Holger Zellentin

Keynote Lectures and Invited Lectures
 

“Concepts of Purity: From the Bible to the Qur’an,” Summer School on Early Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (UK) and the Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University (Iran)

“Purity: Qur’anic Perspectives,” Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement, University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University, June 28-30, 2022.

“Das koranische Recht zwischen Byzanz und Persien,“ Sprache – Religion – Grenzen. Spätantike und Frühmittelalter. Verläufe und Vergleiche, Historisches Kolleg Munich, May 21, 2022.

“The Qur’anic Community’s Encounters with Jews and Christians,” Conference Celebrating the Career of Martha Himmelfarb on the Occasion of her Retirement, Princeton University, May 1-2, 2022.

“The Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an: A New Legal Approach,” The First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Teheran, Iran, March 2, 2022 (virtual).

“Qur’anic Law in its Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Context,” Ancient Laws Ancient Contexts: Situating Israelites and Jews in Normative Discourses, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, December 16, 2021 (virtual).  

“‘For he was Close to the Empire’: Rabbinic Perspectives on Jesus and Idolatry from Babylonia to Palestine,” Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter, August 23, 2021.

“How to Safeguard Divine Revelation from Satanic Falsification: the “Protection of the Prophets” from Late Antiquity to Early Islam,” Framing Late Antique Religion, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), December 16, 2020 (virtual).

“Jews and Christians in the Qur’an: Unity and Strife among the Israelites,” Muslim Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, December 5, 2019.

Responses, Research Seminars, and Conference Presentations

“The Abrogation of the Torah, from Matthew to the Qur’an,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 19, 2022.

Response, “Book Panel: Holger Zellentin, Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 19, 2022.

“Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Their Emergence in Antiquity,” Department of Religion, Princeton University, November 15, 2022.

“Purity and Impurity in the Qur’an: Terminology and Context,” Ibadi Studies Summer School, University of Tübingen.

“Purity in the Medinan Qur’an,” IQSA Annual Conference 2022, La Pira Library, Palermo, Italy, to be given September 2-5, 2022.

“The Arabian Qur’an Between the Bible and Byzantium,” Unlocking the Byzantine Qurʾān, The University of Paderborn, August 29-31, 2022, with Zishan Ghaffar.

“Two Laws, From the Bible to the Qur’an,” Qur’an and Bible Reading Group, University of Cambridge, The Woolfe Institute, February 16, 2022 (virtual).

“„Sich selbst ein Gesetz“? Die Geschichte der gerim‐Gesetze im Judentum, Christentum und Islam,” Tübinger AT‐Kolloquium, University of Tübingen, January 15, 2021.

“The Qur’an as a Source for Late Antiquity (QaSLA) - Vorstellung eines neuen Forschungsprojekts in Tübingen,” Center for Religion, Culture and Society, University of Tübingen, December 7, 2021.

“The Qur’an as a Source for Late Antiquity: The Qur’an and Rabbinic Judaism,” Senior Research Seminar, Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, University of Tübingen, November 11, 2021.

“The Qurʾān and the Rabbinic Tradition: A New Look at the Evidence,” IQSA International Conference 2021, La Pira Library, Palermo, Italy, July 6, 2021 (virtual).

“Die Entstehung des koranischen Rechts, die Bibel und Byzanz: zwischen der Rückkehr zur Tradition und Ihrer Erneuerung,“ Normativiät – Religion – Mobilität, Institut für Recht und Religion, University of Tübingen, March 2, 2021.

“Der Koran und die Transformation der Spätantike: Originalistische Hermeneutik in Antike und Gegenwart,” Kolloquium.

Ana Davitashvili

Responses, Research Seminars, and Conference Presentations

 “The Fall of Humanity and the Cherub with a Flame Sword in East Syrian Sources”, East Syrian Genesis Exegesis, International workshop, University of Tübingen, May 4th – 6th, 2023.

 “The Fall of Humanity in the Qurʾān and pre-Islamic Syriac Christianity”, The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs, International Conference, University of Tübingen, December 5th – 7th, 2022.

“The Companions of the Cave (aṣḥāb al-kahf) in Early Muslim and Christian Traditions”, German Orientalist Days (DOT), International Conference, Free University of Berlin, September 12th-17th, 2022.

“Martyrs,” Being Alive with God in Q 2:154 and 3:169, and War Propaganda of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius: A Reconsideration”, International Conference, University of Paderborn, August 29th-31st, 2022

“Adam und Eva im Koran und in west- und ostsyrischen Traditionen“, Series of Lectures efkar. University of Heidelberg, SS 2022.

„Die Gefährten der Höhle im Koran und in der frühislamischen Exegese“, der Koran und die Gesellschaft, Iran Haus (Kulturabteilung der iranischen Botschaft), Webinar, 2022

“The Fall of Humankind in the Qurʾān and in West and East Syrian Traditions”, Senior Research Seminar, Presentation, University of Tübingen, SS 2022

“Verbindungen des Koran mit vorkoranischen syrischen Traditionen”, Senior Research Seminar, University of Tübingen, WS 2021

“Clothing Metaphors in the Qurʾān and Syriac Christian Literature”, Presentation, Annual Meeting of DAVO, Osnabrück, 2021

Discussant of Zishan Ghaffar’s paper “Muḥammad as a Prophet of Late Antiquity: The anti-Apocalyptic Nature of Muḥammad’s Prophetic Wisdom”, International conference Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue. A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter, University of Paderborn , 2021

Nadja Abuhussein

Responses, Research Seminars, and Conference Presentations

“The Religious Landscape in Sixth-and seventh-Century Arabia as depicted in the Poetry Attributed to Al-Nābigha al-Dhubyānī and al-Aʿshā”, Senior Research Seminar, University of Tübingen, April 24, 2023.

“The Legends of the ʿĀd and the Thamūd in the Qurʾān and in Ancient Arabian Poetry”, Senior Research Seminar, University of Tübingen, July 28, 2022

“Pre-Islamic Arabian Poetry as Context for the Qurʾān”, Senior Research Seminar, University of Tübingen, October 21, 2021

“‘The God of Mecca and the Cross’: God in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry and in the Qurʾān”, 27th DAVO Congress, Osnabrück, September 16, 2021