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[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|250px|Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy]]
[[File:Villa Cagnola.jpg|thumb|300px|Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy]]
[[File:Fourth Nangeroni Meeting.jpg|thumb|300px|4th Nangeroni Meeting: plenary session]]
[[File:Fourth Nangeroni Meeting2.jpg|thumb|300px|4th Nangeroni Meeting: discussion group]]
[[File:Fourth Nangeroni Meeting3.jpg|thumb|300px|4th Nangeroni Meeting: trip to Milan]]
[[File:Dye.jpeg|thumb|123px|Guillaume Dye, Free University of Brussels (ULB)]]
[[File:Dye.jpeg|thumb|123px|Guillaume Dye, Free University of Brussels (ULB)]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|123px|Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan]]
[[File:Boccaccini.jpg|thumb|123px|Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan]]
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'''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''' (2015) is the topic of the fourth conference in the series of [[Nangeroni Meetings]], and the first conference of the [[Early Islamic Studies Seminar]], organized by the [[Enoch Seminar]] in Milan, Italy (June 2015) in collaboration with COREIS.
'''Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity?''' (2015) is the topic of the fourth conference in the series of [[Nangeroni Meetings]], and the first conference of the [[Early Islamic Studies Seminar]], organized by the [[Enoch Seminar]] in Milan, Italy (June 2015) in collaboration with COREIS.


< ... -- [[Second Nangeroni Meeting]] (Israel 2014) -- [[Third Nangeroni Meeting]] (Rome 2014) -- '''Fourth Nangeroni Meeting''' (Milan 2015) -- [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting]] (Naples 2015) -- ... >
< [[First Nangeroni Meeting|1st (Milan 2012)]] -- [[Second Nangeroni Meeting|2nd (Israel 2014)]] -- [[Third Nangeroni Meeting|3rd (Rome 2014)]] -- '''4th (Milan 2015)''' -- [[Fifth Nangeroni Meeting|5th (Naples 2015)]] -- [[Sixth Nangeroni Meeting|6th (Camaldoli 2016)]] -- [[Seventh Nangeroni Meeting|7th (Rome 2016)]] -- [[Eighth Nangeroni Meeting|8th (Florence 2017)]] -- [[Ninth Nangeroni Meeting|9th (Milan 2018)]] -- [[Tenth Nangeroni Meeting|10th (Rome 2018)]] >




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Chair: [https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye] (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)
Chair: [https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye] (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)


Co-Chair: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan, USA)
Co-Chair: [[Gabriele Boccaccini]] (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)


Secretary: [[Rodney Caruthers]] (University of Michigan, USA)
Secretary: [[Rodney Caruthers]] (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)


====Preliminary Information====
====Preliminary Information====
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'''Location of the Seminar''': Villa Cagnola (Gazzada Schianno, Milan, Italy)
'''Location of the Seminar''': Villa Cagnola (Gazzada Schianno, Milan, Italy)


'''Purpose''': '''The meeting aims at re-examining afresh formative Islam in its the late-antique context'''. We plan to have panels (major sessions) on the following topics:
'''Purpose''': '''The meeting aims at examining afresh formative Islam in its the late-antique context'''. We plan to have panels (major sessions) on the following topics:
*(1) ''' ''Early Islam and Enochic Traditions'' '''
*''' ''Early Islam and Enochic Traditions'' '''
*(2) ''' ''Early Islamic Eschatology'' '''
*''' ''The Making of the Islamic Prophet'' '''
*(3) ''' ''Early Islamic Sources in Light of a "Theology of Salvation"'' '''
*''' ''How Should We Interpret the Early Islamic Account of the Arab Conquests?'' '''
*(4) ''' ''The Making of the Islamic Prophet'' '''
*''' ''The Biblia Arabica Project'' '''
*(5) ''' ''Epigraphic Sources for the Study of Qur'ānic Origins'' '''
*''' ''Epigraphic Sources for the Study of Qur'ānic Origins'' '''
*(6) ''' ''The Qur'ān in Light of Traditio-Historical Criticism'' '''
*''' ''The Qur'ān in Light of Redaction Criticism'' '''
*(7) ''' ''Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins'' '''  
*''' ''Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins'' '''  


'''Major papers''' will be offered by Guillaume Dye, Emilio González Ferrín, Manfred Kropp, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Carlos A. Segovia, Tommaso Tesei, and Stephen J. Shoemaker.
'''Major papers''' will be offered by Annette Yoshiko Reed, Carlos A. Segovia, Emilio González Ferrín, Meira Polliack, Guillaume Dye, Manfred Kropp, and Stephen J. Shoemaker.


