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 presentations were recorded. N.B. These presentations are provisional only, working drafts of the papers to be published in a forthcoming edited book from Brill. Programme: Day 1 (Saturday, 28 April, 2012) 9.00 – 9.20 REGISTRATION 9.20 – 9.30 WELCOME: Profs. Marcel Sarot & Christian Lange (http://vimeo.com/45033070 ) Panel 1 (9:30-11am): Early modern and modern repercussions Chair: Nico Landman 9.30 – 9.50 Patrick Franke (Bamberg University): Are the parents of the Prophet in hell? A debate of early modern Islam (http://vimeo.com/45431346) 9.50 – 10.10 Remke Kruk (Leiden University): The presentation of hell in modern pious tracts and pamphlets 10.10 – 10.30 Richard van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam): Fictional discourse and religious controversy: Jamīl Sidqī al-Zahāwī’s Thawra fī al-jaḥīm 10.30 – 11.00 Q&A 11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK Panel 2 (11:30am-1pm): Hell in the Qurʾān Chair: Roberto Tottoli 11.30 – 11.50 Tommaso Tesei (University of Rome “Sapienza”-INALCO): The Qur’anic netherworld in light of some eschatological and cosmological concepts from Late Antiquity 11.50 – 12.10 Simon O’Meara (Utrecht University): The infernalization of the jinn 12.10 – 12.30 Christian Lange (Utrecht University): Revisiting hell’s angels in the Qurʾān 12.30 – 13.00 Q&A 13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH at conference venue Panel 3 (2:30-4pm): The growth of the Muslim Hell Chair: Remke Kruk 14.30 – 14.50 Christopher Melchert (Oxford University): Hell in early Islamic renunciant literature 14.50 – 15.10 Wim Raven (Marburg University): Hell in the Muslim popular imagination: the anonymous Kitāb al-ʿAzama 15.10 – 15.30 Frederick Colby (University of Oregon): Hell in the Bakrī miʿrāj narratives, 13th to 15th centuries CE 15.30 – 16.00 Q&A 16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK 17.45 – 19.00 BOAT TOUR 19.00 DINNER for speakers and invited guests at restaurant “Aal” Day 2 (Sunday, 29 April, 2012) Panel 4 (9:30-11am): Hell and Islamic theological diversity 1 Chair: Christian Lange 9.30 – 9.50 Feras Hamza (American University in Dubai): Temporary Hellfire and the formation of early Sunnism (http://vimeo.com/45033579) 9.50 – 10.10 Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University): What is the Purpose and Duration of the Qurʾānic Hell? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya’s Case for Universalism (http://vimeo.com/45033578) 10.10 – 10.30 Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham): God’s wise purpose in everlasting chastisement: Ibn al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) critique of Ibn Taymiyya on the duration of hell-fire (http://vimeo.com/45033581) 10.30 – 11.00 Q&A 11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK Panel 5 (11:30am-1pm): Hell and Islamic theological diversity 2 Chair: Simon O’Meara 11.30 – 11.50 Daniel de Smet (CNRS-Paris): Ismaʿili-Shiʿi visions on hell: from the ‘spiritual’ torment of the Fāṭimids to the Ṭayyibī Rock of Sijjīn (http://vimeo.com/45033848) 11.50 – 12.10 Roberto Tottoli (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”): The Morisco hell: significance and relevance of the Aljamiado traditions and literature for the Muslim eschatology (http://vimeo.com/45033847) 12.10 – 12.30 Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan): The visual rhetoric of hell in Safavid illustrated texts, ca. 1550-1600 (http://vimeo.com/45033846) 12.30 – 13.00 Q&A 13.00 – 13.20 CONCLUDING REMARKS (http://vimeo.com/45034049)