New Sources on Muslim-Christian Interaction in the Later Medieval Mediterranean
2025.04.04
| Date | 12–13 April 2025 |
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| Venue | Room 1102, Building 26 (Okuma Memorial Tower), Waseda University Main Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo To register, please go to: https://forms.gle/B6GfxNmK3dpdfmRr6. |
| Admission | Free |
| Language | English |
| Organizers | The Chair of the State of Qatar at Waseda University, NIHU Global Mediterranean at ILCAA |
| Contact | gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (Replace [at] with @.) |
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
SATURDAY 12 APRIL:
| 09:30-09:45 | Registration |
| 09:45-10:00 | Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| 10:00-12:00 | Panel 1: Religious Texts Mamluk Fatwas and Muslim-Christian Relations: Nine New Fatwas on Post-Crusader Tripoli (Luke Yarbrough, UCLA) Al-Tāzī’s Tanbīh al-himam al-ʿālīya: A Fifteenth-Century Call to Jihād (Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta) Ḥadīth Compilation and Christian-Muslim Relations in Mamlūk Cairo: A Case Study on Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (Stephen Burge, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00-15:00 | Panel 2: Sources from Latin Europe Rural Appurtenances: Locating Muslim Communities through Frankish Charters? (Heather Crowley, Cabrillo College) Arabic Geographies in Medieval Castile: Al-Bakrī’s Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-Mamālik, Wise Kingship, and Alfonso X (Alexandra Montero Peters, Texas A&M University) European Images of Northwest Africa: The Spatial Conception of Christian-Muslim Borderlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Toby Yuen-Gen Liang, Academica Sinica, Taipei) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:30 | Panel 3: Personal Interactions Saladin’s Countercrusading Jihād in Propaganda and Practice: The Sultan, al-Qāḍī al-Fāḍil and ‛Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī (Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tubingen) Faith, Food and Public Entertainment in Medieval Irbil (Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway University of London) Rediscovering Scientific Rationality in Medieval Islam: The Interaction Between Institutions and Christian Translators in Andalusia (Khaled Qutb, Qatar University) |
SUNDAY 13 APRIL:
| 09:30-10:00 | Arrival and Coffee |
| 10:00-12:00 | Panel 4: Narrative Sources Ibn ʿAsakir and the Crusades (Suleiman Mourad, Smith College) Biographical Entries as a Source for Frankish-Muslim Relations: The Example of Fakhr al-Dīn ibn Luqmān (d. 693/1294) (Bogdan Smarandache, Liege University) Remembering the Crusades: Excavating the Memory of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn and the Franks in the Faḍāʾil al-Quds Pilgrimage Texts and Islamic Travelogue Literature from the Early Modern Period (Fadi Ragheb, University of Toronto) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-15:00 | Panel 5: Material Culture & Documents Coinage in the Melting-Pot: The Normans in Medieval South Italy and Sicily (Alex Metcalfe, Lancaster University) The Fatimids, the Crusades, and the Cairo Geniza (Paul Cobb, University of Pennsylvania) Material Evidence of Conflict, Commerce and Coexistence in Medieval Transjordan (Michael Fulton, Western University) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-17:30 | Panel 6: Locating Interactions in Warfare Interactions between Besieged and Besiegers in the Jazīra and the Bilād al-Shām during the Twelfth Century (1097-1192) (Thomas Brosset, Lancaster University) Cosmology, Astrology, and Theurgy in Medieval Islamic Warfare (Liana Saif, University of Amsterdam) Salah al-Din and the al-Ramla Peace Treaty 1192 CE: Victory’s Fruit or Defeat’s End? A Critical Analytical Study (Maher Abu Munshar, Qatar University) |
| 17:30-17:45 | Concluding Remarks |