'''Short papers''' on Qur'ānic and Early Islamic Studies will be welcome, particularly if they are related to any of the following topics of interest, to which we plan to devote several reading sessions and short-paper sessions, as well:
'''Short papers''' on Qur'ānic and Early Islamic Studies will be welcome, particularly if they are related to any of the following topics of interest, to which we plan to devote several reading sessions and short-paper sessions, as well:


*''' ''Dating Old Qur'ānic Manuscripts: Problems, Methods, Criteria'' '''
*''' ''Arabia, Byzantium, and Persia on the Eve of Islam'' '''
*''' ''The Religious Landscape of Sassanid and Early Islamic Iran (500-750)'' '''
*''' ''Scribal Culture in the Near East (6th-8th centuries)'' '''
*''' ''Scribal Culture in the Near East (6th-8th centuries)'' '''
*''' ''Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān'' '''
*''' ''Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān'' '''
*''' ''The material Culture of Emergent Islam'' '''
*''' ''Dating Old Qur'ānic Manuscripts: Problems, Methods, Criteria'' '''
*''' ''Arabia and Byzantium on the Eve of Islam'' '''
*''' ''The Material Culture of Emergent Islam'' '''


The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants (respondents will be allowed 10 min. to respond before the general discusion begins).
The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants (respondents will be allowed 10 min. to respond before the general discussion begins).


'''Paper Submission''': Major papers should be submitted by March 30, 2015. In turn, short papers should be submitted by April 30, 2015. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses and critical comments.
'''Paper Submission''': All papers should be submitted by May 30, 2015. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses and critical comments.


'''Paper Length''': Major papers should be 6,000 words maximum; short papers, 3,000 words maximum.
'''Paper Length''': Major papers should be 6,000 words maximum; short papers, 3,000 words maximum.


'''Proceedings''': A volume will be published with the proceedings of the conference, which overall purpose is to contribute to the renewed study of Islamic origins '''in close dialogue with scholars working on the late-antique Near East, Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Sassanian Iran.'''
'''Prospective Publication''': A volume will be published with a selection of the papers offered atf the conference, which overall purpose is to contribute to the renewed study of Islamic origins '''in close dialogue with scholars working on the late-antique Near East, Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Sassanian Iran.'''


'''Participation in the Early Islamic Studies Seminar is by invitation only.'''
'''Participation in the Early Islamic Studies Seminar is by invitation only.'''


'''Should you like to present a short paper, please send to the chair of the conference, Guillaume Dye (gdye@noos.fr), a provisional title and and an abstract by January 2015'''
'''Should you like to present a short paper, please send to the chair of the conference, Guillaume Dye (gdye@noos.fr), by May 2015'''.


'''Should you simply like to attend the conference, or receive further information about it, please contact its secretary, Rodney Caruthers (rodneyac@umich.edu) at your earliest convenience.'''
'''Should you simply like to attend the conference, or receive further information about it, please contact its secretary, Rodney Caruthers (rodneyac@umich.edu) at your earliest convenience.'''
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This registration fee is a donation to our sponsor, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, and it is tax-deductible for U.S. residents. The registration fee is refundable (minus a $50 administrative processing fee) 30 days prior to the start of the Seminar (i.e. by May 15, 2015) if for some reason you are unable to attend.
This registration fee is a donation to our sponsor, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, and it is tax-deductible for U.S. residents. The registration fee is refundable (minus a $50 administrative processing fee) 30 days prior to the start of the Seminar (i.e. by May 15, 2015) if for some reason you are unable to attend.


