The Protocols of the Gaze in the Qurʾān

Location: Raum 07W04, Staatsbibliothek, Unter den Linden 8, Akademieflügel Date: , 15:00 Ahmed al-Rahim (University of Virginia): “The Protocols of the Gaze in the Qurʾān” Ahmed al-Rahim received his PhD in Islamic studies from Yale University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2009. He is Associate Professor and Director of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is currently a Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin, where he is working on a literary history of the historiography of Arabic philosophy in the Middle Ages; his publications include “The Creation of Philosophical Tradition: Biography and the Reception of Avicenna’s Philosophy from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries A.D.“ Diskurse der Arabistik; 21. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018, and “Arabic Literary Prose, Adab Literature, and the Formation of Islamicate Imperial Culture.“ In The Cam