q al-Naml 27:80: Is Death really a (Spiritual) Disability? (30 min)
Mohammad Salama, Independent Scholar
“Before you blink”: Rhetorical Dynamics of mu‘jiza and ‘ilm in Surat al-Naml (30 min)
David Penchansky, University of Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN)
Surat-al-Fil, the Elephant Surah: The Story and the Backstory (30 min) |
PV19-205a
The Societal Qur’an
11/19/2021
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Virtual
Lauren Osborne, Whitman College, Presiding
Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter
Contesting Islam and the Imam in Persianate Exegesis at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (30 min)
Latifeh Aavani, Harvard University
Nor Anything Moist or Dry, but that it is in a Clear Book: The Significance of Two Approaches to Qur’anic Hermeneutics for the Iranian Constitutional Movement of 1906-7 (30 min)
Mykhaylo Yakubovych, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Vernacularisation as Mainstream: Experience of Qur’anic Culture among Polish-Lithuanian Tatars (30 min)
Majid Daneshgar, University of Freiburg
Engine Behind Tafsir Production in the Malay-Indonesian World at the Turn of the 20th Century (30 min)
Ian VanderMeulen, New York University
Remediating the Ramziyya: Qur’anic “readings” and textual authority in Morocco (30 min) |
PV19-301
The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition
11/19/2021
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Virtual
Nora Katharina Schmid, Oxford University, Presiding
Holger Zellentin, University of Tuebingen, Presiding
Abdulla Galadari, Khalifa University of Science & Technology
The Will and Testament of Jesus Christ: The Intertextuality between Q al-Ma’idah 5:116–120 and John 17 (30 min)
Anna Canton, Sapienza University (Rome-Italy)
Is the Eschatological Window Closing? The Hour between Q al-Kahf 18:32–44 and the Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12:16–21) (30 min)
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Stones, Lythic Metaphors, and Sacred Space in the Bible, the Qur’an, and the Late Ancient Interpretive Traditions (30 min)
Saqib Hussain, Oxford University
Adam and the Names (30 min)
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Trinity College – Dublin
Bereshit in the Qur’an: Hebrew presence in qur’anic narrations of Genesis (30 min) |
PV19-401a
International Qur’anic Studies Association
11/19/2021
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Room: Virtual
Theme: Presidential Address
Asma Hilali, University of Lille, IQSA President (40 min)
Qur’an and Political Crises: Example of Siffîn (657 e. c.) |
P19-401b
International Qur’anic Studies Association
11/19/2021
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Room: Offsite
Margaritaville – San Antonio
849 E Commerce St, San Antonio, TX 78205
Theme: General Reception |
PV20-138a
Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics
11/20/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Virtual
Theme: Quranic Narrative and Hermeneutics
Celene Ibrahim, Presiding
David Solomon Jalajel, King Saud University and Shoaib Malik, Zayed University
Adam and Eve’s Garden in Islamic Thought: Heaven or Earth? (30 min)
Khalil Andani, Augustana College
Creation as Prophetic Initiation: Ismaili Exegesis (ta’wil) of the Quranic Adam Story (30 min)
Adi Shiran, University of Chicago
Bloody Wrath and Healing Touches: Joseph and his Brothers in Early Twelver Shi‛i Tafsir (30 min)
Javad Hashmi, Harvard University and Haci Gunduz, Harvard University
The Qur’anic Story — Not Literal History But Literary Art: Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah’s Forbidden Dissertation (30 min)
Alena Kulinich, University of Oxford/Seoul National University
Justifying Wealth and Poverty by the Qur’an: A Medieval Muslim Perspective (30 min) |
P20-148
International Qur’anic Studies Association
11/20/2021
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Room: Offsite
Theme: Graduate Student Luncheon |
PV20-233
Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics
11/20/2021
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Virtual
Khalil Andani, Presiding
Havva Guney-Ruebenacker, Yale Law School
The Foundational Structure and The Methodology of Interpretation of the Qur’an as the Qur’an Tells (30 min)
Kamal Ahmed, Princeton University
Epistemology of Exegesis: Tafsir and Ta’wil in Early Sunni Qur’an Commentaries (30 min)
Nicholas Boylston, Seattle University
Troubling Tafsir bi’l-Ra’y: Sayyid Haydar Amuli’s Negotiation of Hermeneutic Authority Between Twelver Shi‘ism and Sufism (30 min)
