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MEM Annual Meeting at MESA 2006
November 18, 2006 -- Boston Marriott Copley Place
12:30—2:00 Board Meeting (Northeastern Rm, 3rd
Floor)
(All are invited to the following)
2:00—2:30 MEM Business Meeting (Brandeis Rm, 3rd
Floor)
Reports
by Fred Donner, Eric Hanne, Steven Judd & Hugh Kennedy
(All are invited to the following)
2:30—4:00 MEM Panel (Brandeis Rm, 3rd
Floor)
“The
Importance of Material & Visual Culture for the Studying, Teaching
&
Research on the Medieval Middle East/Islamic World.”
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Chaired by Suleiman Mourad (Religion Department, Smith College)
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Christiane Gruber (Art History
Department, Indiana
University): Images
of
Muhammad.
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Jere Bacharach (History Department, University of Washington):
Numismatic
Evidence.
- Lara Tohme (Art
Department, Wellesley College):
Architecture.
(All are invited to the following)
4:00—4:30
COSMOPHILIA: Islamic Art from the David Collection,
Copenhagen (Brandeis
Rm, 3rd Floor)
Presentation
by Sheila Blair & Jonathan Bloom (Norma Jean Calderwood
University
Professorship of Islamic & Asian Art, Boston College)
4:30—5:00
MEM Reception (Brandeis Rm, 3rd Floor)
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Panels Sponsored by MEM at MESA 2006
In
this up-coming Middle East Studies Association ESA (2006) Annual meeting,
the following Panels are sponsored by MEM:
Sunday, 19 November 2006, 8:30--10:30 am
(P111) Ta'rikh Baghdad and the Formation of the
Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Organized by Racha el Omari
Chair:
Tayeb El-Hibri (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst)
Jonathan AC Brown (University of Washington):
The Tarikh Baghdad in the History of Sunni Hadith Criticism, or, Did
Al-Khatib Not Like Al-Hakim Al-Naysaburi?
Asma Sayeed
(Princeton University):
Interpreting the Silences: Women's Religious Education in Ta'rikh
Baghdad
Suleiman A.
Mourad (Smith College):
From Ta'rikh Baghdad to Ta'rikh Dimashq: The Impact of al-Khatib
al-Baghdadi on Ibn 'Asakir
Racha el Omari
(Yale University):
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi as a Historian of 'Ilm al-Kalam: Ash'arites and
Mu'tazilites in Ta'rikh Baghdad
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 1:30--3:30 pm
(P108) Studies in Umayyad History
Organized by Steven Judd
Chair/Discussant:
Fred Donner (University of Chicago)
R. Stephen Humphreys (University of
California, Santa Barbara):
The Church in Syria-Palestine in the Time of Mu'awiya
Rebecca M. Foote
(Harvard University):
Cultivating the Qusur: Agrarian Society in the Early Islamic Hijaz and
Bilad al-Sham
Steven Judd
(Southern Connecticut State University):
The Sons of Hisham b. 'Abd al-Malik
Hugh Kennedy
(University of St. Andrews):
The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of Bukhara
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