Topic: Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) and the Methodology of the
mufassirin
Time:
5:50 – 7:10 PM Saturday February 2nd, 2008
(7:15 – 8:00 PM Dinner)
Speaker: Carolyn Baugh
Topic
Theme: A look at the Islamic intellectual tradition of Qur'anic
exegesis (tafsir), with special attention given to four of its
masters from the pre-modern era, al-Tabari, al-Zamakhshari, al-Qurtubi
and Ibn Kathir. How did these amazing scholars engage in writing
tafsir, and how does studying tafsir enhance our faith?
Speaker’s Bio: Carolyn Baugh is a summa cum laude graduate of Duke
University, with a self-designed degree in Arabic and Arab
literature. She also studied Arabic at the Middlebury Language
Institute and the American University in Cairo. She is currently a
doctoral candidate in her fourth year of the Islamic Studies program
in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations. Her focus is gender issues in Islamic
law. In addition to an article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the
Islamic World, she is the author of ‘The View from Garden City,’ a
novel about Egyptian women debuting in August of 2008 from Forge
Books.
