Monday, July 2, 2007
18.00
Opening:
Dr. WOLFGANG BERGSDORF, President of the University of Erfurt
KNUT KREUCH, Mayor of Gotha
Dr. KATHRIN PAASCH, Director of the Research Library Gotha
18.30
Opening Lecture
STEFAN LEDER (Halle/S.) Royal Dishes. On the Historical and Literary Anthropology of the Near and Middle East
Musical Programme: ROMAN BUNKA
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
9.00: Thematic Opening:
ALBRECHT FUESS/JAN-PETER HARTUNG (Erfurt/Bonn)
Session I: Muslim Court Culture until the 16th Century: The Prophet and the Caliphates.
Chair: ANDREW NEWMAN (Edinburgh)
9.30-10.45
MICHAEL COOK (Princeton, NJ)
Did the Prophet keep Court?
STEFAN HEIDEMANN (Jena)
The Representation of the Early Islamic Empire and it's Elite Religion
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.15
HUGH KENNEDY (St. Andrews)
Landed Estates in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Period
NADIA CHEIKH (Beirut)
The Abbasid Court: A Study of the Early 4th/10th Century
12.15-13.30 Lunch Break
Session II: Muslim Court Culture until the 16th Century: Local Forms of the Representation of Rulers
Chair: STEFAN LEDER (Halle/S.)
13.30-15.15
HEND GILLI-ELEWY (Pomona, CA)
The Mongol Court in Baghdad: The Brothers Juwaynī between Local Court and Central Court
CHRISTIAN MUELLER (Paris)
Correcting Injustice Mazàlim Jurisdictions at the Umayyad Court of Cordoba (8th-11th century)
SAMER TRABOULSI (Ashville, N.C.)
Local Court Culture in Medieval Yemen
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.45
SUNIL KUMAR (New Delhi)
The Many Courts and Cities of the Delhi Sultans
ALBRECHT FUESS (Erfurt)
Between Dihliz and Dar al-Adl. Forms of Outdoor and Indoor Royal Representation at the Mamluk Court in Egypt.
17.00-17.30
Guided Tour through the Research Library, Gotha:
The Oriental Manuscripts at Gotha
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Session III: Culture at the Court: Patronage, Science, and Literature
Chair: MUZAFFAR ALAM (Chicago, IL)
9.00-10.45
JAN-PETER HARTUNG (Bonn/Erfurt)
Making Dar al-Islam: On Courtly Patronage of Religious Scholars
SONJA BRENTJES (London)
The Ancient Sciences at Ayyubid Courts, their Practitioners, Patrons, and Conflicts
FRANÇOIS CHARETTE (Munich)
Scientific Metaphors for Princes: The Symbolic Virtues of Astronomical Instruments in Courtly Contexts
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.15
SYRINX VON HEES (Bonn)
An Arabic Mirror for Princes from the 14th Century: The "Kitab suluk duwal al-muluk" of Ibn Nubata
JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI (Point Richmond, CA)
On Persian History as Mirrors for Princes
12.15-13.30 Lunch Break
Session IV: Muslim Court Culture between the 16th and 19th Centuries
Chair: JAMAL MALIK (Erfurt)
13.30-14:45
ANDREW NEWMAN (Edinburgh)
Monolithic or Dynamic? The Changing Composition and Role of the Safawid Court over the 17th Century
FARHAT HASAN (Aligarh)
Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Mughal Court Culture
14:45- 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 -16:15
CHRISTOPH WERNER (Freiburg i.Br.)
Educating the Tribal Native: Court Culture and Politics in 18th Century Shiraz
FELIX KONRAD (Bern)
The Court of the Khedives of Egypt (1840-1880): Ottoman and Global Court Culture
16:30 Special Lecture
ANDREAS KLINGER (Jena)
Orthodoxy, Baroque and Enlightenment.
Court Culture in Gotha (1640- 1804)
17.30 –18.30
Guided Tour of Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Session V: Culture at the Courts: Patronage, Arts, and Architecture
Chair: MICHAEL COOK (Princeton, NJ)
9.00-10.15
JOHANNES PAHLITZSCH (Mainz)
Patronage and Waqf in the Buyid Period
HENNING SIEVERT (Zurich)
Favouritism at the Ottoman Court in the 18th Century
10.15-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.15
LORENZ KORN (Bamberg)
Art and Architecture of the Artuqid Courts
ABBAS AMANAT (Yale, CT)
The Qajar Court and Persianization of European Visual Art
HUSSEIN KESHANI (Okanagan, BC)
The Courtly Architecture of Awadh
12.15-13.00 Final Discussion