The European Qur’an.

Initiation à l’édition numérique (HTR et TEI)
2023-03-08 - 2023-03-09
Avis aux Doctorants, Postdoctorants, Enseignants – Chercheurs, étudiants en Master : Venez explorer les outils numériques utiles pour vos recherches en participant à la formation :
Initiation à l’édition numérique (HTR et TEI)
Les 8 et 9 mars 2023 à Louvain-La-Neuve
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/cemr/evenements/initiation-a-l-edition-numerique-htr-et-tei.html?fbclid=IwAR2fUaU_Pwc6OkfzTTSNtlemVgY7XPPXBqYlStO3-VqftDhElHe4W5upzjw

EuQu à la Nuit Blanche des chercheurs
2023-02-02
Stereolux, la Halle 6 Ouest, Nantes
Le Coran : résonances européennes depuis plus d’un millénaire
Dans la récitation de ses versets ou dans les heurts et accords entre civilisations, le texte du Coran résonne en Europe depuis le VIIIe siècle. Sa première traduction latine secoue l’Occident au XIIe siècle. Ses échos se réverbèrent dans la poésie du XVIIIe. Avec les chercheur·es, apprenez comment le Coran est reçu, lu et utilisé sur notre continent, du Moyen Age à l’époque de Napoléon.
Avec la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Ange Guépin https://msh-ange-guepin.univ-nantes.fr/

Workshop "Jews, the Qur’an and Islam: Contacts and Influences"
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-02
1st to the 2d of February 2023
University of Copenhagen
The ERC Synergy Grant project ‘The European Qur’an’ is delighted to announce its forthcoming workshop “Jews, the Qur’an and Islam: Contacts and Influences” which will take place on the 1st to the 2d of February 2023 in Copenhagen. This workshop aims to explore how Jews approached the Qur’an and Islam from the Middle Age to the early modern period both in the lands of Islam and in Europe. Through various sources and textual genres ranging from polemics, exegesis to Qur’anic translations, we will discuss how Islam was perceived, how the Qur’an was used and how the Jews in some contexts were influenced by the material, textual and theological aspects of the Islamic tradition. The workshop will try to reflect the variety of the Jewish engagement with Islam and the Qur’an, which far from being monolithic, expressed in different ways across time and space.
Organized by Naima Afif, post-doc at EuQu University of Copenhagen.
The program will soon be online.

Les rencontres des "Jeudis de la bibliothèque" avec John Tolan
2023-01-26 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
Les rencontres des “Jeudis de la bibliothèque” reprennent avec la présence de John Tolan le 26 janvier à 18h autour de son ouvrage “Nouvelle histoire de l’islam VIIe -XXIe siècle”.
Au croisement des disciplines et des horizons géographiques, l’Institut d’Études Avancées et
la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme organisent un cycle de rencontres autour des écrits de leurs chercheur.e.s : Les Jeudis de la Bibliothèque.

Nouvelle histoire de l’islam VIIe -XXIe siecle aux éditions Tallandier
John Tolan
Qu’est-ce qu’être musulman au XXIe siècle ? Pour certains, l’essence de l’islam serait la charia, loi qui dicte le comportement rituel et social, révélée par Dieu au Prophète et à la première communauté de fidèles. Pour d’autres, l’islam serait une spiritualité ouverte sur le monde, célébrant la diversité de l’humanité et la paix. De telles divergences ne sont pas nouvelles. Avec cet ouvrage, John Tolan raconte comment ce dernier-né des trois grands monothéismes s’est développé, non pas en autarcie mais en contact avec les traditions religieuses juives et chrétiennes, dans un mélange de cultures arabe, grecque, perse… Il analyse les fondements et les mutations de l’islam. Cette histoire longue nous montre que les fractures au sein d’un monde musulman tantôt ouvert, tantôt rigoriste, sont autant de défis posés à la possibilité d’une entente entre Orient et Occident.

https://www.iea-nantes.fr/en/news/les-rencontres-des-jeudis-de-la-bibliotheque-reprennent-avec-la-presence-de-john-tolan-le-26-janvier-a-18h-autour-de-son-ouvrage-nouvelle-histoire-de-l-islam-viie-xxie-siecle_1447

