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Conference Programme

Thursday 12 November

Opening Address Professor MAS Abdel Haleem 9.45–10.00

Structure and Composition (chair: Mustansir Mir) 10.00–12.00

Michel Cuypers, ‘Semitic Rhetoric as a Key to the Question of Nazm of the Qur’anic Text’

Walid A. Saleh, ‘Sura 37 as a Bridge Sura in the Composition of the Qur’an’

Ayman El-Desouky, ‘Nazm, I‘jaz, Discontinuous Kerygma: Approaching Qur’anic Voice on the Other

Side of the Poetic’

Thomas Hoffmann, ‘From the Chaotic to the Charodic: Rethinking Chaos and Qur’an’

The Qur’an and Medieval Philosophy (chair: Ayman Shihadeh) 13.30–15.00

Peter Adamson, ‘Abu Bakr al-Razi on Prophetic Revelation’

Daniel De Smet & Meryem Sebti, ‘Avincena’s Philosophical Approach to the Qur’an in the Light of his

Tafsir Surat al-Ikhlas’

Heidrun Eichner, ‘The Hermeneutics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Qur’an Commentary: A Link between

Philosophy and Sufism’

Theological Approaches to the Qur’an (chair: Mustafa Shah) 15.30–17.30

Anthony H. Johns, ‘The Transfiguration of the Spoken Word: A Humanistic Approach to I‘jaz’

Abdessamad Belhaj, ‘Argumentation of the Qur’an through al-Muzaffar al-Razi’s Hujaj al-Qur’an and al-

Tufi’s ‘Alam al-Jadhal’

Ahmad Achtar, ‘Al-Zamakhshari’s Unique Hermeneutics of Anthropomorphic Verses in the Qur’an:

Majaz Based on Kinaya and Takhyil’

Christopher Melchert, ‘God Created Adam in His Image’

Friday 13 November

Tafsir (chair: Toby Mayer) 9.00–10.30

Robert Morrison, ‘Astrology and Tafsir’

Jamal J. Elias, ‘Sufi Tafsir Reconsidered: Exploring of the Development of a Genre’

Mustansir Mir, ‘Reading the Qur’an with the Bible in Mind’

Tafsir (chair: MAS Abdel Haleem) 11.00–12.30

Badri N. Zubir, ‘Al-Sharif al-Radi’s Contribution to Qur’anic Exegesis: An Analysis of Talkhis al-Bayan

fi Majaz al-Qur’an’

Husain Qutbuddin, ‘Fatimid Legal Hermeneutics: The Da‘a’im al-Islam of al-Qadi al-Nu‘man (d.

363/974)’

Tammam Hassan, ‘Al-dalala bayna al-ifrad al-mu‘jami wa’l-tanawwu‘ al-siyaqi’

Ethics in the Qur’an (chair: Anthony Johns) 14.00–15.30

Ahmad Z. Obeidat, ‘Defining Good in the Qur’an: A Semantic Inquiry in Qur’anic Ethics’

Patrick Franke, ‘Islamic Morality in the Making: The Sexual Ethics of the Qur’an and its Late Antique

Context’

Nora S. Eggen, ‘Conceptions of Trust in the Qur’an: The Case of Amana’

The Qur’an in the Contemporary World (chair: Sebastian Guenther) 16.00–17.30

A. David K. Owen, ‘Whither Averroism: Does Ibn Rushd’s Interpretation of the Qur’an Provide the Basis

for a Modernist Rereading of Islamic Law?’

Johanna Pink, ‘A Typology of Contemporary Sunni Tafsir: Sources, Methods and Aims of Qur’anic

Commentaries from the Arabic World, Indonesia and Turkey since 1967’

Hasan al-Shafei, ‘Harakat al-ta’wil al-niswi li’l-Qur’an wa’l-din’

Saturday 14 November

Early Manuscripts (chair: Hugh Kennedy) 9.30–11.00

Alain George, ‘On Chronology and Provenance in Early Qur’ans’

Anne Regourd, ‘One More ‘Abbasid Qur’an: IFAO, Edfou 73’

Shannon Wearing, ‘Precious Blood, Sacred Text: The Legacy of the ‘Uthmanic Qur’an’

Early Qur’anic Text (chair: Elsaid Badawi) 11.30–13.00

Asma Helali, ‘The Sanaa Palimpsest: Introductory Remarks to Philological and Literary Aspects’

Michael Marx, ‘The Qur’an According to Agfa: The Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Photoarchive of Qur’anic

Manuscripts and the Question of Material Evidence for the Study of the Textual History of the

Qur’an’

Amr Osman, ‘A Neglected Aspect of the History of the Qur’an: The Waqf Rules and the Redaction of the

Qur’anic Text’

Cultural Expressions (chair: Sebastian Guenther) 14.00–15.30

Natalia Viola, ‘West African Qur’ans: Codicological Features of the Sudani Style’

Elsaid Badawi, ‘Qur’anic Recitation and Audience Rhythm: The Case of the Egyptian Reciter, Mustafa

Isma‘il (1905–78)’

Jeffrey Einboden, ‘The Early American Qur’an: Islamic Scripture and U.S. Canon’

Literary Perspectives (chair: Stefan Sperl) 16.00–17.30

Todd Lawson, ‘The Qur’an as Epic: A Consideration of Formal and Thematic Elements’

Shawkat Toorawa, ‘(Absent) Fathers in the Qur’an’

Hanadi M. Behairi, ‘The Fantastic in the Qur’an: A Structural Approach to Study the Story of Moses and

al-Khidr (18:60–82)’

Please check the conference website at www.soas.ac.uk/cisconference for updates

convenors: Professor MAS Abdel Haleem

& Dr Ayman Shihadeh

venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS,

University of London,

Russell Square

contact: Centre of Islamic Studies

SOAS, University of London

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square

LONDON, WC1H 0XG

fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4379

email: cis@soas.ac.uk

No registration is required, and all

are welcome to attend.

More information on

the conference and the location is

available on the conference website,

at www.soas.ac.uk/cisconference

CENTRE OF ISLAMIC STUDIES

Sixth Biennial Conference on the Qur’an

12–14 November 2009

SOAS, University of London

The Qur’an

Text, History

& Culture