Thursday, 11 April 2019
09.00 h Christoph Mauntel: Introduction
Section I: Geographic Concepts and Their Religious Content
09.15 h Karen Pinto (Boise): What is ‘Islamic’ About Islamic Maps?
10.00 h Christoph Mauntel (Tübingen): The T-O Map and its Religious Connotations – A Circum- stantial Case
10.45 h Coffee Break
Section II: The Holy Land and its Place in Latin-Christian Geography
11.15 h Ingrid Baumgärtner (Kassel): The Geography of the Holy Land. Burchard of Mount Sions’s Text and the Extant Maps
12.00 h Emmanuelle Vagnon (Paris): When Religious Topography Meets the Geography of the Humanists: the Tabula moderna Terrae Sanctae in the 15th Century
12.45 h Lunch Break
Section III: Traditional Knowledge in New Forms?
14.00 h Stefan Schröder (Helsinki): Changing World Views and Religious Concepts of the Past – Meaning and Function of the Early 14th-Century ‘Transitional Maps’
14.45 h Felicitas Schmieder (Hagen): The Globe as Mappa Mundi? Reflections on Terrestrial Globes from Around 1500
15.30 h Coffee Break
Section IV: Representing the World in Arab-Islamic Geography
16.00 h Nadja Danilenko (Berlin): What’s Lord Got to Do With It? Grasping the Islamicate World Through al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms
16.45 h Mónica Herrera Casais (Berlin): Winds and Lunar Phases at the Service of Religion and the Nautical Image of the Mediterranean
ca. 19.00 h Diner
Friday, 12 April 2019
Section V: Representing the World in Latin-Christian Geography
09.00 h Nathalie Bouloux (Tours): Ordering and Reading the World: The Maps in Lambert of Saint-Omer’s Liber Floridus
09.45 h Cornelia Dreer (Kassel): Knowledge, Faith and Pragmatism – The Maps in Ranulph Higden’s Polychronicon
10.30 h Coffee Break
Section VI: Locating and Narrating Religion(s) and Sacrality
11.00 h Jean-Charles Ducène (Paris): Al-Idrīsī, the Geography and the Religions
11.45 h Kurt Franz (Tübingen): Divinity in Yāqūt’s Lexicon of Peopled Places: A Reduction
12.30 h Final Discussion