International Research Workshop

Call for Papers

Date: October 14-15, 2022

Venue: University of Freiburg, Germany

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022

Organizer: GloQur – The Global Qur’an Project (funded by the ERC)

We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop that will deal with late Soviet and post-Soviet tafsir and Qur’an translation activities. This workshop will gather translators, publishers and other experts in the field of Qur’anic Studies presenting their works as well as academic contributions that may cover a range of issues, including:

• Debates and main discourses around the production of Qur’an translations after 1991;

• Securitization & the Qur’an: State-supported and independent projects;

• The most important transnational actors in the field of translations;

• The Qur’anic audience and the specific features of Post-Soviet readership;

• National or imperial language? Islamic publishing and the transformation of language policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

More information on: The Global Qur’an Project’s Website