Towards a New Reading of the Qur'ān?

 

An International Conference at the University of Notre Dame

 

 

Schedule of lectures and panels below.

 

 

General Information

All events will take place at McKenna Hall, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA, between Saturday, April 2 and Monday, April 4, 2005.  All events are open to the general public.

 

 

Kindly direct all inquiries to:

 

Prof. Gabriel Said Reynolds

Theology Department

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

 

e-mail. Reynolds.53@nd.edu

tel. 1.574.631.5138

fax. 1.574.631.4291

 

 

Leaf of the famous Qur'ān manuscript of Samarqand.  According to

tradition,  the third caliph, ‘Uthmān, was murdered while reading

this very text and his blood is still visible thereupon.

 

 

Text Box: Panels Qur'ānic Narratives and the Sectarian Milieu, Sun. 11:15-1:15: Suleiman Mourad, Middlebury College “The Presentation of Mary in the Qur’ān” Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America “Christian Lore and the Arabic Qur’ān” Kevin van Bladel, University of Southern California “The Apocalypse of Alexander the Great in the Qur’ān” The Qur’ān in Its Environment, Sun. 2:40-5:40 Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame “The Fall of Satan in Early Christian Exegesis and the Qur'ān” Michael Marx, Freie Universität Berlin “Judaeo-Christian Beliefs and the Qur’ān” Abdul Massih Saadi, University of Notre Dame “Nascent Islam in the 7th century Syriac Sources” Joseph Amar, University of Notre Dame “Dionysius bar Salibi’s Apologetic Treatise, A Response to the Arabs” Regarding the New Readings of the Qur’ān, Mon. 9:00-1:00 Gerhard Bowering, Yale University “Implications of Recent Research on Reconstructing the Qur’ān” Robert Hoyland, University of St. Andrews, Scotland “Christian Contribution and Response to the Qur’ān” Claude Gilliot, Université Aix-en-Provence “Is the Qur’ān Partly the Fruit of a Collective Work?” Manfred Kropp, Orient-Institut Beirut “Ethiopic Influence on the Qur’ān and Early Islam - Reconsiderations a Hundred Years after Nöldeke's Studies” Devin Stewart, Emory University “Emending the Text of the Qur’ān: An Evaluation of Qur’ānic Emendations Proposed in Medieval and Modern Scholarship” The Qur’ān as Scripture, Mon. 2:40-4:00 Paul Heck, Georgetown University “The Qur'ān and Concepts of Civlization” Daniel Madigan, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome “Is What the Text Once Said What It Actually Means?” Lectures

 

Saturday (April 2), 7:30 pm

Samir Khalil Samir, Université St. Joseph, Beirut

            “A Reconsideration of the Qur'ān and Its Relationship to Christianity”

 

Sunday, 8:00 pm

Fred Donner, University of Chicago

            “A Review and Commentary of Some Recent Theories about the Qur'ān, with Particular Reference to the Work of C. Luxenberg”

 

Monday, 4:30 pm

Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria, Canada

            “Syriac in the Qur'ān: Muslim Theories”

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by: The Henkels Lecture Series of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at Notre Dame University, along with the following elements of Notre Dame University: The College of Arts and Letters, The Graduate School, The Medieval Institute and The Theology Department.