Attend: Medieval Mediterranean Diversity Workshop (May 20, Zoom)

[Carlson, Thomas Andrew]

Dear colleagues,

Please see the attached information for an upcoming workshop on diversity in the medieval Middle East, and email me to register in order to receive the Zoom link.  (Registration is free.)

Program

Medieval Middle Eastern Diversity Workshop

(To register for Zoom link, email thomas.a...@okstate.edu)

Monday, May 20, 2024 (by Zoom)

*All times listed in Eastern (US) Daylight Time

9:00-9:10am: Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:10-10:05: Session I

Mourad Takawi (U. Incarnate Word), “The Interreligious Context of Early Qurʾān Interpretation: Arabic Christian and Muslim Exegetes in the Early Islamic Period”

Jeson Ng (U. Chicago), “Arabic Verse in Persian Form: Medieval Experimentalisms at Play”

10:05-11:25: Session II

Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham U.), “Helena of Adiabene in the Medieval Middle East”

Philip Wood (Aga Khan U.), “Religious Diversity in the Scholion of Theodore bar Koni (c.791)”

Orçun Saracoğlu (METU), “Church as a Multi-Ethnic Monument: Amida from Late Antiquity to Medieval Era”

11:35-12:30: Session III

John Zaleski (Loyola U.), “Diversity and Pluralism in the Debate of Timothy I and the Caliph al-Mahdi”

Omri Matarasso (Princeton U.), “The Confessionalization of the Medieval Middle East: Modern and Medieval Perspectives”

1:30-2:25: Session IV

Reyhan Durmaz (U. Pennsylvania), “Between Class, Clan, Confession: Reflections on Social Mobility”

Eve Krakowski (Princeton U.), “Linguistic Diversity and Religious Change after Arabization: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic among the Jews of Medieval Egypt”

2:25-3:20: Session V

Chris Mezger (Yale U.), “How Many Aramaics?: Language Shift and Social Cohesion in the Medieval Midde East”

Rama Alhabian (Hamilton Coll.), “Multilingual Worlds in Ḥarīrī’s Monolingual Maqāmāt: The Case of al-maqāma ar-Raqṭāʾ (the spotted)”

3:30-4:25: Session VI

Rachel Abdoler (U. Chicago), “Confessional Boundary Crossing in Biblical Exegesis: Butrus al-Sadamanti's use of Ibn al-Tayyib in his Tafsīr on the Passion of Christ”

Thomas A. Carlson (Oklahoma  State U.), “Even the Qadi Does It: Religious Diversity, Gender, and the Vice Economy after 1000 CE”

4:25-5:00: Concluding Discussion

Best wishes,

Thomas

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Thomas A. Carlson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History
History Department
Oklahoma State University
101 Social Sciences & Humanities
Stillwater, OK 74078-3054
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thomas.a...@okstate.edu

http://www.thomasacarlson.com/

Author of https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279

Principal Investigator of the Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East (HIMME)

Pronouns: he/ܗܘ/هو/او/նա

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[Carlson, Thomas Andrew]

Correction: the title of the workshop is:

Medieval *Middle Eastern* Diversity Workshop

Not *Mediterranean* necessarily, though of course there is overlap.

-T

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