====Prospective Participants====
====Participants====


*'''Azaiez, Mehdi''' (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, EU)
#'''Aghaei, Ali''' (Corpus Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany, EU)*
*'''Boccaccini, Gabriele''' (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)
#'''Azaiez, Mehdi''' (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, EU)*
*'''Bonner Michael''' (University of Michigan, USA)
#'''Benassi, 'Isa 'Abd al-Haqq Nicola''' (COREIS, Italy, EU)*
*'''Borrut, Antoine''' (University of Maryland, USA)*
#'''Boccaccini, Gabriele''' (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
*'''Courtieu, Gilles''' (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France, EU)
#'''Bonner, Michael''' (University of Michigan, USA)*
*'''Dye, Guillaume''' (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)*
#'''Bori, Caterina''' (University of Bologna, Italy, EU)*
*'''Fedeli, Alba''' (University of Birmingham, England, UK, EU)
#'''Borrut, Antoine''' (University of Maryland, USA)*
*'''Fisher, Greg''' (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada)*
#'''Caruthers, Rodney''' (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
*'''González Ferrín, Emilio''' (University of Seville, Spain, EU)*
#'''Courtieu, Gilles''' (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France, EU)*
*'''Hayajneh, Hani F.''' (Yarmouk University, Jordan)
#'''Dye, Guillaume''' (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)*
*'''Mårtensson, Ulrika''' (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)*
#'''Enriello, Laura Mulayka''' (Interreligious Studies Academy, Italy, EU)*
*'''Kropp, Manfred''' (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, EU)
#'''Fedeli, Alba''' (University of Birmingham, England, UK, EU)*
*'''Lange, Christian''' (Utrecht University, Netherlands, EU)
#'''Fisher, Greg''' (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada)*
*'''Lourié, Basil''' (''Scrinium'', Russia / Enoch Seminar)
#'''González Ferrín, Emilio''' (University of Seville, Spain, EU)*
*'''Morris, Ian D.''' (Spanish National Research Council [CSIC], Spain, EU)*
#'''Hoffman, Thomas''' (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)*
*'''Neuenkirchen, Paul''' (École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE], France, EU)*
#'''Holcátová, Barbara Kateřina Oudová''' (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, EU)
*'''Oliver, Isaac W.''' (Bradley University, Illinois, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
#'''Kropp, Manfred''' (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, EU)*
*'''Petersen, Anders Klostergaard''' (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
#'''Mårtensson, Ulrika''' (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)*
*'''Polliack, Meira''' (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
#'''Morris, Ian D.''' (Spanish National Research Council [CSIC], Spain, EU / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, EU)*
*'''Pourshariati, Parvaneh''' (New York City College of Technology, USA)
#'''Mortensen, Mette Bjerregaard''' (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU)*
*'''Pallavicini, Yahaya''' (COREIS, Italy)
#'''Neuenkirchen, Paul''' (École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE], France, EU)*
*'''Powers, David S.''' (Cornell University, New York, USA)*
#'''Oliver, Isaac W.''' (Bradley University, Illinois, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
*'''Reed, Annette Yoshiko''' (University of Pennsylvania, USA / Enoch Seminar)
#'''Pagani, Samuela''' (University of Salento, Italy, EU)*
*'''Reeves, John C.''' (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
#'''Palombo, Cecilia''' (Princeton University, USA)
*'''Retsö, Jan''' (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, EU)
#'''Petersen, Anders Klostergaard''' (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
*'''Segovia, Carlos A.''' (Saint Louis University, Spain, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
#'''Pohlmann, Karl-Friedrich''' (University of Münster, Germany, EU)*
*'''Shoemaker, Stephen J.''' (University of Oregon, USA)*
#'''Polliack, Meira''' (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
*'''Swanson, Dwight''' (Nazarene Theological College Manchester, UK, EU)*
#'''Pourshariati, Parvaneh''' (New York City College of Technology, USA)*
*'''Tesei, Tommaso''' (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel)
#'''Powers, David S.''' (Cornell University, New York, USA)*
*'''Watson, Francis''' (Durham University, UK, EU)*
#'''Reed, Annette Yoshiko''' (University of Pennsylvania, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
*'''Wilk, Mateusz''' (University of Warsaw, Poland, EU)*
#'''Retsö, Jan''' (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, EU)*
*'''Wood, Philip''' (The Aga Khan University, England, UK, EU)*
#'''Segovia, Carlos A.''' (Saint Louis University, Spain, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
*[...]
#'''Shoemaker, Stephen J.''' (University of Oregon, USA)*
#'''Swanson, Dwight''' (Nazarene Theological College Manchester, UK, EU)*
#'''Watson, Francis''' (Durham University, UK, EU)*
#'''Wilk, Mateusz''' (University of Warsaw, Poland, EU)*
#'''Wood, Philip''' (The Aga Khan University, England, UK, EU)*


====Provisional Schedule====
====Provisional Schedule====


'''Monday, June 15'''
'''Monday, June 15'''––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––


8:00-16:00 – Arrivals
08:00-16:00 – Arrivals


17:00 – Opening Session and Welcome (Dye, Guillaume Dye, Gabriele Boccaccini, Yahaya Pallavicini
17:00 – '''Opening Session and Welcome''' ([http://www.4enoch.org/wiki3/index.php?title=Gabriele_Boccaccini Gabriele Boccaccini], [https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye])


17:45–19:30 – Session 1: EARLY ISLAM AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS
17:45–19:30 – '''Session 1''': EARLY ISLAM AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS
*[https://upenn.academia.edu/AnnetteYoshikoReed Annette Yoshiko Reed]; Respondent: [https://slu.academia.edu/CarlosSegovia Carlos A. Segovia]
*[https://upenn.academia.edu/AnnetteYoshikoReed Annette Yoshiko Reed], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Fallen Angels and the Afterlives of Enochic Traditions in Early Islam</span>"</u>; Respondent: [https://slu.academia.edu/CarlosSegovia Carlos A. Segovia]


20:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Dinner


'''Tuesday, June 16'''
'''Tuesday, June 16'''––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––


09:00–10:15 – Reading Sessions
09:00–10:15 – '''Reading Sessions'''


*(a) Revisiting Early Islamic Historiography
*(a) ''Eschatological Counter-Discourse in the Qur'ān and Tractate Sanhedrîn''
**Chair: [http://www.mehdi-azaiez.org/?lang=fr Mehdi Azaiez]
**Chair: [http://www.mehdi-azaiez.org/?lang=fr Mehdi Azaiez]


