Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
Date: 28 September 2012Time: 9:30 AM
Finishes: 28 September 2012Time: 5:45 PM
Venue: Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DARoom: Aga Khan University
Type of Event: Lecture
Enquiries to Sarah Bowen Savant, sarah.savant@aku.edu, Konrad Hirschler, kh20@soas.ac.uk or James McDougall, james.mcdougall@trinity.ox.ac.uk.
Session 1 - 9.30am-11.15am
Chair: Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London
- Farouk Topan, Interim Director, ISMC
Welcome - Sarah Bowen Savant, ISMC
Introductory remarks - Fred M. Doner, University of Chicago
'Periodization as a Tool of the Historian' - Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University
'Problematics of a Periodization: When Does “Islamic History” Begin?'
Coffee - 11.15am‐11.45am
Session 2 - 11.45am‐1.15pm
Chair: James McDougall, Trinity College, Oxford
- Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland
'Periodizing Early Islamic Syria' - Peter Webb, SOAS
'Al-Jāhiliyya: Uncertain Times of Uncertain Meanings'
Lunch - 1.15pm-2.15pm
Session 3 - 2.15pm-3.45pm
Chair: Hugh Kennedy, SOAS
- Amidu Sanni, Lagos State University, Nigeria
'The Arabic Literary Tradition: Effects of Periodization in Medieval Critical Thinking and Theorization' - Arshad M. Hadjirin, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Oxford
'A Question of Historical Periods in View of Local History Writings in the Arabic Tradition'
Tea - 3.45pm‐4.15pm
Session 4 - 4:15pm‐5.45pm
Chair: Sarah Bowen Savant
- Nils Riecken, Zentrum Moderner Orient
'Frames of Time: Universals and Periodization' - Matthias Determann, SOAS
'Merging Dynasties and Nations: Historiography and Periodization in Contemporary Arab Monarchies' - Konrad Hirschler, SOAS
Concluding remarks
Organiser: Aga Khan University, ISMC and SOAS, University of London
Contact email: sarah.savant@aku.edu
