The University of Notre Dame and the ERC project The European Qur’an are organizing an International Workshop: Qur’an and Bible ( March 22-26, 2021).

This three-day event will explore the various ways in which Medieval and Early Modern Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers relate Biblical literature and Qur’an.

In line with my current research at the University of Copenhagen, I will present a paper, “Jesus and the Bible in a 18th-Century Translation of the Qur’an into Hebrew”. This contribution aims to discuss the relationship between the Qur’an and the Bible in an 18th-century Hebrew translation of the Qur’an, derived from Glazemaker’s Dutch, which in turn was based on Du Ryer’s French version.

New publication: Naima Afif, Peter E. Pormann, William I. Sellers, Natalia Smelova, Siam Bhayro, « The Syriac Text of Book Nine of On Simple Drugs. New Evidence from the Syriac Galen Palimpsest » in Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences (Galen’s Treatise On Simple Drugs: Interpretation and Transmission), 70/184-185, 2020, pp. 130-149. Access through the publisher’s website.

Discover how our research team at the University of Manchester is uncovering the lost heritage of Syriac Christians through the exhibition ‘Seeing the Invisible’.

Curated by Professor Peter Pormann and Dr Natalia Smelova, the  exhibition will run from October 2019 to March 2020 at the John Rylands Library and will display the Syriac Galen palimpsest for the first time in the UK.

For more information, see here.