DYNTRAN Symposium Paris_Program WebSymposium of the DYNTRAN Project (ANR-DFG):

Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th centuries)

7-9 March 2018

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Salle Athéna

Following the three previous workshops held in Marburg (2015), Cairo (2016) and Naples (2017) which paid a particular attention to the sources, methodologies, as well as to the mechanisms and modalities which facilitated the transmission of knowledge through family structures, this Symposium moves away from an emphasis on families as transmitters, in order to focus more on other existing networks, such as institutions (for example madrasa, ateliers) or professional and spiritual links (master-disciple relationships), or on factors such as geographical mobility of individuals. This approach not only would enable the research to concentrate on the question of how transmission occurred, but also to investigate its circumstances.

Identifying patterns pertaining to the actors, the process and the forms of transmission is closely related to the question about the ways in which cross-cultural transmission occurred. This could have taken the form of trade, movement of books, or movement of peoples. The issue of transmitting across neighbouring cultural areas and movement within and between networks remains to be examined in more depth, especially as it directly touches the cultural and geographic spread of topics in the larger DYNTRAN framework. Exploring the movement between networks in Arabic, Persian and Turkic cultural, societal and political spheres could help to pinpoint patterns, characteristics and/or specificities of the areas under investigation.

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th, 2018

9h30 • Opening session

9h45 • Keynote Lecture

Jacqueline Sublet (CNRS, IRHT) and Asma Hilali (Université de Lille): La transmission des textes en islam dans le Moyen Orient pré-ottoman : Concepts et dérives

10h45 • Coffee break

11h15 – 12h30 • Learned Communities and Book Transmission

Discussant: Nicolas Vatin (CNRS)

11h15 • Christopher D. Bahl (SOAS): Sharing Practices of Manuscript Transmission: a Transoceanic Community Reading Arabic Grammar Works

11h45 • Anthony T. Quickel (Philipps-Universität Marburg/Aix-Marseille Université): Book Ownership, Intellectual History, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Early Ottoman Egypt: a State of the Art

12h15 • Discussion

12h30 • Lunch 

14h – 15h45 • Family Histories

Discussant: Asma Hilali (Université de Lille)

14h • Adam Sabra (University of California, Santa Barbara): Hagiography and Family History in Ottoman Cairo

14h30 •  Nicolas Michel (Aix-Marseille Université/IFAO, Cairo): Families of Cairene Civil Servants, from Mamluk to Ottoman Times (15^th-16^th c.)

15h • Astrid Meier (Orient Institut Beirut): Family Connectivities: Mobility, Stability and Continuity in Ottoman Syria and Beyond

15h30 • Discussion

15h45 • Coffee/tea

THURSDAY, MARCH 8th, 2018

9h30 – 12h30 • Dynasties and Networks of Power

Discussant: Bernard Heyberger (EHESS)

9h30 • Albrecht Fuess (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Ṣihr and Muṣāhara in Mamluk Royal Relations. Transmitting Power and Enlarging Networks through In-law Ties in Pre-Modern Egypt

10h • Sacha Alsancakli (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3): Tribal Warriors, Sassanid Kings and Abbasid Caliphs: Questions of Origins and Dynastic Culture in 16^th and 17^th-Century Kurdistan

10h30 • Discussion

10h45 • Coffee break

11h15 • Michele Bernardini (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”): L’indulgence paternelle de Tamerlan

11h45 • Malika Dekkiche (Universiteit Antwerpen): “In the Name of my Father”: Timurid and Turkmen Parallel Diplomacy with the Mamluks in the 15^th Century

12h15 • Discussion

12h30 • Lunch

14h – 15h45 • Strategies of Transmission of Knowledge and Skills

Discussant: Nourane Ben Azzouna (Université de Strasbourg)

14h • Sandra Aube (CNRS, Mondes iranien et indien): Tracing a Family of Woodworkers: the Lineage of Ostād Aḥmad Najjār b. Ḥoseyn in Māzanderān (Iran, second half of 15^th century)

14h30 • Francis Richard (BULAC / Mondes iranien et indien): Formation des calligraphes à la fin du XIV^e et au début du XV^e siècle : transmission d’un savoir dans le monde iranien

15h • Daniel Zakrzewski (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Intersecting Networks of Transmission. Sufis and Calligraphers in 15^th– and 16^th-Century Tabriz

15h30 • Discussion

15h45 • Coffee/tea

FRIDAY – MARCH 9, 2018

9h30 – 12h30 • Building Family and Social Networks in Religious Contexts

Discussant: Nicolas Michel (Aix-Marseille Université/IFAO, Cairo)

9h30 • Alberto Tiburcio (Philipps-Universität Marburg): A Network Theory for Polemics and Conversion

10h • Christoph Werner (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Sayyid Families of Mashhad and the Guardianship of the Shrine of Imam Reżā

10h30 • Discussion

10h45 • Coffee break

11h15 • Maria Szuppe (CNRS, Mondes iranien et indien): Sufi Connections and Timurid Legitimacy in Safavid Herat: Issues of the “Family Memoirs” of the Kh^wājas of Barnābād

11h45 • Colin P. Mitchell (Dalhousie University): Understanding Sufi Siblings in 17^th-c. Mughal South Asia

12h15 • Discussion

12h30 • Closing remarks

 

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