Rencontre conférence avec John Tolan à la Grande Mosquée de Nantes Assalam
2022-12-16 19:00 - 20:00
John Tolan, professeur d’Histoire à Nantes Université et chercheur principal du projet de recherche européen ERC Synergy Grant “The European Qur’an” donnera une conférence au sujet de son dernier ouvrage “Nouvelle histoire de l’islam” vendredi 16 décembre à 19h au Centre culturel Abdullah Darwish
Pour toute information : contact[a]aiof.fr

Conference “The Quran. Epic and Apocalypse” with Todd Lawson
2022-12-01 - 2022-12-02
Conference organized by the University L’orientale di Napoli
Todd Lawson, University of Toronto,
The Quran . Epic and Apocalypse
Qur’an as Apocalypse
Giovedì 1 dicembre 2022
Ore 15:00
17:00
Antisala degli Specchi
IV piano di Palazzo Corigliano
Qur’an as Epic
Venerdì 2 dicembre 2022
Ore 15:00
17:00
Salone delle conferenze
II piano di
Palazzo Corigliano
More about Todd Lawson : https://utoronto.academia.edu/ToddLawson
More about his book : Abstract:
A fascinating exploration, through the literary genres of epic and apocalypse, of one of the most widely read and recited book in the world How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation?
What is it about the text that inspires such devotion and commitment in the reader/believer?
Todd Lawson explores how the timeless literary genres of epic and apocalypse bear religious meaning in the Quran, communicating the sense of divine presence, urgency and truth.
Grounding his approach in the universal power of story and myth, he embarks upon a fascinating inquiry into the unique power of one of the most loved, widely read and recited books in the world.
Tríptico Seminario

Acknowledging Affinity, Insisting on Distance: A Recognizing Religions Workshop
2022-11-21 - 2022-11-22
In texts as well as in testimonials and representations, intercultural encounters are often narrated in terms of affinity and distance. Something in the other attracts either because it is familiar or because it looks foreign; or it gets denounced and portrayed as unacceptable for one of the same two reasons (that is to say: both another tradition’s perceived proximity and its perceived foreignness can be used to justify either the attraction it possesses to the observer or the rejection it elicits).
In this workshop, we ask participants to reflect on the work that the notions of affinity and distance are made to perform in a range of source materials as strategies for appropriation and othering, drawing close and distancing. Consistent with the overarching theme of ‘Recognizing Religions’ the aim is to uncover the ways in which not only dispositions towards the other take shape in the act of recognition, but how each community’s self-understanding also gets communicated and transformed in the process.
November 21 | 10:00 am – 6 pm November 22 | 9:00 am – 12 pm
In-Person (NYUAD Campus) and on Zoom The two-day workshop is open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Interested scholars, please register below.
https://www.hrf-arabworld.org/events/2022/acknowledging-affinity-insisting-on-distance-a-recognizing-religions-workshop

VII Seminario internacional Islamolatina « Relaciones interculturalesen el Mediterráneo en la época premoderna : una retrospectiva »
2022-11-10 - 2022-11-11
10 y 11 de noviembre de 2022
Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
9h. – Aula P 24 (Facultat de Psicologia)
El grupo de investigación Islamolatina https://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/islamolatina/?fbclid=IwAR0jDWOWbpvpLQVgToKGBSPK_AKLGYMSei-7bGkbQGKIp532bvGui5AJAuk organiza con la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) un seminario internacional sobre el tema : « Relaciones interculturalesen el Mediterráneo en la época premoderna : una retrospectiva »
Leer el programa : http://deji.cchs.csic.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Triptico-Seminario.pdf

Javier de Prado (Nantes Université-UAB, estudiante de doctorado del proyecto ERC presentará su artículo : « De procuranda salute Saracenorum: polémica antiislámica en la obra misional de Tomás de Jesús » (Virtual)

33rd Annual Conference of Academia Europaea (AE) Building Bridges 2022
2022-10-26 - 2022-10-27
The 2022 meeting will be held at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) on October 26 and 27, 2022.
Professor John Tolan from Nantes Université will be giving a presentation on the 26th of October.

