16-03-12 The Warburg Institute
Launch Conference for the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe: Translating The Qur'an - Reading and Translating the Qur'an with the Dominican Arabists, c. 1240 -- 1320
Speaker: Thomas E. Burman (Tennessee)
The Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) is dedicated to the study of the reception and understanding of Arabic and Islamic culture, science and religion in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern period. This one-day conference, Translating the Qur'an, is devoted to the European reception and understanding of the Qur'an, the sacred text of Islam.