2nd German-Japanese Workshop on Mamlukology
December
1, Saturday
13:00-13:10 Opening Address by
Tetsuya Ohtoshi (Waseda University)
13:10-15:25 Session 1: Case Studies
on Individual Intellectuals
13:10-13:40
Stephan
Conermann (University of Bonn), “Some Considerations on Ibn Jamāʿa’s (d.
1341) Tadhkirat al-sāmiʿ wal-mutakallim fī adab al-ʿālim wal-mutaʿallim”
13:40-14:10
Abdelkader
Al Ghouz (University of Bonn), “Not that Simple: al-Bayḍāwī’s Contribution to
the Process of Naturalizing Peripatetic Philosophy in Dialectic Theology:
Cosmology as a Case Study”
14:10-14:25
Coffee Break
14:25-14:55
Yuta
Arai (Waseda University), “Rethinking Ibn Khaldūn’s Perspective on “Change” of
Historical Circumstances: Theorization and Description”
14:55-15:25
Anna
Kollatz (University of Bonn), “Tracing Ibn Iyās‘ Narrative: Shajar ad-Durr from
ʿUqūd al-jumān to Badāʾiʿ az-zuhūr”
15:25-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40
- An Arabic Republic
of Letters in the Middle Ages? Intellectual Networks between the Maghrib and
the Mashriq (Panel
organized by Takao Ito)
15:40-15:50 Introduction by Takao
Ito (Kobe University)
15:50-16:20
Alex
Mallett (Waseda University), “Spain, Sicily, Syria: Muslim Explanation for the
First Crusade”
16:20-16:50
Ayumi
Yanagiya (Toyo Bunko), “Private Letter
Exchange of Intellectuals in Medieval Arabic World: Focusing Mainly on al-Qadi
al-Fadil and Imad al-Din al-Isfahani”
16:50-17:10 Coffee Break
17:10-17:40
Kentaro
Sato (Hokkaido University), “Maghribi Tradition of Knowledge in Mamluk Cairo:
An Analysis of Isnād of Ibn Khaldūn”
17:40-18:10
Takao
Ito (Kobe University), “Writing a Biography of Ibn Khaldūn”
18:10
- Discussion
December
2, Sunday
9:30-10:30 Session 2 Mamluk
Dynasty and Its Rule
9:30-10:00
Erina
Ota-Tsukada (Keio University/Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “Banū Muzhir
and Marriage as a Family Strategy”
10:00-10:30
Hidenori
Teshima (Chuo University), “The
Promotional Steps of Influential Amirs in the Late Mamluk Dynasty: The Study of
Career of Government officials under the Reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Qāytbāy”
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 3 Networks and the Mobility
of Ideas and Individuals
10:45-11:15
Kaori
Otsuya (University of Liège/Kyoto University), “Places of Origin of Scholars
Who Visited Mecca and Medina in the Bahri Mamluk Period”
11:15-11:45
Mohammad Gharaibeh
(University of Bonn), "The
Sociology of Commentarial Literature. An Analysis of the Commentary Tradition
of the Muqaddima of
Ibn aṣ-Ṣalāḥ (d. 643/1245) from the Perspective of the Sociology of
Knowledge"
11:45-12:15
Manami
Kondo (Ryukoku University), “Taqīy al-Dīn
al-Subkī and the Society in Damascus”
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 4 Society
and Environment as seen from the Documents
13:30-14:00
Ryosuke
Kubo (Hitotsubashi University), “Management and Administration of a Waqf Facility
in Mamluk Cairo: Who were the Beneficiaries?”
14:00-14:30
Bethany
J. Walker (University of Bonn), “Agricultural
Terracing and Gardening for Profit: Transformation of Palestinian Landscapes in
the Mamluk Period”
14:30-15:00
Tetsuya
Ohtoshi (Waseda University), "Some Reflections on the Functioning of Waqfs
that Provided for Egyptian Cemeteries"
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16:25 Free Talks
- Toshimichi
Matsuda (Chuo University) “Court Records in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Maḥdar”
-
Manabu Kameya (Hirosaki University)
-
Junichi Taniguchi (Kyoto Women’s University)
- Takenori Yoshimura (Daito Bunka University)
16:25-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-17:10 General Discussion
17:10-17:40 Concluding remarks by
Stephan Conermann
