Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi The Journal of Tafsīr Studies اىخفسٍشٌت اىذساسبث ٍجيت https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tader E, 2024
This study includes our interview with Aaron Hughes, who continued his studies on Islam in the Un... more This study includes our interview with Aaron Hughes, who continued his studies on Islam in the Unit- ed States. Hughes, a professor at the University of Rochester, is highly knowledgeable and widely recognized in the field of Religious Studies. The questions we posed to Hughes were related to two subjects: American Orientalism and Late Antiquity. As far as we can determine, there are very few studies on these two subjects in Türkiye. This interview will attempt to contribute to the Turkish aca- demic community. The question of which centuries are included in the Late Antiquity created by Peter Brown is a matter of debate. This period, which generally covers the period from the 2nd century AD to the end of the 8th century in historiography, is constantly being stretched by researchers in the Unit- ed States. Garth Fowden, who expanded the period even further and extended it to a longer period, put forward the theory of the “First Millennium”. This periodization, which has made a great leap forward in the field of history with the studies conducted in recent years, has begun to be used effectively in Qur’anic studies. Angelika Neuwirth, a German-born orientalist, has conducted an intertextual reading by placing the Quran within the epistemic fabric of Late Antiquity with her Corpus Coranicum project. This method, which is also used in the works of American orientalists such as Stephen Shoemaker, Daniel Beck, Sean Anthony, Gabriel Said Reynolds and David Powers, seems likely to dominate the field in the coming years.
NAASR faces an existential dilemma. It is currently caught between the desire for greater numbers... more NAASR faces an existential dilemma. It is currently caught between the desire for greater numbers and panels that take place at the Annual Meeting of the AAR on the one hand, and the idea of a more exclusive group that focuses solely on historical and scientific analysis on the other. This paper argues that the future of NAASR resides in the latter option as opposed to the former. It even goes a step further and argues that NAASR should—intellectually, if not logistically—split from the AAR because as things currently stand the AAR defines the parameters of the conversation: NAASR, by default, becomes that which the AAR is not. However, in so doing, NAASR still defines itself using the discourses and categories of the AAR. NAASR’s physical departure from the AAR would provide it with the intellectual space necessary for further growth and reflection on things theoretical and methodological.
This study is about the tensions between the early framers of Islam and non-Muslims in the early ... more This study is about the tensions between the early framers of Islam and non-Muslims in the early Islamic period. More specifically, it is about how these early framers struggled with religious others, both external and internal, and how this struggle was ultimately responsible for the creation of what would emerge as (Sunnī) orthodoxy. While the latter would appear as the natural outgrowth of Muhammad’s preaching to those doing the framing, it was ultimately little more than a subsequent development accompanied by a retroactive projection onto the earliest period. Non-Muslims (among them Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians) and the “wrong” kinds of Muslims (e.g., Shīʿa) became integral—by virtue of their perceived stubbornness, infidelity, heresy, or the like—to understand what true religion was not and, just as importantly, what it should be. Without such religious others, proper belief could not be articulated and orthodoxy would simply have remained adrift in its own inchoateness.
Tefsir Araştırmaları Dergisi The Journal of Tafsīr Studies اىخفسٍشٌت اىذساسبث ٍجيت https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tader E, 2024
This study includes our interview with Aaron Hughes, who continued his studies on Islam in the Un... more This study includes our interview with Aaron Hughes, who continued his studies on Islam in the Unit- ed States. Hughes, a professor at the University of Rochester, is highly knowledgeable and widely recognized in the field of Religious Studies. The questions we posed to Hughes were related to two subjects: American Orientalism and Late Antiquity. As far as we can determine, there are very few studies on these two subjects in Türkiye. This interview will attempt to contribute to the Turkish aca- demic community. The question of which centuries are included in the Late Antiquity created by Peter Brown is a matter of debate. This period, which generally covers the period from the 2nd century AD to the end of the 8th century in historiography, is constantly being stretched by researchers in the Unit- ed States. Garth Fowden, who expanded the period even further and extended it to a longer period, put forward the theory of the “First Millennium”. This periodization, which has made a great leap forward in the field of history with the studies conducted in recent years, has begun to be used effectively in Qur’anic studies. Angelika Neuwirth, a German-born orientalist, has conducted an intertextual reading by placing the Quran within the epistemic fabric of Late Antiquity with her Corpus Coranicum project. This method, which is also used in the works of American orientalists such as Stephen Shoemaker, Daniel Beck, Sean Anthony, Gabriel Said Reynolds and David Powers, seems likely to dominate the field in the coming years.
