This workshop aims to explore how Jews approached the Qur’an and Islam from the Middle Age to the early modern period both in the lands of Islam and in Europe. Through various sources and textual genres ranging from polemics, exegesis to Qur’anic translations, we will discuss how Islam was perceived, how the Qur’an was used and how the Jews in some contexts were influenced by the material, textual and theological aspects of the Islamic tradition. The workshop will try to reflect the variety of the Jewish engagement with Islam and the Qur’an, which far from being monolithic, expressed in different ways across time and space.

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Read the program : INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: JEWS, THE QUR'AN AND ISLAM: CONTACTS AND INFLUENCES

PUBLIC LECTURE by JOANNA WEINBERG, Professor emerita in early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics, University of Oxford: “The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe”

KEYNOTE LECTURE by SUSANNAH HESCHEL, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College: “The Nahda and the Wissenschaft des Judentums: Arabs, Jews and the Critique of European Modernity”


Organized by Naima Afif, post-doc at EuQu University of Copenhagen.







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