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
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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.
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Doretha Coval
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humin@umich.edu
Institute for the Humanities
University of Michigan
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