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Please find below the abstract and program of papers for an international workshop convened by the ERC-funded research project "SENSIS: The Senses of Islam", led by Dr. Christian Lange of Utrecht University.No registration is required for participation, but those interested in attending are kindly requested to contact the event's co-organizer Dr. Adam Bursi at: a.c.bursi@uu.nl.International Workshop: "The Senses in the Qur’an and in Early Islam"26 October 2018, Utrecht University, Dpt. of Philosophy and Religious StudiesLocation: Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht, room 0.06Convened by the SENSIS project at Utrecht UniversityThis workshop seeks to trace the Quran’s and early Muslims’ conceptualization of the senses and of sense perception, starting from the notion that sensation is “the most fundamental domain of cultural expression, the medium through which all the values and practices of society are enacted” (Howes, 2003: xi). The workshop’s aim is two-fold: first, to unearth the roots of the Qur’anic/early Islamic sensorium in Late Antique culture, and secondly, to examine the processes of sensory disambiguation of “Muslim” identity from other identities (Christian, Zoroastrian, etc.) in the formation of Islam. Sources considered include the Qur’an, sīra and Hadith (both Sunni and Shiʿi), as well as texts from the surrounding literary cultures, and also non-textual evidence might be studied. The workshop explicitly welcomes exploratory, interactive papers. Prior to the meeting, but no later than 18 October, participants will circulate one or several short texts (in the format of a handout) for close reading in the workshop. Each paper will be 40 minutes long, and include a paper presentation (20 minutes); Q&#38;A (10 min.); and a joint reading and discussion of texts led by the presenter (10 min.).ProgramPanel 1: Scriptural bases9:00-9:40: Nora Schmid (Berlin), “Sense perception and the formation of ascetic knowledge in the Meccan surahs of the Qur’an”9:40-10:20: Thomas Hoffmann (Copenhagen): “The Weltinnenraum of the Qur’an: Towards a visceral phenomenology”10:20-11:00: Christian Lange (Utrecht): “Sensation in the canonical Sunni hadith corpus”11:00-11:30: COFFEE BREAKPanel 2: Sensations in early Islamic thought and sensory practices11:30-12:10: Adam Bursi (Utrecht), “The old women of Quraysh did that: Touch and its contestations in early Islamic pilgrimage rituals”12:10-12:50: Maroussia Bednarkiewicz (Oxford): “Diversity in the acoustic space: From the birth of the ādhān to the disappearance of the nāqūs”12:50-14:00: LUNCH14:00-14:40: Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College): “Looking different: Some hadith traditions against imitation”Panel 3: Sensory alterities14:40-15:20: Eyad Abuali (Utrecht): “Voices and Visions in Early Sufi Qur’an commentaries”15:20-15:50: COFFEE BREAK15:50-16:30: Arash Ghajarjazi (Utrecht): “The senses in Nahj al-balāgha”16:30-17:10: Mary Thurlkill (University of Mississippi): “Muhammad’s sweet sweat:  Modeling ritual purity in early Islam”17:10-17:30: Concluding session18:30-: DINNER (for speakers and invited guests)