Fourteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies

Tuesday July 10 – Saturday July 14, 2018
Yale University, New Haven, USA

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Participants

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

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)