Published by the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, Le Coran vu d’ailleurs accompanied the exhibition held at the National Library of Tunisia from 15 February to 30 April 2025. Edited by: Katia Boissevain, anthropologist and Director of the IRMC; Khaled Kchir, historian and Director of the National Library of Tunisia (BNT); John Tolan, professor, University of Nantes; Naima Afif, postdoctoral researcher, University of Copenhagen; and Jan Loop, professor, University of Copenhagen.
I will present a paper at the conference “What is the European Qur’ān? Definitions, Descriptions, Representations (12th–19th c.)” that will be held in Nantes on 11–12 May 2023. My talk, “Qur’anic Concepts through European Translations and Retranslations of the Qur’an: A Case Study,” explores how European translations shaped understandings of the Qur’an and contributed to changing representations of the Islamic scripture across different cultural and linguistic settings.