NAASR faces an existential dilemma. It is currently caught between the desire for greater numbers... more NAASR faces an existential dilemma. It is currently caught between the desire for greater numbers and panels that take place at the Annual Meeting of the AAR on the one hand, and the idea of a more exclusive group that focuses solely on historical and scientific analysis on the other. This paper argues that the future of NAASR resides in the latter option as opposed to the former. It even goes a step further and argues that NAASR should—intellectually, if not logistically—split from the AAR because as things currently stand the AAR defines the parameters of the conversation: NAASR, by default, becomes that which the AAR is not. However, in so doing, NAASR still defines itself using the discourses and categories of the AAR. NAASR’s physical departure from the AAR would provide it with the intellectual space necessary for further growth and reflection on things theoretical and methodological.
This study is about the tensions between the early framers of Islam and non-Muslims in the early ... more This study is about the tensions between the early framers of Islam and non-Muslims in the early Islamic period. More specifically, it is about how these early framers struggled with religious others, both external and internal, and how this struggle was ultimately responsible for the creation of what would emerge as (Sunnī) orthodoxy. While the latter would appear as the natural outgrowth of Muhammad’s preaching to those doing the framing, it was ultimately little more than a subsequent development accompanied by a retroactive projection onto the earliest period. Non-Muslims (among them Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians) and the “wrong” kinds of Muslims (e.g., Shīʿa) became integral—by virtue of their perceived stubbornness, infidelity, heresy, or the like—to understand what true religion was not and, just as importantly, what it should be. Without such religious others, proper belief could not be articulated and orthodoxy would simply have remained adrift in its own inchoateness.
Amsterdam University Press • Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages • 2021
Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories
Edited by Carlo... more Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories
Edited by Carlos A. Segovia
Amsterdam University Press, 2020
Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 5
This multidisciplinary collective volume aims at moving forward the scholarly discussion on Islam’s origins by simultaneously paying attention to three domains whose intersections need to be examined afresh to get a more-or-less clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that made possible the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries. It therefore deals with the renewed analysis of texts, social contexts, and/or ideological developments relevant for the study Islam’s beginnings – taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. Contributors include Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Daniel Beck, José Costa, Gilles Courtieu, Emilio González Ferrín, Aaron W. Hughes, Basil Lourié, Carlos A. Segovia, and Tommaso Tesei.
We are delighted to announce a forthcoming International Workshop: ‘From Oriens Christianus to th... more We are delighted to announce a forthcoming International Workshop: ‘From Oriens Christianus to the Islamic Near East: Theological, Historical and Cultural Cross-pollination in the Eastern Mediterranean of Late Antiquity’. The workshop seeks to shed new light on the crossroads at which the Late Antique world of the Eastern Mediterranean heralded diverse exchanges between Oriental Christendom, Byzantine culture and the Islamic world. Furthermore, how these exchanges impacted the development of diverse regions, cultures, languages, and religions.
The workshop will provide an inter-disciplinary overview of the various perspectives emerging from the Christian Oriental, Byzantine, Early Islamic and Archaeological approaches to this area of research. The key objective of the workshop is to explore the possibilities of a unified and holistic approach to understanding the “Sattelzeit” (R. Koselleck) – i.e. the period between 500 and 750 CE. While the scope of the workshop has been intentionally left broad, the papers will primarily focus on the following areas:
- The role of Eastern/Oriental Christians in the relationship(s) formed between the Islamic Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire. - Scripture and Arts as a medium of interchange between Christians and Muslims. - The historical narratives and administrative reality of the expansion of the Islamic Empire. - The workshop will take place on 7th – 8th December, 2017 at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and is the collaborative effort of the Chair of Byzantine Studies (FU Berlin), Radboud University, and Gorgias Press.
We hope that the workshop will encourage fruitful discussions about the state-of-the-art of the field and highlight potential areas for future inquiry. We further expect the workshop to provide a platform for both established researchers in the field and early-career academics (including advanced Ph.D. students). The workshop proceedings will be published in an edited volume by Gorgias Press.
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Islam has always been approached... more Published by Ilex Foundation through Harvard University Press.
