Swansea University
14-15 March 2023
Online Conference Programme
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Day 1
Tuesday 14th March 2023
08:45 – 17:30 (GMT)
08:45 – 09:00 Arrival
09:00 – 09:15 Opening Remarks, Salwa El-Awa (Swansea University)
09:15 -10:00 Keynote Speech, M A S Abdel Haleem(SOAS)
Contemporary Qur’anic Studies and Classical ‘Ulum Al-Qur’an: Surat Al-Ahqāf as a Case in Point
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Panel 1 Qur’anic Pragmatics (Chair: Nora Eggen)
Ulrika Mårtensson (NTNU – The Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Correct speech and action”: Pragmatics theory of language use applied to Qur’anic terms, verbs, and categories of people
Ahmad Hemeidah (al-Azhar University) Counter-implicature and Qurʾānic Interpretation in Light of Mālikī Legal Tradition in the 5th AH/11th CE Century
Emad Mohamed (Bradford University) Syntactic Ambiguity in the Qur’an: Doors to New Interpretations
11:45 – 13:15 Panel 2 Qur’anic Semantics (Chair: Orhan Elmaz)
Hany Rashwan (UAE University) The ‘rhetorical’ misrepresentation of Arabo-Islamic literary terms: the concepts of bayān, faṣāḥah, and balāghah in the Qur’ān
Ghuzayyil Mohammed Al-Otaibi (King Saud University) Semantic Prosody of Deictic Verbs in the Holy Qurʼān: A Corpus-Informed Study
Nevin Reda (Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto) The Alif Lām Mīm in Surat al-Baqarah: An Intertextual Reading
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch and Prayer Break
14:15 – 15:45 Panel 3: Discourse Analysis: Case Studies (Chair: AbdelMadjid Ben Habib)
Sarra Tlili (University of Florida) Name and Status: Qur’anic Onomastics through Sūrat Ghāfir?
Nadia Shalaby (Ain Shams University) and Ola Hafez (Cairo University) Discursive Analysis of Interlocking Narratives in Surah Yusuf.
Francesco Grande (University of Torino) The Lughāt al-Qur’ān in Their Areal and Semitic Context
15:45 -16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Panel 4: Discourse Analysis: Coherence and Cohesion (Chair: Yehudit Dror)
Sujayat Zubaidi (University of Darussalam Gontor)
مناسبة الآيات من منظور البلاغة السامية: نظرة في بنية سورة الحديد
Ghasem Darzi (University of Shahid Beheshti), Semantic typology of Grammatical shifting (iltifāt) in the Qurʾān
M. Zakyi Ibrahim (California State University Fullerton) A Structural Analysis of Qur’an 56 (al-wāqiʿa): Whose Assessment is it Anyway?
Day 2
Wednesday 15th March 2023
O9:00 – 17:30 (GMT)
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15-10:00 Keynote Speech, James Dickins (University of Leeds)
Themes in Qur’anic Linguistics
10:00 – 11:45 Panel 5: Qur’anic Text Linguistics (Chair: Salwa El-Awa)
Abdelmadjid Ben Habib (Tlemcen University)
معنى “ملة إبراهيم حنيفا وما كان من المشركين” في القرآن حسب مفهوم “التشاكل”
Salam Saied (University of Haifa)
وظيفة واو الاستئناف الواقعة في بداية الفواصل في القرآن الكريم
Emad Alzabin (UAE University)
نظريّةُ الرَّبْطِ النَّحْويِّ: رؤيةٌ في التّفسير اللّسانيِّ لأنظمةِ التَّعلُّقِ في النَّصِّ القُرْآنيِّ
Syntactic Binding Theory: A vision on the linguistic explanation of binding systems in the Qur’an
Javad Fakhkhar Toosi (Independent Scholar in Islamic Studies) The Hidden Corners of the Implementation of a Classical Linguistic Theory in the Qur’an: The Temporality of the Qur’anic Language
11:45 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 13:45 Panel 6: Grammar and Syntax in the Qur’an and Tafsir (Chair: Shuruq Naguib)
Ivan Dyulgerov (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) “God and His Messenger”: On a Theologically Relevant Syntactical Feature
Melanie Hanitsch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) Two gardens therein maidens – Does the Qurʾān present evidence for the beginning of the loss of the dual?
Egbal Almahatwary (Georgia State University) The Role of Arabic Grammar in Tafsīr: An Analysis of Iʿrāb al-Jumal in Mughnī al-Labīb and al-Kashshāf
Almog Kasher (Bar-Ilan University) Grammatical Theories and Qurʾānic Commentaries: Al-Naḥḥās’ ʾIʿrāb al-Qurʾān as a Case Study
13:45-14:45 Lunch and Prayer Break
14:45 – 16:30 Panel 7: Digital and Statistical Approaches to the Qur’an (Chair: Muhammad Taghian)
Sara Al Tubuly (Al Maktoum College of Higher Education) The phonological development of Qur’anic Arabic in Children’s pronunciation
Dalal ElGemei (Al-Azhar University) Corpus Linguistic Study of Selected Verb Pairs in the Ever-Glorious Qur’an
Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Complutense University of Madrid) Computational Linguistics, Arabic lexicography, and Tafsīr (112.1)
Orhan Elmaz (University of St. Andrews) Intertextual Corpus Linguistics Analysis of verbal collocations in the phrasing of punishment narratives (Arsala alā v Arsala ilā)
16:30 – 17:00 Closing Remarks