Online conference organized by the University of Notre Dame and by the ERC project “The European Qur’an”
22-26 March 2021
From 15:00 to 17:00 Central European Time (10:00 to 12:00 US Eastern Time)
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PROGRAM
MONDAY 22 MARCH 2021
- 15:00 (times given are Central European Time) Introduction Tom Burman
- 15:15 John TOLAN
Bible and Qur’an at the Council of Basel (1431-1449) - 15:40 David BERTAINA
Inmates of Hell: Muʿtazilī Qurʾānic Concepts in Medieval Catholic Thought - 16:05 Pierre COURTAIN
Raymundus Martini’s use of the Qur’an in his De Seta Machometi
- 16:30-17:00 Discussion
TUESDAY 23 MARCH
- 15:00 Octavian-Adrian NEGOIȚĂ
Bible and Qur’an in the Polemical Discourse of an Athonite Monk: Pachomios Rousanos’ (1508–1553) and His Anti-Islamic Treatise
- 15:25 Maxime SELLIN
Reading Qur’an through Biblical glasses, the example of the Qu’ran of Bellus.
- 15:50 Gabriel Said REYNOLDS
“Only the Most Perfect of the Perfects Could Possibly Institute the Perfection”: On Paul of Antioch’s Reading of the Qur’an.
- 16:15 Rita George TVRTKOVIĆ
Comparing Qur’anic & Biblical Mariologies: The Case of Two Williams
- 16:40-17:00 Discussion
WEDNESDAY 24 MARCH
- 15:00 Javier DE PRADO
Putting the Qur’an to the test in the early Propaganda Fide’s apologetics (1610-1632)
- 15:25 Federico STELLA
Discovering the Christian Truth in the Qur’ān. The correspondence between Baldassarre Loyola Mandes S.J. and Muḥammad Bulghaith al-Darawī
- 15:50 Sara FANI
Testimonia Alcorani de Christo Domino: traces of the Papal inter-religious discourse at the hands of two Oriental clergymen
- 16:15 Aleida PAUDICE
Leon Modena’s Precetti di Maomotto nel suo alcorano
- 16:40-17:00 Discussion
THURSDAY 25 MARCH
- 15:00 Kentaro INAGAKI
Levinus Warner and his reading of Islamic scriptures
- 15:25 Asaph BEN-TOV & Jan LOOP
The Qur’an as an exegetical tool in early modern Biblical Studies
- 15:50 Emmanuelle STEFANIDIS
Contes ridicules, plaisantes reueries, tres-belles moralitez: The reception of Qur’anic narratives in seventeenth century France
- 16:15 Naima AFIF
Jesus and the Bible in an 18th-century Translation of the Qur’an into Hebrew
- 16:40-17:00 Discussion
FRIDAY 26 MARCH
- 15:00 Vevian ZAKI
Translating the King James Bible into Arabic: the Sabat/Martyn Translation (1816 CE)
- 15:20 Michael PREGILL
Mapping the Islamicate Midrashim: Uncovering the Earliest Phase of Jewish Engagement with the Qur’an
- 15:40 Thomas HOFFMANN
The Haphazard Alkoran and the Muhammadan Phoenix – on Grundtvig’s reception of Islam
- 16:00 Gulnaz SIBGATULLINA
Ecology of a vernacular Qurʾān: The case of Mūsā Bīgī’s Translation into Turki-Tatar - 16:20 Discussion
- 16:40 Conclusion Jan LOOP
Copyright image: BnF, ms. arabe 384, fol. 125r (détail) : note marginale, attribuée au frère dominicain florentin Riccoldo da Monce Croce (1243-1320). Elle offre une traduction en latin des versets 12 à 30 de la sourate 19 (Maryam), portant sur l’Immaculée Conception