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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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