An der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen findet vom 30. März bis 1. April 2017 eine Konferenz zum Thema ‚Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies‚ statt. Zur Veranstaltungswebsite
Das Programm:
International Conference
Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text
University of Tübingen, 30 March – 1 April 2017
Convenors:
Kurt Franz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Zayde Antrim (Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.)
Jean-Charles Ducène (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)
30. M Ä R Z , 19.00 U H R
Opening lecture:
Zayde Antrim (Hartford, Conn.)
Spatial Thought and the Limitations of Genre
31. M Ä R Z , 09.00 U H R
P a n e l 1: G e n r e
Emmanuelle Tixier Dumesnil (Paris)
Comprendre un auteur dans son contexte historique, ou pourquoi l’histoire de la géographie
n’existe pas: l’exemple de l’Andalou al-Bakrī (XIe s.)
Kurt Franz (Tübingen)
Geographical Narratives and Normalised Space in the Age of Encyclopaedism
Travis Zadeh (New Haven, Conn.)
Crossing the Sea of Darkness: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Shifting Limits of Islamic Geography
P a n e l 2: I m a g e
Yossef Rapoport (London)
Maps of Urban Space in Medieval Islam
Feray Coşkun (Berlin)
Representations of Culture, Religion and History in the World Maps of the Kharīdat al-ʿAjāʾib
Nadja Danilenko (Berlin)
Getting the Picture: How al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms Made It to the Nineteenth Century
V i s i t t o t h e R e s e a r c h U n i t f o r I s l a m i c N u m i s m a t i c s (FINT)
Lutz Ilisch (Tübingen)
Coins as a Source of Historical Geography and the Tübingen Numismatic Collection
1 . A P R I L , 09.00 U H R
P a n e l 3 : T e x t I
Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg)
Defining the Abbasid Empire on Its Own Terms
Irina Konovalova (Moscow)
Ways of Describing Regions in the Geographical Work of al-Idrīsī
Jean-Charles Ducène (Paris)
Géographie politique, physique ou religieuse? Le monde vu depuis la chancellerie mamelouke
Y o u n g s c h o l a r s p o s t e r s e s s i o n
Ari M. Gordon (Pennsylvania, Pa.)
Sacred Orientation: The qibla as Ritual, Metaphor and Identity Marker in Early Islam
Aglaia Iankovskaia (Budapest)
At the Edge of the World of Islam: Maritime Southeast Asia in the Eyes of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Dženita Karić (London)
Sacred Spaces and Secured Provinces: Bosnian Hajj Literature and the Making of Local Cosmopolitanism
Masoumeh Saydi and Maxim Romanov (Leipzig)
A Method for Comparing Geographical Descriptions
P a n e l 4 : T e x t II
Alexis Norman Wick (Beirut)
Of Other Places: Visions of the Sea and the World before European Hegemony
Sergey Minov (Oxford)
The Marvels Found in the Great Cities, Seas and Islands: Syriac-speaking Christians Engaging
Muslim Spatial Thought
Robert J. Haug (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Local History and Spatial Thought in Ibn Isfandiyār’s Tārīkh-i Ṭabaristān
S u m m a r y d i s c u s s i o n
General response:
Nasser Rabbat (Cambridge, Mass.)