Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes In brief Date - 28 January 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh)Title - From esoteric communication to verbatim revelation: The conspicuous absence of the root w-ḥ-y in the schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr Email an IMES colleague to join online About the speakerDr Simon Loynes is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. He holds a PhD from the IMES department, and an MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2014).He is a specialist in the Qur’an and is particularly interested in its literary aspects, its relationship to early Arabic poetry, and its place in Late Antiquity. His research applies Digital Humanities methodologies to the study of the Qur’an, and he is interested, more broadly, in the digitisation of Arabic texts and the challenges presented by building large-scale digital corpora.His first monograph, ‘Revelation in the Qur’an’, investigates the Qur’anic concept of revelation through the roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y. It was published in early 2021 in Brill’s Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān series.Simon is currently undertaking a 3-year research project that investigates the relationship of the Qur’an to pre-Islamic poetry. He has previously worked as a Research Editor at Harvard University’s Project in Islamic Law and at the Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book project at the Aga Khan University.About the seminar seriesThe second half of 2024-25's Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series is being organised by the team behind the Caliphal Finances research project. The overarching theme of the series will be taxation, with its title being 'Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bulls*it in my opinion'.All Caliphal Finances team members will be presenting their own research on Abbasid fiscal practices. They will also be joined by guest speakers from throughout the University, who will present on their own areas of expertise related to those fiscal practices.The series is co-organised by the Edinburgh Centre for Late Antique Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS).Read more about the Caliphal Finances project on our Research pageHow to attendEvents are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required. If you wish to join online, you can email a colleague in IMES for joining information.All talks are followed by a reception. Email an IMES colleague to join online Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer courses in the Muslim world's three main languages, placing Arabic, Persian and Turkish in the context of history, literature, culture, religion and politics, past and present.Choose from a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including PhD programmes. Find out more about lslamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh Jan 28 2025 13.00 - 14.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) exploring the clear lack of the root w-ḥ-y schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH and online Find the venue: 50 George Square Email an IMES colleague to join online
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes In brief Date - 28 January 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh)Title - From esoteric communication to verbatim revelation: The conspicuous absence of the root w-ḥ-y in the schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr Email an IMES colleague to join online About the speakerDr Simon Loynes is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. He holds a PhD from the IMES department, and an MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2014).He is a specialist in the Qur’an and is particularly interested in its literary aspects, its relationship to early Arabic poetry, and its place in Late Antiquity. His research applies Digital Humanities methodologies to the study of the Qur’an, and he is interested, more broadly, in the digitisation of Arabic texts and the challenges presented by building large-scale digital corpora.His first monograph, ‘Revelation in the Qur’an’, investigates the Qur’anic concept of revelation through the roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y. It was published in early 2021 in Brill’s Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān series.Simon is currently undertaking a 3-year research project that investigates the relationship of the Qur’an to pre-Islamic poetry. He has previously worked as a Research Editor at Harvard University’s Project in Islamic Law and at the Knowledge, Information Technology, and the Arabic Book project at the Aga Khan University.About the seminar seriesThe second half of 2024-25's Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series is being organised by the team behind the Caliphal Finances research project. The overarching theme of the series will be taxation, with its title being 'Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bulls*it in my opinion'.All Caliphal Finances team members will be presenting their own research on Abbasid fiscal practices. They will also be joined by guest speakers from throughout the University, who will present on their own areas of expertise related to those fiscal practices.The series is co-organised by the Edinburgh Centre for Late Antique Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS).Read more about the Caliphal Finances project on our Research pageHow to attendEvents are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is required. If you wish to join online, you can email a colleague in IMES for joining information.All talks are followed by a reception. Email an IMES colleague to join online Are you interested in studying with us?We are the only university in Scotland to offer courses in the Muslim world's three main languages, placing Arabic, Persian and Turkish in the context of history, literature, culture, religion and politics, past and present.Choose from a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including PhD programmes. Find out more about lslamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh Jan 28 2025 13.00 - 14.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) exploring the clear lack of the root w-ḥ-y schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH and online Find the venue: 50 George Square Email an IMES colleague to join online
Jan 28 2025 13.00 - 14.30 Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series: Simon Loynes A hybrid seminar by Dr Simon Loynes (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) exploring the clear lack of the root w-ḥ-y schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr.
