The Future of Scholarship on the Quran
Publish Date: 4/6/2016 Code: 50142

The Future of Scholarship on the Quran

This two-day conference will explore the relationship of traditional Islamic scholarship to Western academic study, considering matters such as who should interpret the Quran, what standards for scholarship should be set, and how scholarship can inform public conversation on the Quran.

 

What does it mean to study the Quran? This two-day conference will explore the relationship of traditional Islamic scholarship to Western academic study, considering matters such as who should interpret the Quran, what standards for scholarship should be set, and how scholarship can inform public conversation on the Quran.

All sessions are free and open to the public. The workshop is organized by Caner Dagli, associate professor of religious studies, and sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.

Schedule

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016

10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:30 a.m.: Keynote Address: Don't Frown and Turn Away: Muslim Scholars and the Study of the Qur'an

Ingrid Mattson Ingrid Mattson

London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies

Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario

Noon: Break for Lunch & Prayer

2:00 p.m.: Session 1

Towards a Transnational Quranic Studies: Bridging the Divide

Joseph Lumbard

Assistant Professor in the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

American University of Sharjah

Qur’anic Jihad and the Western Academy: Two Primary Misconceptions

Asma Afsaruddin

Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Indiana University

3:30 p.m.:    Coffee/Tea Break

4:00 p.m.:    Session 2

Taʾwīl in the Quran and the Islamic Exegetical Tradition

Maria Massi Dakake

Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies

George Mason University

And Among His Signs is the Variation of Your Tongues: Multiple Modes of iʿjāz al-Qurʾān (the Inimitability of the Quran)

Mahan Mirza

Dean of Faculty

Zaytuna College

5:30 p.m.:    End of first day

SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2016

9:30 a.m.: Session 3

Hermeneutics of Justice: Tracing Gender in Contemporary Qur’an and Tafsir Scholarship

Juliane Hammer

Associate Professor and Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Modern Scripturalism and the Theological Imperative

Martin Nguyen

Associate Professor of Islamic Religious Traditions and Faculty Chair for Diversity

Fairfield University

Is the Quran a Good Book? The American Social Life of the Quran

Zareena Grewal

Associate Professor American Studies, Religious Studies, Middle East Studies, and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration

Yale University

11:30 a.m.: Coffee/Tea Break

11:45 a.m.: Session 4

Sūārat al-Zukhruf: A New Reading

Walid Saleh

Associate Professor in the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

University of Toronto

Confirming the Quran as a Form of Exegesis: Said Nursi’s Hermeneutics as a Challenge to the Insider & Outsider Binary

Isra Yazicioglu

Associate Professor, Islamic Studies

Saint Joseph’s University

1:15 p.m.: Closing Remarks

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