All panels took place in the Garden Quad Reception Room
Fifteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
Tuesday July 12 – Saturday July 16, 2022
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Programme
Tuesday, July 12
| Opening | |
|---|---|
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Opening Reception, St Giles’s House |
Wednesday, July 13
| Welcome | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome: Julia Bray and Monique Bernards |
| Emotions – Chair: Emily Selove | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Dwight Reynolds, Ṭarab in extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Sadegh Ansari, Miskawayh’s (d. 421/1030) Treatise on Pleasure and Pain and the Possibility of an Islamic Aesthetics Discourse |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Discussion: Karen Bauer |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea/coffee |
| Space – Chair: Alexander Key | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Najam Haider, A Little Bit of Makr – Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shiism |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion: Teresa Bernheimer and Arezou Azad |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| Power and Religion – Chair: Isabel Toral | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Zina Maleh, Caliphs and the Generic Representation of Ruling Power in al-Tanūkhī’s al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Nimrod Hurvitz, The Religious Outlook and Policies of al-Qāhir and al-Rāḍī |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Tea/coffee |
| Representation of Texts – Chair: Antonella Ghersetti | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Jens Schmitt, The fuṣūl qiṣār of al-Jāḥiẓ |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Discussion: Ignacio Sánchez |
Thursday, July 14
| Language and Power – Chair: Pernilla Myrne | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Elias G. Saba, Memories of al-Shāfiʿī’s Inquisition |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Matthew Keegan, Stand and Deliver: Ibn Qutayba’s Maqāmāt |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Pamela Klasova, A Poet and a Tyrant: Aʿshā Hamdān and al-Ḥajjāj in the Kitāb al-Aghānī |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Discussion: Everett Rowson |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea/coffee |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lunch |
Friday, July 15
| Water in the Abbasid City – Chair: Karen Moukheibar | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Josephine van den Bent, Caliphal Involvement in Water Provision in the Cities of the Early Abbasid Period |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Peter J. Brown, What Does the Water Supply Tell Us about the Origin, Organization and Occupation of the City of Samarra? |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Discussion: John Turner |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea/coffee |
| Constructions – Chair: John Nawas | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Alastair Northedge, The Ribāṭ Movement as an Abbasid Politico-military Initiative |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Michael Mumisa, Abbasid majālis as Construction Sites of Memory and Knowledge |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion: Harry Munt |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| The East – Chair: Monique Bernards | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Taro Mimura, The Impact of Sindhind in the Abbasid Court and the Emergence of Zījs |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Devin J. Stewart, The Treatment of Indian and African Scripts in the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Khodadad Rezakhani, Conquering the East: The Campaigns of Yaʿqūb b. Layth al- Ṣaffār and the End of the Rutbīl State |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Discussion: Shawkat Toorawa |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Tea/coffee |
Saturday, July 16
| How things work – Chair: David Bennett | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Eugénie Rébillard, Subordinate Policemen and shurṭa’s Clerks at Work: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Daily Routine of the Police Institution in Abbasid Iraq |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Noëmie Lucas, The Caliphate’s Wealth: The riḥla of Egypt Revenues during the Abbasid Rule in the Kitāb al-Wulāt of al-Kindī |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | David Marmer, Greed is Good: A Look at the Mercantile World of third/ninth Century Baghdad |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Discussion: Letizia Osti |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea/coffee |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Isabel Toral, presenting Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| More water – Chair: Alexander Key | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dionisius A. Agius, Wells, Markets, and Forts: Al-Muqaddasī’s fourth/tenth Century Geography of the Arabian Red Sea |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Massimiliano Borroni, Ecosystem and Water Cycle: The Sabean Thābit b. Qurra and Arabic Aristotelianism |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Discussion: Maaike van Berkel |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea/coffee |
