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Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an?
La Syrie omeyyade, un contexte pour le Coran ?
Published on Thursday, May 20, 2021
Abstract
At the crossroads of Qur'anic studies and History, this conference intends to investigate the evolution and place of the Qur'anic text in early Islam within a specific spatial and temporal context: the central region of Syria and Palestine (Bilād al-Shām) under the Umayyad caliphate dynasty (661-750). The aim is to foster exchanges between specialists of the Syrian area in the Umayyad period (historians, papyrologists, specialists of literature, archaeologists) and specialists of the Qur'anic text (among which specialists of Islam as a religion (“islamologues”), philologists, codicologists) in order to gather the latest academic studies on the Qur'an in Umayyad Syria and propose new directions of research.
Announcement
Event format
Due to the sanitary conditions, the colloquium will be hybrid: only speakers who can travel will be attending in Strasbourg. To attend the colloquium online, please join the MISHA YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/MISHAlsace/
Organisation
- Anne-Sylvie BOISLIVEAU (Université de Strasbourg)
- Mathilde BOUDIER (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Participants
- Sean W. ANTHONY (The Ohio State University)
- Mohamed BAKHOUCH (Aix-Marseille Université/IREMAM)
- Nicolet BOEKHOFF-VAN DER VOORT (Radboud University)
- Antoine BORRUT (University of Maryland)
- Hassan BOUALI (Université Paris Nanterre)
- Hassan CHAHDI (Collège de France) (t.b.c.)
- Arianna D'OTTONE RAMBACH (Sapienza - Università di Roma)
- Bastien DUMONT (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Guillaume DYE (Université libre de Bruxelles)
- Mattia GUIDETTI (University of Bologna)
- Steven C. JUDD (Southern Connecticut State University)
- Thierry LEGRAND (Université de Strasbourg)
- Paul NEUENKIRCHEN (GIS MOMM)
- Mehdy SHADDEL (University of Leiden)
- Éric VALLET (Université de Strasbourg)
- Holger ZELLENTIN (Universität Tübingen) (t.b.c.)
Provisional Program
Horaire local / Time is in Paris Time (UTC +2) = CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Mercredi 2 juin
13.30-14.00 Accueil général et introduction / Official welcome and introduction
14.00-15.20 Histoire et Études Coraniques : Communication inaugurale à 2 voix / History and Qur’anic Studies: 2-voices Introduction par G. Dye et A. Borrut
15.30-19.00 Session 1 : Le Coran et les ambitions impériales omeyyades / The Qur’an and Umayyad Struggle for Imperial Power
- M. Shaddel, “The Birth of Islam in Umayyad Syria: From Ethno-Religious Movement to Imperial Religion”
- H. Bouali, “Le Coran, un enjeu politique avant la « révolution marwānide » ?”
- S. Judd, “Al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf in Syrian historiography: the tyrant and the Umayyad Qurʾān”
Jeudi 3 juin
10.00-12.00 Session 2 : La Syrie comme contexte de composition et de canonisation du Coran / Syria as a Context for Qur’anic Composition & Canonization
- P. Neuenkirchen, “Late Antique Magical Objects and the Shaping of the Qurʾān”
- H. Chahdi (to be confirmed)
14.00-17.30 Session 3 : Usages sociaux du Coran : lire le Coran dans la Syrie omeyyade / Reading the Qur’an in Umayyad Syria : Social Meanings
- N. Boekhoff-van der Voort, “Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī and the revelations of the Qurʾān”
- M. Bakhouch, “Quelques considérations sur la présence et les représentations de l’islam dans la poésie umayyade”
- S. Anthony, “The Eschatological Muḥammad: Post-Qurʾanic Prophetology in Arabic Inscriptions in Syria and the Ḥijāz from the Umayyad Period”
Vendredi 4 juin
13.00-16.30 Session 4 : Le Coran dans les rapports entre musulmans et chrétiens en Syrie omeyyade / Qur’an in Muslim-Christian Relations in Umayyad Syria
- M. Guidetti, “Assertions of Identity in Early Medieval Bilad al-Sham”
- B. Dumont, “Affirmation d'une identité musulmane et débat inter-confessionnel en Syrie et en Palestine au début de l'époque marwānide”
- A. D’Ottone Rambach, “Early Qur'an codices and rolls and their links with the Christian manuscript tradition”
16.30-17.30 Conclusion et discussion générale / Conclusion and General Discussion (E. Vallet & participants)
The program will be updated at: http://archimede.unistra.fr/activites-de-recherche/programmes-de-recherche/equipes/equipe-i-territoires-et-empires-dorient-teo/la-syrie-omeyyade-un-contexte-pour-le-coran/
Subjects
- Religion (Main category)
Places
- Salle de conférences, Maison Interuniversitaire de Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace (MISHA), - Campus Esplanade, Allée du Général Rouvillois
Strasbourg, France (67083)
Date(s)
- Wednesday, June 02, 2021
- Thursday, June 03, 2021
- Friday, June 04, 2021
Keywords
- coran, islam, Syrie, Palestine, médiéval
Contact(s)
- Mathilde Boudier
courriel : mathilde [dot] boudier [at] univ-paris1 [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Mathilde Boudier
courriel : mathilde [dot] boudier [at] univ-paris1 [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Umayyad Syria: A Context for the Qur’an? », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Thursday, May 20, 2021, https://calenda.org/878068
