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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

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
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


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