TITLE OF PRESENTATION: Religious diversity and cultural transmission in Europe: 2 ERC projects
Abstract of presentation
From 2010 to 2015, I directed an ERC program (advanced grant) entitled “RELMIN: The legal status of religious minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean world (5th-15th centuries)”. I hired a multidisciplinary team of scholars to study legal texts that defined the status of Jews and Christians living in Muslim lands and Jews and Muslims living in Christian lands. We produced a database of over 600 texts (original texts in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and various European vernaculars; translations into English and French; analysis and bibliography). See http://telma.irht.cnrs.fr/outils/relmin/index/ We also organized workshops and conferences and published a series of 10 books (PhD theses and conference proceedings) with Brepols.
I am currently one of the four principal investigators of the ERC synergy grant program “EuQu: the European Qur’an”. Our team of over 30 investigators (PhD students, post-docs, senior researchers) study the impact of the Qur’an on European cultural, intellectual and religious history. See http://deji.cchs.csic.es/
I have also served as a member of the ERC starting grant committee SH6 (history) in 2013 and 2015 and as chair of the committee in 2017 and 2019.
My contributions to this round table, based on these various experiences with the ERC, will focus on the opportunities that the ERC offers to researchers in the humanities and social sciences and on how to take advantage of these opportunities.
Biographical note
John Tolan works on the history of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin
worlds in the Middle Ages and on the history of religious interaction and conflict between Jews, Christians and Muslims. He studied at Yale (BA classics), University of Chicago (MA & PhD history) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Habilitation à diriger des recherches: HDR). He has taught in various universities in North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East; he is currently professor of History at the University of Nantes and member of the Academia Europæa and the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. He has received numerous prizes and distinctions, including two major grants from the European Research Council and the Prix Diane Potier-Boès from the Académie Française (2008). He is author of numerous articles and books, including Petrus Alfonsi and his Medieval Readers (1993) Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination (2002), Sons of Ishmael (2008), Saint Francis and the Sultan (2009), Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (2019), and Nouvelle histoire de l’islam, VIIe-XXIe siècles (2022). He is one of the four coordinators of the European Research Council program “The European Qur’an” (2019-
2025; http://deji.cchs.csic.es/
Read the programme
http://barcelona.acadeuro.org/home/building-bridges/building-bridges-2022/class-meeting-programme-2022/

Première séance du Séminaire « Doctrines, Migrations et Territoires : L'espace euro-méditerrannéen »
2022-10-20 19:00 - 21:00
École Normale Supérieure en SALLE DES ACTES – 45 rue d’Ulm – Paris
« Le Coran et l’Europe : historiens, polémistes et apologètes ».
Intervenants :

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Professeur des universités, Directeur d’études à l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Président du Conseil scientifique de l’Institut Français d’Islamologie
John Tolan, Professeur des universités à l’Université de Nantes, Directeur du projet ERC “The European Qur’an (EuQu)”
Bernard Rougier (modérateur), Professeur des universités à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Coordinateur du programme régional QIM – ERTI (Ecosytème Religieux et Territoires Identitaires)Inscription au lien suivant: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIJN1SqX3z4UOEHkag52onEm3RB-bbQAAfXWWMVTt_rlFh3w/viewform
A noter: L’ouvrage “Histoire du Coran: Contexte, origine, rédaction” sous la direction de Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi et Guillaume Dye paraît ce jeudi 13 octobre aux Éditions du Cerf (https://www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/livre/19823/histoire-du-coran).
Une séance de dédicace (sans vente) sera organisée à l’issue de la séance.

Séminaire du CRHIA #1 : “Les crises religieuses”
2022-10-20 10:00
Le 20 octobre 2022 de 10:00 à 16:45

Campus Tertre
Amphi 4 Bâtiment Censive Nantes Université
Matthieu BREJON DE LAVERGNEE, professeur en histoire contemporaine, et Annick PETERS-CUSTOT, professeure en histoire médiévale, à Nantes Université – CRHIA, vous invitent à la première séance du séminaire du CRHIA consacré à la notion de crise et qui portera sur « Les crises religieuses ».
Yasar Gün, doctorant au sein du programme ERC Synergy Grant “The European Qur’an” (EuQu – Nantes Université) participera au colloque, le titre de sa communication sera : « L’Islam comme remède à la ‘crise de la conscience européenne’? Débats sur l’Islam au siècle des Lumières. »
Lire le programme complet :
https://www.crhia.fr/fr/agenda/seminaire-du-crhia-1-les-crises-religieuses?fbclid=IwAR19EwkW9086Rw1EPoBrhFGQ4n_8wVRh8_CDk1Li8hYmlWXj4b9IiWDFDsA

