The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events

Monday, 18 July 2022 - Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Venue: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg

Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
International congress | Project »Linked Open Tafsīr« | 20 years of Islamic Studies in Frankfurt

Ömer Özsoy (Goethe University), Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt University Berlin) et al.
»Reconstructing the dynamics of the emergence of Islam – possibilities and limits«

About the congress
More information about the congress and the programme can be found here.

Participation and registration
Participation (on site or online) only after prior registration. Please click here.

Chair
Ömer Özsoy has been a professor of Qur’anic exegesis at the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2009, and is also the director of the University’s Institute for Studies in the Culture and Religion of Islam. After studying theology, he received his doctorate from Ankara University in 1991 and taught there as a professor of Qur’anic exegesis at the Faculty of Theology from 2004 to 2006. In his historical-critical research that considers all historical sources from the time of Islam's origin, he explores the questions of how Islam came into being in the 7th century and how it has been perpetuated in subsequent centuries.

Serdar Kurnaz is Professor of Islamic Law in Past and Present at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was Director of the Swiss Center for Islam and Society at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) from 2015 to 2016 and Junior Professor of Islamic Theology at the Academy of World Religions at the University of Hamburg from 2016 to 2019.

Organization
The congress is the »Linked Open Tafsīr Conference 2022«. It is organized by Goethe University Frankfurt, Humboldt University Berlin and the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) in Frankfurt, in cooperation with the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften and the Frankfurt collaborative research project »Dynamics of the Religious«. It is co-funded by the German Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung and the Stiftung Mercator.

Further information and contact
Misbahur Rehman, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (rehman@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Sercan Üstündag, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (uestuendag@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Tugrul Kurt, Humboldt University Berlin (tugrul.kurt@hu-berlin.de)