Camilla Adang, Stijn Aerts, David Bennett, Maaike van Berkel, Monique Bernards, Antoine Borrut, Julia Bray, Kristen Brustad, Brahim Chater, Michael Cooperson, Amikam Elad, Josef van Ess, Antonella Ghersetti, Rob Gleave, Mathias Groenweghe, Beatrice Gruendler, Han den Heijer, Philip Kennedy,Hugh Kennedy, Joseph E. Lowry, Amal Marogy, James Montgomery, John Nawas, Alastair Northedge, Letizia Osti, Ignacio Sanchez Sanchez, Sarah Savant, Emily Selove, Devin Stewart, Jessika Soors, Shawkat Toorawa, John Turner, James Weaver, Johan Weststeijn, Hayrettin Yucesoy, Travis Zadeh
Tenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
July 5 – July 9, 2010
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Participants
Catholic University LeuvenProgramme
| Amikam Elad, Al-Ma’mūn’s Military Units and their Commanders |
| Hayrettin Yucesoy, Necessity of Imamate Between Reason and Revelation |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Philip Kennedy, The Library of Arabic Literature Translation Project |
| David Bennett, Al-Naẓẓām, the “Dahrīyah,” and the Materialist Bent of the Early Kalām |
| Johan Weststeijn, The Confrontation of Heraclius and Sufyān b. Harb |
| Discussion: James Montgomery |
| Antonella Ghersetti, De la rhétorique des dons ou quand les objets parlent |
| Alastair Northedge, Tableware of the Caliphs: Assemblages from the Syrian Excavations of the Houses of Harun’s circle at Raqqa |
| Discussion: Beatrice Gruendler |
| Joseph E. Lowry, Ignorance of the Law is Sometimes an Excuse: al-Shāfiʿīs Ibṭāl al-Istiḥsān and the Construction of Juristic Authority |
| Robert Gleave, Nikāh al-Mutʿa and the Emergence of Shīʿī Fiqh |
| Devin Stewart, The Consolidation of the Four Sunni Legal Madhhabs in Abbasid Baghdad |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
| John P. Turner, The Enigmatic Reign of al-Wāthiq |
| Hugh Kennedy, The Prince of Darkness: The Personality and Career of Ibn al-Furat |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Travis Zadeh, Of Mummies, Poets, and Water Nymphs: Tracing the Codicological Limits of Ibn Khurradādhbih’s Geography |
| Antoine Borrut, Heaven and History: Planetary Conjunctions, God, and the Making of Islamic History |
| Discussion: Beatrice Gruendler |
| Ignacio Sánchez, Ibn Qutayba and the Ahl Khurāsān |
| Michael Cooperson, Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī and the Question of Affiliation in Early ‘Abbāsid Society |
| John Nawas, A Demographic Analysis of the Rise and Evolution of the Islamic Religious Sciences in the pre-madrasa period |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| Kristen Brustad, ‘Abbāsid ‘Arabiyya |
| Letizia Osti, A Grammarian’s Life |
| Monique Bernards, Pioneers of Arabic Linguistic Studies |
| Discussion: Shawkat Toorawa |
| James Montgomery, Reading al-Farabi with Berio and Bacon |
| Emily Selove, The Party of Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad Ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī al-Baghdādī |
| Discussion: Julia Bray |
| Closing session |