A conference titled ‘The Battle of Yarmuk (636 CE): Rethinking ‘Conquest’, by the Abteilung für Orient- und Islamwissenschaft at Tübingen University will take place at the Evangelisches Stift from 16-17 June 2017. Please find the full programme here.
The Programme:
Friday, June 16, 2017
9.00 Introduction
9.10 Welcoming address of the Ephorus V. Drecoll
Framing conquest
Chair: J. van Ess
9.20 T. Raum (Tübingen), Byzantium on the eve of the conquests
10.00 J. Howard-Johnston (Oxford), The Arab conquests of the Roman Levant: The sources
10.40 Coffee break
11.00 S. Kovarik (Oxford), Conquests and papyri in 7th-century Egypt
11.40 A. Marsham (Edinburgh), Were there strategic considerations in the 7th-century Arab conquests?
12.20 Lunch break
The battle of Yarmūk in the Arabic historical tradition
Chair: K. Franz
14.00 M. Akpinar (Tübingen), Searching for the earliest layers in the Arabic sources
14.40 M. Schönléber (Budapest), The narration of the events preceding the battle
15.20 Coffee break
15.40 J. Scheiner (Göttingen), Narrating the battle movement
16.20 Y. Dehghani Farsani (Göttingen), Religious and military designations of Muslims and Byzantines
17.00 Coffee break
Processing conquest
Chair: M. Meier
17.20 F. Montinaro (Tübingen), On some sources for the reign of Constans II
18.00 W. Brandes (Frankfurt), Überlegungen zum Constans-Vaticinium
19.00 Keynote
Walter E. Kaegi (Chicago)
Retrospective reflections on military operations at Yarmūk and vicinity
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Processing conquest (continued)
Chair: E.M. Conner
9.00 L.M. Frenkel (São Paulo), The influence of Late Antique religious polemical discourse on Early Byzantine perceptions of the first Muslim victories
9.40 C. Zuckerman (Paris), The sixty martyrs of Gaza
10.20 Coffee break
Material approaches
Chair: M. Ritter
10.40 M. Phillips & S. Tyler-Smith (Biggleswade/Cambridge), From ‘Ancient’ to ‘Medieval’: Coinage as evidence for the nature of historical change. The case of 7th-century Syria
11.20 L. Ilisch (Tübingen), A new old 7th-century coin hoard from the Aleppo region
12.00 Lunch break
13.40 R. Schick (Mainz), The Byzantine-Umayyad transition in southern Jordan
14.20 K. Meinecke (Wien), Syria capta. Herrschaftsanspruch in der Bildersprache der Umayyaden
15.00 Coffee break
Distant voices
Chair: P. Tedesco
15.20 K. Choda (Tübingen), Argumentum ex silentio? Religiöse Überzeugungsstrategie in der Continuatio Byzantia-Arabica
16.00 M. Conterno (Ghent), History with and without Yarmūk: the double account of the 7th century in Agapius of Mabbug
16.40 P. Pilette (Louvain-la-Neuve), The 7th century in the History of the churches and monasteries of Egypt
17.20 Coffee break
18.00 Evening lecture
M. Penn (Stanford)
“Syriac Christian memories of the Islamic conquests”
19.00 Closing lecture and discussion
Fred M. Donner (Chicago)
“The conquests of the Arabian Believers’ movement as historiographical concept and historical reality”