The European Qur’an.

Première séance du Séminaire « Doctrines, Migrations et Territoires : L'espace euro-méditerrannéen »
2022-10-20 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
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

Recognizing Sacred Scriptures – the Qur’an and the Bible
2022-05-05 - 2022-05-06
May 5-6, 2022 – NYUAD Campus – Abu Dhabi

The keynote, “The Iberian Qur’an” with Mercedes García-Arenal Rodríguez (CSIC, Madrid) on May 5 at 4 pm is open to the public.
The event is online. If you wish to register, please write to nyuad.programs@nyu.edu.
Read more:

https://www.hrf-arabworld.org/events/2022/recognizing-sacred-scriptures-the-quran-and-the-bible

Séminaire Prométhéd – Problèmes et méthodes de l’édition des textes médiévaux
2022-04-28
Irene Reginato (UNantes / ERC EuQu) : Un débat inter-religieux pour la cour de Bourgogne. L’édition du Trésor des simples de Jean Germain (livres I-II)
(Local Socr 43)

Seminar “The Qur’an among Mudéjares and Moriscos”
2022-04-22
On the 22nd April 2022 Adrián Rodríguez Iglesias, PhD in the ERC EuQu project, lectured a seminar at the UVA: “The Qur’an among Mudéjares and Moriscos” 22 April at “Kazan, Cairo, Córdoba: Muslim Cultures and Societies” research group seminar in ASH – ARTES (UvA).

The University of Amsterdam is a partner of the ERC European project EuQu.

Conference "Il Corano a Roma. Cattolicesimo e studio dell'Islam in epoca moderna"
2022-03-01 - 2022-03-02
The ERC Project “The European Qur’an” EuQu is pleased to announce the conference “Il Corano a Roma. Cattolicesimo e studio dell’Islam in epoca moderna”
organized by the Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies and the Università di Napoli L’Orientale :

Il Corano a Roma. Cattolicesimo e studio dell’Islam in epoca moderna

This event is the result of a collaborative idea between the Centre for Interreligious Studies of the Gregorian, the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Pisai) and the section of the University of Naples L’Orientale of the European project The European Qur’an (EuQu).
The aim will be to investigate how Catholicism has interpreted and studied the Qur’an and Islamic doctrines in modern times, particularly in the 17th century. At the centre of the debate will be the fundamental work of Ludovico Marracci, the writings of the Jesuits and other religious orders, as well as those documents that formed the basis of Catholic Orientalism which had the city of Rome as its centre.

1-2 March, 2022
From 09:30 To 18:00

Venue:
Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Piazza della Pilotta, 4
I-00187 Roma

Read more: https://www.unigre.it/en/events-and-communication/events/events-calendar/il-corano-a-roma-cattolicesimo-e-studio-dellislam-in-epoca-moderna/?fbclid=IwAR1XRtbKTCai-FVrJX0fx7hzPZLyCituSEknTDXrTvJ46q_CrhEaKrHsZLw

Register to the event: https://www.unigre.it/en/events-and-communication/events/registration/

The Qur’an in Rome. Catholicism and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Era
2022-03-01 - 2022-03-02
1-2 March 2022
The objective of this conference will be to give an overview of the perspectives through which the Catholic world studied the Qur’an and Islam at the beginning of the modern era (16th-17th centuries). We will try to show how although Catholic authors inherited a series of well-established polemical tools (Collectio Toletana, Riccoldo da Montecroce, etc.) from the Middle Ages they were nonetheless able to renew their approach to the study of Islam, adapting it to the new historical context and inaugurating a scientific and philological study of texts.

Near Eastern Studies Lecture by Paul Babinski
2022-02-16 12:00 - 14:00
“From Compilation to Indexing: Tracing the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship”
February 16,12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Paul Babinski (University of Copenhagen) : Post-Doc member of the ‘European Qur’an’ (EuQu) ERC Synergy Grant Project
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).

How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing the sources they used, their methods of deciphering texts and comparing manuscripts, and their collaboration with amanuenses. Annotations also afford us a view of development over time, charting practices of early modern orientalist scholarship through shifting patterns of note-taking. This talk will trace that history in the early modern period, giving an overview of the conventions of orientalist annotation and focusing on a comparison between manuscripts from the two premier Western European Arabists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively: Jacob Golius and Johann Jacob Reiske. Both scholars’ libraries remain largely intact, and, viewed broadly, offer a perspective onto questions of scholarly specialization, the character of philological progress, and the changing social contexts of orientalist learning.
Register in advance here: https://theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucuutqD8sH9Ej6uFuNoOS2u08trqw-8iO
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Journée d'études n°3 ReLRace : "Effacer la macule ? Conflits d’appartenance et communautés de foi (XIIIe-XIXe s.)"
2022-01-27 - 2022-01-28
27 et 28 janvier 2022 – Nantes Université
MSH Ange-Guépin Amphithéâtre Simone WEIL 5 allée Jacques Berque Nantes
Antonio DE ALMEIDA MENDES, Maître de conférences en histoire moderne à Nantes Université – CRHIA, Baptiste BONNEFOY, Maître de conférences en histoire moderne à l’Université de Nanterre – ENSA / Mondes Américains, et Vincent VILMAIN, Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à Le Mans Université – Temos, vous invitent à la 3ème journée d’études du programme ReLRace qui porte sur :
Effacer la macule ? Conflits d’appartenance et communautés de foi (XIIIe-XIXe s.)

Colloque protestantisme et Islam, regards croisés (XVIe-XXIe siècles)
2022-01-19 - 2022-01-21
u 19 au 21 janvier 2022
À L’institut Protestant deThéologie-Faculté de Paris
83 boulevard Arago 75014 Paris
Comité organisateur :
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi(EPHE) ;
Corinne Lanoir (IPT) ;
Pierre-Olivier Léchot (IPT) ;
Anna Van den Kerchove (IPT)
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The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe
2021-12-06 14:00 - 16:00
A Series of Panel Discussions
Organized by Paul Babinski, Asaph Ben-Tov, and Jan Loop
Mondays from 15 November to 6 December; 14.00-16.00 CET
Sign up: https://teol.ku.dk/afd/the-european-quran/conference-2021/
This series of panel discussions examines the nexus between wars with the Ottoman Empire and the study of Islam and the Qur’an in early modern Europe. It sketches a broad historical trajectory from the fall of Constantinople into the eighteenth century, tracing how conflict informed popular views of Islam and impacted the material conditions and practices of orientalist scholarship, through looted orientalia (manuscripts, coins, textiles, metalwork) and prisoners who assisted orientalists as scribes and amanuenses. Each panel focuses on a particular stage of conflict, with papers exploring the interrelations between knowledge production and armed conflict from a variety of perspectives. Following these moments over time, we will consider how intensifying coordination between the agents of orientalist scholarship—those who procured, copied, collected, and interpreted the objects of orientalist interest – contributed to shifting views of Islam across Europe.
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