*(b) Pro-Christians/anti-Christians Texts in the Qur’ān and the Dome of the Rock
*(b) ''Christian Representations of the Coming of Islam''
**(Chair: )
**Chair: [http://www.aku.edu/collegesschoolsandinstitutes/ismc/aboutus/faculty/Pages/philip-wood.aspx Philip Wood]
 
10:45–12:30 – Session 2: EARLY ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGY
*[https://vanleer.academia.edu/TommasoTesei Tommaso Tesei]; Respondent: [https://uu.academia.edu/ChristianLange Christian Lange]


13:00 - Lunch
10:45–12:30 – '''Session 2''':  THE MAKING OF THE ISLAMIC PROPHET
*[https://slu.academia.edu/CarlosSegovia Carlos A. Segovia], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">A Messianic Controversy behind the Making of Muḥammad as the Last Prophet?</span>"</u>; Respondent: [http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=dsp4 David S. Powers]


14:30–16:15 – Session 3: EARLY ISLAMIC SOURCES IN LIGHT OF A “THEOLOGY OF SALVATION”
13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
*[https://us.academia.edu/EmilioGonzalezFerrin Emilio González Ferrín]; Respondent: [https://history.umd.edu/users/aborrut Antoine Borrut]


16:45–18:15 – Short Papers
14:30–16:15 – '''Session 3''': HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE EARLY ISLAMIC ACCOUNT OF THE ARAB CONQUESTS?
*[https://us.academia.edu/EmilioGonzalezFerrin Emilio González Ferrín], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Islamic Late Antiquity and ''Fatḥ'': The Effect as Cause</span>"</u>; Respondent: [https://history.umd.edu/users/aborrut Antoine Borrut]


*(a) ''Dating Old Qur'anic Manuscripts: Problems, Methods, Criteria'' (Chair: )
16:45–18:15 – '''Short Papers '''


*(b) ''The Religious Landscape of Sassanid and Early Islamic Iran (500-750)'' (Chair: )
*''The Political and Religious Context of Islamic Late Antiquity'' (Chair: [https://unibo.academia.edu/CaterinaBori Caterina Bori])
**[https://carleton-ca.academia.edu/GregFisher Greg Fisher], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Arabia and the Late Antique East: Current Research and New Problems</span>"</u>
**[https://csic.academia.edu/IanDMorris Ian D. Morris], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">The Arabian Origins of the ''Ḥāǧib'': From Household Servant to Courtly Officer</span>"</u>
**[https://citytech-cuny.academia.edu/ParvanehPourshariati Parvaneh Pourshariati], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">In Search of Religious 'Orthodoxy' in Sasanian Iran: The Paradigm and Its Devotees</span>"</u>
**[http://www.aku.edu/collegesschoolsandinstitutes/ismc/aboutus/faculty/Pages/philip-wood.aspx Philip Wood], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Archival Authority in the 'Abbāsid Caliphate: Edessa and Its Tax Claims</span>"</u>


20:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Dinner


'''Wednesday, June 17'''
'''Wednesday, June 17'''–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
 
8:45–10:15 – Short Papers
 
*(a) ''Scribal Culture in the Near East (6th-8th centuries)'' (Chair: )
 
*(b) ''Biblical/para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān'' (Chair: )
 
10:45–12:30 – Session 4: THE MAKING OF THE ISLAMIC PROPHET
*[https://slu.academia.edu/CarlosSegovia Carlos A. Segovia]; Respondent: [http://neareasternstudies.cornell.edu/people/detail.cfm?netid=dsp4 David S. Powers]
 
13:00 - Lunch


Optional cultural visit to Milan
08:45–10:15 – '''Short Papers'''


Open lecture at the University of Milan: "Rethinking Early Islam in Its Late-Antique Context"
*''The History of the Qur'ān: New Perspectives and Debates'' (Chair: [http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/anders-klostergaard-petersen(966b9914-b583-4e39-8af5-6c1684239191).html Anders Klostergaard Petersen])
**[http://egora.uni-muenster.de/fb1/personen/kpohlmann.shtml Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Conversion from Jewish and Christian Milieus to Islam and Its Influence on the Formation of the Qur'ān</span>"</u>
**[http://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/ulrika.martensson Ulrika Mårtensson], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Al-Ṭabarī's Accounts of Islam and the Qur'ān: Methodological Implications for Research on Manuscripts, Linguistics, and the Qur'ān</span>"</u>
**[http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/itsee/staff/index.aspx Alba Fedeli], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Is the Dating of Qur'ānic Manuscripts Still a Problem?</span>"</u>
**[[Paul Neuenkirchen]], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Eschatology, Responsories and Rubrics in Eastern Christian Liturgies and the Qur'ān: Some Preliminary Remarks</span>"</u>


