Freiburg conversations on tafsir and transregional Islamic networks II, spring 2021
Hosted by Majid Daneshgar and Johanna Pink
All sessions have a duration of 75 minutes including a Q&A period.
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All talks will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Click here to download the programme (PDF)February 24, 4pm CET
Brett Wilson, Central European University: “The Optional Ramadan Fast: From Early Commentaries to Modern Translations”
Host: Aylin de Tapia, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
March 3, 4pm CET
David R. Vishanoff, University of Oklahoma: “Five Facets of the Anthropological Turn in Qur’anic Hermeneutics: History, Linguistics, Ideology, Phenomenology, and Postmodernism”
Host: Nadja Germann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
March 10, 4pm CET
Margherita Picchi, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, Palermo: “A South African tafsīr of praxis: the Claremont Main Road Mosque's gender jihad (1994-2020)”
Host: Karen Bauer, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
March 17, 4pm CET
Hadia Mubarak, Queens University of Charlotte: “Language and Rationality in al-Taḥrīr wa’l-Tanwīr: An Analysis of Ibn ʿĀshur’s Discourse on Women & Gender”
Host: Nadeen Alsulaimi, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah
March 24, 4pm CET
Islam Dayeh, Freie Universität Berlin: “The Exegetical Works and Theories of Abū al-Ḥasan al- Ḥarāllī (d. 638/1240)”
Host: Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
March 31, 4pm CEST (note the switch to daylight saving!)
Host: Mykhaylo Yakubovych, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
April 7, 4pm CEST
Younus Mirza, Shenandoah University/ Georgetown University: “How Modern Arab Editors Created Ibn Taymiyya’s Muqaddima fi uṣūl al-tafsīr (Introduction to the Principles of tafsīr)”
Host: Johanna Pink, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
April 14, 4pm CEST
Sarah Qidwai, University of Toronto: “Science and Biblical Commentaries: Astronomy, Geology, and Human Origins in Sayyid Ahmad's Tabyin-ul-Kalam”
Host: Martin Riexinger, Aarhus Universitet
April 21, 4pm CEST
Mykhaylo Yakubovych, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg: “State-supported tafsīr and its Impact on Qur'an Translation: The Case of the Saudi al-Muyassar”
Host: Sohaib Saeed, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
April 28, 4 pm CEST
Ervan Nurtawab, IAIN Metro, Lampung: “Role Contestation in Southeast Asian tafsīr Discourse: Tafsīr al-Jalālayn between Traditional and Modern Networks”
Host: Majid Daneshgar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
May 5, 4pm CEST
Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Universiteit van Amsterdam: “Translation, Exegesis and Cultural Transfer: On the languages of Islam in post-Soviet Russia”
Host: Naira Sahakyan, Yerevan State University/ Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Eid al-Fitr break
May 19, 4pm CEST
Karen Bauer, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London: "Between ethics and the letter of the law: medieval exegetes' treatment of 'violence' in Q. 4:34"
Host: Ash Geissinger, Carleton University, Ottawa