Quranic Research Conference Held in Berlin
According to Dr Mehdi Esfehani, director of the Berlin-based Foundation for Islamic Studies (SIS), it was jointly organized by the foundation and the Freie Universität Berlin, the top German university in the field of humanities.
He said Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Corpus Coranicum project, and the Iranian Cultural Center in Berlin also sponsored the scholarly event.
Professor Michael Bongardt of Freie Universität Berlin, Dr Mehdi Esfehani, Prof. Angelika Neuwirth (professor of Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) Michael Marx, and Ayatollah Dr Reza Ramaezani, head of the Islamic Center of Hamburg, were among the scholars who presented their papers at the conference.
The foundation plans to hold a similar conference on Quranic research next autumn.
