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Brown Bag Series | Home > Events > Brown Bag Series > Nasr Abu-Zayd - “Is the Humanist Hermeneutic Approach to the Qur’an Possible?” |
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Nasr Abu-Zayd - “Is the Humanist Hermeneutic Approach to the Qur’an Possible?” Date: 3/11/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Room 2022 202 South Thayer Street Ann Arbor, MI Host Department: Institute for the Humanities Featuring our Fellows Detailed Information Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd holds the Ibn Rushd Chair of Humanism and Islam in the Universiteit voor Humanistiek at Utrecht, Netherlands. His current residency as a Visiting Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities is cosponsored by the Center of Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Trained in literary criticism at Cairo University, and a faculty member there until 1995, Professor Abu-Zayd has established himself as one of the most innovative critical thinkers of the Islamic world and his new theory of hermeneutics of the Qur’an has made a lasting impression in the academic field. He sees the Qur’an as a divine message in human language, and approaches it as a literary text, whose interpretation—due to the dialectics between message and recipient—depends on the intellectual and cultural horizon of the recipient. Free and open to the public Contact Information Doretha Coval 734 936 3518 humin@umich.edu |
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