Colloque « Usages du passé et imaginaire politique dans la littérature bourguignonne »
2022-10-19 - 2022-10-21
Du 19 au 21 octobre 2022
Centre Universitaire du musé Boulogne-sur-mer
Organisé par l’Université littorale Côte d’Opale
Florence Ninitte, post doc Nantes Université au sein du projet ERC EuQu « The European Qur’an » participera au colloque, le titre de son intervention est : « L’histoire au service de la réfutation de l’islam. Définir le rôle de législateur dans le Trésor des Simples de Jean Germain »
Vendredi 21 octobre 2022
14h30-16h15 – Session 9
Lire le programme

Lecture by Roberto Tottoli at the IAS Asia
2022-10-04 15:30 - 17:00
Tobunken Seminar
The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019–25)
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Tobunken) will host a lecture by Professor Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples “L’Orientale”) on “The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019–25).” Those who are interested in participating in the event are cordially invited to register in advance by September 27 (details below).
Lecture Title:
The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019–25)
Speaker:
Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Date and Time:
October 4 (Tue), 2022, at 15:30–17:00
Venue:
Hybrid, combining in-person participation at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/access/index.html) and online participation via Zoom.
Lecture Abstract:
The EuQu project is an ERC-Synergy project financed by the European Commission 10 mil. Euro and based in Madrid, Nantes, Copenhagen and Naples. It includes four principal investigators and more than 30 PhD students and post-doc researchers carrying out research on the circulation, use and functions of the Qur’an and its significance in medieval and modern-age European history from 1150 ca to 1850 ca. The lecture will describe the approach and results of the project in the middle of it and will focus on a specific case-study, that is the history of the printing of the Qur’an in Europe and its relevance in relation to the history of printing in Muslim countries and to the printing of the other religious holy texts.
How to Participate:
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/HP5khPfXp4uYuVzh7 by September 27, at 17:00 JST. A detailed explanation about how the seminar will be held is given in the form.
Contact Person: Kazuo Morimoto (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/index.html

Un livre – Un débat avec John Tolan, auteur de “Nouvelle histoire de l’islam”
2022-09-29 18:30 - 20:00
Passage Sainte-Croix

9, rue de la Bâclerie
44000 Nantes
https://www.passagesaintecroix.fr/

RENCONTRE / DÉBAT

John Tolan sera en conversation avec Jean-Michel Vienne (philosophe et catholique), et Noureddine Cherkaoui (professeur et musulman) Nouvelle histoire de l’islam de John Tolan (Tallandier, 2022)

Qu’est-ce qu’être musulman au 21ᵉ siècle ? Pour certains, l’essence de l’islam serait la charia, loi qui dicte le comportement rituel et social, révélée par Dieu au Prophète et à la première communauté de fidèles. Pour d’autres, l’islam serait une spiritualité ouverte sur le monde, célébrant la diversité de l’humanité et la paix. De telles divergences ne sont pas nouvelles.
Avec cet ouvrage, John Tolan raconte comment ce dernier-né des trois grands monothéismes s’est développé, non pas en autarcie mais en contact avec les traditions religieuses juives et chrétiennes, dans un mélange de cultures arabe, grecque, perse… Il analyse les fondements et les mutations de l’islam. Cette histoire longue nous montre que les fractures au sein d’un monde musulman tantôt ouvert, tantôt rigoriste, sont autant de défis posés à la possibilité d’une entente entre Orient et Occident.
Un livre/un débat est un rendez-vous mensuel, en partenariat avec la librairie Siloë, qui permet de rencontrer et d’échanger avec l’auteur d’un livre récent dont le sujet est susceptible d’ouvrir la réflexion commune et le dialogue.
John Tolan est professeur d’Histoire médiévale à Nantes Université et l’un des Principal Investigator (PI) du projet européen ERC Synergy Grant “The European Qur’an (EuQu).
« Le Coran Européen : l’étude du Texte Sacré de l’Islam à travers la Culture et Religion Européenne » est un projet de recherche financé sur six ans par une bourse d’équipe, Synergy Grant, du Conseil européen de la recherche. Ses quatre principaux chercheurs (et leurs universités affiliées) sont Mercedes García-Arenal (Centre de Sciences Humaines et Sociales, CSIC, Madrid, Espagne), John Tolan (Nantes Université, France), Jan Loop (Université de Copenhague, Danemark) et Roberto Tottoli (Université de Naples – L’Orientale, Italie).

Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-15
12-15 September, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Keynotes: Vera Keller (University of Oregon) and Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Two of our PhD students working within our ERC Project EuQu are going to participate in the conference :

Loriana Salierno (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) : «The Qur ʾāninto Latin: the Translation of Ludovico Marracci »
Javier de Prado (Nantes Université) : «The Qur’an and the Propaganda Fide. Shared themes in the De procuranda salute omnium gentium (1613) and the Apologia pro christianareligione (1631) »

International Conference "Oriental Cultures and Scholarship in the Baltic Sea Area" in Greifswald
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-14
This workshop seeks to reconstruct the history and significance of ‘oriental’ studies in the Baltic Sea Area from the Middle Ages to c. 1800. The event will provide a platform for papers from different disciplinary backgrounds with a focus on the scholarly and cultural development in specific geographical regions and at selected institutions. Additionally, contributions will discuss the transfer and exchange of knowledge, scholarly practices, and material as well as textual sources through networks across different cultural spaces in this area.This workshop is organized by Cornelia Linde, Bernd Roling and Jan Loop, PI of the ERC Project, who will give the keynote on Monday 12th of September.
Read the program

XVII Jornadas internacionales de estudios medievales XXVII Curso de actualización en historia medieval
2022-09-05 - 2022-09-07
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, CONICET
Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales

Buenos Aires, 5, 6 y 7 de septiembre de 2022

John Tolan, participará en la conferencia plenaria en el marco de las XVII Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Medievales y XXVII Curso de Actualización en Historia Medieval, organizados por el Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (IMHICIHU) del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales (SAEMED), que se llevarán a cabo los días 5, 6 y 7 de septiembre del 2022.
John Tolan « Leer el Corán en Europa cristiana en la edad media »
7 de septiembre de 2022
17h00 a 18h00
IMHICIHU – CONICET
Saavedra 15, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Read the program

https://medievalistas.es/xvii-jornadas-internacionales-de-estudios-medievales-xxvii-curso-de-actualizacion-en-historia-medieval-conicet-saemed-5-7-septiembre-2022-buenos-aires/

Invicta Juditha. Stories of Judith in Judaism, Christianity and Islam form Antiquity to Modern Times
2022-08-29 - 2022-09-02
International Summer School in interreligious studies
Centro di Studi Interreligiosi, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Pavia
Università degli Studi di Pavia
When : 29 August – 2 September 2022
Where : Pavia, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Italy

Protest and Proclamation: an Interreligious Perspective Towards the History of Prophetology
2022-07-25 - 2022-07-29
International Summer School in interreligious studies

The call for application to the International Summer School in Interreligious Studies 2022 is online. The topic will be: ‘Protest and Proclamation: an Interreligious Perspective Towards the History of Prophetology’ .
When: 25th – 29th July 2022
Where: Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Como (Italy)

Conference “The Propaganda Fide and Filippo Guadagnoli’s Arabic Refutations of the Quran, 1637 and 1649”
2022-06-14 18:00 - 20:00
By Nabil Matar, Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Tuesday 14th of June 2022
6pm-8pm
IEA de Nantes – MSH Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque
Amphitheatre Simone Weil

