Jointly organized by Sapienza University of Rome and Roma Tre University
Rome, September 20-21, 2013

Friday 20 September
Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, via Principe Amedeo 182b (former "Caserma Sani"), room 7

15.00-16.45 Discussion of Tommaso Tesei’s PhD thesis, Deux légendes d’Alexandre le Grand dans le Coran : Une étude sur les origines du texte sacré arabe et sur ses liens avec les littératures chrétiennes et juives de l’Antiquité Tardive
– Angelo Arioli, Sapienza University of Rome
– Elisabetta Benigni, University of Turin
– Aboubakr Chraïbi, Inalco
– Guillaume Dye, Université Libre de Bruxelles
– Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University
– Roberto Tottoli, "L’Orientale" University of Naples

16.45-17.00 Break

17.00-19.00 Presentation of PhD projects by students in the Islamic Civilization curriculum of the PhD program Culture and Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome.
– Ilaria Cicola, A Computational Approach to the Analysis of the Jābirian Corpus
– Layla Mustapha, Women in the Qur’ān: Sayyid Qutb’s exegesis "Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān"
– Leila Benassi, Some Historical and Linguistic Remarks in Late Middle Arabic Documents
– Marta Campanelli, Complexity and Abstractiveness of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition: the Theory of Grammatical Government and the Refutation of Ibn Maḍā al-Qurṭubī
– Simona Olivieri, Kitāb al-ʾInṣāf: analysis of a linguistic debate

20.00- Social dinner

Saturday 21 September
Department of Foreign Language, Literature and Civilizations, Roma Tre University, Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19, Room C, ground floor

09.00-09.15 Greetings

09.15-11.00 Session I - chair: Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Sapienza University of Rome
– Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University, The Qurʾān and History: The Search for Muḥammad’s Christian Heretics
– Giuliano Lancioni, Roma Tre University, The Thesaurus Linguae Arabicae Project: Corpus Studies on Pre- and Proto-Islamic Texts

11.00-11.15 Break

11.15-13.00 Session II - chair: Vanna Calasso, Sapienza University of Rome
– Pierre Lory, EPHE, Les animaux dans le Coran et le hadith : interprétations monothéistes de visions animistes
– Guillaume Dye, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Qurʾānic Studies in Light of Biblical and New Testament Studies: some reflections

13.00-14.15 Lunch

14.15-16.00 Session III - chair: Daniela Bredi, Sapienza University of Rome
– Emilio González Ferrín, University of Seville, From Medina to Baghdad? Retrospective Narrative Vs. Historical Causality in Early Islam
– Roberto Tottoli, "L’Orientale" University of Naples, The Last Ten Years of Studies on the Qurʾān and Muḥammad: Perspectives and Approaches

16.00-16.15 Break

16.15-18.30 Session IV - chair: Claudio Lo Jacono, "L’Orientale" University of Naples, Istituto per l’Oriente
– Raoul Villano, Sapienza University of Rome, The Binary Structure of the Qurʾān: a Synchronic Approach
– Tommaso Tesei, Sapienza University of Rome, The Perspectives of a Critical Reading of the Qurʾānic Text: Two Pratical Examples
– Marco Boella, Sapienza University of Rome, Qurʾān and Unsupervised Text Mining: Some Ideas and Strategies

18.30-19.00 Discussion

(Source : http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/lancioni/db/index.php/MuhammadQuran)