'''Thursday, June 18'''
10:45–12:30 –  '''Session 4''': EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF QUR'ĀNIC ORIGINS
*[https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/ManfredKropp Manfred Kropp], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Epigraphical Sources in the Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Regions in Late Antiquity: Their Relevance for Research on the Origins of the Qur'ān and Early Islam</span>"</u>; Respondent: [http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xretsj Jan Retsö]


09:00–10:15 – Reading Sessions
13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


*(a) Manichaeism and Islamic Origins: How Strong Is the Link?
Optional cultural visit to Milan and the Ambrosian Library
**Chair: [https://uncc.academia.edu/JohnCReeves John C. Reeves]


*(b) Non-Islamic Witnesses to the Islamic Expansion
'''Thursday, June 18'''–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
**Chair: [http://www.aku.edu/collegesschoolsandinstitutes/ismc/aboutus/faculty/Pages/philip-wood.aspx Philip Wood]


10:45–12:30 – Session 5: EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF QUR'ĀNIC ORIGINS
09:00–10:15 – '''Short Papers'''
*[https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/ManfredKropp Manfred Kropp]; Respondent: [http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/staff/?languageId=100001&userId=xretsj Jan Retsö]


13:00 - Lunch
*(a) ''Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur'ān'' (Chair: [http://www.4enoch.org/wiki3/index.php?title=Gabriele_Boccaccini Gabriele Boccaccini])
**[https://bbaw.academia.edu/aliaghaei Ali Aghaei], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">''God commands you to slaughter a Cow'': Q. 2:67-74 as an allusion to Num. 19:1-19 or Deut. 21:1-9?</span>"</u>
**[https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/staff/profile/?id=5560 Francis Watson], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Abraham the Iconoclast in Qur'ānic Transformation</span>"</u>
**[['Isa 'Abd al-Haqq Nicola Benassi]], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Muḥammad and the Christian Monks Baḥīrā and Waraqa: Revelation and Dialogue at the Origin of the Qur'ān</span>"</u>
**[[Laura Mulayka Enriello]], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Qur'ān and Eschatology: Reflections on the Prophet Enoch in the Islamic Tradition</span>"</u>


14:30–16:15 – Session 6: THE QUR'ĀN IN LIGHT OF TRADITIO-HISTORICAL CRITICISM
*(b) ''Qur'ānic- and Early Islamic Eschatology'' (Chair: [http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/mette-bjerregaard-mortensen(e0aed006-b90f-4dd9-bb70-c047a22932ad).html Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen])
*[https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye]; Respondent: [https://bradley.academia.edu/IsaacWOliverakadeOliveira Isaac W. Oliver]
**[https://ku-dk.academia.edu/ThomasHoffmann Thomas Hoffmann], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Eruptions of Memories: On Collective Memory and Seismic Catastrophe in the Qur’ān</span>"</u>
**[https://univ-lyon3.academia.edu/gillescourtieu Gilles Courtieu], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Cushions, Bottles and Roast Chickens! More Advertising about Paradise</span>"</u>
**[http://en.ihuw.pl/institute/about/academic-staff/dr-mateusz-wilk Mateusz Wilk], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Religious Scrupulousness and the End of the World: Some Remarks on Early Islamic Piety</span>"</u>


16:45–18:15 – Short Papers
10:45–12:30 – '''Session 5''': THE BIBLIA ARABICA PROJECT
*[https://telaviv.academia.edu/MeiraPolliack Meira Polliack], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">The Task of Translation: Reflections on a Recent Scholarly Project</span>"</u>; Respondent: [https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye]


a) ''Material Traces of the Islamic Expansion and Rule'' (Chair: )
13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


b) ''Arabia and Byzantium on the Eve of Islam'' (Chair: )
14:30–16:15 – '''Session 6''': THE QUR'ĀN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF REDACTION CRITICISM
*[https://ulb.academia.edu/GuillaumeDye Guillaume Dye], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">The Qur'ān and Its Hypertextuality in Light of Redaction Criticism</span>"</u>; Respondent: [https://bradley.academia.edu/IsaacWOliverakadeOliveira Isaac W. Oliver]


20:00 - Dinner
20:00 - Dinner


'''Friday, June 19'''
'''Friday, June 19'''–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––


09:00–10:45 – Session 7: METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC ORIGINS
09:00–10:45 – '''Session 7''': METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC ORIGINS
*[https://uoregon.academia.edu/StephenShoemaker Stephen J. Shoemaker]; Respondent: [http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/anders-klostergaard-petersen(966b9914-b583-4e39-8af5-6c1684239191).html Anders Klostergaard Petersen] (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU)
*[https://uoregon.academia.edu/StephenShoemaker Stephen J. Shoemaker], <u>"<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Method and Theory in the Study of Early Islam</span>"</u>; Respondent: [http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/anders-klostergaard-petersen(966b9914-b583-4e39-8af5-6c1684239191).html Anders Klostergaard Petersen]


