{"id":828,"date":"2018-11-16T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=828"},"modified":"2019-03-15T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:19:37","slug":"dr-loop-to-lead-team-of-professors-in-e10m-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/11\/16\/dr-loop-to-lead-team-of-professors-in-e10m-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Loop to lead team of professors in \u20ac10M project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The School of History&#8217;s Dr Jan Loop is set to led a team of researchers in a new project made possible by a\u00a0\u20ac10 million grant from the\u00a0European Research Council (ERC).<\/p>\n<p>The project will investigate the impact the Qur&#8217;an had on\u00a0cultural, religious and intellectual history from 1150-1850, and will produce ground-breaking research in collaboration with the universities of Madrid, Nantes and Naples.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome will be academic conferences, books and a\u00a0multimedia exhibition demonstrating the place the Qur\u2019an has within European cultural history.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Loop explained: \u2018The Qur\u2019an is deeply imbedded in the political and religious thought of Europe and is part of the intellectual repertoire of Medieval and Early Modern Europeans. As such, this research will question the belief that Islam is \u2018foreign\u2019 to Europe but also challenge certain Islamic fundamentalist views about the Qur\u2019an.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The School of History&#8217;s Dr Jan Loop is set to led a team of researchers in a new project made possible by a\u00a0\u20ac10 million &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/11\/16\/dr-loop-to-lead-team-of-professors-in-e10m-project\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39518,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}