Programme
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Room 8B.1.14
9:00 Welcome and opening remarks
Jan Loop, Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Cultures, University of Copenhagen and
co-PI, the European Qur’an Project
Naima Afif, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Copenhagen, the European Qur’an Project
09:15 Session 1
Chair: Piet van Boxel, Emeritus Curator of Hebraica, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Magdalen Connolly, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Qur’an fragments in the Cairo Genizah Collections
Theodor Dunkelgrün, University of Cambridge
How the Qur’an shaped the Torah: inter-religious dynamics and the material text
Marzena Zawanowska, University of Warsaw & Jewish Historical Institute
Influences of Qur’an exegesis on the development of historical consciousness among Medieval Karaite Bible scholars
11:30 General discussion
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Visit to the David Collection
17:00 Public lecture (book presentation)
Danish Jewish Museum
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
19:00 Dinner
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Room 8B.1.14
09:15 Session 2
Chair: Mercedes García-Arenal, Research Professor, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Madrid and co-PI, the European Qur’an Project
Silvia Di Donato, CNRS Paris
The Qur’an in Medieval Hebrew translations of philosophical texts
Mònica Colominas Aparicio, University of Groningen & Max Plank Institute
Islamic knowledge and sources for Jewish polemics against Christianity and Islam: the case of Simeon ben Zemah Duran’s Keshet u-Maguen (15th century)
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Session 3
Chair: Roberto Tottoli, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Naples, L’Orientale and co-PI, the
European Qur’an Project
Benoît Grévin, CNRS Paris
At the crossroads of Mediterranean Judaism and Italian humanism. Editing the Qur’an in Hebrew characters of the
ms. Vat. Ebr. 357 and its multilingual commentary (beginning and end of the 15th century)
Aleida Paudice
Capsali’s Attitude toward Islam: Jewish Messianism in the 16th Century and the Ottoman World
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 4
Chair: John Tolan, Professor of Medieval History, University of Nantes and co-PI, the European
Qur’an Project
Davide Liberatoscioli, University of Postdam
The New Testament and the Qur’an as depicted in Abraham Silveira’s Silent Book
Naima Afif, University of Copenhagen
The Jewish Fabulae Sarracenorum: Pre-modern Jewish views on the prophet Muhammad and Islam through retranslations of Medieval Christian sources
15:30 General discussion and concluding remarks
16:00 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote lecture
Kierkegaard Auditorium
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Theology, Kierkegaard auditorium
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
19:00 Dinne