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🔹Sunday Dec 22, 4:00-6:00 pm ET
Lecture (in English), 7, "Mary in the Qur'an"
Speaker, Dr. Farhad Ghoddoussi
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"Mary in the Qur'an", Lecture 4
speaker: Dr. Farhad Ghoddoussi
Nov 24, 2024

Chapters:
0:00 Greetings & Introductory Remarks
2:45 List of Surahs related to the Hazrat Maryam in Qur'an in Chronological Order of Revelation and the Order of the Verses.
4:28 Annunciation In Qur'an, New Testament and ProtoGospel of James and the enigma of Joseph the Carpenter.
9:50 Matthew1:18-25 Angel appears in the dream of Joseph the Carpenter and asks him to take Mary as his wife because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit and name her son after Mary giving birth Jesus
13:10 Reading the English translation of the verses Q19:16-21 and Q3:45-47 and brief discussions.
27:38 Looking to the Tafsir Al-Mizan by Allamah Tabatabaei in regards to the above verses with a special focus on the issue of singularity of [our]spirit and plurality of angels in verses Q19:17 and Q3:45 respectively and the distinction between the two phrases "no human being has ever touched me" and "nor have I been unchaste" Q19:20 which refers to lawfully through marriage and unlawfully through fornication, respectively.
43:00 Different Recitations of Q19:17 and Q19:19.
51:04 The distinction between Annunciation and Conception of Jesus.
56:24 Reviewing Sean W Anthony Article on Q19:19 (The Virgin annunciate in the Meccan Qur'an Maryam 19:19 in context) The record of the early disputes on the correct reading of Q19:19 (لِاَهَبَ لکِ or لِیَهَبَ لکِ) .
1:18:20 Evidence of the manuscripts for the two readings (لِاَهَبَ لکِ or لِیَهَبَ لکِ)
of verse Q19:19.
1:26:15 The Structure of the Q19 and its rhymes and the issue of later addition of verses Q19:33-40.
1:29:28 Idiosyncratic Translation of the verse Q19:17 by Anthony as "...and away from them fashioned a curtain. We sent our spirit to her," instead of typical translation “she took a veil apart from them” (Arberry), and as a result producing an intertextuality with ProtoGospel of James.
1:34:21 The idea of the Book. In Surah 19 Maryam Qur'an states "and mention in the book"(wa’dhkur fī l-kitāb)” no less than five times throughout the Sūrah in verses 16, 41, 51, 54, 56.
1:38:19 Syriac church fathers discussions of temporal simultaneity or separation of Annunciation and Conception and that how conception happened
1:44:05 The reasons/motivations for the alternative reading لِیَهَبَ لک instead of لِاَهَبَ لک in Q19:19.
1:50:05 The two take aways of Sean W. Anthony:
- The first takeaway is that historical-critical readings of the Qur'an require reading the text within the epistemic fabric of its era and environment—both the confines of Arabia and the broader world of Late Antiquity.

- The second takeaway is that Islamic scriptural traditions of curation (scribal, performative) and interpretation (exegetical, theological) are indispensable to this historical project.

"... one may learn more about the Qur'an and its textual formation not when one discards the philological resources of the Islamic tradition but, rather, when one integrates them with the other resources at our disposal and takes seriously the considerable insights they convey."

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