Coordinators

The 2022 International Summer School has been possible thanks to the enthusiasm and efforts of all speakers and presenters who kindly accepted our invitation. Colleagues from INEKAS COMMUNITY, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, and SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY have tried jointly towards coordinating this school and gathering all of us virtually to learn about The history of the Quran, Islam and the late antique society, and The early writings in Islam (Hadīth, Sīra, and Tafsīr).

INEKAS COMMUNITY
Mohsen Feyzbakhsh
Mohammad Ghandehari
Farhad Ghoddoussi
Mohammad Baqeri
Mohammad Sajjad Entezari
Mohammad Hasan Firoozbeh
Mohammad Reza Mo’ini
Mahdi Saleh
Amir Reza Haghighatkhah

Presentation

ABOUT THE SUMMER SCHOOL
In collaboration with the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (UK) and the Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies Research Institute at Shahid Beheshti University (Iran), Inekas will host a summer school on “Early Islam”.
Taking place every Thursday and Friday from August 25th to September 9th, the summer school will run (in six days) from 11:30 to 18:00 BST (6:30 to 13:00 EDT).
The summer school aims to provide students interested in Islamic studies with a glimpse into recent schol-arship on: the history of the Quran, Islam and the late antique society, the early writings in Islam (Hadīth, Sīra, and Tafsīr).
There will be presentations in both English and Persian. Hence, students interested in Islamic or Middle Eastern studies who intend to improve their Persian for academic purposes can use the summer school as a training course.

Speakers

INVITED SPEAKERS (Alphabetically Sorted)
Ahab Bdaiwi
Eleonore Cellard
Juan Cole
Mohammad Ghandehari
Mohsen Goudarzi
Najam Haidar
Seyfeddin Kara
Morteza Karimi-Nia
Tolou Khademalsharieh
Ilkka Lindstedt
Sa’dollah Nasiri Gheydari
Nosrat Nilsaz
Khodadad Rezakhani
Sajjad Rizvi
Ehsan Roohi
Behnam Sadeghi
Nora Schmid
Hadi Taghavi
Ala Vahidnia
Marijn van Putten
Holger Zellentin

(Credit photo: Mehdi Azaiez)