Islam has always been approached in two different ways: the apologetical and the polemical. Whereas the former is contingent on the preservation and propagation of religious teachings, the latter represents an attempt to undermine the tradition or the followers of a specific tradition. The dialectic between these two approaches continued into the Enlightenment, and the tension between them remains into the present. What is new in the modern period, however, is the introduction of a third approach, the academic one, which is supposed to examine-in an ostensibly non-partisan manner-the many diverse historical, religious, legal, intellectual, and philosophical contexts in which Islam and Islamic studies has been articulated. Classical Islamic subjects (e.g., Qurʾān, ḥadīth, fiqh, tafsīr) are thus approached using apologetic, polemical and academic approaches in a variety of disciplinary and institutional frameworks. Depending on the historical period and the institutional context, these classical topics have been assumed (apologetical), their truth claims undermined (polemical), or, we wish to suggest, simply taken for granted (academic).
The term medieval performs a great deal more intellectual work in modern Jewish Thought than simp... more The term medieval performs a great deal more intellectual work in modern Jewish Thought than simply acting as a referent to a particular historical era. During the nineteenth century, often for Jews who were increasingly alienated from their own tradition, the medieval functioned primarily as a bearer of identity in a rapidly changing and secular world. Each chapter in "Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought" addresses a different return to the medieval, ranging from the Enlightenment to the contemporary period, that clothed itself in the language of renewal and of retrieval. The volume engages the full complexity and range of meaning the term medieval carries for modern Jewish Thought.
ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions
est une publication scientif... more ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions est une publication scientifique avec comité de lecture. Tous les textes proposés seront soumis à l’évaluation du Comité scientifique. Ils doivent répondre aux normes éditoriales disponibles à l’adresse www.asdiwal.ch. Les propositions peuvent être envoyées sous format électronique à l’adresse [email protected]. La revue peut accueillir, dans ses numéros thématiques, des actes de colloque. La revue ASDIWAL, émanation de la Société genevoise d’histoire des religions, paraît chaque année depuis 2006. Son siège est établi à l’Université de Genève, Faculté des lettres, Unité d’histoire des religions.
Acknowledgments vi
Preface vii
Introduction: A Personal Journey in and through
Comparison 1
1. T... more Acknowledgments vi Preface vii Introduction: A Personal Journey in and through Comparison 1 1. To What Can I Compare Thee? 8 2. History 25 3. Possibilities 51 4. Contexts 77 5. Future 100 Further Reading 115 References 118 Index 127
Frequently we hear some variation on the phrase, "Islam and…." This can take the form, for exampl... more Frequently we hear some variation on the phrase, "Islam and…." This can take the form, for example, of "Islam and other religions" or, more specifically, "Islam and Judaism" or "Islam and Christianity"-to say nothing of more restrictive topics such as "Islam and the environment," "Islam and feminism," "Islam and social justice," and so on and so forth. Such couplings, I wish to suggest here, are often weighted in such a manner that the emphasis is traditionally put on the two nouns, with but scant attention devoted to the conjunction that joins them to one another. This chapter instead wishes to call attention to the performative work of that little word "and," showing that far from neutral filler, it instead announces a proprietary claim and a relation of encompassment between the two larger concepts that it