NINETH CONFERENCE ON IBADI STUDIES
17-18 September 2018
Beijing- China
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
| 09:30–10:00 | REGISTRATION |
Opening Ceremony Venue：Sunshine Hall, Yingjie Conference Center
Moderator：Lin Fengmin
SECTION 1
Official Address
| 10:00-10:15 | Mr. Wang Bo, Vice President of Peking University |
| 10:15-10:35 | H.E. Mr. Abdullah Saleh Al Saadi, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to the People’s Republic of China |
| 10:35-10:45 | Mr. Li Ge, Deputy General Director of the Third Department of National Religious Affairs Administration |
| 10:45-11:05 | Mr. Abdulrahman Al Salimi, Editor in Chief of Al Tafahom Journal, Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman |
SECTION 2
Keynote Speech
| 11:05-11:35 | Mr. Yang Fuchang, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of China |
| 11:30-11:55 | Group Photo |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
SECTION 1
Session One: China, Oman and the World (I)
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Angeliki Ziaka
| 13:30-13:45 | Li Anshan, Africa Rising & Capacity Cooperation Potentials, Advantages and Risks |
| 13:45-14:05 | Seiji Morimoto, The Cultural Interactions between the Middle East and Japan through the Silk Road |
| 14:05-14:20 | Ding Long, The Characteristics of Oman’s Foreign Policy and its Roots |
| 14:20-14:40 | Wilferd Madelung, Oman, a Vital Sea Link in the Silk Road |
| 14:40-14:55 | Luo Lin, ‘Sohar’ Ship: The Cultural Symbol and Spiritual Source of the Belt and Road Initiative |
| 14:55-15:15 | Hatim Al-Taei, Oman and China: A New Era of Strategic Partnerships |
| 15:15-15:35 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| 15:35-16:05 | Tea Break |
SECTION 2
China, Oman and the World (II)
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Fu Zhiming
| 16:05-16:20 | Sun Qingwei, Peking University Archaeology Program: The Cradle of Chinese Archaeology |
| 16:20-16:40 | Hossein Modarressi, Mutual Understanding and Harmonious Relations between Ibāḍī and Shīʿite Communities in the 2nd/8th Century Iraq |
| 16:40-17:00 | Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, Regulating the Sea: A 9th Century Ibadi Manuscript on Maritime Law |
| 17:00-17:15 | Wang Yujie, An Analysis of Sectarian Problems of Islam in China |
| 17:15-17:35 | Ersilia Francesca, Cross-Boundary Knowledge in early Ibadism: Religious Authority, Knowledge Transmission and Exchanges |
| 17:35-17:55 | Eric Staples, Intersections in Arabic Navigational Literature |
| 17:55-18:15 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| 18:15-20:00 | Banquet |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
SECTION 3
Diachronic and Cross – Border Transmission of Ibadi Knowledge (I)
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Hatim Al-Taei
| 8:30-8:50 | Farhat Jaabiri, The Chain of Guarantors of Religion and their Role in Spreading Knowledge in the Ibadi Tradition |
| 8:50-9:05 | Wang Xiaofu, A Study of the Relationship between Early Oman and China |
| 9:05-9:25 | Adam Gaiser, Exploring Discursive Networks: the Case of “Adhering to the Community” Narrations among Early Ibāḍī |
| 9:25-9:40 | Duan Qing, Traces of the ‘Snake God’ Hermes |
| 9:40-10:00 | Miklos Muranyi, Retracing Qatāda‘s al-Nāsikh wal-Mansūkh in Early Ibādī Sources |
| 10:00-10:20 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| 10:20-10:50 | Tea Break |
SECTION 4
The Maritime Silk Route: Connecting the Arab World and China
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Wang Suolao
| 10:50-11:05 | Jiang Bo, Archaeological Investigation and Excavation of the Saudi Al Serrian Harbor |
| 11:05-11:25 | Valeria Piacentini, The Silk Route: A Tenuous Whirling Line between Past and Present. The Mansurah Emirate and its Outlet to the Sea, Daybul (9-10th Centuries) |
| 11:25-11:40 | Wang Suolao, Oman’s Gulf Policy and its Ibadi Tradition |
| 11:40-12:00 | John Chaffee, Arab Merchants in Middle Period China: A Review of the Evidence |
| 12:00-12:20 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch |
SECTION 5
China, Oman and the World (III)
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Adam Gaiser
| 13:30-13:55 | Amal Ghazal, Fatwas, Poetry and Riddles: Ibadis in China in the 17th Century |
| 13:55-14:10 | Sha Zongping, A Brief Survey of the Friendly Relations between China and Oman in 2007-2016 |
| 14:10-14:30 | Beatrice Nicollini, Letter of Marque: the Gwadar Enclave of Ibadi Sultans of Oman and its Interconnections with Asia |
| 14:30-14:45 | Lian Chaoqun, Metaphorical Recurrence and Language Symbolism in Arabic Language Policy Discourse |
| 14:45-15:05 | Yohei Kondo, Rashid b. ‘Umayra al-Rastaqi and Medical Treatment in Sixteenth- Century Oman |
| 15:05-15:25 | Paul Love, Ibadi Libraries as Tools for (and Obstacles to) Knowledge Transmission |
| 15:25-15:45 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| 15:45-16:15 | Tea Break |
SECTION 6
Diachronic and Cross – Border Transmission of Ibadi Knowledge (II)
Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501
Moderator: Wu Bingbing
| 16:15-16:35 | Mohsin Al Kindi, Contemporary Omani Literature and the Journeys to Horizons: A Reading in the Themes of Epistemological Departure |
| 16:35-16:50 | Sun Xiaowen, A Brief Analysis of the Contacts between Wahhabism and Other Islamic Movements |
| 16:50-17:10 | Junya Shinohe, Silk Road of Japan via China in the 7th Century and the Concepts of Grace, Islam and Muslim in the Ibadi Doctrine and in the Structural Analysis of Islamic Teaching |
| 17:10-17:30 | Hilal Al Hajiri, Chinese Dragons and Phoenix in 10-11th Centuries Ceramics Found |
| 17:30-17:50 | Free Discussions: 20 minutes |
| Close Ceremony Venue: The New Building of School of Foreign Languages, Room 501 Moderator: Wu Bingbing |
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| 17:50-18:20 | Address of Wu Sike, Former China’s Special Envoy on the Middle East Issue |
| 18:30-20:00 | Banquet |
