Cambridge Qur’an Seminar
6 March 2014
The inaugural meeting of the Cambridge Qur’an Seminar (CQS) will be held on the 16 May 2014 at Clare College, Cambridge, and includes a visit to the University Library to see the University of Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Collection.
The CQS will present the University of Cambridge Islamic Manuscripts Collection in its wider codicological and historical context, while showcasing the distinctive features of particular manuscripts. The Seminar is designed to highlight the wider relevance of the Cambridge Qur’an Collection for philologists, art historians and historians of Middle Eastern culture.
The Seminar is being convened by James Montgomery (FAMES), Shady Nasser (FAMES), Yasmin Faghihi (FAMES/UL) and Elizabeth Key Fowden (FAMES), in association with the Centre of Islamic Studies and other partners.
The event is free and open to all but priority will be given to academics and students in related fields because of limited space. Anyone interested should contact CQS@ames.cam.ac.uk for more information and to register.
For more information please click on the poster below:
Please see below a series of interviews with the four speakers at the Cambridge Qur’an Seminar held on 16 May 2014. The Seminar was convened by James Montgomery (FAMES), Shady Nasser (FAMES), Yasmin Faghihi (FAMES/UL) and Elizabeth Key Fowden (FAMES), in association with the Centre of Islamic Studies and other partners.
To watch the interviews with the four speakers at the Cambridge Qur’an Seminar, please click here.
Speakers
Alba Fedeli (ITSEE, University of Birmingham)
The Mingana-Lewis Qur’ānic palimpsest: a manuscript, an edition and their reception (1914-2014)
Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Scripture, poetry, and the making of a community: A Berlin Academy project’
François Déroche (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
‘From Damascus to Cambridge’
Shady Hekmat Nasser (University of Cambridge)
‘Variants and experimentation in al-fātiḥa’