locks, temporarily if fragilely, together.1 It is the conjunction, after all, that takes two highly essentialized and reified nouns (e.g., "Islam," "Judaism"; or "Islam," "social justice") and narrows them into some sort of union that enables them to relate to one another. Yet, this act of relating is never simply value-neutral, let alone a natural activity. The conjunction is what limits, reduces, defines, and otherwise structures the two concepts that it holds together in a network of some descriptive or comparative framework. This is done, moreover, to such an extent that it is never some pure or essentialized "Islam" that is held together-though it is often presented in precisely such a manner-with some other equally essentialized and/or grossly amorphous term or concept (e.g., environment, gender). Rather, it is often an understanding or definition of that tradition, and that to which it is linked, as understood and put forth by the interpreter to achieve some desired end.2 We forget these latter two points at our peril. I would suggest, that new conceptual modelling demands a critical scrutiny of the terms
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حشَو ٕزٓ اىذساست ٍقببيخْب ٍغ (آسُٗ ٍٕ٘ص). اىزي ٗاصو دساسبحٔ ح٘ه الإسلاً فً اى٘لاٌبث اىَخحذة. ٗ(ٍٕ٘ص) أسخبر فً جبٍؼت سٗحشسخش. ٌخٍَض(ٍٕ٘ص) بَؼشفت ٗاسؼت مَب أّٔ ٍؼشٗف بشنو مبٍش فً ٍجبه دساست الأدٌبُ. ٗمبّج الأسئيت اىخً ُطشحج ػيى (ٍٕ٘ص) ٍشحبطت بَ٘ض٘ػٍِ. َٕب: الاسخششاق الأٍشٌنً ٗاىؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة. ٗبقذس اسخطبػخْب حٌ ححذٌذ الاحً اُ ْٕبك دساسبث قيٍيت جذا ح٘ه ٕزٌِ اىَ٘ض٘ػٍِ فً حشمٍب. ٍَب ٌخٍح ىٖزٓ اىَقببيت ببىَسبَٕت فً اىَجخَغ الأمبدًٌَ اىخشمً. ٗمبُ ٍ٘ض٘ع اىْقبش ػِ: أي اىقشُٗ مبّج حشَيٖب اىؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة مَب ٗضؼٖب بٍخش بشاُٗ. (ٕٗزٓ اىفخشة حغطً بشنو ػبً ٍِ اىقشُ اىثبًّ اىٍَلادي إىى ّٖبٌت اىقشُ اىثبٍِ فً اىنخبببث اىخبسٌخٍت)، ٗىقذ حٌ اىؼَو ػيى ح٘سٍغ ٕزٓ اىفخشة ببسخَشاس ٍِ قبو اىببحثٍِ فً اى٘لاٌبث اىَخحذة ٍِٗ ٕؤلاء اىببحثٍِ جبسث ف٘دُ، اىزي قبً ببىؼَو ػيى اطبىت ٕزٓ اىفخشة بشنو أمبش، مَب قذً ّظشٌت "الأىفٍت الأٗىى". ٗحققج ٕزٓ اىفخشاث اىضٍٍْت قفضة مبٍشة فً ٍجبه اىخبسٌخ ٍغ اىذساسبث اىخً أجشٌج فً اىسْ٘اث الأخٍشة ٗبذأث حُسخخذً بشنو ٍؤثش فً اىذساسبث اىقشآٍّت ٗاٌضب أّجٍيٍنب ٌّ٘٘سد اىَسخششقت اىخً ٗىذث فً أىَبٍّب. قبٍج بئجشاء قشاءة ّصٍت ٍِ خلاه ٗضغ اىقشآُ ضَِ اىْسٍج اىَؼشفً ىيؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة ٍِ خلاه ٍششٗػٖب "م٘سب٘ط قشآٍّنً٘". ٗ ٌبذٗ أُ ٕزٓ اىطشٌقت ًٕ اىخً حُسخخذً أٌضب فً أػَبه اىَسخششقٍِ الأٍشٌنٍٍِ ٍثو سخٍفِ شٍٍ٘نش، ٗداٍّبه بٍل، ٗشُ٘ أّطًّ٘، ٗغببشٌٍو سؼٍذ سٌْ٘ىذص، ٗدٌفٍذ ببٗسص، ٗاٌضب ٍِ
حشَو ٕزٓ اىذساست ٍقببيخْب ٍغ (آسُٗ ٍٕ٘ص). اىزي ٗاصو دساسبحٔ ح٘ه الإسلاً فً اى٘لاٌبث اىَخحذة. ٗ(ٍٕ٘ص) أسخبر فً جبٍؼت سٗحشسخش. ٌخٍَض(ٍٕ٘ص) بَؼشفت ٗاسؼت مَب أّٔ ٍؼشٗف بشنو مبٍش فً ٍجبه دساست الأدٌبُ. ٗمبّج الأسئيت اىخً ُطشحج ػيى (ٍٕ٘ص) ٍشحبطت بَ٘ض٘ػٍِ. َٕب: الاسخششاق الأٍشٌنً ٗاىؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة. ٗبقذس اسخطبػخْب حٌ ححذٌذ الاحً اُ ْٕبك دساسبث قيٍيت جذا ح٘ه ٕزٌِ اىَ٘ض٘ػٍِ فً حشمٍب. ٍَب ٌخٍح ىٖزٓ اىَقببيت ببىَسبَٕت فً اىَجخَغ الأمبدًٌَ اىخشمً. ٗمبُ ٍ٘ض٘ع اىْقبش ػِ: أي اىقشُٗ مبّج حشَيٖب اىؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة مَب ٗضؼٖب بٍخش بشاُٗ. (ٕٗزٓ اىفخشة حغطً بشنو ػبً ٍِ اىقشُ اىثبًّ اىٍَلادي إىى ّٖبٌت اىقشُ اىثبٍِ فً اىنخبببث اىخبسٌخٍت)، ٗىقذ حٌ اىؼَو ػيى ح٘سٍغ ٕزٓ اىفخشة ببسخَشاس ٍِ قبو اىببحثٍِ فً اى٘لاٌبث اىَخحذة ٍِٗ ٕؤلاء اىببحثٍِ جبسث ف٘دُ، اىزي قبً ببىؼَو ػيى اطبىت ٕزٓ اىفخشة بشنو أمبش، مَب قذً ّظشٌت "الأىفٍت الأٗىى". ٗحققج ٕزٓ اىفخشاث اىضٍٍْت قفضة مبٍشة فً ٍجبه اىخبسٌخ ٍغ اىذساسبث اىخً أجشٌج فً اىسْ٘اث الأخٍشة ٗبذأث حُسخخذً بشنو ٍؤثش فً اىذساسبث اىقشآٍّت ٗاٌضب أّجٍيٍنب ٌّ٘٘سد اىَسخششقت اىخً ٗىذث فً أىَبٍّب. قبٍج بئجشاء قشاءة ّصٍت ٍِ خلاه ٗضغ اىقشآُ ضَِ اىْسٍج اىَؼشفً ىيؼص٘س اىقذٌَت اىَخأخشة ٍِ خلاه ٍششٗػٖب "م٘سب٘ط قشآٍّنً٘". ٗ ٌبذٗ أُ ٕزٓ اىطشٌقت ًٕ اىخً حُسخخذً أٌضب فً أػَبه اىَسخششقٍِ الأٍشٌنٍٍِ ٍثو سخٍفِ شٍٍ٘نش، ٗداٍّبه بٍل، ٗشُ٘ أّطًّ٘، ٗغببشٌٍو سؼٍذ سٌْ٘ىذص، ٗدٌفٍذ ببٗسص، ٗاٌضب ٍِ
Edited by Carlos A. Segovia