11:15–12:30 – Closing Plenary Session
11:15–12:30 – '''Closing Plenary Session'''


13:00 – Lunch & Farewells
13:00 – Lunch & Farewells
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===Getting to the Seminar===
===Getting to the Seminar===
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'''From Malpensa Airport'''
'''From Malpensa Airport'''


Taxi: 25-30 minutes; ~60 Euros (see above for sharing a taxi)
Taxi: 25-30 minutes; ~60 Euros  


Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com], Departure = "Malpensa Aeroporto" Arrival = "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone")
Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com], Departure = "Malpensa Aeroporto" Arrival = "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone")
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There are no direct trips to Gazzada from Milano Centrale station (though it is usually a quick connection). Most of the direct trips from Milan are from the Milano Porta Girabaldi station (which is also in the center of town). Visit [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com] to find the best times for direct trips. For departure, select "Milano (all stations)," and for arrival, "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone." This will show you all of the trips to Gazzada from the Milan stations. The trip will take 1-1.5 hours and cost around 6 euros.
There are no direct trips to Gazzada from Milano Centrale station (though it is usually a quick connection). Most of the direct trips from Milan are from the Milano Porta Girabaldi station (which is also in the center of town). Visit [http://www.trenitalia.com trenitalia.com] to find the best times for direct trips. For departure, select "Milano (all stations)," and for arrival, "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone." This will show you all of the trips to Gazzada from the Milan stations. The trip will take 1-1.5 hours and cost around 6 euros.
'''From Linate'''
Taxi: Cost - ?? (probably extremely high); There is a shuttle which runs from Linate to Malpensa where you could share a taxi with those arriving at Malpensa.
Train:  Take shuttle or bus to Milano Centrale station (see above).




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[[Category:Milan, Italy|2015]]
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[[Category:Conferences|2015 Milan]]
[[Category:Early Islamic Studies--2010s|2015 Milan]]
[[Category:Early Islamic Studies--English|2015 Milan]]

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Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy
4th Nangeroni Meeting: plenary session
4th Nangeroni Meeting: discussion group
4th Nangeroni Meeting: trip to Milan
Guillaume Dye, Free University of Brussels (ULB)
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan


Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? (2015) is the topic of the fourth conference in the series of Nangeroni Meetings, and the first conference of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar, organized by the Enoch Seminar in Milan, Italy (June 2015) in collaboration with COREIS.

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Fourth Nangeroni Meeting (Milan, Italy; June 15–19, 2015)

Chair: Guillaume Dye (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)

Co-Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)

Secretary: Rodney Caruthers (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)

Preliminary Information

When: June 15-19, 2015

Accommodations: Villa Cagnola (Gazzada Schianno, Milan, Italy)

Location of the Seminar: Villa Cagnola (Gazzada Schianno, Milan, Italy)

Purpose: The meeting aims at examining afresh formative Islam in its the late-antique context. We plan to have panels (major sessions) on the following topics:

  • Early Islam and Enochic Traditions
  • The Making of the Islamic Prophet
  • How Should We Interpret the Early Islamic Account of the Arab Conquests?
  • The Biblia Arabica Project
  • Epigraphic Sources for the Study of Qur'ānic Origins
  • The Qur'ān in Light of Redaction Criticism
  • Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins

Major papers will be offered by Annette Yoshiko Reed, Carlos A. Segovia, Emilio González Ferrín, Meira Polliack, Guillaume Dye, Manfred Kropp, and Stephen J. Shoemaker.

Short papers on Qur'ānic and Early Islamic Studies will be welcome, particularly if they are related to any of the following topics of interest, to which we plan to devote several reading sessions and short-paper sessions, as well:

  • Arabia, Byzantium, and Persia on the Eve of Islam
  • Scribal Culture in the Near East (6th-8th centuries)
  • Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān
  • Dating Old Qur'ānic Manuscripts: Problems, Methods, Criteria
  • The Material Culture of Emergent Islam

The pre-circulating papers shall be presented briefly (5 min.) before being discussed by the participants (respondents will be allowed 10 min. to respond before the general discussion begins).

Paper Submission: All papers should be submitted by May 30, 2015. This will allow respondents and other participants enough time to prepare their responses and critical comments.

Paper Length: Major papers should be 6,000 words maximum; short papers, 3,000 words maximum.

Prospective Publication: A volume will be published with a selection of the papers offered atf the conference, which overall purpose is to contribute to the renewed study of Islamic origins in close dialogue with scholars working on the late-antique Near East, Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Sassanian Iran.

Participation in the Early Islamic Studies Seminar is by invitation only.

Should you like to present a short paper, please send to the chair of the conference, Guillaume Dye (gdye@noos.fr), by May 2015.

