2009 Conference Agenda: Workshop on Evidence for the Early History of the Quran
Thursday July 30, 2009: Editing and Textual Criticism of Early Manuscripts
10:30 – Asma Helali
“The San ‘ā’ palimpsest : Introductory remarks to philological and literay aspects”
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
11:30 – Behnam Sadeghi
“A Non-‘Uthmānic Qur’ānic Manuscript from Early Seventh (First) Century and Its Relation to the Recensions of ‘Uthmān and the Prophet”
Stanford University
Epigraphy, Paleography, and Art History
1:30 – Christian Julien Robin
“Epigraphic Texts from Arabia and the Qur’ān: Some Indirect Lights”
Centre national de la Recherche scientifique
2:30 – François Déroche
Transcribing the Qur’ān in Umayyad Times: A Preliminary Investigation”
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études
3:45 – Lawrence Nees
“Decoration in early Qur’ān Manuscripts: Possible non-Muslim Manuscript Analogues and The Problem of Dating”
University of Delaware
4:45 – Sheila Blair
“Mosaics and Manuscripts”
Boston College & Virginia Commonwealth University
Friday July 31, 2009: Early Muslim Reports (Qirā’āt) and Manuscripts
10:30 – Michael Marx
“Gotthelf Bergsträßer and His Vision of a Corpus Coranicum for the Study of a Textual History of the Qur’ān”
11:30 – Yasin Dutton
“Orality, Literacy and the “Seven Aḥruf” Ḥadīth”
University of Cape Town
Textual Studies
1:30 – Neal Robinson
“The Dynamics of the Qur’ānic Discourse: Tradition and Redaction”
Sogang University
2:30 – Devin Stewart
“Conjectural Emendation and Anomalies in the Qur’ānic Text”
Emory University
3:45 – Angelika Neuwirth
“The Qur’ān as a Late Antique Text: The Emergence of a New Religion in the Mirror of the Qur’ānic textual shape”
Freie Universität Berlin & Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4:45 – Behnam Sadeghi
“Stylistic Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Qur’ānic Passages: Most Frequent Morphemes, Infrequent Words, and Verse Length”
Stanford University