| Business meeting | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Monique Bernards, Maaike van Berkel, Hugh Kennedy, John Nawas, Shawkat Toorawa |
| Closing | |
| 19:00 – | Closing Dinner |
Participants
- Dionisius Agius, University of Exeter
<d.a.agius*exeter.ac.uk> - Sadegh Ansari, SUNY Geneseo
<ma3292*columbia.edu> - Nicholas Aubin, University of Warwick
<nicholasallanaubin*gmail.com> - Arezou Azad, University of Oxford
<arezou.azad*orinst.ox.ac.uk> - Karen Bauer, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
<kbauer*iis.ac.uk> - Francesca Bellino, Universitá degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’
<fbellino*unior.it> - David Bennett, University of Gothenburg
<dbennet*ucla.edu> - Josephine van den Bent, Radboud University Nijmegen
<j1.vandenbent*let.ru.nl> - Maaike van Berkel, Radboud University Nijmegen
<m.vanberkel*ru.nl> - Monique Bernards, IAAIS Antwerp
<monique.bernards*telenet.be> - Teresa Bernheimer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
<mtbernheimer*gmail.com> - Massimiliano Borroni, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
<massimiliano.borroni*unive.it> - Julia Bray, University of Oxford
<julia.bray*orinst.ox.ac.uk> - Peter Brown, Radboud University Nijmegen
<p.brown*let.ru.nl> - Marcel Camprubí, Princeton University
<camprubi*princeton.edu> - Nadia El Cheikh, New York University Abu Dhabi
<nmcheikh*aub.edu.lb> - Geert Jan van Gelder, University of Oxford
<gerard.vangelder*orinst.ox.ac.uk> - Antonella Ghersetti, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
<antghers*unive.it> - Rob Gleave, University of Exeter
<r.gleave*exeter.ac.uk> - Beatrice Gruendler, Freie Universität Berlin
<beatrice.gruendler*fu-berlin.de> - Najam Haider, Barnard College/Columbia University
<nhaider74*gmail.com>
- Nimrod Hurvitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
<nhurvitz*bgu.ac.il> - Matthew Keegan, Barnard College/Freie Universität
<mlk.keegan*gmail.com> - Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London
<hk1*soas.ac.uk> - Alexander Key, Stanford University
<akey*stanford.edu> - Hilary Kilpatrick
- Pamela Klasova, Macalester College
< pmk32*georgetown.edu) - Joseph Lowry, University of Pennsylvania
<joseph.lowry*verizon.net> - Noëmie Lucas, University of Edinburgh
<noemie.lucas*ed.ac.uk> - Zina Maleh, Université de Genève
<zina.maleh*unige.ch> - David Marmer, Independent Scholar
<dmarmer66*gmail.com> - Taro Mimura, The University of Tokyo
<mimurataro*gmail.com> - Karen Moukheiber, University of Balamand
<karen.moukheiber*balamand.edu.lb> - Michael Mumisa, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
<michael.mumisa*cantab.net> - Harry Munt, University of York
<harry.munt*york.ac.uk> - Pernilla Myrne, Gothenburg University
<pernilla.myrne*gu.se> - John Nawas, KU Leuven
<john.nawas*kuleuven.be> - Alastair Northedge, Université de Paris I
<anorthedge*orange.fr> - Letizia Osti, Università degli Studi di Milano
<letizia.osti*unimi.it> - Abdurraouf Oueslati, Brill Publishers
<oueslati*brill.com> - Azad Qazaz, KU Leuven
<azadqazaz12*gmail.com> - Eugénie Rébillard, CNRS
<eugenie.rebillard*gmail.com>
- Dwight Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara
<dreynold*religion.ucsb.edu> - Khodadad Rezakhani, Leiden University
<k.rezakhani*hum.leidenuniv.nl> - Betty Rosen, University of California-Berkeley
<bettyjrosen*berkeley.edu> - Chip Rossetti, Library of Arabic Literature
<chip.rossetti*nyu.edu> - Gabrielle Russo, University of Cambridge
<gmr44*cam.ac.uk> - Everett Rowson, New York University
<ekrowson*ix.netcom.com> - Elias G. Saba, Grinnell College
<egsaba*gmail.com> - Ignacio Sánchez, University of Warwick
<ignacio.sanchez*warwick.ac.uk> - Emilie Savage Smith, University of Oxford
<emilie.savage-smith*orinst.ox.ac.uk> - Sarah Savant
- Jens Ole Schmitt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
<jschein*uni-goettingen.de> - Emily Selove, University of Exeter
<selovian*gmail.com> - Devin Stewart, Emory University
<dstewar*emory.edu> - Simon Swain, University of Warwick
<s.c.r.swain*warwick.ac.uk> - Lucie Taylor, Library of Arabic Literature
<lmt5*nyu.edu> - Shawkat Toorawa, Yale University
<shawkat.toorawa*yale.edu> - Isabel Toral, Freie Universität Berlin
<itoral*zedat.fu-berlin.de> - John Turner, Colby College
<jpturner*colby.edu> - Uwe Vagelpohl, University of Warwick
<uwe*dataflake.org> - James Weaver, University of Zurich
<james.weaver*uzh.ch> - Peter Webb, Leiden University
<p.a.webb*hum.leidenuniv.nl>