Multi-lingual Qur'ānic Material from the Three First Centuries after Hijra/Seventh to Ninth Century CE

Multi-lingual Qur'ānic Material from the Three First Centuries after Hijra/Seventh to Ninth Century CE

Veranstalter
Christian Høgel, associate professor, Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Odense; Matthias M. Tischler, professor, Institut d’Estudis Medievals (IEM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Veranstaltungsort
Centre for Medieval Literature, the University of Southern Denmark
Ort
Odense
Land
Denmark
Vom - Bis
30.09.2014 - 01.10.2014
Deadline
15.09.2014
Von
Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler, Barcelona

The aim of this seminar is to create an inter-disciplinary discussion on the role of other languages in the early Islamic world. New interests in the multi-lingual situation of various medieval entities call for an investigation into the various languages in use under the first caliphs, through the Umayyad period and into the beginnings of the ‘Abbāsid reign. North African coins bearing a fragmentary rendering of the Shahāda in Latin, the early Greek translation of the Qur’ān, as well as the purported translation into Persian by Salmān al-Fārisī, the companion of the Prophet, are only some samples of the multilingual Qur'ānic material that may be addressed in this seminar. Epigraphic, legal, and administrative, but also historiographical, biographical and liturgical texts containing Qur’ānic snippets, phrases or even whole verses, have in many instances been disregarded, as exceptional aberrations from the norm, and scholarship has therefore contributed to the common notion that Arabic was the only accepted language for the Qur'an from the outset. By bringing these ‘exceptions‘ together a more consistent pattern, reflecting actual practices, becomes attainable. Papers will deal with any languages other than, or in addition to, Arabic, and from all geographical areas and social strata.

After the seminar, we intend to have the contributions published in our new Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies (JTMS; de Gruyter): http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jtms

Programm

September 30, 2014

14:00
Welcome Tea & Coffee

14:30
LARS BOJE MORTENSEN (Odense): Welcome

14:45
CHRISTIAN HØGEL (Odense) and MATTHIAS M. TISCHLER (Barcelona): Introduction

Persia and Syria

15:00
MICHELE CAMPOPIANO (York/Amsterdam): Wicked Laws: Purity and Danger in Pahlavi Literature in the Early Islamic Period (7th–10th Centuries)

15:30
CHRISTIAN HØGEL (Odense): Greek-Arabic Protocols from the Umayyad Period: The Greek Text

16:00
ANNE REGOURD (Paris): Greek-Arabic Protocols from the Umayyad Period: The Papyri

16:30
Discussion

19:00
Dinner

October 1, 2014

Byzantium

9:00
HASSAN HESHAM (Athens): The Byzantine Qur’ān as a Polemic Weapon: New Ethnogenesis Genre in the 7th and 8th Centuries

9:30
MANOLIS ULBRICHT (Berlin): The Greek Translation of the Qur’ān (8/9th century CE) and its Use by Nicetas of Byzantium for his ‘Refutation of the Qur’ān‘ (9th century CE) – a Heresiological Approach

10:00
Discussion

10:30
Tea & Coffee Break

al-Andalus

11:00
ANN CHRISTYS (Leeds): The Qur’ān as History for Muslims and Christians in al-Andalus

11:30
MATTHIAS M. TISCHLER (Barcelona): Preaching Christ from a Transreligious Standpoint: The Unknown Qur'ānic Background of Luculentius' Homiliary and Other Christian Apologetic Texts from the Western Mediterranean

12:00
Final Discussion

13:00
Lunch and Farewell

Kontakt

Matthias M. TISCHLER

Institut d'Estudis Medievals (IEM)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Mòdul de Recerca A (MRA), Campus de la UAB, E - 08193 Bellaterra
Tel. 0034/93/586/8839
Tel. 0034/93/586/8151
matthias.tischler@uab.cat

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