ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND!*   VENUE: Stijlkamer van Ravesteijn, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Utrecht  *To help administration, please email secretariaat.RenT@uu.nl   stating which of the lectures you wish to attend. Thank you. 1) Thursday, 27 September 2012, 4-6pm:  TOMMASO TESEI (Rome “La Sapienza”& Paris/INALCO): Hell Fire and Paradise Water: The Qurʾan’s Views of the Underworld in Light of

University of Utrecht, 28-29 April 2012 On 28-29 April, 2012, a 2-day colloquium dedicated to the Islamic hell was convened and hosted by Prof. Lange and the HHIT team. Links to video recordings of a number of the presentations are embedded in the programme below. Regrettably, due to a technical malfunction during the colloquium, not all

THE DISCOVERY OF PARADISE IN ISLAM University of Utrecht, 16 April 2012 On 16 April, 2012, Professor Christian Lange (professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies) gave his inaugural lecture on paradise in the Islamic tradition, based on a close reading and analysis of how paradise is imagined in the Qur’an. He pursued a dominant theme of the