Video of Panelists’ Presentations
“Approaches to Qur’anic Studies in the Western Academy”
NAAIMS 50th Annual Conference
Friday, November 12, 2021
Cosponsored By:
Department of Religious Studies
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
A Vitual Conference on the Zoom platform
All Sessions held in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05:00)
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks by NAAIMS President
Frederick S. Colby, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
(Program Chair)
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. Panel 1:
21st Century Engagement with the Qur’an: Sound and Meaning
Discussant: [Elliott Bazzano (Lemoyne College) [unfortunately had to withdraw]
Lauren E. Osborne (Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA): “The Sonic Qur'an in the Age of Global Media”
Yunus Dogan Telliel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA): “The Untranslatable in the Qur’an and the Secular”
11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Panel 2:
Qur’anic Studies in the Euro-American Academy
Discussant: Aisha Musa (Independent Scholar, Tigard, OR)
Joseph E. B. Lumbard (College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa, Doha, Qatar): “Toshihiko Izutsu’s Semantic Analysis: Impact on Qur'anic Studies in the Euro-American Academy”
Caner K. Dagli (The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA): “What Counts as Qur’anic Studies and Whose Opinion Matters?” – [unfortunately had to withdraw]
1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Lunch Break and Juma’a Prayers
2:45 – 3:45 p.m. Keynote Speaker:
[University Professor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC]:
“Approaching the Qur’an Authentically”
3:45 – 5:15 p.m. Panel 3
Pre-Modern Esoteric Commentaries on the Qur’an
Discussant: Mohammad Faruque (University of Cincinnati, OH)
Mohammed Rustom (College of the Humanities, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada): “A Sufi Theory of Qur’anic Origins”
Syed A. H. Zaidi (Emory University, Atlanta, GA): “The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ as Pre-Modern Qurʾānic Scientists”
5:15 - 6:45 p.m. Panel 4
Disruptive Hermeneutics: Questions of Authority
Discussant: Celene Ibrahim (Groton School, Groton, MA)
Maria M. Dakake (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA): “Nusrat Amin: A Woman’s Contribution to the Field of Qur’anic Exegesis”
Ali Hassan Zaidi (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada): “Interpretive Methods and their Presuppositions: A Comparison of Fazlur Rahman’s and Javed Ghamidi’s Hermeneutics of the Qur’an”
6:45 pm. Concluding Remarks
NAAIMS President and Program Chair