We are honored to host Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Chair of the Jewish Studies Program, and faculty member in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. Professor Heschel will deliver a lecture on how nineteenth-century Arab and Jewish intellectuals approached the question of modernity through their respective cultural movements, the Nahda and the Haskalah. She will explore how, in the early twentieth century, new forms of collaboration emerged between Arabs and Jews, as well as among Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Nahdawis, as they developed counter-modern religious and political ideals. Through these encounters and exchanges, Arabs and Jews came to understand themselves and each other in new ways.
Organized by Naima Afif, University of Copenhagen. Join the event.
I am delighted to announce the forthcoming international workshop, ‘Jews, the Qur’an and Islam: Contacts and Influences’ which will take place on 1-2 February 2023 in Copenhagen under the auspices of the EuQu project.
The Masāʾil ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām (Abdallāh ibn Salām’s Questions) is a fictional dialogue between a learned Jew who converted to Islam and the prophet Muḥammad. Originally written in Arabic, it enjoyed a great popularity in the West. The text was translated into Latin as part of the Corpus Toletanum in the 12th century under the title Liber de doctrina Mahumet and then served as the basis of several translations in European vernaculars. In this online seminar we will discuss the transfer and wide European reception of this work, and assess how it influenced European knowledge of Muḥammad and Islam over centuries.