Summer School “The Qur’an in inter-Christian polemic” June 2022
2022-06-14 08:00 - 2022-06-18 17:00
14-17 June 2022
Nantes, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin
5 allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes Cedex 1
Simone Veil Amphitheatre
Organized by ERC project “The European Qur’an” (https://euqu.eu).
Theme:
How have Christian authors in Europe used and appropriated the Qur’an? We are interested in how the Qur’an was used as a historical and linguistic archive, as a mine of heretical ideas and as a tool used in confessional rivalries. Our focus will not be restricted to the main confessional camps, Roman Catholic and Protestant, but will also include the many ways in which groups of the so called radical Reformation (Socianians and other anti-Trinitarian movements), different groups inside the Roman Catholic world, as well as Deist, Muslim and Jewish authors in Europe, used the Qur’an in their polemical writings. We will also study how translations of the Qur’an were deployed as argumentative weapons for preaching the superiority of Christianity to Mudejars and Moriscos in Spain. Additionally, the question of nationalist motivations in the collecting and translating of the Qur’an will also be taken into consideration: beginning in the late 17th century, various European countries vied with one another to produce the best translation of the Qur’an made directly from the Arabic. We will further investigate if and how polemical and historical uses of the Qur’an changed in the late 17th and 18th century and early 19th century. The Qur’an continues to play an important role in polemical writings, in political as well as religious domains.
Format:
A series of roundtables with presentations of research by PhD students and postdocs. Each roundtable will be hosted by two colleagues.
Presentations may be made in English or in French.
Eligibility:
The summer school is open to doctoral students enrolled in any country, in any discipline, as long as their dissertation subject and the proposed talk are related to the theme of the summer school.
Costs:
The summer school will be financed by EuQu and the University of Nantes and will be free of cost to the students accepted. Participants will be lodged in student housing at no cost. Lunch will be provided free to participants. Travel to Nantes will not be paid by EuQu, and participants should seek funding from their home institutions.
Format:
The summer school will take place 13-17 June 2022. Doctoral students will each make a 20-minute presentation; faculty from EuQu and other partner institutions will chair the panels and give their reactions to student presentations. While it is preferable to attend the full summer school in Nantes, in some cases online presentations will be accepted.
Covid protocol during the event :
Due to sanitary protocols and restrictions, you may need to show a “green pass”: a proof of vaccination or negative PCR test before entering the premises.
Submission guidelines:
Proposals for a 20-minute paper may be submitted, by December 15, 2021, to euqu@univ-nantes.fr. Proposals may be in English or in French and should consist of a .doc file containing:

full name and affiliation of the doctoral student, along with the name(s) of their dissertation director(s)
title for the proposed communication
an abstract (200-500 words) of the communication
a list of 5-10 keywords
A CV

Approval and confirmation:
The program committee will confirm receipt of each proposition and will respond by 31 January 2022. A draft of the paper should be sent by 15 May 2022 to permit pre-circulation among the participants.
Program committee :

Maurizio Busca
Florence Ninitte
Irene Reginato
Emmanuelle Stefanidis
John Tolan

Read the Call (PDF)

'Master of the Oriental Tongues': A Syrian Christian in Eighteenth-Century Germany
2022-06-08 16:15 - 18:00
‘Master of the Oriental Tongues’: A Syrian Christian in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Public Lecture by Dr Simon Mills (Newcastle University)
8 June 2022, 16.15 CET
Room 6B-0-22 – University of Copenhagen
For online participation register here: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5AkdOqprzIoH9QbapLelqwvSez35WUXA1Dz
This lecture is dedicated to the life and legacy of Shukrallah al-Dadikhi (c.1694–1734), an Arabic-speaking Christian from Aleppo. In his early teens he left Syria to study in Paris with the Jesuits, then commenced a journey which would take him from Rome to Geneva, through Germany to Halle, and back across Europe to London, where he died without seeing again the land of his birth. Reconstructing his travels and career will illuminate the ‘Catholic and Protestant Orients’, two interconnected worlds of Jesuit schoolmasters, Syriac studies at the Vatican, German bibliophiles with a passion for the Qur’an, and the Reformed missionary societies of Pietist Prussia and Protestant England. Yet at the centre of the story is Dadikhi himself – a man whose secret eluded both his contemporaries, and a series of twentieth-century scholars.

Journée d'études : "Transmission des savoirs et des imaginaires entre le Nord de l’Afrique et l’Europe (XIXe-XXIe siècle)"
2022-06-03
Vendredi 3 juin 2022
Cité des Congrès de Nantes
Dans le cadre des Journées scientifiques 2022, organisées par Nantes Université, Alain MESSAOUDI, Maître de conférences HDR en histoire contemporaine au CRHIA, vous invite à la journée d’études sur le thème :
Transmission des savoirs et des imaginaires entre le Nord de l’Afrique et l’Europe
(XIXe-XXIe siècle)
Événement organisé sur inscription en présentiel.
Cette journée propose d’étudier les modalités de transmission des savoirs et des imaginaires entre le Nord de l’Afrique et l’Europe, à travers des cas plus précisément centrés sur les circulations entre l’Algérie et la Tunisie d’une part, la France d’autre part. En s’appuyant sur une mise en perspective historique des échanges depuis le XIXe siècle, cette journée doit contribuer à développer une réflexion sur leurs transformations et les conséquences du tournant des décolonisations.
Pour s’inscrire : https://inscription.univ-nantes.fr/events/JS-2022/w/1sYgTlTo69NeeDX9/3679/
Pour en savoir +
https://www.crhia.fr/fr/agenda/journee-detudes-transmission-des-savoirs-et-des-imaginaires-entre-le-nord-de-lafrique-et-leurope-xixe-xxie-siecle?RH=1566998915060&LANGUE=0
Source photo : Nadia Jelassi, Dromadaire ACAB, série FATCHATA, Photomontage avec reliefs, 2014.

