THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM - THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
Eleventh International Conference
FROM JÃHILIYYA TO ISLAM
July 5-10, 2009
All lectures will take place at the Feldman Building on the Givat Ram Campus . Organizers : Yohanan Friedman, Ella Landau-Tasseron, Shaul Shaked
Programme
- Programme "From Jâhiliyya to Islam"
PROGRAM
Sunday, July 5
19:00 Reception at the IAS lobby Greetings : Reuven Amitai (Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, The Hebrew University)
Monday, July 6
9:00-11:00 Chair : Robert Hoyland (University of St. Andrews)
Gerald Hawting (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) Prophets and Angels : the Prophetology of the Qurʾānic mushrikūn and its Historical Context
Uri Rubin (Tel Aviv University) The Qur’ānic and Post-Qur’ānic Image of the Prophet Muḥammad : A Comparative Study
11:30-13:00 Chair : Gerald Hawting
Adam Silverstein (University of Oxford) Satan in the Qur’ān
Uriel I. Simonsohn (University of Leiden) On the Question of ḥukm al-jāhiliyyah in Classical Islam
13:00-15:00 Lunch at Beit Belgia
15:00-16:30 Chair : Adam Silverstein
Abraham Hakim (Tel Aviv University) Some Notes on the Manuscript of “The Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutayba” (Risālat Dhāt al-bayān fi al-radd ʿalā Ibn Qutayba), by al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān b. Muḥammad (d. 363/974)
Camilla Adang (Tel Aviv University) The Degrees of Excellence of the ṣaḥāba according to Ibn Ḥazm’s al-Imāma wa ’l-mufāḍala
Tuesday, July 7
9:00-10:30 Chair : Christian Robin (Collège de France)
Michael Lecker (The Hebrew University) Glimpses of Muhammad’s Medinan Period
Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan University) Coptic Rebellions and the Islamization of Medieval Egypt (8th-10th Centuries) : Medieval and Modern Perceptions
11:00-13:00 Special session in honor of Etan Kohlberg Chair : Yohanan Friedmann
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) Greetings (in absentia)
Meir M. Bar-Asher (The Hebrew University) Etan Kohlberg’s contribution to the study of the Qurʾān
Simon Hopkins (The Hebrew University) Shīʿa, shīʿī, etc.
Ze’ev Maghen (Bar-Ilan University) ‘Little Red’ : The Portrayal of ʿĀʾisha in al-Majlisī’s Biḥār al-anwār
Etan Kohlberg : Response
13:00-15:00 Lunch at Beit Belgia
15:00-16:30 Chair : Meir M. Bar-Asher
Krisztina Szilagyi (Princeton University) The Arabian Saint : Christian Hagiographical Motifs in Muslim Narratives of Muḥammad’s Death
Yosef Witztum (Princeton University) Ibn Isḥāq and Two Passages from the Pentateuch
Wednesday, July 8
9:00-10:30 Chair : Amikam Elad (The Hebrew University)
Christian Robin Abraha et l’Arabie déserte
Wednesday, July 8
9:00-10:30 Chair : Amikam Elad (The Hebrew University)
Christian Robin Abraha et l’Arabie déserte
Robert Hoyland The Jews of the Ḥijāz in their Inscriptions
11:00-13:00 Chair : Yaacov Lev
Sara Sviri (The Hebrew University) Dress-Code, Asceticism and Mysticism in Early Islam : Reconsidering Terms, Definitions and Processes
Milka Levy-Rubin (The Hebrew University) Modes of Subordination of Non-Muslims under Muslim Rule : Their Provenance and Significance
Miklos Muranyi (University of Bonn) Compensation between Muslims and Christians : The Development of an Islamic Legal Question
13:00-15:00 Lunch at Beit Belgia
15:00-16:30 Chair : Rachel Milstein (The Hebrew University)
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon (The Hebrew University) More about Khirbat al-Minya
Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago) Aqaba (Ayla) : The Origins of the Mosque : Archaeological Perspectives
19:30 Dinner at the Terasa Restaurant (invited guests only)
Thursday, July 9
9:30-11:00 Chair : Simon Hopkins
Andreas Kaplony (University of Zürich) The Pronunciation of Arabic in the First Century AH : The Evidence of Arabic and Greek Papyri Combined
Aryeh Levin (The Hebrew University) A contribution to the history of modern Iraqi dialects
11:30-13:00 Chair : Myriam Rosen-Ayalon
Amikam Elad Seven Domes with Seven miḥrābs : al-Aqṣā Mosque in the Umayyad Period
Katia Cytryn-Silverman (The Hebrew University) The Planning of the Congregational Mosque of Tiberias and its Contribution to the Study of Early Islamic Mosques in Bilād al-Shām
13:00-15:00 Lunch at Beit Belgia
15:00-16:30 Chair : Albert Arazi (The Hebrew University)
Joseph Sadan (Tel Aviv University) Poetic and Prosodic Issues concerning Rhythm, Rhyme and Inimitability of the Qurʾān (iʿjāz al-Qurʾān) in an Inter- Cultural Context
Ali Hussein (University of Haifa) Some characteristics of the old Arab qaṣīda
(Source : www.as.huji.ac.il/conferences/jahaliya.pdf)