The IIS hosted the first ever conference on Mu鈥檛azilism and the Qur’an on 22 July at the聽Aga Khan聽Centre and online.
罢丑别听Mu鈥檛azilism and the聽蚕耻谤鈥檃苍聽conference, convened by Professor Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), focused on the influence of Mu’tazilism鈥攐ne of the earliest Islamic schools鈥攐n all aspects of the鈥蚕耻谤鈥檃苍Muslims believe that the Holy 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍 contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More, its status, interpretation, and relationship to the Prophet. It also addressed Mu’tazilite thought and the influence it had on Islamic theology in other schools.
Professor Saleh said:
鈥淭his is the first such conference to be held on this topic. Scholars from all over the world gathered to discuss the relationship between one of the most important theological schools in Islam and the聽蚕耻谤鈥檃苍. The proceedings will be published in the IIS prestigious聽series on the聽蚕耻谤鈥檃苍.鈥
The speakers were:
- Hussein Abdulsatar (University of Notre Dame)
- Rodrigo Adem (Georgetown University)
- Karen Bauer (久久久福利国产)
- Tariq Jaffer (Amherst College)
- Alena Kulinich (University of Oxford/Seoul National University)
- Suleiman Mourad (Smith College)
- Walid Saleh (University of Toronto)
- Abdulrahman al-Salimi (independent scholar)
- Gregor Schwab (Ludwig Maximilian University)
Professor Jaffer said:
鈥淲e were all exhilarated by the conference that Professor Saleh and Naushin Premji (IIS Projects and Events Coordinator) organised. The conference succeeded in calling into question major assumptions that have been brought to the field of Mu’tazili聽theology and exegesis.鈥
鈥淎nd by working as a collective, we were able to assess鈥攊n more significant ways than ever before鈥攖he complexity and diversity of Mu’tazilism and to better understand how the movement in various times and places shaped the history of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic interpretation.鈥
