Camilla Adang, Judith Ahola, Herbert Berg, Maaike van Berkel, Monique Bernards, Julia Bray, Cecile Cabrol, Paul Cobb, Michael Cooperson, Amikam Elad, Josef van Ess, Robert Gleave, Paul Heck, Nimrod Hurvitz, Hugh Kennedy, Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn, Joseph E. Lowry, John Nawas, Alistair Northedge , Letizia Osti, Peter Pormann, Nadia El Sheikh, Devin Stewart, Shawkat Toorawa, John Turner, Uwe Vagelpohl.
Seventh Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
June 28 – July 1, 2004
Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Participants
Catholic University LeuvenProgramme
| Paul Heck, The concepts of bayaan and kitaaba as relevant to the Abbasid administration |
| Peter E. Pormann, Teaching Hospitals during the Reign of al-Muqtadir |
| Discussion: Julia Bray |
| Shawkat Toorawa, What’s in the Kitab al-Manthur wal-Manzum (before 280/893) anyway? |
| Paul Cobb, The Testament of ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Salih |
| Discussion: Julia Bray |
| Herbert Berg, Abbasid Historians’ Portrayals of al-Abbas b. al-Muttalib |
| Amikam Elad, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah the first Abbasid Mahdi: The Struggle for the Legitimacy of Authority as Reflected in the Hadith of al-Mahdi |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Uwe Vagelpohl, The Abbasid Translation Movement in Context. Contemporary Voices on Translation |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| Michael Cooperson, Al-Ma’mun and the hieroglyphs |
| Robert Gleave, ‘Ali al-Rida, al-Ma’mun and Shi‘i tradition |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn, The Caliphate of al-Mu‘tasim: Succession or Capture? |
| John Turner, Al-Afshin, Heretic, Rebel or Rival? |
| Discussion: John Nawas |
| Maaike van Berkel, Unwritten rules of oral mediation under caliph al-Muqtadir |
| Letizia Osti, Al-Muqtadir and the Poet: the Chronicles of a Courtier |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| Nadia El Sheikh, The Court of al-Muqtadir: Its Space and Its Occupants |
| Judith Ahola, The hadith community in the time of al-Muqtadir |
| Discussion: Hugh Kennedy |
| Nimrod Hurvitz, Negotiating Ibn Hanbal’s contribution to Hanbali legal doctrine |
| Joseph E. Lowry, The First Islamic Legal Theory: Ibn al-Muqaffa’ and the Economy of Uncertainty |
| Devin Stewart, Emendations of Book Titles in the Legal Section of the *Fihrist* and Their Significance for the History of Islamic Legal Theory |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
| Cecile Cabrol, Christians in Abbasid Baghdad: Nestorian state functionaries |
| Alistair Northedge, Urbanism at Samarra |
| Discussion: Camilla Adang |
| Closing session |