Camilla Adang; Maaike van Berkel; Monique Bernards; Julia Bray; Kristen Brustad; Paul Cobb; Nadia El-Cheikh; Josef van Ess; Antonella Ghersetti; Matthew Gordon; Simon Gundelfinger; Najam Haider; Paul Heck; Stefan Heidemann; Alya Karame; Hugh Kennedy; Jeannie Miller; James Montgomery; Karen Moukheiber; Pernilla Myrne; John Nawas; Letizia Osti; Wen-chin Ouyang; Ignacio Sánchez; Sarah Savant; Emily Selove; Devin Stewart; Shawkat Toorawa; Isabel Toral-Niehoff; John Turner; Uwe Vagelpohl; James Weaver; Peter Webb; Hayrettin Yücesoy; Travis Zadeh
Twelfth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
August 12 – August 16, 2014
Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey
To the memory of Wolfhart Heinrichs
Sehir UniversityParticipants
Programme
| Abbasids in Text and Art (chaired by Shawkat Toorawa) | |
|---|---|
| Alya Karame | Visual Manifestations in Qurʾans of the Fourth/Tenth and Fifth/Eleventh Centuries: A New Role? |
| Discussion | Julia Bray |
| Forms of (Un)sociableness (chaired by John Nawas) | |
| Emily Selove | Emily Selove, Medicine and Mujūn: Medicine Gone Mad in Medieval Arabic Literature |
| Discussion | Letizia Osti |
| The Abbasids: Views from the Fringe (chaired by Hayrettin Yücesoy) | |
| Isabel Toral-Niehoff | The Abbasid Legacy in Umayyad Spain: The Case of the ʿIqd al-Farīd |
| Matthew S. Gordon | Al-Balawī’s Sīra: A View on the Demise of the Abbasid Empire |
| Simon Gundelfinger | Al-Mutawakkil and the Ruling Elites of Iraq and Shām |
| Discussion | Paul Cobb |
| The Many Worlds of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/868-9) (chaired by Shawkat Toorawa) | |
| Jeannie Miller | Al-Jāḥiẓ’s Semantics: In What Sense is Man Not the Only “Speaking Animal”? |
| Ignacio Sánchez | Al-Jāḥīẓ on Ḥadīth Criticism |
| John P. Turner | Al-Jāḥiẓ and the Politics of Identity |
| Paul L. Heck | Signs of Skepticism in Early Arabic Literature: The Case of al-Jāḥiẓ |
| Discussion | James Montgomery |
| Female Sexuality: Slaves, Heretics, Lovers (chaired by Wen-chin Ouyang) | |
| Karen Moukheiber | Islamic Law and Sexual Ethics: Debunking the Roles and Positions of Slave Women? |
| Pernilla Myrne | Nails of Love: The Theory of Erotic Love in Jawāmiʿ al-Ladhdha by ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib |
| Nadia El Cheikh | Women, Sexuality, and the Making of Heretics: The Example of the Qaramita |
| Discussion | Camilla Adang |
| Loss, Recovery, and Reuse (chaired by John Nawas) | |
| Travis Zadeh | Whatever Happened to the Siqāya of al-ʿAbbās? |
| Sarah Savant | Studying the Abbasids in the Digital Age: The Potential and Pitfalls of Text “Reuse” Programmes |
| James Weaver | Compiling Knowledge in the Tenth Century Middle East: Al-Maqdisī’s Kitāb al-badʾ wa-l-tārīkh and its Istanbul Manuscripts |
| Future Past: Language and the Canonization of the Jāhiliyya (chaired by Monique Bernards) | |
| Kristen Brustad | Sībawayhi as Icon |
| Peter Webb | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ghūl: The “Abbasid Guise(s)” of Ṣuʿlūk Poet Taʾabbaṭa Sharran |
| Discussion | Antonella Ghersetti |
| How to Find a Palace and Get In (chaired by Hayrettin Yücesoy) | |
| Stefan Heidemann | ʿĪsābādh: The Imperial Metropolis of al-Mahdī |
| Maaike van Berkel | Access to the Caliph |
| Discussion | Najam Haider |
| Getting to Grips with Greek (chaired by David Bennett) | |
| Devin Stewart | Notes on the Greek Material in the Fihrist |
| Uwe Vagelpohl | Hippocratic Index Fossils Embedded in Medical Translations: An Instrument to Establish a Relative Chronology of the Ḥunayn Workshop? |
| Discussion | Josef van Ess |
| General Meeting (chaired by James Montgomery) | |