SOAS to Hold 8th Conference on the Quran
Eighth SOAS Conference on the Quran, to be held under the theme of ‘The Quran: Text, Society And Culture' from Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 November 2013.
Prof. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr Helen Blatherwick from Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London are the organizers of the event.
The conference series seeks to provide a forum for investigating the basic question: how is the Quranic text read and interpreted? Our objective is to encompass a global vision of current research trends, and to stimulate discussion, debate and research on all aspects of the Quranic text and its interpretation and translation.
While the conference will remain committed to the textual study of the Quran and the religious, intellectual and artistic activity that developed around it and drew on it, contributions on all topics relevant to Quranic studies are welcomed and attention will also be given to literary, cultural, sociological and anthropological studies relating to the Quran. The final conference programme will take account of the range of proposals actually accepted.
Selected papers will be published as articles in the Journal of Quranic Studies, subject to standard outside refereeing. Speakers are expected to give priority to JQS when publishing these articles.
The primary conference language is English, but papers may be presented in English or Arabic and the deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2013.
For more information visit SOAS website at http://www.soas.ac.uk/islamicstudies/conferences/quran2013/.
Source: SOAS
The conference series seeks to provide a forum for investigating the basic question: how is the Quranic text read and interpreted? Our objective is to encompass a global vision of current research trends, and to stimulate discussion, debate and research on all aspects of the Quranic text and its interpretation and translation.
While the conference will remain committed to the textual study of the Quran and the religious, intellectual and artistic activity that developed around it and drew on it, contributions on all topics relevant to Quranic studies are welcomed and attention will also be given to literary, cultural, sociological and anthropological studies relating to the Quran. The final conference programme will take account of the range of proposals actually accepted.
Selected papers will be published as articles in the Journal of Quranic Studies, subject to standard outside refereeing. Speakers are expected to give priority to JQS when publishing these articles.
The primary conference language is English, but papers may be presented in English or Arabic and the deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2013.
For more information visit SOAS website at http://www.soas.ac.uk/islamicstudies/conferences/quran2013/.
Source: SOAS
