Early Islam: The Sectarian Milieu of Late Antiquity? / 4th Nangeroni Meeting (2015 Milan), conference

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Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy
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).

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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)

Secretary: Rodney Caruthers (University of Michigan, USA)

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 re-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
  • (2) Early Islamic Eschatology
  • (3) Early Islamic Sources in Light of a "Theology of Salvation"
  • (4) The Making of the Islamic Prophet
  • (5) Epigraphic Sources for the Study of Qur'ānic Origins
  • (6) The Qur'ān in Light of Traditio-Historical Criticism
  • (7) 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.

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
  • The Religious Landscape of Sassanid and Early Islamic Iran (500-750)
  • Scribal Culture in the Near East (6th-8th centuries)
  • Biblical/Para-Biblical Traditions in the Qur’ān
  • The material Culture of Emergent Islam
  • Arabia and Byzantium on the Eve of 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).

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 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.

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 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 15, 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.

Prospective Participants

  • Azaiez, Mehdi (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, EU)
  • Boccaccini, Gabriele (University of Michigan, USA / Enoch Seminar)
  • Borrut, Antoine (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Courtieu, Gilles (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, France, EU)
  • Dye, Guillaume (Free University of Brussels [ULB], Belgium, EU)
  • Fedeli, Alba (University of Birmingham, England, UK, EU)
  • Fisher, Greg (Carleton University, Ontario, Canada)
  • González Ferrín, Emilio (University of Seville, Spain, EU)
  • Kropp, Manfred (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, EU)
  • Lange, Christian (Utrecht University, Netherlands, EU)
  • Lourié, Basil (Scrinium, Russia / Enoch Seminar)
  • Oliver, Isaac W. (Bradley University, Illinois, USA / Enoch Seminar)
  • Petersen, Anders Klostergaard (Aarhus University, Denmark, EU / Enoch Seminar)
  • Pourshariati, Parvaneh (New York City College of Technology, USA)
  • Powers, David S. (Cornell University, New York, USA)
  • Reed, Annette Yoshiko (University of Pennsylvania, USA / Enoch Seminar)
  • Reeves, John C. (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
  • Retsö, Jan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, EU)
  • Reynolds, Gabriel Said (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
  • Segovia, Carlos A. (Saint Louis University, Spain, EU / Enoch Seminar)
  • Shoemaker, Stephen J. (University of Oregon, USA)
  • Tesei, Tommaso (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel)
  • Van der Velden, Frank (Germany, EU)
  • Wood, Philip (The Aga Khan University, England, UK, EU)
  • [...]

Provisional Schedule

Monday, June 15

8:00-15:00 – Arrivals

17:00 – Opening Session and Welcome

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

Tuesday, June 16

09:00–10:15 – Reading Sessions

  • (a) Revisiting Early Islamic Historiography
  • (b) Pro-Christians/anti-Christians Texts in the Qur’ān and the Dome of the Rock

10:45–12:30 – Session 2: EARLY ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGY

Lunch

14:30–16:15 – Session 3: EARLY ISLAMIC SOURCES IN LIGHT OF A “THEOLOGY OF SALVATION”

16:45–18:15 – Short Papers

  • (a) Dating Old Qur'anic Manuscripts: Problems, Methods, Criteria (Chair: )
  • (b) The Religious Landscape of Sassanid and Early Islamic Iran (500-750) (Chair: )

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

Lunch

Optional cultural visit to Milan

Open lecture at the University of Milan: "Rethinking Early Islam in Its Late-Antique Context"

Thursday, June 18

09:00–10:15 – Reading Sessions

  • (a) Manichaeism and Islamic Origins: How Strong Is the Link?
  • (b) Non-Islamic Witnesses to the Islamic Expansion

10:45–12:30 – Session 5: EPIGRAPHIC SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF QUR'ĀNIC ORIGINS

Lunch

14:30–16:15 – Session 6: THE QUR'ĀN IN LIGHT OF TRADITIO-HISTORICAL CRITICISM

16:45–18:15 – Short Papers

a) Material Traces of the Islamic Expansion and Rule (Chair: )

b) Arabia and Byzantium on the Eve of Islam (Chair: )

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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