Howard University to Host Conference on "The Quran and the Reading of History"

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A conference titled "The Quran and the Reading of History" is going to be held at Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC on April 20-21, 2015.

 It is part of a series of conferences on Contemplating the Quran (Tadabbur al-Quran).

Following the successful inaugural contemplating the Quran conference of 2013, Howard Divinity School and Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University are going to host the second Contemplating the Quran conference, “The Quran and the Reading of History.”
The conference will examine the Quranic approach to telling the story of the past, and to defining the relationship between the past and the present.
Presentations by US and international scholars will address the Quranic conception of history and its significance for understanding the Quran’s view of the human condition.
It will further examine the ways in which attempts to historicize or rehistoricize the Quranic verses as found in the classical Tafsir literature or in contemporary Muslim and Western scholarship have affected the reading of both the Quran and religious history.
Stylistic And Narrative Features of Sacred History In The Quran; Quranic Views of History, Textual And Contextual Readings of Quranic Verses; Quranic “History” As Spiritual Anthropology; Reading The Life of Muhammad [PBUH]; The Early Community, And Its Arabian Context in The Quran; and The Quran on Gender Through A Historical Lens are the topics to be discussed by the panels of this two-day conference.
Source: islamicstudiescenter.gmu