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4th annual international workshop brings together scholars across regional and chronological boundaries to discuss aspects of the writing of history in Arabic from the 7th century to the present.
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ISMC, Aga Khan University/SOAS, University of London
Friday 16 September 2011, 9.30am‐5pm
venue: Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
210 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA
Session 1 9.30am-11.15am Chair: Hugh Kennedy, SOAS,
University of London
Farouk Topan, AKU-ISMC, London
Welcome and introductory remarks
Peter Webb, SOAS, University of London
‘Barbarism’ in Muslim Narratives of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Study of the ayyām al-ʿarab
Sarah Savant, AKU-ISMC, London
Into Arabic, Out of Pahlavi: A Theory regarding 'Sourcebooks' for Iranian History
11.15am‐11.45am Coffee
Session 2 11.45am‐1.15pm Chair: Konrad Hirschler, SOAS,
University of London
Alex Mallett, Royal Holloway, University of London
History as propaganda: Ayyubid period historians and the early leaders of the counter-crusade
Nassima Neggaz, Georgetown University
The fall of Baghdad to the Mongol invader, 656/1258: Historiography lessons from city-siege narratives
1.15pm-2.15pm Lunch
Session 3 2.15pm-3.45pm Chair: Antoine Borrut,
University of Maryland
Nick Chatrath, Wadham College, Oxford
Butcher, baker, money changer: Ibn al-Ḥājj al-‘Abdarī’s (d. 737/1336) and Ibn al-Naḥḥās al-Dumyāṭī’s (d. 814/1411) use of earlier sources in rebuking innovation
Elena Vezzadini, EHESS, Paris
Writing hegemony in history: Historiography, resistance, and the struggle over history
3.45pm‐4.15pm Tea
Session 4 4.15pm‐5pm Chair: James McDougall,
Trinity College, Oxford
Abdou Filali Ansari, AKU-ISMC, London
Contemporary Debates about the Past: Questioning Popular Views on Arabism and Islam
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