From Logos to Kalam: Figurations and Transformations of Knowledge in Near Eastern Late Antiquity (A05)

• Subject Area: Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
• Term: from 2012 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 191249397

Focusing on the "formative period" of the Arabic literary tradition, particularly the Qur'an and early Islamic sciences, the project "From Logos to Kalam" aims at identifying and describing processes of knowledge transfer shaped by and involving concepts of language, scripture and its interpretation. It attempts to locate these processes in the 'oikonomies of knowledge' of a late antique milieu.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 980: Episteme in Motion - Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Angelika Neuwirth