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The 'Late Antique Qur'an': Jewish-Christian Liturgy, Hellenic Rhetoric, and Arabic Language
Angelika Neuwirth, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin; Member (2009), School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
June 3, 2009
Is the Qur'an an exclusively Islamic text? In this talk, Angelika Neuwirth, a Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and a Member in the School of Historical Studies (2009), contends that it is both Islamic and late antique. Before the Qur'an was recognized as Muslim scripture it was communicated to an audience whose education was based on late-antique traditions—Judeo-Christian, Hellenic, and Arabian. Read as a movement within this triangle, the Qur'an turns out to be a Near Eastern--European text.
Support for this lecture was provided by the Dr. S. T. Lee Fund for Historical Studies.
The 'Late Antique Qur'an': Jewish-Christian Liturgy, Hellenic Rhetoric, and Arabic Language
Angelika Neuwirth, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin; Member (2009), School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
June 3, 2009
Is the Qur'an an exclusively Islamic text? In this talk, Angelika Neuwirth, a Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and a Member in the School of Historical Studies (2009), contends that it is both Islamic and late antique. Before the Qur'an was recognized as Muslim scripture it was communicated to an audience whose education was based on late-antique traditions—Judeo-Christian, Hellenic, and Arabian. Read as a movement within this triangle, the Qur'an turns out to be a Near Eastern--European text.
Support for this lecture was provided by the Dr. S. T. Lee Fund for Historical Studies.
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Who is Angelika Neuwirth?Angelika Neuwirth (born 1943) is a professor of Quranic studies from Freie University, Berlin, Germany. She studied islamic studies, semitic studies and classical philology at the Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Gottingen, Jerusalem, and Munich
Between 1994 and 1999 she was the director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies in Beirut and Istanbul. Neuwirth works as a professor in Freie University in Berlin and as a visiting professor at the University of Jordan in Amman, and her research focuses on the Quran, its interpretations, and modern Arabic literature in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially Palestinian poetry and prose related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
