An der University of Chicago findet vom 18.-19. Mai 2017 eine Konferenz zum Thema ‚Scripts and Scripture: Language and Religion in Arabia, circa 500-700‚ statt.
Das Programm:
Thursday May 18, 2017
8:30-9:00 Welcome
9:00-10:30 Session 1
Donner / “Scripts and Scripture in Late Antique Arabia: an Overview of the Problems.”
Al-Jallad / “Revisiting the question of a pre-Islamic Hocharabisch from the vista of the pre-Islamic inscriptions.”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2
Macdonald / “The oral and the written in religions of ancient North Arabia.”
Nehmé / “Names of deities in the Nabataeo-Arabic inscriptions from the Arabian Peninsula.”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 3
Hoyland / “Arabic Writing, Arabic Scripture in Late Roman Arabia.”
Newby / “Religious Internationalism: A View Through the Eyes of Arabian Jews.”
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Session 4
Robin / “The Christians of Najrān.”
Vecchi / “The Qur’ān and the Ka‘ba.”
7:30 Dinner for Contributors/Respondents
Friday, May 19, 2017
9:00-10:30 Session 5
Griffith / „Script, Text, and the Bible in Arabic: The Evidence of the Qur’an.“
Déroche / “The invention of the sacred book.”
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6
Dost / „Language of Ritual Purity in the Qur’ān and the Arabian Epigraphy.“
Lindstedt / “asʾalu allāh al-mawt fī sabīlihi — Religious warfare in the epigraphic record.”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 7
Flowers / “Writing and the Terminological Evolution of the Qur’anic ‘Sūra’.“
Zafar / “The Quran’s ‘Accounts of Cities’ (anbā’ al-qurā) as Paradeigma.”
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:25 Session 8
4:00-5:00 Open discussion
5:00-5:25 Publication issues, reimbursements, etc.
5:25-5:30 Closing Remarks