International
Qur’anic Studies Association
2013 Annual
Meeting—Baltimore
11/22/2013
1:30
PM to 4 PM
Room: Baltimore
Convention Center – 345
Theme:Qur’an Manuscripts: Text,
Object and Usage
Gabriel Reynolds, University of
Notre Dame, Presiding
Keith Small, London School of
Theology
Gems of the Bodleian: Qur’an
Manuscripts at Oxford University (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Simon Rettig, Freer Gallery of
Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Codicology versus History of
Art? Rethinking the Visual Study of Qur’an Manuscripts (20
min)
Discussion (10 min)
Alasdair Watson, Bodleian
Libraries
The King’s Mushafs: A
Glimpse at Some of the Qur’ans from Tipu Sultan’s Royal Library (20
min)
Discussion (10 min)
Asma Hilali, Institute of
Ismaili Studies
The Manuscript 27.1 DAM:
Sacred Words and Words about the Sacred (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Break (30 min)
4:30
PM to 5:45 PM
Room: Baltimore
Convention Center – 345
Keynote Lecture: Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European
University, Budapest
“Implausibility and Probability
in Studies of Qur’anic Origins”
Response: Jane
McAuliffe, Bryn Mawr University
11/23/2013
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Room: Hilton
Baltimore Convention Center Hotel – Paca
Theme: Approaches
and Theories on the Translation of the Qur’an
Helen Blatherwick, University
of London, Presiding
Maria Dakake, George Mason
University
The Original Soul and the
“Womb” of Kinship: The Feminine and the Universal in Qur’an 4:1 (25
min)
A. J. Droge, Translator
Traduttore, Traditore? Revisiting Mr. Nabokov (25 min)
Devin J. Stewart, Emory
University
The Translation of Divine
Epithets in the Qur’an (25 min)
Omar Tarazi, Independent
Scholar
Translating the Qur’an’s
Aesthetic and Intellectual Features into Plain English (25
min)
Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell
University
Translation and the Sad Fate
of the Qur’an’s Most (?) Important Feature (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)
1:00
PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Marriott
Baltimore Inner Harbor – Stadium Ballroom II
Theme: Qu’ran
and Gender
Farid Esack, University of
Johannesburg, Presiding
Juliane Hammer, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Equity, Equality, or
Hierarchy: American Tafsir on Gender Roles in Marriage (20
min)
Discussion (10 min)
Kecia Ali, Boston University
Destabilizing Gender,
Reproducing Maternity: Qur’anic Narratives of Mary (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Marion Holmes Katz, New York
University
The Ethical Body and The
Gendered Body In The Qur’an (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
Hamza M. Zafer, University of
Washington
The Sons (and Daughters) of
Israel: Gender In Qur’anic Negotiations of Jewish Lineage (20
min)
Discussion (10 min)
Aziz al-Azmeh, Central European
University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Joint
Session With: Society of Biblical Literature, Qur’an and Biblical
Literature
4:00
PM to 6:30 PM
Room: Marriott
Baltimore Inner Harbor – Stadium Ballroom II
Michael Pregill, Elon
University, Presiding
Michael Graves, Wheaton College
(Illinois)
Kernel Texts and Prophetic
Logia: Biblical and Quranic Scholarship in Dialogue (20 min)
David Penchansky, University of
Saint Thomas (Saint Paul, MN)
Daughters of Deity in the
Bible and the Quran (20 min)
Abdulla Galadari, University of
Aberdeen
Begotten of God: A Quranic
Interpretation of the Logos (20 min)
David Hollenberg, University of
Oregon
Ships of Faith, Islands of
Salvation: Stories of the Prophets as Intra-Sectarian Shi’ite Polemic (20
min)
Clare Wilde, University of
Auckland
Quranic Echoes of the bnay
qeyama (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Business Meeting (20 min)
11/24/2013
Joint Session
With: Society of Biblical Literature, Qur’an and Biblical Literature
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Hilton
Baltimore Convention Center Hotel – Johnson B
Theme: Modern
Muslim Critics of Bible and Isra’iliyyat
Brannon Wheeler, United States
Naval Academy, Presiding
Gabriel Said Reynolds,
University of Notre Dame
Reading the Bible with Ahmad
Deedat (20 min)
Michael Pregill, Elon
University
Modern Critics of
Isra’iliyyat and the Problem of Isma’ (20 min)
Younus Mirza, Allegheny College
Abridging the Isra’iliyyat:
Shaykh Ahmad Shakir’s (d.1377/1958) Summary of Tafsir Ibn Kathir (20
min)
Roberto Tottoli, Universita
degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale
Isra’iliyyat: A Tool of
Muslim Exegesis and Western Studies (20 min)
Discussion (20 min)