08-10.09.2022 "Epigraphy, the Qur'an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia"
Programme
SEPTEMBER 8
15:30: Group activity: Guided city tour
18:00: Dinner (Zum Alten Fritz)
SEPTEMBER 9
08:55: Welcome and introduction
Panel 1: Naming God in pre-Islamic Arabia
Chair: Nadja Abuhussein (University of Tübingen)
09:00: Christian Robin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) – The God of Najrān
09:25: Moderated discussion
09:45: Break
09:50: Laïla Nehmé (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) – On Some Specific Ways of Naming God in Northwest Arabia in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
10:15: Moderated discussion
10:35: Break
10:40: Maria Gorea (University of Paris 8) – From the Aramaic raḥmānāʾ to raḥmānān and al-raḥmān
11:05: Moderated discussion
11:25: Response: Michael Macdonald (University of Oxford)
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch
Panel 2: Religious Identities and Religious Landscape
Chair: Mehmetcan Akpınar (University of Tübingen)
13:30: Ahmad al-Jallad (University of Groningen) – Religious Identity in Paleo-Arabic Inscriptions
13:55: Moderated discussion
14:15: Break
14:20: Basema Hamarneh (University of Vienna) – The Spatial Construction of the Religious Landscape in
Arabia
14:45: Moderated discussion
15:05: Break
15:10: Iwona Gajda (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) – Jews, Judaizers, Christians and Royal
Power in pre-Islamic South Arabia
15:35: Moderated discussion
15:55: Response: Zishan Ghaffar (University of Paderborn)
16:30: Close of day
17:45: Dinner (Ludwigs)
SEPTEMBER 10
Panel 3: Cultic Continuity
Chair: Ana Davitashvili (University of Tübingen)
09:00: Suleyman Dost (University of Toronto) – Pilgrimage in Pre-Islamic Arabia: Continuity and Rupture from Epigraphic Texts to the Qurʾān
09:25: Moderated discussion
09:45: Break
09:50: Peter Webb (Leiden University) – Hajj before Muhammad: Pilgrimage and Poetry in Pre-Islamic Arabia
10:15: Moderated discussion
10:35: Break
10:40: Valentina A. Grasso (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) – Slavery in First Millennium Arabia: Epigraphy and the Qurʾān
11:05: Moderated discussion
11:25: Response: Holger Zellentin (University of Tübingen)
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch
Panel 4: Ethnicity and Literacy
Chair: Mark Hoover (University of Tübingen)
13:30: Robert Hoyland (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World) – Arabicization before ‘Abd al-Malik
13:55: Moderated discussion
14:15: Break
14:20: Marijn van Putten (Leiden University) – The Hijazi Spelling Reform
14:45: Moderated discussion
15:05: Response: Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge)
15:40: Closing Remarks
