Schedule:
10.00 — 12.30
Session 1
Introduction and Chair: Angelika Neuwirth
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (LMU München, Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), The Legacy of Moses: Receiving a Divine Law
Oded Schechter (University of Chicago; Fellow of EUME), The Revelation on Mount Sinai as Trade and Contract
Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin), The Broken Tablets Preserved: al-lawh almahfuz – Source of Aesthetic Knowledge
Mohamad Nur Kholis Setiawan (State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indondesia; Fellow of EUME), Mi'raj al-Nabi: Muhammad's receiving the Ritual Law in Sunnite Tradition
14:00 – 17:00
Session 2
Muhammad Reza Vasfi (Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran; Fellow of EUME), Mattan Torah in the Qur’an and the Problem of Text Abrogation
Sasha Dehghani (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin), Ascension as Mystical and Philosophical Path
Claus-Peter Haase (Islamisches Museum Berlin), Oriental Manuscripts on the Ascension of the Prophet Muhammad
Amina Avdovic (SFB “Ästhetische Erfahrung” Freie Universität Berlin), Representations of the Prophet in Muslim Art
Chair: Michael Marx (Corpus Coranicum, BBAW)