12:30 - 14:00 

Room 7801 | Humanities 

On January 29th and 30th we held our first international workshop on vision and visuality in holy scriptures and their interpretations, spanning from Rabbinic Judaism, Early Christianity, Zoroastrian traditions to Buddhist approaches, with a special emphasis on aspects of vision in the Qur'an and Early Islam. The second day was dedicated to meetings with local Muslim and Christian interlocutors learning and discussing their approaches to visual and sensual aspects in their religious traditions. 

The Visual in Sufism and Islamicated Urban Architecture

VISIONIS seeks to study the importance of mystical and visual experiences in Early Islam both by studying Qur’anic and Early Islamic texts and material objects as well as by zooming out on later times and different communities for comparisons. In our tour to Acre we visited the Shadhuliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order and had a look at a variety of other different visual expressions of Islamic belief and practices in the urban setting, both old and contemporary. 

This term we are holding our weekly reading group on Mondays 10.00-12.00. We are reading relevant excerpts of exegetical works, starting with Tafsīr Muqātil. If interested to participate and for more information, please contact Hannelies Koloska.