Séminaire Prométhéd – Problèmes et méthodes de l’édition des textes médiévaux
2022-06-02
Mouhamad Khaly Wélé (Univ. Lyon 2) : Les défis de l’édition critique numérique : l’exemple du site Coran12-21
(Salle du Conseil ISP)
http://deji.cchs.csic.es/2022/04/07/programme-2021-2022-second-semestre-du-seminaire-promethed-problemes-et-methodes-de-ledition-des-textes-medievaux/

Seminario Doctoral La construcción retórica del "Antialcorán" de Lope de Obregón.
2022-05-26
Seminario Doctoral – Instituto Universitario de Historia Simancas- Universidad de Valladolid
https://historiasimancas.uva.es/
Título: La construcción retórica del “Antialcorán” de Lope de Obregón.
Ponente: Cándida Ferrero Hernández
Día: 26 de mayo de 2022
Hora: 12h-14h
Lugar: online en webex
Link:
https://universidaddevalladolid.webex.com/universidaddevalladolid/j.php?MTID=m741df28340a4505d29fcc8d00a3927d7

Strangers and Neighbors: Hostility and Hospitality in Late Medieval/Early Modern European Contexts
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-22
May 20-22, 2022 • London Global Gateway
Sunday 22 May 11 AM–12:30 PM, Closing Keynote
The King’s Usurers: Jews and the English Crown in the Thirteenth Century
John Tolan, Nantes Université
http://sites.nd.edu/strangers-and-neighbors-conference/

Séminaire Prométhéd – Problèmes et méthodes de l’édition des textes médiévaux
2022-05-19
Guillaume Delmeulle (UCLouvain – FNRS) : Édition critique du traité alchimique De perfecto magisterio
(Local c. 211)
http://deji.cchs.csic.es/2022/04/07/programme-2021-2022-second-semestre-du-seminaire-promethed-problemes-et-methodes-de-ledition-des-textes-medievaux/

International Workshop - The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity
2022-05-11 - 2022-05-12
The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites was the name commonly used by Eastern Christians of various traditions to refer to the Qur’an. Since the emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Eastern Christians speaking Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac came in contact with Islam and its Holy Scripture. From the Mediterranean lands to Russia via the Balkans, Anatolia and Caucasus, the experience of Eastern Christians with their Muslim neighbors and/or rulers was shaped by diverse multicultural and multiconfessional contexts in which their approach to the Qur’an played a significant role in defining religious identity and the dynamics of communal life.

This international workshop will explore how Eastern Christians engaged with the Qur’an and its Islamic interpretations from the medieval period until the end of the eighteenth century. Bringing together different religious traditions, one of the main scopes of the workshop is to build a platform of discussion between scholars working with source material from Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac contexts, with a focus on how these milieus shaped Eastern Christian responses to Islam and its Holy Scripture.

How did texts on Islam and Qur’an circulate within groups and networks? How did they cross confessional boundaries? Who were their authors and intended audiences? These and similar questions will guide the discussions, and will generate – we hope – new debates for the entangled history and cross-cultural history of the Eastern Christian communities from the medieval to the dawn of modernity.

http://deji.cchs.csic.es/2022/03/23/international-workshop-the-holy-book-of-the-ishmaelites-in-the-world-of-eastern-christianity/

Lectures by Pro. Roberto Tottoli at the Polin Seminar
2022-05-10
Professor Roberto Tottoli, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, will be giving 2 lectures at the Polin Seminar on May 10, 2022 in Finland

10am-12 = Prophets in Islam

15-17pm = Introduction of EuQu-project and discussion

Place: Auditorium Theologicum, Biskopsgatan 16
Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/63058569613, Meeting ID: 630 5856 9613

https://facebook.com/polininstitutet
