Mehdi Azaiez
Call for short papers : a booklet in homage of Professor Hichem Djait
Presentation Beit al Hikma plans to publish a booklet in homage of Professor Hichem Djait (1935-2021). Colleagues who would like to participate to send their written texts, not exceeding 1000 (…)
Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism (July 2021)
Sirry (Mun'im), Controversies over Islamic Origins: An Introduction to Traditionalism and Revisionism, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, 2021, 340 p. ISBN 978-1-5275-6821-1
Seminar: The European Qur’an (21-25 june 2021)
The objective of this seminar is to analyse the role that the Qur’an had in interactions in modern and medieval Europe with Islam, in debates between Christians of various persuasions and doctrines or in criticism of Christianity during the Enlightenment, among other areas of investigation.
Colloque "Esotericism and the Qur’an" (Lausanne, 5-7 May, 2022)
Esotericism and the Qur’an / L’ésoterisme et le Coran University of Lausanne & University of Geneva Lausanne, 5-7 May, 2022 Background and Objectives The Qur’an proclaims itself a message (…)
Jews and the Qur’an (October 2021)
Bar-Asher (Meir M.), Jews and the Qur'an, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 176 p. ISBN 9780691211350
11th Enoch Seminar / Session on "Early Islam" 27 May, 2021
To mark the 200th anniversary of the first “full” English translation of the “book of Enoch” by Richard Laurence (1821) and the 20th anniversary of the Enoch Seminar, the LMU Munich Congress on Apocalypticism in Antiquity has assembled 120 scholars and colleagues from around the world to address a much debated question that remains relevant for today.