Francesca Bellino; David Bennett; Maaike van Berkel; Monique Bernards; Kevin van Bladel; Antonia Bosanquet; Julia Bray; Paul Cobb; Robyn Creswell; Nadia El Cheikh; Matthew Gordon; Simon Gundelfinger; Najam Haider; Stefan Heidemann; Nimrod Hurvitz; Steven Judd; Matthew Keegan; Hugh Kennedy; Alexander Key; Ahmad Khan; Joseph Lowry; Christian Mauder; Andrew McLaren; Karen Moukheiber; John Nawas; Nassima Neggaz; Avigail Noy; Bilal Orfali; Letizia Osti; Dwight Reynolds; Ignacio Sanchez; Emily Selove; Simon Swain; Yuko Tanaka; Shawkat Toorawa; Deborah Tor; John Turner; Uwe Vagelpohl; Peter Verkinderen; James Weaver; Hayrettin Yücesoy; Travis Zadeh
Fourteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
Tuesday July 10 – Saturday July 14, 2018
Yale University, New Haven, USA
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Programme
| Language (chaired by Shawkat Toorawa, Monique Bernards) | |
|---|---|
| Avigail Nov | Did the Abbasid Lexicographers Invent Majāz? |
| Alexander Key | Al-kalām ʿalā l-kalām: Genre or Formalism? |
| Discussion | Joseph Lowry |
| Shi’ism (chaired by John Nawas) | |
| Deborah Tor | The Parting of Ways between ʿAlid Shiʿism and Abbasid Shiʿism |
| Najam Haider | Deus Ex Machina: The Use and Misuse of Yaḥyā b.ʿAbdallāh (d. 187/803) in Early Historiography |
| Discussion | Travis Zadeh |
| Slaves (chaired by Paul Cobb) | |
| Matthew Gordon | Unfree Women (jawārī) as Moral Intercessors: The Study of Slavery in Abbasid Society |
| Karen Moukheibar | Men, Women and Emotions in al-Isfahānī’s al-Imāʾ al-Shawāʿir |
| Discussion | Julia Bray |
| Confession (chaired by Shawkat Toorawa) | |
| Christian Mauder | Ethical Thought in Miskawayh and Ibn ‘Adī… |
| Discussion | David Bennet |
| The Edge (chaired by Kevin van Bladel) | |
| Antonia Bosanquet | Jund, Berbers and Slave Routes: Rebellion in Aghlabid Tripoli |
| Peter Verkinderen | Dealing with the Abbasids in Fars: Local Lords, Tribal Areas, and the dīwān |
| Discussion | Stefan Heidemann |
| Beinecke | |
| Roberta Dougherty | |
| Rhetoric (chaired by Steven Judd) | |
| Nimrod Hurvitz | The Qarmaṭī Scare: Public Sentiments and Political Reactions |
| Ahmad Khan | Imperial Rhetoric and Practice under the Abbasids |
| Discussion | Matthew Keegan |
| Man(hood) (chaired by Hugh Kennedy) | |
| Francesca Bellino | Ibn Qutayba (d. 276/889) on the Physical Characteristics of Man |
| Emily Selove | The Apotropaic Phallus in Arabic Literature and Culture? |
| Discussion | Dwight Reynolds |
| Poetry (chaired by Letizia Osti) | |
| Yuko Tanaka | Reproducing Images of Zindīq Poets: Shifting Values of Biographical Accounts |
| Bilal Orfali | Against Muslim Cities: On hijāʾ al-mudun in Pre-modern Arabic Poetry |
| Discussion | Robyn Creswell |
| Historiography (chaired by John Turner) | |
| Andrew Maclaren | Ibn Aʿtham’s Archive: Quoted Materials and Narrative Structure in the Kitāb al-Futūḥ |
| Simon Gundelfinger | Exercising Control on the Ground: Governors of Abbasid al-Shām |
| Discussion | Hayrettin Yücesoy |
| Science (chaired by Simon Swain) | |
| Ignacio Sánchez | Laysa l-ṭibb bi-ʿilm: Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Attack on Medicine |
| Uwe Vagelpohl | Transmitting Scientific Knowledge: Production, Use and abuse of Medical Summaries |
| Discussion | Kevin van Bladel |
| The City (chaired by Nadia El Cheikh) | |
| Maaike van Berkel | Water Supply in Abbasid Baghdad |
| Nassima Neggaz | Al-Karkh: A Stronghold of Imami-Shiʿism in Early Abbasid and Buyid Bahgdad |
| Discussion | Hugh Kennedy |
| Business Meeting (Members of the School only) | |