*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 its Late Antique Context

2) Thursday, 15 November 2012, 4-6pm: 

YAACOV LEV (Bar Ilan University): Jihad in Fatimid History

3) Friday, 18 January 2013, 4-6 pm:

ANNE-SYLVIE BOISLIVEAU (University of Groningen): Qurʾanic Argumentation and Scriptural Status: Self-Referential Discourse in Muslims’ Sacred Book

4) Thursday, 14 March 2013, 4-6pm:

THOMAS MILO (Independent researcher): Analysis of an Archigrapheme: Nuts and Bolts of Qurʾanic Textual Criticism

4) Thursday, 11 April 2013, 4-6pm:

LIVNAT HOLTSMAN (Ben Gurion University): Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s description of Paradise in Poetry and Prose PLEASE NOTE: THE VENUE FOR THIS LECTURE IS A.W. DE GROOTKAMER (zaal 0.19) TRANS 8, UTRECHT

5) Thursday, 16 May 2013, 4-6pm:

SIEP STUURMAN (University of Utrecht): Thinking Across Frontiers in the Medieval Islamic Commonwealth