The ERC Project ‘The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Religion and Culture, 1150-1850’ studies the early modern European engagement with the Qur’an. The project is documenting and scrutinizing the vast intellectual, cultural, and religious spaces, where Christian-Europeans engaged with the Qur’an and Islam, ranging from inter-religious and inter-confessional polemics to philology, historiography, and a European fascination with the poetry of the Qur’an. In this webinar Jan Loop will discuss some of our findings so far, with a particular focus on pre-modern European scholarly interest in aspects of the Qur’anic manuscript tradition and in the Qur’an as an archive of linguistic history.

Speakers
Jan Loop, Senior Humanities Research Fellow, NYUAD

Moderated by
Nadia El Cheikh, Vice Provost for Cultural and Research Engagement; Professor of History