Should you simply like to attend the conference, or receive further information about it, please contact its secretary, Rodney Caruthers (rodneyac@umich.edu) at your earliest convenience.

Accommodations

We have secured the lovely Villa Cagnola in Gazzada Schianno (about 45 kilometres [28 miles] northwest of Milan) for our accommodations. Four nights lodging and all breakfasts and lunches are included in the cost, paid directly to us in Milan via cash:

  • €0 – Authors of Major Papers
  • €200 – Major Paper Respondents
  • €300 – Everyone else
  • €200 – Guests (children under 14, staying in the same room, are free)

Registration

Participation in the Fourth Nangeroni Meeting is by invitation only. If you have already secured your participation, please fill out the official online registration form and pay your registration fee by February 28, 2015.

The registration fee is based on the number of Enoch Seminars/Nangeroni Meetings you have attended in the past:

  • $125 – Newcomers
  • $110 – Attended 1 Enoch Seminar
  • $100 – Attended 2 Enoch Seminars
  • $90 – Attended 3 Enoch Seminars
  • $75 – Attended 4 or 5 Enoch Seminars + all emeriti
  • $0 – Attended 6 or more Enoch Seminars or Nangeroni Meetings

This registration fee is a donation to our sponsor, the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies, and it is tax-deductible for U.S. residents. The registration fee is refundable (minus a $50 administrative processing fee) 30 days prior to the start of the Seminar (i.e. by May 15, 2015) if for some reason you are unable to attend.

Participants

  1. Aghaei, Ali (Corpus Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany, EU)*
  2. Azaiez, Mehdi (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, EU)*
  3. Benassi, 'Isa 'Abd al-Haqq Nicola (COREIS, Italy, EU)*
  4. Boccaccini, Gabriele (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
  5. Bonner, Michael (University of Michigan, USA)*
  6. Bori, Caterina (University of Bologna, Italy, EU)*
  7. Borrut, Antoine (University of Maryland, USA)*
  8. Caruthers, Rodney (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
  9. Courtieu, Gilles (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France, EU)*
  10. Dye, Guillaume (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)*
  11. Enriello, Laura Mulayka (Interreligious Studies Academy, Italy, EU)*
  12. Fedeli, Alba (University of Birmingham, England, UK, EU)*
  13. Fisher, Greg (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada)*
  14. González Ferrín, Emilio (University of Seville, Spain, EU)*
  15. Hoffman, Thomas (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)*
  16. Holcátová, Barbara Kateřina Oudová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, EU)
  17. Kropp, Manfred (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, EU)*
  18. Mårtensson, Ulrika (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)*
  19. Morris, Ian D. (Spanish National Research Council [CSIC], Spain, EU / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, EU)*
  20. Mortensen, Mette Bjerregaard (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU)*
  21. Neuenkirchen, Paul (École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE], France, EU)*
  22. Oliver, Isaac W. (Bradley University, Illinois, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
  23. Pagani, Samuela (University of Salento, Italy, EU)*
  24. Palombo, Cecilia (Princeton University, USA)
  25. Petersen, Anders Klostergaard (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
  26. Pohlmann, Karl-Friedrich (University of Münster, Germany, EU)*
  27. Polliack, Meira (Tel Aviv University, Israel)*
  28. Pourshariati, Parvaneh (New York City College of Technology, USA)*
  29. Powers, David S. (Cornell University, New York, USA)*
  30. Reed, Annette Yoshiko (University of Pennsylvania, USA / Enoch Seminar)*
  31. Retsö, Jan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, EU)*
  32. Segovia, Carlos A. (Saint Louis University, Spain, EU / Enoch Seminar)*
  33. Shoemaker, Stephen J. (University of Oregon, USA)*
  34. Swanson, Dwight (Nazarene Theological College Manchester, UK, EU)*
  35. Watson, Francis (Durham University, UK, EU)*
  36. Wilk, Mateusz (University of Warsaw, Poland, EU)*
  37. Wood, Philip (The Aga Khan University, England, UK, EU)*

Provisional Schedule

Monday, June 15––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

08:00-16:00 – Arrivals

17:00 – Opening Session and Welcome (Gabriele Boccaccini, Guillaume Dye)

17:45–19:30 – Session 1: EARLY ISLAM AND ENOCHIC TRADITIONS

20:00 - Dinner

Tuesday, June 16––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

09:00–10:15 – Reading Sessions

  • (a) Eschatological Counter-Discourse in the Qur'ān and Tractate Sanhedrîn
  • (b) Christian Representations of the Coming of Islam

10:45–12:30 – Session 2: THE MAKING OF THE ISLAMIC PROPHET

13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

14:30–16:15 – Session 3: HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE EARLY ISLAMIC ACCOUNT OF THE ARAB CONQUESTS?

