On the 24th of September 2024 A.Yu. Kudruavtseva delivered the lecture “Quranic ethnography: flora of oasis and desert” at the State Museum of the History of Religion.
The lecture was delivered in the framework of the cycle of lectures under the title of “The Holy Book of Muslims in research works of Saint Petersburg Scholars” at the exhibition “Images and fabulas of the East in the Russian and European graphics from the collection of Imams Ageev-Shamsutdinov”.
“The Quran explains itself” – this is one of the core principles of studying the Holy Book of Muslims. This contextuality and diachronicity become important in the process of exegesis. How does Quranic fauna reflect social processes in Arabia of the VI-VII centuries? Which plants play a significant role in the Islamic eschatological discourse? What indicates the hierarchy in the Quranic Paradise? A.Yu. Kudruavtseva, who is a Candidate of Historical Sciences and the senior research scholar of the Laboratory “The International Centre of Islamic Studies” of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, covers all these issues in her lecture.
The lecture was held in the framework of collaboration between Ibn Sina Foundation and the State Museum of the History of Religion.
