Peter Adamson, Camilla Adang, Stijn Aerts, David Bennett, Maaike van Berkel, Monique Bernards, Helen Blatherwick, Antoine Borrut, Julia Bray, Nadia El Cheikh, Jane Clark, Paul Cobb, Michael Cooperson, Amikam Elad, Josef van Ess, Robert Gleave, Beatrice Gruendler, Najam Haider, Rotraud Hansberger, Hugh Kennedy, Alexander Key, István Kristó-Nagy, Joe Lowry, Amal Marogy, Christopher Melchert, James Montgomery, Suleiman Mourad, Pernilla Myrne, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Letizia Osti, Hans Peter Pökel, Dwight Reynolds, Ignacio Sánchez, Sarah Savant, Emily Selove, Jocelyn Sharlet, Shawkat Toorawa, Kathy van Vliet, James Weaver, Travis Zadeh
Eleventh Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
July 11 – 14, 2012
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
Participants
University of ExeterProgramme
| Welcome |
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| Robert Gleave and István Kristó-Nagy, Welcome to the Eleventh Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies. |
| Language and Linguistics (chair: Hugh Kennedy) |
| Amal E. Marogy, Arabic linguistic reasoning in the early ʿAbbāsid period: Tribal and cultural identity and its linguistic reflection in the first Arabic grammar |
| Alexander Key, Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī’s (fl. ≤ 409/1018) philosophy of language |
| Discussion: Monique Bernards |
| Warfare, Violence and Heresy (chair: Shawkat Toorawa) |
| Amikam Elad, The Armies of al-Amīn and his Commanders: 195/810-198/813 |
| István Kristó-Nagy, Marriage after rape. The Iranian Revival after the Post Conquest Trauma as reflected in Ibn al-Muqaffac’s oeuvre |
| James Weaver, Describing Difference in the long Ninth Century: How was heresiographical information transmitted? |
| Discussion: Paul Cobb |
| Sanctuaries and Prayers (chair: James Montgomery) |
| Travis Zadeh, Entering the Kaʿba: ʿAbbāsid ceremonial and the formation of the Meccan sanctuary |
| Stijn Aerts, The ʿAbbāsid prayer |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Microcosm (chair: Monique Bernards) |
| Emily Selove, The Cosmic Crasher: Abū l-Qāsim and the microcosm |
| Discussion: Antoine Borrut |
| Finances and Archives (chair: Hugh Kennedy) |
| Letizia Osti, The financial implications of a job at court |
| Maaike van Berkel, Reconstructing the archives of Baghdād |
| Discussion: Shawkat Toorawa |
| Natural Philosophy in the Islamic World (chair: John Nawas) |
| Peter Adamson, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī’s critique of Aristotelian physics |
| David Bennett, The mutual interpenetration of spirit and (other) bodies |
| Rotraud Hansberger, Ps.-Proclus’s Questions on Natural Things and its relation to Job of Edessa’s Book of Treasures |
| Discussion: Josef van Ess |
| Books and Music (chair: Shawkat Toorawa) |
| Beatrice Gruendler, Book culture before Book print: A case study in media change |
| Dwight Reynolds, Musical contact between al-Andalus and the ʿAbbāsid Empire in the third/ninth century |
| Discussion: Julia Bray |
| Revolutionary and ʿAbbāsid Shīʿism (chair: John Nawas) |
| Ignacio Sánchez, Mufākhara as propaganda: al-Jāhiẓ’s Faḍl Hāshim ʿalā ʿAbd al-Shams and the de-Hāshimitisation of the Hāshimites |
| Najam Haider, The underground life and death of ʿĪsā b. Zayd (d. 168/785) |
| Robert Gleave, Self-harm and suicide in early Imāmī law and theology |
| Discussion: Sarah Savant |
| Fiqh (chair: Monique Bernards) |
| Joe Lowry, Legal reasoning and authority in the Shāfiʿī madhhab |
| Christopher Melchert, The early Ḥanafiyya and Kufa |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
| Muʿtazila and Fiqh (chair: James Montgomery) |
| Suleiman A. Mourad, The lost Ḥanafīs and Shāfiʿīs: The Muʿtazila jurists of the ʿAbbāsid period |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| Storytellers and Sufi poets (chair: Shawkat Toorawa) |
| Jocelyn Sharlet, The Lion-Eater and the Storytellers: ʿAmr b. al-ʿAjlān, ʿAmr b. Maʾdīkarib, and Jamīl b. Maʿmar |
| Bilal Orfali, Samāʿ (beatific audition) and authorial voices in early Sufi anthologies |
| Discussion: James Montgomery |
| Women, Men, Gender (chair: John Nawas) |
| Nadia El Cheikh, Hind bint ʿUtba in “Other Times” |
| Pernilla Myrne, Jealousy, love and faithfulness in some ʿAbbāsid books from the tenth century |
| Hans Peter Pökel, Masculinities, authority and the case of eunuchs at the ʿAbbāsid Court |
| Discussion: Michael Cooperson |
| General Meeting (chair: James Montgomery) |