Arabic-L:GEN:Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt

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1) Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt

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Date: 07 Apr 2014
From: "Brustad, Kristen" <brustad at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference in Frankfurt

Call for papers:
The Zentrum für Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at
Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is pleased to announce the
congress Horizonte der islamischen Theologie (Horizons of Islamic Theology)
to be held from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September 2014 at the University of
Frankfurt.
The study of Near and Middle East past and present as well as the study of
the philologia sacra demands an ever-growing expert knowledge of the
methods and theories of history, sociology and literature. In most academic
institutions, however, the study of these fields is considered separate
disciplines. As a consequence, Arabists and scholars of Islamic studies
will normally study Classical Arabic to a certain level but rarely acquaint
themselves with other Semitic languages, despite their importance with
regard to the Biblical background of the Koran as well as the linguistic
and cultural setting of the Koran and Early Islam.
The section “Comparative Semitic and Arabic Studies”, organized by Daniel
Birnstiel (Frankfurt) and Na’ama Pat-El (University of Texas, Austin),
attempts to highlight the benefits of a linguistic and comparative
engagement of Arabic with other regional languages and societies for an
improved understanding of Early Islam and its literary heritage.
Already in 1923 in the introduction to his Arabische Syntax, Herrmann
Reckendorf identified the investigation of Arabic Syntax from a historical
perspective as one of the most pressing tasks of Arabic studies.
Nevertheless, only a small number of corpus-based studies attempting to
solve grammatical questions and difficulties have been published to date.
This panel is dedicated to the presentation of new research in the field of
Arabic syntax.
We invite submissions to two panels “New Insights in Historical Arabic
Syntax” and “Arabic and Semitic: How archaic is the fuṣḥā?”. Please submit
abstracts no longer than 300 words to Dr. Daniel Birnstiel (
birnstiel at em.uni-frankfurt.de<mailto:birnstiel at em.uni-frankfurt.de>) and
Dr. Na’ama Pat-El (npatel at austin.utexas.edu<mailto:npatel at austin.utexas.edu>),
accompanied by a short bio, by June 30 2014.

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