IBADHI STUDIES AND THE SULTANATE OF OMAN
November 2009
Thessalonic – Greece
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
| 08:45-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-9:30 | Welcome |
| Anastassios Manthos, Rector of AUTH Ioannis Kongoulis, Dean Of the Faculty of Theology Dimitris Kaimakis, President of the Departement of Theology Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, Chief editor of « al-Tasamoh » journal |
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| 09:30-09:40 | Angeliki Ziaka, Presentation of the research project of the AUTH Research Committee entitled « The Countries of the Arab Gulf and Europe: For the Support of Research Being Carried Out in the Sultanate of Oman » |
FIRST SESSION: EARLY IBADHISM: History and Theology
Chair: Josef Van Ess (University of Tübingen) & Panayotis Pachis (AUTH)
| 09:40-09:55 | Josef Van Hess (University of Tübingen): « General introduction: Ibadhi Studies until now » |
| 09:55-10:25 | John C. Wilkinson (St Hugh’s College Oxford): « A reconsideration of the origins of Ibadhism » |
| 10:25-10:50 | Wilfred Madelung (University of Oxford): « Abd Allah b. Yazid al-Fazari on the Abode of Islam » |
| 10:50-11:15 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
| 11:15-11:35 | Ridwan al-Sayid (Lebanese University): « Theological trends in early Ibadhi Epistless » |
| 11:35-12:00 | Discussion |
SECOND SESSION: IBADHI JURISPRUDENCE
Chair: Christina Deligianni-Dimitrakou (AUTH) & Miltiadis Konstantinou (AUTH)
| 12:00-12:30 | Ersilia Francesca (Università deli Studi di Napoli « L’Orientale »): « Formation and early development in the Ibadhi madhlab » |
| 12:30-12:50 | Kyriakos Nikolaou Patragas (University of Athens): « The juridical apperception of Ibadhism » |
| 12:50-13:10 | Muhammad Said al-Mamari (Institute of Islamic Sciences, Oman): » The Letters of Jabir Bin Zaid » |
| 13:10-13:30 | Brahim Bahaz (University of Constantine, Algeria): « Terminologies Ibadhites, présentation d’un dictionnaire par un co-auteur » |
| 13:30-14:00 | Discussion |
| 14:00-15:30 | Lunch |
| 15:30-18:30 | Tour of Thessaloniki’s archeological sites |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
THIRD SESSION: IBADHISM TODAY AND THE SULTANATE OF OMAN
Chair: Petros Vassiliadis (AUTH) & Niki Papageorgiou (AUTH)
| 09:00-09:30 | Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA): « Historical Memory and Imagined Communities: Modem Ibadhi Writings on Kharijism » |
| 09:30-10:00 | Dale F.Eickelman (Dartmouth College, USA): « The Modern Face of Ibadhism in Oman » |
| 10:00-10:30 | Marc Valeri (University of Exeter, UK): « Ibadhism and the Omani Nation-Building Project since 1970 » |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK |
| 11:00-11:20 | Uzi Rabi (Tel Aviv University):« A Political Culture and Foreign Policy Shaped by a Moderate Religious View- the Case of the Sultanate of Oman » |
| 11:20-11:50 | Mandana Limbert (North Carolina State University, USA): « Study-Groups and the Practice of Ibadhism in an Omani Town » |
| 11:50-12:15 | Madghis Afulay (University of Iben Zuher, Agadir, Morocco): « Berber Majority Ibadhi Minority in North Africa: Ibadhi Community in Libya (Nafousa), Tunisia (Djerba) and Algeria (Mujab) » |
| 12:15-13:00 | Greek Research carried out in the Sultanate of Oman:Nikolaos Efstratiou (AUTH): « Ethno-archeo-logical Research in the Sultanate of Oman(Ras al-Hadd) » Fotini Tsibiridou (University of Macedonia-Thessaloniki): « Islam and the Culture of the State in Oman » |
| 13:00-13:30 | Discussion |
| 13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00-18:30 | Discussion for Students and Researchers Discussion of Early Ibadhism and Theology (Moderator A.Ziaka) J.van Ess, W.Madelung, Al-Sayid, E.Francesca, J. Wilkinson, M.S al-Mamari, B.Bahaz COFFEE/TEA BREAK Discussion of Modern Ibadism in the Muslim World today (Moderator M. Limbert) D. Eickelman, U. Rabi, V. Hoffman, M. Afulay, Marc Valeri |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
