Description du projet
Le Coran dans la culture et l’histoire religieuse européennes
Le Coran incarne l’écriture sacrée de l’Islam — le Livre Saint. Il joue un rôle fondamental dans les débats entre chrétiens, les interactions avec l’Islam et les critiques du christianisme. Le projet EuQu, financé par l’UE, a pour but de découvrir comment le Coran a influencé la culture et la religion en Europe entre 1150 et 1850. Pour ce faire, le projet mènera des recherches sur la manière dont le Coran a été traduit, interprété, adapté et utilisé dans l’Europe chrétienne, ainsi que sur la manière dont il s’est inscrit dans l’histoire intellectuelle, religieuse et culturelle. En outre, il vise à développer une base de données cartographiée par SIG du Coran européen, à produire une série de publications et à organiser une grande exposition qui se déroulera au cours de la dernière année du projet.
Objectif
“The European Qur’an” (EuQu) will study the place of the Muslim holy book in European cultural and religious history (c.1150-1850) situating European perceptions of the Qur’an and of Islam in the fractured religious, political, and intellectual landscape of this long period. The Qur’an plays a key role not only in polemical interactions with Islam, but also in debates between Christians of different persuasions and is central to the epistemological reconfigurations that are at the basis of modernity in Europe, from Iberia to Hungary. The Qur’an is deeply imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and part of the intellectual repertoire of Medieval and Early Modern Europeans of different Christian denominations, of European Jews, freethinkers, atheists and of course of European Muslims. We will study how the European Qur’an is interpreted, adapted, used, and formed in Christian European contexts – often in close interaction with the Islamic world.
EuQu will produce, over a six-year period:
1. A GIS-mapped database of the European Qur’an, containing extensive information about Qur’an manuscripts and printed editions (in Arabic, Greek, Latin, and European vernaculars) produced between 1143 and 1800 as well as prosopographical data about the principal actors involved in these endeavours (copyists, translators, publishers).
2. A series of publications: PhDs, monographs written by postdocs and PIs, special issues of academic journals, and animated digital publications for a wider audience and educational uses. They will make key breakthroughs in their fields, dealing with aspects of the transmission, translation and study of the Qur’an in Europe, on the role the Qur’an played in debates about European cultural and religious identities, and more broadly about the place of the Qur’an in European culture.
3. A major exhibition during the final year of the project, “The European Qur’an” to be held at museums in Nantes, London, Budapest and Madrid.
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ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitution d’accueil
28006 Madrid
Espagne