Colloque- Claiming tradition: modern rereadings of the classical islamic heritage (27-28 sept. 2013)
Islamic Studies Colloquium of Pembroke College, University of Oxford will take place on 27-28th September 2013 at Pembroke College, Oxford (UK).
Convenors: Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan, Christopher Melchert, Nicolai Sinai Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford. OX1 1DW Date: 27-28 September 2013 *Attendance is free and open to all, but attendees must register no later than 16 September 2013 with Ahmad Khan (ahmad.khan@pmb.ox.ac.uk) Both the resurgence of Islamist politics and the political, social, and intellectual upheaval accompanying the Arab Spring challenge us to reconsider the interplay between the pre-modern Islamic tradition and modern proponents of continuity, reform, and change in the Muslim world. The colloquium therefore invites scholars with an in-depth knowledge of the classical Islamicate heritage to explore modern texts that stake out some sort of claim to pre-modern traditions in disciplines as diverse as Islamic law, hadith, Qur'anic exegesis, politics, and literature. The colloquium will encourage specialists to embark on a hermeneutically sophisticated exercise that avoids some of the extremes to which an examination of how the classical heritage functions in the modern Islamic world has often been subjected. The colloquium aims to move beyond works that contain the tacit assumption that modern Muslims are subconsciously steered by the Islamic tradition, without exerting any sort of agency or control over it, and studies that suggest that modern Muslim thinkers arbitrarily distort elements of the tradition to which they lay claim. Instead, we invite scholars to consider modern re-appropriations of pre-modern concepts, texts, persons, and events, and thereby to transcend an increasing bifurcation between classical and contemporary Islamic studies. Presenters will be encouraged to consider how a modern Islamic author’s use of the pre-modern Muslim tradition works against current scholarly understanding of the longer tradition; what historical factors contemporaneous to the modern text in question might have contributed to the particular hermeneutical shape of the text’s interaction with the pre-modern tradition; whether we are able to identify attempts by modern authors to build layers upon the existing architecture that steer the tradition towards new and previously uncharted territory and exegetical possibilities; what reactions and contestations modern reconfigurations of pre-modern traditions, ideas, and persons have solicited, and among which parties and groups; how modern authors have attempted to navigate perceived departures from the ‘authority’ of the pre-modern Islamic tradition; and precisely which features of the Islamic tradition are the subject of continuation, change, departure, or disputation. Thanks to the generosity of Brian Wilson, a long-standing benefactor of Arabic studies at Pembroke, the colloquium will invite academics and specialists to present papers broadly connected to the set of questions outlined above. COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME Friday 27 September 2013 17:00 – 17:15 Welcome Note Christopher Melchert (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) 17:15 – 18:15 Keynote Lecture Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh): “Jihad and Islah in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change” Saturday 28 September 2013 09:30 – 11:00 (Chair: Nicolai Sinai) Robert Gleave (University of Exeter): "Modern Shi'ite Legal Theory and the Classical Tradition” Christopher Melchert (University of Oxford): "Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani's Hadith Criticism” Ahmad Khan (University of Oxford): “‘Too Big to Fail’: Modern Contestations between Muslim Reformers and Late Sunni Traditionalists” 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee 11:30 – 13:00 (Chair: Elisabeth Kendall) Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford): “Reading the Qur’an with Muhammad Rashid Rida (d. 1935) and Sayyid Qutb (d. 1966)” Islam Dayeh (Freie Universitat Berlin): “Is there Takhyil in the Qur’an? Exegesis and Literary Criticism in Twentieth-Century Cairo” Karen Bauer (Institute of Ismaili Studies): “Ayatollah Sanaei's Interpretation of Women's Testimony (Q 2:282), in light of Tradition, History, and Cultural Norms” 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:00 (Chair: Robert Gleave) Marilyn Booth (University of Edinburgh): “Biographical Dictionaries: Late Nineteenth-Century Likenesses” Elisabeth Kendall (University of Oxford): “Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula: The Classical Poetic tradition” 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee 15:30 – 16:30 (Chair: Ahmad Khan) Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham): “Ibn Taymiyya between Moderation and Radicalism” Christian Lange (Utrecht University): “Contemporary Sunni traditionalist Literature on Paradise and Hell: The Case of 'Umar Sulayman al-Ashqar (d. 2012)” 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee, Farewells
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Camille Rhoné (11 juin 2013). Colloque- Claiming tradition: modern rereadings of the classical islamic heritage (27-28 sept. 2013). Diwan. Consulté le 13 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/npw1
