Dionisius Agius; Sadegh Ansari; Nicholas Aubin; Arezou Azad; Karen Bauer; Francesca Bellino; David Bennett; Josephine van den Bent; Maaike van Berkel; Monique Bernards; Teresa Bernheimer; Massimiliano Borrone; Julia Bray; Peter Brown; Marcel Camprubí; Nadia El Cheikh; Geert Jan van Gelder; Antonella Ghersetti; Rob Gleave; Beatrice Gruendler; Najam Haider; Nimrod Hurvitz; Matthew Keegan; Hugh Kennedy; Alexander Key; Hilary Kilpatrick; Pamela Klasova; Joseph Lowry; Noëmie Lucas; Zina Maleh; David Marmer; Taro Mimura; Karen Moukheiber; Michael Mumisa; Harry Munt; Pernilla Myrne; John Nawas; Alastair Northedge; Letizia Osti; Abdurraouf Oueslati; Azad Qazaz; Eugénie Rébillard; Dwight Reynolds; Khodadad Rezakhani; Betty Rosen; Chip Rossetti; Gabrielle Russo; Everett Rowson; Elias G. Saba; Ignacio Sánchez; Emilie Savage Smith; Sarah Savant; Jens Ole Schmitt; Emily Selove; Devin Stewart; Simon Swain; Lucie Taylor; Shawkat Toorawa; Isabel Toral; John Turner; Uwe Vagelpohl; James Weaver; Peter Webb.
Fifteenth Conference of the School of Abbasid Studies
Tuesday July 12 – Saturday July 16, 2022
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Participants
Programme
| Emotions – Chair: Emily Selove | |
|---|---|
| Dwight Reynolds | Ṭarab in extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources |
| Sadegh Ansari | Miskawayh’s (d. 421/1030) Treatise on Pleasure and Pain and the Possibility of an Islamic Aesthetics Discourse |
| Discussion | Karen Bauer |
| Space – Chair: Alexander Key | |
| Najam Haider | A Little Bit of Makr – Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shiism |
| Discussion | Teresa Bernheimer and Arezou Azad |
| Power and Religion – Chair: Isabel Toral | |
| Zina Maleh | Caliphs and the Generic Representation of Ruling Power in al-Tanūkhī’s al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda |
| Nimrod Hurvitz | The Religious Outlook and Policies of al-Qāhir and al-Rāḍī |
| Discussion | Hugh Kennedy |
| Representation of Texts – Chair: Antonella Ghersetti | |
| Jens Schmitt | The fuṣūl qiṣār of al-Jāḥiẓ |
| Discussion | Ignacio Sánchez |
| Language and Power – Chair: Pernilla Myrne | |
| Elias G. Saba | Memories of al-Shāfiʿī’s Inquisition |
| Matthew Keegan | Stand and Deliver: Ibn Qutayba’s Maqāmāt |
| Pamela Klasova | A Poet and a Tyrant: Aʿshā Hamdān and al-Ḥajjāj in the Kitāb al-Aghānī |
| Discussion | Everett Rowson |
| Water in the Abbasid City – Chair: Karen Moukheibar | |
| Josephine van den Bent | Caliphal Involvement in Water Provision in the Cities of the Early Abbasid Period |
| Peter J. Brown | What Does the Water Supply Tell Us about the Origin, Organization and Occupation of the City of Samarra? |
| Discussion | John Turner |
| Constructions – Chair: John Nawas | |
| Alastair Northedge | The Ribāṭ Movement as an Abbasid Politico-military Initiative |
| Michael Mumisa | Abbasid majālis as Construction Sites of Memory and Knowledge |
| Discussion | Harry Munt |
| The East – Chair: Monique Bernards | |
| Taro Mimura | The Impact of Sindhind in the Abbasid Court and the Emergence of Zījs |
| Devin J. Stewart | The Treatment of Indian and African Scripts in the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadīm |
| Khodadad Rezakhani | Conquering the East: The Campaigns of Yaʿqūb b. Layth al- Ṣaffār and the End of the Rutbīl State |
| Discussion | Shawkat Toorawa |
| How things work – Chair: David Bennett | |
| Eugénie Rébillard | Subordinate Policemen and shurṭa’s Clerks at Work: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Daily Routine of the Police Institution in Abbasid Iraq |
| Noëmie Lucas | The Caliphate’s Wealth: The riḥla of Egypt Revenues during the Abbasid Rule in the Kitāb al-Wulāt of al-Kindī |
| David Marmer | Greed is Good: A Look at the Mercantile World of third/ninth Century Baghdad |
| Isabel Toral | Baghdād From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century |
| More water – Chair: Alexander Key | |
| Dionisius A. Agius | Wells, Markets, and Forts: Al-Muqaddasī’s fourth/tenth Century Geography of the Arabian Red Sea |
| Massimiliano Borroni | Ecosystem and Water Cycle: The Sabean Thābit b. Qurra and Arabic Aristotelianism |
| Discussion | Maaike van Berkel |