16:45–18:15 – Short Papers

  • The Political and Religious Context of Islamic Late Antiquity (Chair: Caterina Bori)
    • Greg Fisher, "Arabia and the Late Antique East: Current Research and New Problems"
    • Ian D. Morris, "The Arabian Origins of the Ḥāǧib: From Household Servant to Courtly Officer"
    • Parvaneh Pourshariati, "In Search of Religious 'Orthodoxy' in Sasanian Iran: The Paradigm and Its Devotees"
    • Philip Wood, "Archival Authority in the 'Abbāsid Caliphate: Edessa and Its Tax Claims"

20:00 - Dinner

Wednesday, June 17–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

08:45–10:15 – Short Papers

  • The History of the Qur'ān: New Perspectives and Debates (Chair: Anders Klostergaard Petersen)
    • Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann, "Conversion from Jewish and Christian Milieus to Islam and Its Influence on the Formation of the Qur'ān"
    • Ulrika Mårtensson, "Al-Ṭabarī's Accounts of Islam and the Qur'ān: Methodological Implications for Research on Manuscripts, Linguistics, and the Qur'ān"
    • Alba Fedeli, "Is the Dating of Qur'ānic Manuscripts Still a Problem?"
    • Paul Neuenkirchen, "Eschatology, Responsories and Rubrics in Eastern Christian Liturgies and the Qur'ān: Some Preliminary Remarks"

10:45–12:30 – Session 4: EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF QUR'ĀNIC ORIGINS

  • Manfred Kropp, "Epigraphical Sources in the Arabian Peninsula and Adjacent Regions in Late Antiquity: Their Relevance for Research on the Origins of the Qur'ān and Early Islam"; Respondent: Jan Retsö

13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Optional cultural visit to Milan and the Ambrosian Library

Thursday, June 18–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

09:00–10:15 – Short Papers

  • (a) Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur'ān (Chair: Gabriele Boccaccini)
    • Ali Aghaei, "God commands you to slaughter a Cow: Q. 2:67-74 as an allusion to Num. 19:1-19 or Deut. 21:1-9?"
    • Francis Watson, "Abraham the Iconoclast in Qur'ānic Transformation"
    • 'Isa 'Abd al-Haqq Nicola Benassi, "Muḥammad and the Christian Monks Baḥīrā and Waraqa: Revelation and Dialogue at the Origin of the Qur'ān"
    • Laura Mulayka Enriello, "Qur'ān and Eschatology: Reflections on the Prophet Enoch in the Islamic Tradition"
  • (b) Qur'ānic- and Early Islamic Eschatology (Chair: Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen)
    • Thomas Hoffmann, "Eruptions of Memories: On Collective Memory and Seismic Catastrophe in the Qur’ān"
    • Gilles Courtieu, "Cushions, Bottles and Roast Chickens! More Advertising about Paradise"
    • Mateusz Wilk, "Religious Scrupulousness and the End of the World: Some Remarks on Early Islamic Piety"

10:45–12:30 – Session 5: THE BIBLIA ARABICA PROJECT

13:00 - Lunch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

14:30–16:15 – Session 6: THE QUR'ĀN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF REDACTION CRITICISM

20:00 - Dinner

Friday, June 19–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

09:00–10:45 – Session 7: METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC ORIGINS

11:15–12:30 – Closing Plenary Session

13:00 – Lunch & Farewells

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Getting to the Seminar

Villa Cagnola (main lodging and location of Seminar):

Istituto Superiore di Studi Religiosi “Villa Cagnola”

Via Cagnola, 17/19

21045 GAZZADA SCHIANNO (VA)

Tel. +39 0332 461304

fax +39 0332 870887

E-mail: reception@villacagnola.it

villacagnola@tin.it

www.villacagnola.it

From Malpensa Airport

Taxi: 25-30 minutes; ~60 Euros

Train: ~1.5 hours; ~6 Euros (See trenitalia.com, Departure = "Malpensa Aeroporto" Arrival = "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone")

  • Take bus from Malpensa to "Busto Arsizio” and from there take a train “Suburbano” to the stop “Gazzada-Schianno.”
  • The station in Gazzada is about 1km from the Villa, or ~200m via the steps (see map).

From Milan via Train

There are no direct trips to Gazzada from Milano Centrale station (though it is usually a quick connection). Most of the direct trips from Milan are from the Milano Porta Girabaldi station (which is also in the center of town). Visit trenitalia.com to find the best times for direct trips. For departure, select "Milano (all stations)," and for arrival, "Gazzada-Schianno-Morazzone." This will show you all of the trips to Gazzada from the Milan stations. The trip will take 1-1.5 hours and cost around 6 euros.

From Linate

Taxi: Cost - ?? (probably extremely high); There is a shuttle which runs from Linate to Malpensa where you could share a taxi with those arriving at Malpensa.

Train: Take shuttle or bus to Milano Centrale station (see above).

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