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New Frontiers in Islamic Studies, German-Israeli Summer School | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

New Frontiers in Islamic Studies, German-Israeli Summer School

Date: 
Sun, 08/09/2013 to Thu, 12/09/2013
conference

 

Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible

 

ORGANIZERS:

Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Sabine Schmidtke (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (The Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies) and Freie Universität Berlin (Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World) announce the third New Frontiers in Islamic Studies German-Israeli Summer School funded by the Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin, on the topic of "Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible".

The summer school will focus on the multiple uses of the Bible (i.e. the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament), as well as of Jewish and Christian lore, by Muslim authors in the medieval and pre-modern periods (up to the present).

The many aspects of Muslim perceptions and receptions of Biblical materials and motifs will be addressed, such as quotations from or paraphrases of the Bible in polemical or non-polemical contexts, Muslim commentaries on the Bible, biblical traditions integrated into Tafsir, relevant literary genres such as Qiṣas al-Anbiyā' and Isrāʾīliyyāt, representations of Biblical episodes in Islamic art, etc. The summer school will also deal with the translations of the Bible into Arabic, and their relevance for the Muslim attitude to and reception of the Bible. Some aspects of the vast literature in Arabic regarding the Bible among the Jews and Christians will also be discussed.

The summer school will convene some of the leading scholars in the fields of biblical studies, Qurʾānic and Islamic studies, Judaeo-Arabic and Christian-Arabic, and Islamic art. The summer school is intended for advanced students of Islamic, Jewish and Christian oriental studies, who wish to enrich their knowledge of the interaction of Muslim, Jewish and Christian cultures over the centuries. Knowledge of Arabic is a prerequisite.