Amsterdam University Press, 2020
Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 5
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This multidisciplinary collective volume aims at moving forward the scholarly discussion on Islam’s origins by simultaneously paying attention to three domains whose intersections need to be examined afresh to get a more-or-less clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that made possible the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries. It therefore deals with the renewed analysis of texts, social contexts, and/or ideological developments relevant for the study Islam’s beginnings – taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. Contributors include Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Daniel Beck, José Costa, Gilles Courtieu, Emilio González Ferrín, Aaron W. Hughes, Basil Lourié, Carlos A. Segovia, and Tommaso Tesei.
The workshop will provide an inter-disciplinary overview of the various perspectives emerging from the Christian Oriental, Byzantine, Early Islamic and Archaeological approaches to this area of research. The key objective of the workshop is to explore the possibilities of a unified and holistic approach to understanding the “Sattelzeit” (R. Koselleck) – i.e. the period between 500 and 750 CE. While the scope of the workshop has been intentionally left broad, the papers will primarily focus on the following areas:
- The role of Eastern/Oriental Christians in the relationship(s) formed between the Islamic Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire.
- Scripture and Arts as a medium of interchange between Christians and Muslims.
- The historical narratives and administrative reality of the expansion of the Islamic Empire.
- The workshop will take place on 7th – 8th December, 2017 at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and is the collaborative effort of the Chair of Byzantine Studies (FU Berlin), Radboud University, and Gorgias Press.
We hope that the workshop will encourage fruitful discussions about the state-of-the-art of the field and highlight potential areas for future inquiry. We further expect the workshop to provide a platform for both established researchers in the field and early-career academics (including advanced Ph.D. students). The workshop proceedings will be published in an edited volume by Gorgias Press.
Islam has always been approached in two different ways: the apologetical and the polemical. Whereas the former is contingent on the preservation and propagation of religious teachings, the latter represents an attempt to undermine the tradition or the followers of a specific tradition. The dialectic between these two approaches continued into the Enlightenment, and the tension between them remains into the present. What is new in the modern period, however, is the introduction of a third approach, the academic one, which is supposed to examine-in an ostensibly non-partisan manner-the many diverse historical, religious, legal, intellectual, and philosophical contexts in which Islam and Islamic studies has been articulated. Classical Islamic subjects (e.g., Qurʾān, ḥadīth, fiqh, tafsīr) are thus approached using apologetic, polemical and academic approaches in a variety of disciplinary and institutional frameworks. Depending on the historical period and the institutional context, these classical topics have been assumed (apologetical), their truth claims undermined (polemical), or, we wish to suggest, simply taken for granted (academic).
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émanation de la Société genevoise d’histoire des religions, paraît
chaque année depuis 2006. Son siège est établi à l’Université de
Genève, Faculté des lettres, Unité d’histoire des religions.
Preface vii
Introduction: A Personal Journey in and through
Comparison 1
1. To What Can I Compare Thee? 8
2. History 25
3. Possibilities 51
4. Contexts 77
5. Future 100
Further Reading 115 References 118 Index 127