Camilla Adang; Hussain Alqarni; Lale Behzadi; David Bennett; Monique Bernards; Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt; Antoine Borrut; Julia Bray; Jelle Bruning; Michael Cooperson; Beatrice Gruendler; Simon Gundelfinger; Avraham Hakim; Stefan Heidemann; Matthew Keegan; Hugh Kennedy; Alexander Key; Pamela Klasová; James Montgomery; Karen Moukheiber; Suleiman Mourad; Pernilla Myrne; John Nawas; Bilal Orfali; Letizia Osti; Chafika Ouail; Hans Peter Pökel; Dwight Reynolds; Ignacio Sánchez; Sarah Savant; Emily Selove; Petra Sijpesteijn; Shawkat Toorawa; Deborah Tor; Isabel Toral-Niehoff; John Turner; Uwe Vagelpohl; Maaike van Berkel; Josef van Ess; Geert Jan van Gelder; Kathy van Vliet; James Weaver; Peter Webb; Mohsen Zakeri.
Thirteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
Tuesday July 12 – Friday July 15, 2016
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Universiteit LeidenParticipants
Programme
| Love and the intolerable (chaired by Letizia Osti) | |
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| Mohsen Zakeri | “Athqalū min wāshin ʿalā ʿāshiqi: Heavier than a slanderer on a lover”: The thuqalāʾ, “the insufferable,” vs. the ẓurafāʾ, “the raffiné” |
| Pernilla Myrne | Experts in intimacy: Female characters in fourth/tenth century erotic stories |
| Discussion | Geert Jan van Gelder |
| Fiction (chaired by Emily Selove) | |
| Matthew Keegan | Abbasid theories of fictive experience and the reception of al-Ḥarīrī’s exordium |
| Isabel Toral-Niehoff | A case study in Begriffsgeschichte: The term adab as used in the ʿIqd al-Farīd |
| Discussion | Shawkat Toorawa |
| The Ineffable (chaired by John Nawas) | |
| ChafikaOuail | Al-Niffarī’s mawqif: Between the “Sacred Valley” and the “Lote Tree of Boundary” |
| Lale Behzadi | How to cope with disaster: The language of emotion in al-faraj baʿd al-shidda texts |
| Discussion | Julia Bray |
| Administration (chaired by Petra Sijpesteijn) | |
| Stefan Heidemann | Administration of the empire – The integration of the empire under the Ṭāhirids |
| Simon Gundelfinger | Geographical and administrative structures in Abbasid al-Shām: A Historical conceptualization |
| Discussion | Maaike van Berkel |
| Beginning and end (chaired by John Nawas) | |
| Peter Webb | Muḥammad and al-Jāhiliyya: Pre-Islam in Prophetic ḥadīth |
| Deborah Tor | The political revival of the Abbasid caliphate: The reign of al-Muqtafī (530-555/1136-1160) |
| Discussion | Avraham Hakim |
| Alterity (chaired by Monique Bernards) | |
| Peter Pökel | How to talk about “Religion”? Third/ninth-century writers on the hermeneutics of Holy Scriptures |
| Alexander Key | Late Abbasid Perseo-Arabica: Fifth/eleventh-century theories of translation |
| Discussion | Suleiman Mourad |
| Poetry (chaired by Shawkat Toorawa) | |
| Hussain Alqarni | Naqāʾiḍ Poetry in the Post-Umayyad Era |
| Bilal Orfali | Walking in the steps of poets: Courtly themes in early Sufism |
| Discussion | Beatrice Gruendler |
| Sciences (chaired by Ignacio Sánchez) | |
| James Weaver | The place of the “foreign sciences” in al-Maqdisī’s The Book of the Beginning and History |
| David Bennett | The sixth sense and the limits of perception in pre-Ashʿarite kalām |
| Discussion | Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt |
| Song (chaired by Monique Bernards) | |
| Dwight Reynolds | Song and punishment, or, the perils of performance |
| Karen Moukheiber | Slavery, gender and music in Kitāb al-Aghānī: Revisiting the cultural boundaries of women musicians in medieval Islam |
| Discussion | Camilla Adang |
| Memory (chaired by John Turner) | |
| Pamela Klasová | Remembering the Umayyads in the Abbasid era: The case al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī in the seventh/twelfth-century Tārīkh madīnat Dimashq by Ibn ʿAsākir |
| Antoine Borrut | Forgetting al-Khwārizmī’s History |
| Discussion | Sarah Savant |
| Writing the Abbasids (chaired by Hugh Kennedy) | |
| Monique Bernards, Michael Cooperson, John Nawas, Letizia Osti, Shawkat Toorawa, and James Weaver | |
| General meeting (chaired by Hugh Kennedy) | |
| Business and Where to …? | |