2025年2月14日（金）、東京外国語大学本郷サテライトおよびオンラインにて、米国のアラブ文学研究者Shawkat Toorawa先生をお迎えし、以下の通りセミナーを開催します。ふるってご参加ください。

20世紀後半の世俗化と進歩主義の傾向とは対照的に、アラブ文学の作品では、クルアーンからの引用や、その中の物語の暗示が見られます。本セミナーでは、アラブ文学の作家たちが聖典とどのように関わってきたかについて、ノアの物語とクルアーンのいわゆる「神秘文字」を例に議論を深めていきます。

講師：Prof. Shawkat Toorawa（イエール大学）
コメント：山本薫氏（慶応義塾大学）
司会進行：岡崎弘樹氏（亜細亜大学）

登壇者：

Shawkat M. Toorawa is Brand Blanshard Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His books include a study of the ninth-century Baghdad bookman, Ibn Abi Tahir; a co-edited reference work on Arabic literary culture from 500 to 925 ; an edition and collaborative translation of a short 13th-century collection of women’s biographies; an edition and translation, A Time Between Ashes and Roses, by the contemporary Syro-Lebanese poet, Adonis; and The Devotional Qur’an: Beloved Surahs and Verses. He is co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Qur’anic Studies on ‘The Qur’an and World Literature,’ and of a special issue of The Muslim World on ‘Anglophone Muslim Women Writing.‘ An edited collection on the literary dimensions of the Qur’an is forthcoming. He is an executive editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.

Kaoru YAMAMOTO is Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Having received her PhD in Literature from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies on A Study of Ṣaʿālīk (brigand-poets) in Pre-Islamic Arabia: heroes in inverted world in 2002. She has translated many works, including those of Emile Habiby and Adania Shibli into Japanese. She was nominated as a judge for The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2014.

Hiroki OKAZAKI is a specialist of contemporary Arab political thought and literature, and Assistant Professor at Department of International Relations in Asia University, Tokyo. His current research interests are mainly in two fields: The conceptual history of the Arab-Islamic world, especially as presented by the Nahda thinkers since the middle of nineteenth century; The cultural resistance against the authoritarianism in contemporary Syria, including political thought, literary works and documentary films. He is the author of The Arab Critique of Despotism in the Modern Age: Between Orientalism and “Orientalism in Reverse” (Tokyo University Press, 2021).