SOAS, April 10th 2015, room 116

Programme

• 9:30 am Welcome: Andrew Rippin/Teresa Bernheimer

9:35 am SESSION I — The Qur’an and Sira (chair: Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria)

• Karen Bauer (Institute of Ismaili Studies), The revisionists’ effect on the field of Qur’anic studies today
• Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (Aberdeen), "My God? Your Lord!": A Qur’anic response to a biblical question
• Holger Zellentin (Nottingham), Angels or men? The messengers to Lot in the Qur’an in their Jewish and Christian context

11 am COFFEE

• Michael Lecker (Jerusalem), When did Ibn Ishaq compile the biography of the Prophet Muhammad?
• Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (Institute of Ismaili Studies), title tbc

1 pm LUNCH

2 pm SESSION II — History and Historiography (chair: Sarah Savant, Aga Khan University)

• Amikam Elad (Jerusalem), The markets of Jerusalem after the Arab conquest in light of an early Muslim tradition
• Andrew Marsham (Edinburgh), The Umayyads and their Empire
• Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS), A contextualised reading of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s debates in Transoxania

4 pm COFFEE

• Robert Gleave (Exeter), Blood and Sludge: Shiʿi hadith and ritual performance
• Harry Munt (York), The hajj after the Second Civil War

5:30pm Conclusion: Teresa Bernheimer (SOAS), Teaching the Origins and Early Development of Islam

Reception ca. 6 pm, SOAS (room tbc)

(Source: Andrew Rippin, Professor Emeritus of Islamic History, University of Victoria, http://web.uvic.ca/~arippin)