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 Qur’an in detail, namely, the spatio-temporal and existential nearness of paradise to this world (http://www.uu.nl/faculty/humanities/EN/Current/agenda/Pages/20120416-oratie-christian-lange.aspx). A video recording of the lecture can be viewed at http://vimeo.com/40523733