The Qur'an: Text, Translation, and Culture, 2018

Qur’anic Rhetoric I (chair: Abdul-Hakim al-Matroudi)

• Adam Flowers (University of Chicago), ‘The Qur’anic Exhortation’
• Salwa El-Awa (Swansea University), ‘Discourse Markers as Indicators of Text and Structure in the Multiple-topic Qur'anic Suras: A Meta-analysis of Q. 2’
• Thomas Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen), ‘A Qur’anic Self-Deconstruction? Q. 20:113’
• Mamoon Abdelhalim Wagih (Fayoum University), 'أثر النحو العربي في خدمة النص القرآني' ('The Role of Arabic Grammar in Understanding and Interpreting the Qur'anic Text')

Qur'anic Rhetoric 2 (chair: Shawkat Toorawa)

• Rachel Dryden (University of Cambridge), ‘The Theology of Rain, and Other Weather-related Phenomena in the Qur’ān’
• Johanne Louise Christiansen (University of Copenhagen), ‘How to be Deliberately Vague: On the Rhetorical Strategy of Vagueness in the Qurʾān’
• Ulrika Mårtensson (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology), ‘Between mustaqīm and mukhliṣ: ‘Covenant’ as a Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of the Canon’s Composition and Key Concepts’
• M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (SOAS University of London), ‘Sūrat al-Mulk, Q 67: Reading the Qur’an According to its balāgha: ‘ḥaqqa tilāwatihi’’

Framing the Text: Shaping the Reception of the Qur’an (chair: Yasin Dutton)

• Mirina Paananen (University of Oxford), ‘Taghannī or not taghannī? Ibn al-Jazarī on the Musical Recitation of the Qurʾān’
• Suleyman Dost (Brandeis University), ‘The Rise and Fall of a Genre: The maṣāḥif Books in Context’

Theology (chair: Mustafa Shah)

• Livnat Holtzman (Bar-Ilan University), ‘The Rhetorical Aspect of āyāt al-ṣifāṭ: The Ashʿarite Prohibition of Gestures and the Ultra-Traditionalistic Response (12th–14th Centuries)’
• Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky), ‘Is the Ethics of the Qur'an Utilitarian?’
• Ramon Harvey (Ebrahim College), ‘Al-Māturīdī on Abrogation of the sharīʿa in the Qur’an and Previous Scriptures’

Tafsir (chair: Annabel Keeler)

• Todd Lawson (University of Toronto), ‘The Qur’an and the Shaykhiyya’
• Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), ‘The Encyclopaedia of Tradition-based Qur’an Commentary’
• Sohaib Saeed (University of Glasgow), ‘Qurʾān Citations in Qurʾān Exegeses: A Case Study of Sūrat al-Anʿām (Q. 6)’

Contemporary Approaches to the Qur’an (chair: Walid Saleh)

• Ghassan el Masri (Freie Universität-Berlin), ‘TBC’
• Ahmad Al-Dubayan (ICCUK), 'نقد منهج المعالجة اللغوية لدى محمد شحرور' ('Linguistic Methodology of Muhammad Shahrur')
• Ahmed Bouaoud (Université Abdelmalek Essaadi), 'القرآن والتاريخ بحث في أطروحة أنجليكا نويفيرت حول تاريخ النص القرآني' ('Qur'an and History: Angelika Neuwirth's Thesis on the History of the Qur'anic Text')

Translation I: Translation as Process (chair: Helen Blatherwick)

• Nàdia Petrus Pons (Autonomous University of Barcelona), ‘Transmission and Survival of Mark of Toledo’s Latin Qur’an translation’
• Nora S Eggen (University of Oslo), ‘Modality in translations of the Qur’ān’
• Shawkat M. Toorawa (Yale), ‘Ḥaqqa tilāwatihi—Doing the Qur’an justice in English translation’

Translation II: The Qur’an in Non-Western Languages (chair: Bruce Fudge)

• Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg), ‘Joseph and the Tiger, Mary and the Angel: What we can learn from Javanese Qur’an Translation’
• M. Brett Wilson (Central European University – Macalester College), ‘The Poet of Islam’s Translation of the Qur’an’
• Philipp Bruckmayr (University of Vienna), ‘From Manuscripts to Printed Editions: The Translation of the Qurʼān into Indochinese Languages’