Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography 2015
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 25 September 2015Time: 12:00 AM
Finishes: 26 September 2015Time: All Day
Venue: 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, 210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA
Type of Event: Workshop
Seminar Programme | |
Friday 25 September | |
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9:30 – 10:45 | Session 1: Sultan |
Chair: James McDougall, Trinity College/OxfordWelcome “The Use of the Term ‘Sultan’ in Some Tenth-century Arabic Texts” “ Narrating Sultanship: Perspectives on the Narrative Construction of Sultanic Biographies from The Early Mamluk Period” | |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee |
11:15 – 12:30 | Session 2: Legend |
Chair: Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London“ Islamic Prophetic Legend and the Prophetic Königsnovelle in Egyptian Popular Epic” “ The Adventures of the courageous princeʿAbd-al-Raḥmān in the Far West. Some remarks about historical legends and their meaning’ | |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:30 | Session 3: Networks and Intertextuality |
Chair: Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University, ISMC“ Writing a Network, Constructing a Tradition: Ibadi Intellectual Networks in 11th century North Africa and Beyond” “ The Taʾ rīḫ al-islām of al-Ḏahabī (d. 748/1347 CE): Computational Exploration of the Life-Cycle of a 50-Volume Arabic Chronicle-cum-Biographical Collection” “ Intertextual Interconnections: the Case of the Ilkhanid Mamluk Historiography” | |
15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon tea |
16:00 – 18:00 | Session 4: Shaping the Past |
Chair: Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland“‘What went wrong’ in ‘other times’” “Penning the Foundations: The Shaping of Fatimid Historiography” “The Fifteenth-Century Debate on History in Arabic and Persian” | |
Saturday 26 September | |
9:30 – 10:45 | Session 1: Theology |
Chair: David Bennett, University of Gothenburg“ Do Theologians Make Good Historians? On the construction of the Islamic past in the doxographies of the classical period” “Theology meets Historiography – Ibn Kaṯīr and his al-Bidāya wa-n-nihāya” | |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee |
11:15 - 12:30 | Session 2: Voices in History |
Chair: Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London“ Asserting a Shī‘ī ī past in the history of songs: the Kitāb al-Aghānī and its authorial voice” “ The Remembered Imam: Mūsā al-Kāẓim and the Role of Rhetoric in Early Muslim Historical Writing” |
If wishing to attend, please RSVP at one of the following:
Sarah Bowen Savant (sarah.savant@aku.edu)
Konrad Hirschler (kh20@soas.ac.uk)
Hugh Kennedy (hk1@soas.ac.uk)
James McDougall (james.mcdougall@trinity.ox.ac.uk)