Public Lectures
The Qurʾān Seminar involves a series of public lectures by leading Muslim intellectuals.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7:30 PM
Abdolkarim Soroush
Former professor of the University of Tehran and visiting scholar at Yale, Princeton, Harvard and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
“The Quran, Philosophy, and Law”
1140 Eck Hall
Reception to follow
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 PM
Shawkat Toorawa
Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies (Cornell University, New York, USA)
“How (Not) to Translate the Qurʾān”
100-104 McKenna Hall
Reception to follow
Sunday, September 30, 2012, 7:30 PM
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law (Emory Law School, Georgia, USA)
“The Qur’ān and Islamic Law”
Eck Hall of Law, Room 1140
Reception to follow
Wenesday, October 24, 2012, 7:30 PM
Mun'im Sirry
Postdoctoral fellow (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
“Reinterpreting Qur’ānic Criticism of Other Religions”
Auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies (between the Kroc and Kellogg's Institutes)
Reception to follow
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 7:30 PM
Nayla Tabbara
Director of Cross-Cultural Studies Department (Adyan Foundation, Lebanon)
“The Qur’ān and Muslim-Christian relations”
Auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies (between the Kroc and Kellogg's Institutes)
Reception to follow
Friday, December 7, 2012, 5:00 PM
Maryam Mosharraf
Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
“The Qur’ān and Islamic Mysticism”
Room 100-104 in McKenna Hall
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 PM
Shawkat Toorawa
Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies (Cornell University, New York, USA)
“How (Not) to Translate the Qurʾān”
100-104 McKenna Hall
Reception to follow
Thursday, April 11, 2013, 7:30 PM
Abdolkarim Soroush
Former professor of the University of Tehran and visiting scholar at Yale, Princeton, Harvard and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
“The Quran, Philosophy, and Law”
1140 Eck Hall of Law
Reception to follow