International Conference
Do 13 Jul 2017 – Sa 15 Jul 2017

What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World

Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh, Colinda Lindermann, Rossella De Luca, Katharina Kloss (all Dahlem International Network Junior Research Group “Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period”)

Freie Universität Berlin

The international conference “What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World” investigated the neglected history of Arabic-Islamic textual practices and interpretative methods in the early modern world from a global and comparative perspective.

Although philology has always been a global knowledge practice, no such account of its history has ever been written. Indeed, wherever texts exist, a method of making sense of them has existed as well. What forms did these methods take in Arabic-Islamic scholarship before the encounter with European philology? How do salient aspects of the philological method, such as care for textual difference and variation, attention to contingency and change, and the need to make texts accessible and available, appear in Arabic philology, and what has become of them after this encounter?

The conference was organised by the Dahlem International Network Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period" (Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh, Colinda Lindermann, Rossella De Luca, Katharina Kloss), and is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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