CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY AND HISTORICAL SOURCES IBADI
June 2014
Cambridge – United Kingdom
MONDAY, JUNE 16
| 08:30 | REGISTRATION |
| 09:00–09:30 | OPENING |
| Stuart Laing — Master of Corpus Christi CollegeMartin Millett — Head of the School of Arts and HumanitiesGarth Fowden — Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared ValuesAbdulrahman Al Salimi — Ministry of Awqaf, Muscat | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| 09:30 | van Ess, Josef: « Documents of Early Islamic Thought. The Ibadiyya in Context » |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 1
The Early Period (1st Century of the Hijra)
Chair: Heinz Gaube
| 10:30 | Madelung, Wilferd: « Abdallah b. Abbas and the Muhakkima in Basra » |
| 11:00 | Gaiser, Adam: « In Them Are Good Models: Ibadi Depictions of the Muhakkima » |
| 11:30 | al-Saiyid, Ridwan: « How Did Early Historians See the Tahkim » |
| 12:00 | Sabai, Naser: « Musnad Rabia b. Habib as a Historical Source » |
| 12:30 | Discussion |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
SESSION 2
The Early Period (1st–2nd Century of the Hijra)
Chair: Ersilia Francesca
| 14:00 | ech-Cheikh, Muhammad: « The Theology of History in Ibadi Thought » |
| 14:30 | Mezhoudi, Messaoud: « The Formation of the Ibadi Community in North Africa » |
| 15:00 | Ilisch, Lutz: « Early Ibadi Coins » |
| 15:30 | Discussion |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 3
The Formation of the Ibadi Community (2nd Century of the Hijra)
Chair: Adam Gaiser
| 16:30 | Staples, Eric: « The Maritime Dimensions of the Ibadi State During the Ninth Century » |
| 17:00 | Ziaka, Angeliki: « Early Ibadi Theological Works as Historical Sources » |
| 17:30 | Wilkinson, John: « Hamalat al-Ilm » |
| 18:00 | Discussion |
| 19:30 | Dinner at Madingley Hall |
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
SESSION 4
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (1)
Chair: Ridwan al-Saiyid
| 08:30 | Higgins, Annie: « Early Shurat/Khawarij Poets » |
| 09:00 | Muranyi, Miklos: « The Mudawwana of Abu Ghanim al-Khurasani » |
| 09:30 | Ould-Braham, Ouahmi: « The case of Wisyani’s Kitab al-Siyar and its various copies » |
| 10:00 | Love, Paul: « Ibadi Prosopographical Literature: al-Wisyani, Networks, and the New Philology » |
| 10:30 | Discussion |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 5
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (2)
Chair: Werner Schwartz
| 11:30 | Di Tolla, Anna Maria: « The Berbers in Ibadi History » |
| 12:00 | Brugnatelli, Vermondo: « The Original Format of Abu Ghanim’s Mudawwana: Philological Evidence from a Berber Commentary » |
| 12:30 | Al Salimi, Abdulrahman: « The Omani Biographical Dictionaries » |
| 13:00 | Discussion |
| 13:30–14:30 | Lunch |
SESSION 6
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (3)
Chair: Valeria Piacentini
| 14:30 | Gombeyaz, Kadir: « Sources and Characteristics of the Heresiological Classification by al-Qalhati in His al-Kashf wa l-bayan » |
| 15:00 | Kondo, Yohei: « The Deposition of the Imam al-Salt b. Malik and the Imamate Tradition of Oman » |
| 15:30 | Fromherz, Allen J.: « The Role of Ibadism in World History » |
| 16:00 | Discussion |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 7
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (4)
Chair: Anna Maria Di Tolla
| 17:00 | Bahaz, Ibrahim: « al-Darjini’s Tabaqat » |
| 17:30 | Jabiri, Farhad: « al-Barradi’s Kitab al-Jawahir al-muntaqa » |
| 18:00 | Hassen, Mohamed: « Siyar al-Shamakhi. A Historiographical Approach » |
| 18:30 | Discussion |
| 20:00 | Dinner in the Dining Hall of Corpus Christi College |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18
SESSION 8
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (5)
Chair: Allen Fromherz
| 08:30 | Abu Dawoud, Sami Saqer: « al-Awtabi and His Book Muwaddih al-ansab » |
| 09:00 | Nicolini, Beatrice: « Power and Tolerance Within Ibadis of Oman and Zanzibar During the Nineteenth Century: A Few Reflections » |
| 09:30 | Hoffman, Valerie: « Nasir b. Abi Nabhan and Sunni Literature » |
| 10:00 | Ghazal, Amal: « Zanzibar and East Africa Through Local Eyes: al-Mughayri’s Juhaynat al-akhbar and Other Accounts » |
| 10:30 | Discussion |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 9
Ibadi Historical Sources: New Assessments (6)
Chair: Barbara Michalak-Pikulska
| 11:30 | Coppola, Anna Rita: « Nur ad-Din al-Salimi » |
| 12:00 | Limbert, Mandana: « Muhammad al-Salimi » |
| 12:30 | Rabi, Uzi: « The Ibadi Manifestations in Contemporary Oman » |
| 13:00 | Discussion |
| 13:30–14:30 | Lunch |
SESSION 10
Other Sources and the Contribution of Western Scholarship to the Reconstruction of Ibadi History (1)
Chair: Dietrich Olms
| 14:30 | Emam, Mohammad Kamal: « Juridical Texts as Historical Sources » |
| 15:00 | Al Hajri, Helal Saeed: « The Land of Security’: Western Perceptions of Religious Tolerance in Oman » |
| 15:30 | Dridi, Moez: « Others’ Life: Views on the Ibadi Community Through the Francophone Orientalists’ Writings » |
| 16:00 | Discussion |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 11
Other Sources and the Contribution of Western Scholarship to the Reconstruction of Ibadi History (2)
Chair: Michael Jansen
| 17:00 | Piacentini, Valeria: « The Italian Perspective » |
| 17:30 | Schreiner, Stefan: « The German Perspective » |
| 18:00 | Clegg, William: « The Western Contribution to the Reconstruction of Ibadi History: The British Perspective » |
| 18:30 | Eickelman, Dale: « The American Perspective » |
| 19:00 | Discussion |
| 20:00 | Dinner in the “Old Kitchen” of Trinity College |
