July 5, 2018 Themed Day on Historiography/ Adab
8.30 Registration
9.00 Welcoming remarks
9.10 Chair: Frédéric Bauden
Christian Mauder: ‘And they read in a book of history’: Consuming, presenting, and producing texts about the past in al-Ghawrī’s majālis as legitimatory practices
Gowaart Van Den Bossche: ‘Literarisierung’ reconsidered in the context of sultanic biographies: the case of BnF Arabe 1705
Rasmus Bech Olsen: If a governor falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk historiography analyzed through the story of Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-Manṣūrī
10.40 Coffee Break
11.00 Chair: Malika Dekkiche
Koby Yosef: Al-Maqrīzī’s Sulūk, Muqaffā, and Durar al-ʿUqūd: Trends of ‘literarization’ in the historical corpus of a fifteenth-century Egyptian religious scholar
Clement Onimus: al-ʿAyni, a committed historian
Nobutaka Nakamachi: Why did al-ʿAynī erroneously note his source as Ibn Kathīr?
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Chair: Yaacov Lev
Daniella Talmon-Heller: Historiography in Ibn Taymiyya’s treatises against ziyārāt
David Larsen: Judge, witness, and Lisān al-ḥāl in the ‘Disputation of night and day’ by ʿAlwān al-Ḥamawī
Evan Metzger: Historical representation as resurrection: al-Udfuwī and the imitation of Allah
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Chair: Angus Stewart
Victor de Castro Leon: Ibn al-Khaṭīb and his Mamluk reception
Iria Santas De Arcos: Andalusian adab in the Mamluk period
Doris Behrens-Abouseif: Polymathy in Mamluk biographies
17.30 Reception
July 6, 2018 Panels
9.00 Panel 1: Narratives and documents: New directions in middle period historiography Organiser – Chair: Ursula Bsees
Ursula Bsees: Historiography in a literary narrative or literature in historical narrative? Transmission and transformation of a manuscript from Egypt
Fozia Bora: Narratives that document and documents that narrate: Intertextuality in the Mamluk chronicle
Amenah Fairouz Abdulkarim: The Mamluk miʽmār: A new interpretation of endowment deeds and chronicle narratives
Mohammad Gharaibeh: Narrative strategies in biographical dictionaries
10.50 Coffee Break
11.20 Panel 2: Jews in the Mamluk sultanate: social, political, and religious aspects Organiser: Amir Mazor – Chair: Reuven Amitai
Amir Mazor: Jews in the Mamluk sultanate: Nadir, decline or change?
Dotan Arad: The Jews of Alexandria in the Mamluk period
Paul Fenton: Jews and Sufis in Mamluk Egypt and Syria
12.50 Lunch
14.00 Panel 3: Reading the library: Mamluk manuscripts in modern-day collections Organiser – Chair: Konrad Hirschler
Konrad Hirschler: The emergence of the ‘modern’ library: Tracing the Syrian national library back to the late Ottoman al-Maktaba al-ʿumūmīya (and beyond)
Elias Saba: Centering archives: A different approach for Mamluk studies
Garrett Davidson: Abraham Shalom Yahuda and the Princeton collection of Islamic manuscripts
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Panel 4: Palestine under Mamluk Rule Organiser: Reuven Amitai – Chair: Kurt Franz
Reuven Amitai: The economic development of Mamluk Gaza: Much better than expected
Joseph Drory: A fifteenth-century Palestinian sufi leader from Ramla
Hatim Mahamid: Contributions of the Mamluks to religious and educational institutions in Jerusalem
Michael Ehrlich: Pilgrimage shrines in Bilād al-Shām’s southern coastal plain during the Mamluk period
20.00 boat trip and visit to a local brewery
July 7, 2018 Panels
9.00 Panel 5: New approaches to Islamic political thought: Authors, texts, and conceptions in the Mamluk period
Organiser: Mohamad El-Merheb – Chair: Konrad Hirschler
Stefan Leder: Working with the frameworks of religious legitimacy: The rationality of power and the common good
Caterina Bori: A neglected version of al-Siyāsa al-sharʿīya fī iṣlāḥ al-rāʿī wa-l-raʿīya from the Mamluk period and its importance
Mohamad El-Merheb: Competing strands of political thought in the early Mamluk period: A case for ‘Rule of Law and Limited Government’ in mediaeval Islam
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel 6: A Mamluk-Ottoman cultural zone in the late Medieaval Mediterranean Organiser: Samet Budak – Chair: Sara Nur Yildiz
Samet Budak: Towards an intellectual oecumene: How to conceptualize the intellectual history of the late Mediaeval Eastern Mediterranean
Tuğrul Acar: Architectural patronage of the Mamluks in late mediaeval Anatolia
Ahmet Barış Ekiz: Is Aşık Çelebi’s Tazkirah an adab encyclopedia? The Arabic-Mamluk sources of the Ottoman Tazkirah writing
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Panel 7: 15th-century Arabic history writing: A contextualist approach Organiser – Chair: Jo Van Steenbergen
Tarek Sabra: Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba (1377-1448): His life and work
Zacharie Mochtarie de Pierrepont: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī’s texts and contexts: The Sufi environment of the Cairo Sultanate
Kenneth Goudie: Al-Biqāʿī’s self-reflection: A preliminary study of the autobiographical in his ʿUnwān al-Zamān
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Panel 8: New views on waqf during the Mamluk sultanate Organiser: Anthony Quickel – Chair: Albrecht Fuess
Anthony Quickel: Waqf as a linchpin in the organization and distribution of food from Mamluk Cairo’s suburban orchards and plantations
Albrecht Fuess: The waqfization in the late Mamluk empire: Sign of decline or an economic success story?
Muhammad Shaaban: Mapping Mamluk Egypt: Digital analysis and privatization trends in the late fourteenth century
Evan Metzger: The waqf and the Yatīm: Orphans and the representation of justice
19.30 Farewell Dinner