Keynote Speaker Announced! IQSA 2024 in London

Keynote Speaker Announced! IQSA 2024 in London

The International Qur’anic Studies Association is excited to announce the keynote speaker for its 2024 Annual Meeting in London: Ahmad Al-Jallad.

Ahmad Al-JalladAhmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages, writing systems, history, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East. His latest book reconstructs the religion and rituals of Arabia’s pre-Islamic tribespeople: The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions (Brill 2022). For more of Al-Jallad’s work, see https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/AhmadAlJallad.

Read about the keynote address, ʾAṣdāʾu kalāmi l-ḥiǧār fī luġati l-ʾaqlāmi wa-l-ʾasfār: The Quran in light of 1500 years of pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphy, at this link.

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Registration for the Annual Meeting in London is now open! Visit https://event.fourwaves.com/iqsa2024/registration to register.

Limited travel grants will be available, with preference given to paper presenters and panelists. To apply, please check the corresponding box on the registration form. Find discounted accommodations here.

We look forward to seeing you in London!

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IQSA 2015 Keynote Address Now Available!

scholars in library_maqamat haririFollowing the success of the IQSA 2015 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, we are pleased to make available on our website the Meeting’s keynote paper by Professor Reuven Firestone, entitled “The Problematic of Prophecy.” Based on qur’anic discourse in relation to preceding and subsequent scriptures and tradition, Professor Firestone offers a theory of religious emergence and the revolutionary challenge it represents to the authority of established religions. In the process, he demonstrates how our awareness of the natural tension between scriptural canonization and competing prophetic claims has value for the critical study of the Qur’an. You can access the paper HERE.

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