chesfame 21 - Mamluk history and culture

CHESFAME 21
21ST COLLOQUIUM ON THE
HISTORY OF EGYPT AND SYRIA
IN THE FATIMID, AYYUBID, AND MAMLUK ERAS
(10TH - 15TH CENTURIES)
9-11 May 2012
Jozef Plateaustraat 22
9000 Gent
Belgium
www.mamluk.ugent.be
Wednesday 9 May
(Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal)
10.00-10.30: Registration
10.30-10.45: Welcome
10.45-12.30
(chair: J. Van Steenbergen)
C. HILLENBRAND (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)
“The sultan's entourage in twelfth-century Syria”
Y. LEV (BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY)
“Jihād in Fatimid History”
L. RICHTER-BERNBURG (UNIVERSITÄT TÜBINGEN)
"Nâser-e Khosrow as Persian Translator and Disseminator of Arabic
Philosophical Ismailism"
Lunch (Vooruit)
Wednesday 9 May
(Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal)
14.00-15.15
(chair: U. Vermeulen)
D. TALMON-HELLER (BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV)
“Historical Motifs in Muslim Historiography of the Crusading Era”
F. BORA (CAMBRIDGE MUSLIM COLLEGE)
to be confirmed
coffee…
15.45-17.45
(chair: P. Wing)
N. CHRISTIE (CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, VANCOUVER)
“Cosmopolitan Trade Centre or Bone of Contention?
Alexandria and the Crusades, 1070-1365”
M. FRENKEL (HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM)
“The Medieval Jewish Community of Alexandria —
Patterns of Immigration and Assimilation”
Y. FRENKEL (UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA/ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL KOLLEG, BONN)
“Mamluk Alexandria: a Prison City and Place of Exile”
G. CHRIST (UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG)
“The Venetian Consul and the Cosmopolitan Mercantile Community
(Beginning of the Fifteenth Century)”
17.45, Jozef Plateaustraat 22/Rozier 44
reception, offered by
the Department of Languages and Cultures: the Near East and Islamic World
Thursday 10 May
(Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal)
9.00-10.45
(chair: K. D’hulster)
N. VANTHIEGHEM (UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES)
“Un parallèle inédit à P. Kaufurkunde”
J.-CH. DUCÊNE (UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES)
“Méthodes d’arpentages en Egypte ayyoubide et mamelouke”
L. REINFANDT (INSTITUT FÜR ORIENTALISTIK, UNIVERSITÄT WIEN)
“Recycled Documents in Textiles from Ayyūbid and Mamlūk Egypt”
coffee…
11.15-12.45
(chair: R. Hillenbrand)
ST. PRADINES (INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ARCHÉOLOGIE ORIENTALE)
"Burğ al-Ẓafar, une architecture de passage, des Fatimides aux Ayyoubides"
V. VEZZOLI (UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES/
MUSÉES ROYAUX D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE)
"‘Fusṭāṭ of the Mamluks’. Reconstructing Mamluk Society through the Study
of Artefacts: the ceramic collection of the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire/
Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussels"
D. NICOLLE (NOTTINGHAM)
"Mamluk Saddles —
Some Surviving Examples From Damascus and the Euphrates Valley"
Lunch (Vooruit)
Thursday 10 May
(Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal)
14.00-15.45
(chair: C. Hillenbrand)
T. EL-AZHARI (QATAR UNIVERSITY)
“The Art of Pragmatism: Zankī’s Relations with the Saljuqid Sultanate
and the Abbasid Caliphate: 1127-1146”
P. WING (UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS/GHENT UNIVERSITY)
“Submission, Defiance, and the Rules of Politics
in the Mamluk Sultanate’s Anatolian Frontier”
N. COUREAS (CYPRUS RESEARCH CENTRE)
“‘Et sic utrobique esset debilior’:
King Henry II’s advocacy of a crusade from Cyprus against Mamluk Egypte”
coffee …
16.15-17.45
(chair: L. Richter-Bernburg)
B. MAJOR (PÉTER PÁZMÁNY CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY)
"Form and Function:
the Medieval Use of Spaces in the Castle of al-Marqab (Syria)”
M. PIANA (UNIVERSITÄT AUGSBURG)
"The Mamluk Defence System of the Levantine Coast”
R. HILLENBRAND (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)
“Between Iran and Syria: the architecture of Mosul c.1150 -1250.”
Friday 11 May
Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal
9.00-10.45
(chair: Y. Lev)
ST. CONERMANN (ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL KOLLEG, UNIVERSITÄT BONN)
“The Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg ‘History and Society during the Mamluk Era
(1250-1517)’ in Bonn/Germany — Program, Concept, Tasks”
L. NORTHRUP (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL KOLLEG, BONN)
"What does the document mean?
A historiographical study of a document pertaining to Qalāwūn’s Hospital”
K. YOSEF (ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL KOLLEG, BONN)
“Ikhwa, Muwākhūn and Khushdāshīya in the Mamluk Sultanate”
coffee…
11.15-12.45
(chair: St. Conermann)
P. LEWICKA (UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW/ANNEMARIE SCHIMMEL KOLLEG, BONN)
“Medicine for Muslims? Islamic Theologians’ Revision of the Medical Culture
in the post-Fatimid Near East”
C. BORI (UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA)
“al-Ḥukm bi-l-firāsa in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya: preliminary reflections”
M. AGUIAR (UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA)
“The muwaqqit as Teacher:
reframing the work of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Māridīnī (Cairo, 15th Century)”
Lunch (Vooruit)
Friday 11 May
Jozef Plateaustraat 22, Jozef Plateauzaal
14.00-15.45
(chair: J. Yeshaya)
P.-V. CLAVERIE (ROUEN)
“Un domaine controversé de l’histoire des croisades:
les relations d’estime de Saladin avec les chrétiens au XIIe siècle”
M. KOORNWINDER (BUSSUM)
“Diplomacy by Marriage:
Ṭulunbāy, the Tatar Bride of sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad”
B. SHOSHAN (BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV)
“Divorce in Fifteenth-Century Damascus”
coffee…
16.15-18.00
(chair: U. Vermeulen)
J. VAN STEENBERGEN (GHENT UNIVERSITY)
“On Royal Pilgrimage and Patronage in 15th-Century Egypt:
A Social Semiotic Reading of al-Maqrīzī’s Kitāb al-Dhahab al-Masbūk”
J. DRORY (BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY)
“Sakhāwī — the Ḥadīth Erudite”
B. MARTEL-THOUMIAN (UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE-MENDÈS-FRANCE, GRENOBLE)
“À mes maîtres:
enseignement, savoir et compagnonnage à Damas à la fin du IX/XVe siècle”
19.30
Farewell dinner
Club ‘Het Pand’, Onderbergen 1, B 9000 GENT
offered to participants by the CHESFAME organisation
All sessions will take place at
Jozef Plateauzaal
Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent.
With Special Thanks to:
Special Research Fund, UGent
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, UGent
Department of Languages and Cultures: Near East and Islamic
World, UGent
H. Pirenne Research Institute for Medieval Studies
Peeters Publishers, Leuven
Further Information
Prof. Dr. Jo Van Steenbergen
Mamluk History and Culture
Jozef Plateaustraat 22
B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel. (0032) (0)9 264 3555 (office)
E-MAIL : [email protected]
http://www.mamluk.ugent.be/