24 April 2012
8:45 - Welcome
9:00 – 10:40 / Panel One: The Qur’an and the Concept of Adab, Chair: Stefan Sperl, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
11:00 – 12:40 / Panel Two: Quoting the Qur’an: Theory and Techniques (al-Tha‘alibi, d. 429/1039), Chair: Wen-Chin Ouyang, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
13:40 - 15:20 / Panel Three: The Qur’an in Poetry, Chair: James Montgomery, University of Cambridge
15:40 - 17:20 / Panel Four: The Reception of the Qur’an in Qisas al-Anbiya’ and Folk Literature (the Arabian Nights), Chair: Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
9:00 – 10:40 / Panel Five: The Qur’an, History and Rhetoric, Chair: Hugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
11:00-12:40 / Panel Six: The Qur’an and the Art of Quoting, Chair: Gerard Van Gelder, the University of Oxford
13.40-16.00 / Panel Seven: The Reception of the Qur’an in Mirrors for Princes, Chair: Eric Ormsby, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
9:00-10.40 / Panel Eight: The Reception of the Qur’an in Devotional Literature and Islamic Mysticism, Chair: Ayman El-Desouky, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
11:00-12:30 / General discussion, Chair: Nuha al-Sha‘ar