Montag, 12.09.2011
Ort: Vortragsraum, Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14
14.00 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung
Jens Scheiner (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
14.30 Uhr Contexts of Qur’an, Tafsir and Jewish Learning
Chair: Sebastian Günther (Göttingen)
Teaching Scripture: Qur’anic Exegetes as Teachers
Luise Ossenbach (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
Ibn Muhajid and Ibn Muqlah: Or how the Qur’anic Page Came to Look Like it Does Today
Andreas Mohr (Potsdam)
15.30 – 16.00 Uhr Kaffeepause
Inna fi khtilaf ummati la-rahma: Ibn Muhjahid’s ‘Seven Readings’ and the Qur’an as an ‘Open Text‘
Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin)
Safeguarding Lord’s Word: The Work of the Masoretes
Elvira Martín-Contreras (Madrid)
Geonic Academies of Babylonia
Elisabetta Abate (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
18.00 Uhr Keynote Lecture
Ort: Roter Salon,
Lichtenberg-Kolleg in der Historischen Sternwarte, Geismar Landstr. 11
Kunst und Kultur im frühabbasidischen Bagdad: Eine Rekonstruktion nach materiellen Zeugnissen
Karin Rührdanz (Toronto)
Dienstag, 13.09.2011
Ort: Vortragsraum, Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14
9.00 Uhr Contexts of Translation
Chair: Martin Tamcke (Göttingen)
Perso-Arabic Translation Movement in Context: Who was Translating Historical Texts from Middle Persian for Whom and Why?
Mohsen Zakeri (Göttingen)
The Bayt al-Hikma: A Conversation Salon?
Johannes Manz (Berlin)
Al-Ma’mūn and Astrology: Re-Shuffling the Pieces of the Bayt al-Hikma Puzzle
Damien Janos (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
10.30 – 11.00 Uhr Kaffeepause
Contexts of Historiography
Chair: Damien Janos (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
Court Astronomers and the Writing of History in Early Abbasid Baghdad
Antoine Borrut (College Park/ Maryland)
Narrating the Past: The Qussas as Historians in 9th and 10th Century Baghdad
Jens Scheiner (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
Talking about Arabic Origins: The Transmission of the ayyam al-arab in Kufah, Basrah, and Baghdad
Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Berlin)
12.30 – 14.30 Uhr Mittagspause
Contexts of Christian Learning
Chair: Antoine Borrut (College Park/ Maryland)
Know Your Enemy: Christian Learning about Islam in the Early Abbasid Caliphate
Krisztina Szylagyi (Cambridge)
We Shall not Teach the Qur’an to our Children
Clare Wild (Auckland)
15.30 – 16.00 Uhr Kaffeepause
Using Philosophical and Theological Competence: The Heads of the Church of the East Mar Aba (741-751) and Henaniso II (774/74-779/80)
Martin Tamcke (Göttingen)
Contexts of Christian Education in Baghdad: The Letters of the East-Syrian Patriarch Timothy I (780-823)
Martin Heimgartner (Halle)
Mittwoch, 14.09.2011
Ort: Vortragsraum, Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14
9.00 Uhr Contexts of Literature
Chair: Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin)
Al-Kindi on Knowledge Acquisition and Education
Sebastian Günther (Göttingen)
The Concepts of ´Knowledge´ and ´Education´ in the Works of al-Jahiz (d. 869) and Ibn Qutayba (d. 889) in the Context of Late Antiquity
Peter Poeckel (Berlin)
Celebrating Wisdom, Reflection and Contemplation: Abu l-Atahiya and his zuhdiyyat
Nora Schmid (Potsdam)
10.30 – 11.00 Uhr Kaffeepause
Savoir-vivre at Court: Ibn al-Washsha on Education and Morality
Lale Behzadi (Bamberg)
Baghdad and Other Imaginary Places in a Recently Discovered Andalusian Manuscript
Claudia Ott (Erlangen)
12.30 – 13.30 Uhr Mittagspause
Contexts of Natural Sciences
Chair: Jens Scheiner (CRC EDRIS Göttingen)
Vestiges of Teaching Aids and Educational Methods in Astronomy (750-1000)
Johannes Thomann (Zürich)
Education and Teaching Activities of the Nestorian Physicians during the Abbasid Caliphate
Silke Abele (Tübingen)
14.30 Uhr Final Discussion
15.30 Uhr End of the Conference