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SUNDAY, 20.01 09.45-10.00 Gathering 10.00-10.15 Welcome – Yigal Bronner, Director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (MBSF) & Meir Bar-Asher, Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University 10.15-10.30 Visuality of the Qur’an and around: Introductory Remarks – Hannelies Koloska (MBSF) 10.30-11.30 Keynote: ‘From Apocalypse to Exodus’. What is made visible and what is flashed out in the Qur'anic Discourses – Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin) Coffee Break 11.45-13.00 Qur’anic References to Writing: Visual Culture, Material Culture and Inter-textuality – Neal Robinson (Brussels) Early Christian Pictorial Cycles between Image and Text. Observations on Image Editing and Image Intention – Norbert Zimmermann (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome) Chair: Yoni Brack (MBSF) Break The Qur’an and Visuality in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 20.01-21.01.2019 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus | Mandel Building, Room 530 CONFERENCE 14.30-15.45 Risky Requests: Moses, the Israelites, and the Vision of God in the Qur’an - Joseph Witztum (Hebrew University) Visions of Heavens and Paradise in Islamic Domes and Ceilings – Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University) Chair: Oded Zinger (MBSF) Coffee Break 16.00-17.15 Elements of Cosmic Creation between Vision and Sound: The “disconnected” Letters of the Qur’an – Nora K. Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin) Syncretic References to pre-Islamic Religions in Islamic Illustrations of the Prophets – Rachel Milstein (Hebrew University) Chair: Dennis Halft (MBSF) MONDAY, 21.01 9.30-12.00 The Visibility of the Qur’an in Mamluk Jerusalem – Guided Tour through the Old City with Tawfiq Da’adli (registration required until 18.01., mail to [email protected]) Organizers: Dr. Hannelies Koloska (MBSF) Dr. Tawfiq Da’adli (Hebrew University) הפקולטה למדעי הרוחContact: The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] | Tel: 972 (0)2-5883901

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09.45-10.00 Gathering10.00-10.15 Welcome – Yigal Bronner,

Director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (MBSF) & Meir Bar-Asher, Department of Arabic Language and Literature of the Hebrew University

10.15-10.30 Visuality of the Qur’an and around: Introductory Remarks – Hannelies Koloska (MBSF)

10.30-11.30 Keynote: ‘From Apocalypse to Exodus’. What is made visible and what is �ashed out in the Qur'anic Discourses – Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin)

C o f f e e B r e a k11.45-13.00 Qur’anic References to

Writing: Visual Culture, Material Culture and Inter-textuality – Neal Robinson (Brussels)

Early Christian Pictorial Cycles between Image and Text. Observations on Image Editing and Image Intention – Norbert Zimmermann (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome)

Chair: Yoni Brack (MBSF) B r e a k

The Qur’an and Visuality in Late Antiquity and Early Islam20.01-21.01.2019The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus | Mandel Building, Room 530

CONFERENCE

14.30-15.45 Risky Requests: Moses, the Israelites, and the Vision of God in the Qur’an - Joseph Witztum (Hebrew University)

Visions of Heavens and Paradise in Islamic Domes and Ceilings – Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University)

Chair: Oded Zinger (MBSF)C o f f e e B r e a k16.00-17.15 Elements of Cosmic Creation

between Vision and Sound: The “disconnected” Letters of the Qur’an – Nora K. Schmid (Freie Universität Berlin)

Syncretic References to pre-Islamic Religions in Islamic Illustrations of the Prophets – Rachel Milstein (Hebrew University)

Chair: Dennis Halft (MBSF)

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9.30-12.00 The Visibility of the Qur’an in Mamluk Jerusalem – Guided Tour through the Old City with Taw�q Da’adli (registration required until 18.01., mail to [email protected])

Organizers: Dr. Hannelies Koloska (MBSF) Dr. Taw�q Da’adli (Hebrew

University)

הפקולטה למדעי הרוח

Contact: The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences Email: [email protected] | Tel: 972 (0)2-5883901