Hebrew Manuscripts - NAIMA AFIF

New Paper in Translation Studies and Retranslations of Canonical Texts

05/12/2024 Aucun commentaire

Hebrew Manuscript Library of Congress Naima AFIF study Postdoc researcher

My contribution to the volume Retranslating the Bible and the Qur’an: Historical Approaches and Current Debates is accessible in Open Access. Edited by Pieter Boulogne, Marijke H. de Lang, and Joseph Verheyden, this publication brings together studies that highlight the complexity of retranslating canonical religious texts. My paper explores a double indirect Hebrew translation of the Qur’an from the eighteenth century by a Jewish convert to Christianity. It discusses how the translator’s identities are negotiated, articulated, and reconstructed through the process of retranslation. Learn more about the book on the KULeuven website.

Conference organisation

International workshop ‘Jews, the Qur’an and Islam: Contacts and Influences’, 1-2 February 2023

15/01/2023 Aucun commentaire

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 workshop aims to explore how Jews approached the Qur’an and Islam from the Middle Age to the early modern period both in the lands of Islam and in Europe. Through various sources and textual genres ranging from polemics, exegesis to Qur’anic translations, we will discuss how Islam was perceived, how the Qur’an was used and how the Jews in some contexts were influenced by the material, textual and theological aspects of the Islamic tradition.

Online participation is possible via Zoom. You can learn more about the event here or contact me: naima.afif@teol.ku.dk

Conferences and talks

‘Recognizing Sacred Scriptures – the Qur’an and the Bible’, New York University Abu Dhabi, May 5-6 2022

10/04/2022 Aucun commentaire

Forthcoming talk: “Translating the Qur’an into Hebrew (17th-18th centuries)”, ‘Recognizing Sacred Scriptures– the Qur’an and the Bible’, New York University Abu Dhabi, May 2022.

Read to full event progamme: https://www.hrf-arabworld.org/events/2022/recognizing-sacred-scriptures-the-quran-and-the-bible

Conferences and talks

Invited talk at the Faculty Seminar of the Jewish Studies Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover

22/03/2022 Aucun commentaire

I am honoured to be invited to speak at the Faculty Seminar of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. I will present the results of my first year of research on a seventeenth-century Hebrew translation of the Qur’an from Italian, with preliminary insights into its context of production from Venice to Amsterdam. The event will be held online in April 2022 (on invitation). Feel free to contact me for more detail.