November 2023
The Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili Edited by Qaisra M. Khan and Nahla Nassar With Contributions by Alastair Hamilton, Aram Vardanyan, Arnoud Vrolijk, Bilal Badat, Sami De Giosa, Edmund Hayes, Harry Munt, James Nicholson, Jan Loop, Janie Lightfoot, John Slight, Luitgard Mols, [...]
John Tolan, invited by the Isfahan University in Iran, will be giving an online webinar on the "European Qur'an Project" on November 22, 2023, at 15h30 (Paris Time).
Interreligious Connectivity - Digitally Explored Location and date: University of Copenhagen, 17–19. April 2024 Organizers: Jacob Langeloh and Jan Loop Digital technologies are revolutionizing how we store, access, and exchange knowledge. In this workshop, we explore how these technologies can be used to improve our understanding of historical interreligious encounters. The goals are 1) to [...]
Roberto Tottoli, “Le molteplici forme di un testo: Ludovico Marracci e la trasmissione del Kitāb al-anwār di Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī”, in S. Bertonati, M. Cassarino e R. Tottoli (eds.), Studi arabistici in memoria di Anna Pagnini, Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2023, 443-470. Download the article
This text is a review of the book written by Cándida Ferrero Hernández and John Tolan, The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500: Translation, Transmission, Interpretation and published by De Gruyter in 2021 Mediaevistik, Volume 35, Number 1 Cándida Ferrero Hernández and John Tolan, The Latin Qur’an, 1143–1500: Translation, Transmission, Interpretation. Berlin and Boston: [...]
October 2023
On October 16, 2023, the first session of the Reading Group on Orality and Written Textuality will take place at the University of Toronto and it will be open to graduate-students, PhD, and Post-Doc researchers from all universities (in hybrid mode). The Practices of Commentary reading group brings humanities researchers [...]