Syed A.H. Zaidi, Islamic Civilizations – Emory University
Relations from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. The Use of the Qur’an in the Brethren of Purity’s (Ikhwan al-Safa’) conception of God (30 min)
Sheza Alqera Atiq, Harvard University
Revelation and Rhetoric in Early Mu’tazili Writings (30 min) |
PV20-349
The Qur’an and Late Antiquity
11/20/2021
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Virtual
Theme: The Prophet and the Prophetic in the Qur’an (Part 1)
Michael Pregill, Presiding
Eric DeVilliers, University of Notre Dame
Is There No Doubt About the Hour?: The Limits of Prophetic Knowledge and the Historical Muhammad (30 min)
Zahra Moeini Meybodi , University of Chicago Divinity School
Giving and Prophetic Time: A Thematic Re-reading of Surat al-Fajr (30 min)
Mourad Takawi , University of the Incarnate Word
The Arboreal Presentation of Muhammad and the Believers in Q Al-Fath 48 (30 min)
Juan Cole, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
God’s Biography of Muhammad in the Qur’an (30 min)
Discussion (30 min) |
P21-127a
Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus
11/21/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: 225B (Meeting Room Level) – San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: Philology, Theology, and Hermeneutics
Hythem Sidky, Presiding
Andrew J. O’Connor, St. Norbert College
Guidance Stories: A Prophetological Profile of Q al-Naml 27 (30 min)
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame
On Reported Speech in the Qur’an: A Preliminary Inquiry (30 min)
Mourad Takawi, University of the Incarnate Word
The Arboreal Presentation of Muhammad and the Believers in Q Al-Fath 48 (30 min)
Eric DeVilliers, University of Notre Dame
Is There No Doubt About the Hour?: The Limits of Prophetic Knowledge and the Historical Muhammad (30 min)
Discussion (30 min) |
P21-152a
International Qur’anic Studies Association
11/21/2021
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Room: Virtual
Theme: IQSA Business/General Meeting |
P21-231b
Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus
11/21/2021
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: 225B (Meeting Room Level) – San Antonio Convention Center
Theme: The Qur’an and Its Audience
Andrew O’Connor, St. Norbert College, Presiding
Jáchym Šenkyrík, Charles University
Rhetorical Strategies Used in the Qur’an for Creating the “Other”: Examples from Surahs 5 and 9 (30 min)
Daniel Bannoura, University of Notre Dame
A Critical Literary Examination of Q 38: Its Theology and Redaction History (30 min)
Hythem Sidky, Independent
Consonantal Dotting in the ‘Uthmanic Archetype (30 min)
Han Hsien Liew, Arizona State University
Sidestepping Controversy: A Reassessment of al-Mawardi’s Mu‘tazili Leanings in His Qur’anic Exegesis (30 min)
Discussion (30 min) |
PV21-348
The Qur’an and Late Antiquity
11/21/2021
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Virtual
Theme: The Prophet and the Prophetic in the Qur’an (Part 2)
Johanne Louise Christiansen, Presiding
Emran El-Badawi, University of Houston
Contesting Female Power in Q 53 (30 min)
Diaa Abdelmobdy, University of Copenhagen
Ambiguity as a Bridging Identity: The Role of Semantic Ambiguity in Forming the Prophetic Identity of Muhammad (30 min)
Mehdi Azaiez , Université catholique de Louvain
A (Im)possible Biography of the Qur’anic First Addressee (30 min)
Michael Pregill, Chapman University
Is There a Prophet in This Text? The Qur’anic Author and the State of Muhammad Studies (30 min)
Discussion (30 min) |
PV22-149
The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism
11/22/2021
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Virtual
Marijn van Putten, Independent Scholar, Presiding
R. Michael McCoy III, Chair
Daniel Alan Brubaker, Independent
Judging the Significance of Single Occurrence Non-orthographic Qur’an Manuscript Variants (25 min)
Adam Flowers, University of Chicago
P.Utah.Ar.120: A Late-7th/Early-8th-Century CE Qur’anic Quotation on Papyrus (25 min)
Yousef Wahb Aly, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
Qur’an vs Qira’at: Early Legal Discourses on Textual Authenticity (25 min)
Mohsen Goudarzi, University of Minnesota
Pagans, Jews, and the Torah in Late Antique Arabia (25 min)
Mu’ammar Zayn Qadafy, Freiburg University
An Early Chronological Interpretation of the Qur’an (Ibn ‘Atiyyah [d. 542/ 1147] on the Zakah Verses (25 min)
Devin J. Stewart, Emory University
Typological Language in the Qur’an (25 min) |