Theme
Environment and Regional Society in Egypt ₋ Focus on Buhayra Region
Egypt is well known to have been a hydraulic society, wholly dependent on the Nile River for its life and sustenance. In that sense, Egypt can be understood as a single whole. Nevertheless, Egypt is composed of many elements: regional societies that have different environments and socio-economic conditions.
In this workshop, we focus on one of these regional societies: the Buhayra region, in the northern periphery of the Nile Delta. By focusing on this region, we hope to analyze with clarity the interaction between environment and ‘regional society’, how environment affected the society at the regional level, and how the peasants in one such ‘regional society’ coped with the environment. The workshop will begin with a brief introduction (“Why Buhayra”) composed of presentations by researchers specialized in different periods of Buhayra’s history. The introduction will serve to highlight and elucidate the importance of focusing on a single region, and the Buhayra region in particular. Following this introduction, Prof. Stuart Borsch (History Professor at Assumption College, MA, USA) will discuss the Buhayra region from the perspective of his economic and quantitative research for the medieval (641 – 1517 CE) period of Egyptian history.
Prof. Stuart Borsch is a specialist in the study of the Nile irrigation system of medieval Egypt (641-1517 CE), and has published many articles on the subject concerned, notably for the northern Nile Delta.
Date
January 20, 2017
Venue
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Room 2-603 (6th floor, Building No.2)
Program
Section 1 Why Buhayra? 17:00 – 17:30
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From the Modern Perspective Hiroshi KATO 加藤博(Hitotsubashi University 一橋大学) & Erina IWASAKI 岩崎えり奈(Sophia University 上智大学)
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From the Medieval Perspective Wakako KUMAKURA 熊倉和歌子(Waseda University 早稲田大学)
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From Pre-Islamic Perspective So HASEGAWA 長谷川奏 (Waseda University 早稲田大学)
Section 2 Stuart Borsch 17:30- 18:30
The Environment and the Commons in the Nile Delta Province of Buhayra, 641-1517 CE
Tea Break 休憩
Comments and discussions 18:40 – 19:30
Commentators 18:40 – 19:00
- Tadaharu ISHIKAWA石川忠晴 (Tokyo Institute of Technology 東京工業大学) (Environmental hydraulics環境水理学)
- Mitsuteru IRIE 入江光輝 (Miyazaki University 宮崎大学) (Water resource and environmental management水資源・環境管理)
- Daisuke IGARASHI 五十嵐大介 (Chukyo University 中京大学) (Medieval Arab Islamic history中世アラブ・イスラーム史)
19:00 – 19:30 Discussion
Access
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/jpn/
Map
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/jpn/
Language
English
Contact
Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
E-mail: [email protected]
Organizer
Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Co-organizers
Organization for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)”Coexistence in Arab water-scarce societies”
