June 2024
We are very happy to announce that on 30 May 2024, Kentaro Inagaki successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Copenhagen. Title: “Levinus Warner and Islamic Literature” External Examiners: Prof. Hülya Çelik (Bochum) Dr Simon Mills (Newcastle). Chair: Prof. Lars Cyril Nørgaard (Copenhagen). We congratulate Kentaro and his [...]
May 2024
Abstract This article examines the place of Islam in the intellectual history of the European Enlightenment. In 1649, the English civil war resulted in the establishment of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I; in the same year, the first English translation of the Quran was [...]
Framework: The ERC synergy project the European Qur’an (EuQu) Venue and time: University of Amsterdam, 6-7 March 2025. Organiser: Gerard Wiegers, University of Amsterdam The study of the Qurʾān in Europe took place in an interreligious and interethnic context. Sometimes the Quran was studied within particular religious communities: Jews, Christians, [...]
The Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1 and the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen extend a cordial invitation to attend the Distinguished Lecture in the scope of the Göttingen Orient Symposium: “The Qur’an in Europe, a European Qur’an: A History of Reading, Translation, Polemical Confrontation [...]
The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts 1 Alya KARAME, Umberto BONGIANINO 24 June 2024 Part 1 at 9am Part 2 at 11am Both the Qur’an and Islamic devotional manuscripts have traditionally been studied as texts and artistic achievements, but rarely as material objects. Concerns about how [...]
The Encylopaedia of Qur'an on line has just published the 2024 supplement in which several articles from the EuQu team appear (Yasar Gün, Maxime Sellin and Roberto Tottoli). https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/db/eqo The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is a reference work about Qurʾanic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis. [...]
