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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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