Shii News – ‘Islamic Stories of the Prophets: Semantics, Discourse, and Genre’, Naples, 14-15 October
Islamic Stories of the Prophets: Semantics, Discourse, and Genre
Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Palazzo Dumesnil, via Chiatamone, 61
14–15 October 2015
Wednesday 14 October
OPENING LECTURE
Tilman Nagel (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
“How to achieve an Islamic interpretation of the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ”
PANEL 1: What is ‘Islamic’ about qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ?
Carol Bakhos (UCLA)
“The case of al-Kisāʾī”
Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan)
“Between Yūsuf and Karbalāʾ: suffering and salvation history in Fuẓūlī’s Garden of the Felicitous”
Brannon Wheeler (United States Naval Academy)
“In the footprints of the Buddha: comparing the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ to the Jatakas”
PANEL 2: Defining the Genre and Corpus of qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ
Roberto Tottoli (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
“Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ texts and editions: bibliographical questions regarding al-Thaʿlabī’s ʿArāʾis al-majālis”
Marianna Klar (SOAS, University of London)
“Textual stability in al-Kisāʾī’s Shuʿayb narrative”
Jens Scheiner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
“Did the quṣṣāṣ narrate qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ?”
PANEL 3: Qiṣaṣ Materials of the Mamlūk Period as Case Study
Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University)
“Tales of the prophets in al-Maqrīzī’s al-Khabar ʿan al-bashar: from Saul to Solomon”
Joseph Sadan (Tel Aviv University)
“The prophet Job (Ayyūb) and his wife Raḥma: a post-qurʾanic dramatic composition”
Walid Saleh (University of Toronto)
“On a Mamlūk treatise on al-Khiḍr: Ibn Imām al-Kāmiliyya (d. 874/1470) and India Office Islamic 1529”
Thursday 15 October
PANEL 4: The Political Implications of qiṣaṣ Materials: Shīʿī Examples
Michael Pregill (Boston University)
“When is a qiṣaṣ not a qiṣaṣ? Taʾwīl, propaganda, and political prophetology”
George Warner (SOAS, University of London)
“Qiṣaṣ al-aʾimma? The true, the miraculous, and the interesting in Imāmī Shīʿī stories of the prophets and imāms”
Omid Ghaemmaghami (SUNY Binghamton)
“And there befell the Israelites a period of concealment: notes on Moses and the Shīʿī messiah in early Twelver apologetic literature”
PANEL 5: Qiṣaṣ Outside the Bounds of qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ
Helen Blatherwick (SOAS, University of London)
“Solomon legends in Sīrat Sayf Ibn Dhī Yazan”
Ayşe Polat (University of Chicago)
“The human Jesus: a 1922 Ottoman periodical debate”
Shari L. Lowin (Stonehill College)
“Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ in an Andalusian poem of desire”
PANEL 6: Qiṣaṣ at the Edges of Islam
Herbert Berg (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
“Elijah Muhammad’s prophets: the white Adam, the black Jesus, and the black Christ”
Reuven Firestone (HUC-JIR/Los Angeles)
“The Story of the Ten Sages: an Israelite story of the Prophet, or a Jewish qiṣṣa of counter-history”
Meira Polliack (Tel-Aviv University)
“The term qiṣṣa/qiṣaṣ in medieval Judeo-Arabic biblical exegesis and its wider implications”
CONCLUDING LECTURE
Concepción Castillo (University of Granada)
“Forty years in qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ: a retrospective”
This conference is co-organized by Roberto Tottoli, Marianna Klar, and Michael Pregill. The conference is co-sponsored by Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale and ILEX Foundation. Those seeking more information or to attend the conference should contact us at qisasconference@gmail.com.
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