International Seminar: Knowledge, Authority and Practice in the Mamluk World: Reassessing Intellectual Life in Syria and Egypt (1250–1517)

• Date and Time: December 6, 2025 (Saturday), 10:00-17:30

• Venue: Meeting Room No. 10, 16th Floor, Building No. 33, Toyama Campus, WasedaUniversity

• Registration (by November 30): https://forms.gle/ia9YG71p2dH9gcmt9

• Contact: igarashidaisuke[at]waseda.jp

Program

• 10:00 – 10:15　Welcome and Opening Remarks
  Panel 1 – Scholarly Methods and the Transmission of Knowledge (10:15 – 12:15)
  -Frédéric Bauden (University of Liège), An Insight into Ibn Ḥajar’s Working Method: His Tadhkirah　ḥadīthiyyah and Its Significance for the Study of a Scholar’s Methodology
  -Teruaki Moriyama (Doshisha University),The Transmission and Transformation of the Khurāsān-Origin Hadith Sciences in Mamluk Syria and Egypt
  -Erina Ota-Tsukada (University of Tokyo), The Social Role of Nominal Ijāzas in Late Mamluk　Biographical Dictionaries: From Macroanalysis to Close Reading through Digital Texts
• Lunch Break: 12:15 – 13:30
  Panel 2 – Normativity and Religious Authority (13:30 – 15:00)
  -Mehdi Berriah (Institut français du Proche-Orient), Normativity and Pragmatism in Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought
  -Albrecht Fuess (Marburg University), Mamluk Scholars on the Hajj. Claiming Religious Authority for the Sultan in Mecca
• Coffee Break: 15:00 – 15:30
• Panel 3 – Self-Narratives and Documentary Practices (15:30 – 17:00)
  -Dwight Reynolds (University of California, Santa Barbara), Autobiography and Memoir in the　Mamluk Sultanate
  -Takao Ito (Kobe University), A Collection of Arabic Letters and Documents at the Library ofAstan Quds Razavi in Mashhad
• 17:00 – 17:30 General Discussion and Closing Remarks

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主催：主催：早稲田大学総合人文科学研究センター「拡大するムスリム社会との共生：歴史的背景とグローバル化」研究部門
共催：フランス近東研究所（IFPO）、科研費基盤C「マムルーク朝の軍事奴隷制度と政治体制に関する批判的研究：アヤロニズム批判を超えて」（研究代表：五十嵐大介）