Islamic Colloquia of Edinburgh (ICE) Conference

7 July – Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān

10:45-11:00am: Introductions

Multiplicity, Testimony, and Qirāʾāt

11:00-11:30am: Ayub & Nur Fajri Romadhon – Multiform Inimitability and Non-ʿUthmānic Qirāʾāt

11:30am-12:00pm: Rashed Chowdhury – Pushkin’s “Imitations” and the Challenge of Iʿjāz

12:00-12:30pm: Dr Abid Naeem – Classical Theories of Iʿjāz: Rummānī, Bāqillānī, Jurjānī

12:30-1:00pm: Break

Arguments and Challenges

1:00-1:30pm: Erkki V. R. Kojonen – Testimonial Arguments and Qurʾānic Inimitability

1:30-2:00pm: Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury – Dhawq and the Aesthetic Experience of the Qurʾān

2:00-2:30pm: Ramon Harvey – A Wisdom-Based Account of Qur’anic Inimitability

2:30-3:00pm: Break

Historical Perspectives

3:00-3:30pm: Omar Aladwani – Abū Rashīd al-Naysābūrī and Freethinker Critiques

3:30-4:00pm: Wahid Amin – Shīʿī Approaches to Inimitability from al-Murtaḍā to Ṭabāṭabāʾī

8 July – Miracles in History

Theological and Philosophical Conceptions

11:00-11:30am: Muhammad Aga Yudha & Iklil Athroz Arfan – Shaikh Nawawi al-Bantani on Miracles

11:30am-12pm: Murtaza Shakir – The Concept of Muʿjiza in Fatimid Thought

12:00-12:30pm: Maryam AlSayyed – Averroes on Natural Law and Belief

12:30-1:00pm: Break

Metaphysics and Miracles

1:00-1:30pm: MohammadReza Moini – Al-Murtaḍā and Divine Action

1:30-2:00pm: Shoaib Ahmed Malik – Al-Rāzī and the Function of Miracles

2:00-2:30pm: Break

Miracles and Their Varieties

2:30-3:00pm: Fitzroy Morrissey – Sufi Metaphysics of al-Jīlī

3:00-3:30pm: Nazir Khan – Ibn Taymiyya’s Epistemology of Miracles

9 July – Miracles and the Modern World & Scientific Miracles

Modern Conceptions of the Miraculous

11:00-11:30am: Suleyman Sertkaya – Miracles and Science in Gülen’s Thought

11:30am-12:00pm: Mahsheed Ansari – Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modern Epistemologies

12:00-12:30pm: Zain Razzaq – Farāhī and Ahmad Khan on the Sea-Splitting Miracle

12:30-1:00pm: Break

Approaches and Methdologies

1:00-1:30pm: Andreas Tzortzis – Iʿjāz ʿIlmī and the Multiplicity of Readings

1:30-2:00pm: Sohaib Saeed – Scientific Miracles in Modern Tafsīr

2:00-2:30pm: Break

Semiotics and Scripture

2:30-3:00pm: Ayesha Qurrat ul Ain – Reading Prophetic Miracles with Abdul Majid Daryabadi

3:00-3:30pm: Yunus Doğan Telliel – Counting Miracles: Numbers as Signs