Jointly organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Roma Tre University
Rome, September 20-21, 2013
Friday 20 September
Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, via Principe Amedeo 182b (former "Caserma Sani"), room 7
15.00-16.45 Discussion of Tommaso Tesei’s PhD thesis, Deux légendes d’Alexandre le Grand dans le Coran : Une étude sur les origines du texte sacré arabe et sur ses liens avec les littératures chrétiennes et juives de l’Antiquité Tardive
Angelo Arioli, Sapienza University of Rome Elisabetta Benigni, University of Turin Aboubakr Chraïbi, Inalco Guillaume Dye, Université Libre de Bruxelles Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University Roberto Tottoli, "L’Orientale" University of Naples
16.45-17.00 Break
17.00-19.00 Presentation of PhD projects by students in the Islamic Civilization curriculum of the PhD program Culture and Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome. Ilaria Cicola, A Computational Approach to the Analysis of the Jābirian Corpus Layla Mustapha, Women in the Qur’ān: Sayyid Qutb’s exegesis "Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān" Leila Benassi, Some Historical and Linguistic Remarks in Late Middle Arabic Documents Marta Campanelli, Complexity and Abstractiveness of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition: the Theory of Grammatical Government and the Refutation of Ibn Maḍā al-Qurṭubī Simona Olivieri, Kitāb al-ʾInṣāf: analysis of a linguistic debate
20.00- Social dinner
Saturday 21 September
Department of Foreign Language, Literature and Civilizations, Roma Tre University, Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19, Room C, ground floor
09.00-09.15 Greetings
09.15-11.00 Session I - chair: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Sapienza University of Rome Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University, The Qurʾān and History: The Search for Muḥammad’s Christian Heretics Giuliano Lancioni, Roma Tre University, The Thesaurus Linguae Arabicae Project: Corpus Studies on Pre- and Proto-Islamic Texts
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-13.00 Session II - chair: Vanna Calasso, Sapienza University of Rome Pierre Lory, EPHE, Les animaux dans le Coran et le hadith : interprétations monothéistes de visions animistes Guillaume Dye, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Qurʾānic Studies in Light of Biblical and New Testament Studies: some reflections
13.00-14.15 Lunch
14.15-16.00 Session III - chair: Daniela Bredi, Sapienza University of Rome Emilio González Ferrín, University of Seville, From Medina to Baghdad? Retrospective Narrative Vs. Historical Causality in Early Islam Roberto Tottoli, "L’Orientale" University of Naples, The Last Ten Years of Studies on the Qurʾān and Muḥammad: Perspectives and Approaches
16.00-16.15 Break
16.15-18.30 Session IV - chair: Claudio Lo Jacono, "L’Orientale" University of Naples, Istituto per l’Oriente Raoul Villano, Sapienza University of Rome, The Binary Structure of the Qurʾān: a Synchronic Approach Tommaso Tesei, Sapienza University of Rome, The Perspectives of a Critical Reading of the Qurʾānic Text: Two Pratical Examples Marco Boella, Sapienza University of Rome, Qurʾān and Unsupervised Text Mining: Some Ideas and Strategies
18.30-19.00 Discussion
(Source : http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/lancioni/db/index.php/MuhammadQuran)