The Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies at Waseda University is hosting the workshop “The Middle East and Europe, 1097-1517”, at Waseda University on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 December 2023.
Venue: Room 1102, Building 26.
Please register in advance to participate:
https://forms.gle/jtvjdFw2uFz5bm2s7
Schedule:
Saturday 9 December
Registration: (12:45 – 13:00)
Welcome and Introduction: (13:00 – 13:15)
Session 1 (13:15 – 14:45):
• The Earthquakes of 551-54/1156-59 and their Impact on the Muslim and Frankish Levant Niall Christie (Langara College, Vancouver)
• The role played by Turcoman communities in the decline and fall of the Crusader States Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University)
Coffee Break (14:45 – 15:15)
Session 2 (15:15 – 17:15):
• Deconstructing the Arabic Sources for the Fifth Crusade, Alexander Mallett (Waseda University)
• An Analytical Study of the Crusades’ Strategic Plans to Remain in the Holy Land, Maher Y. Abu-Munshar (Qatar University)
• Frederick II as Depicted in the Medieval Muslim Sources, Essam Ayyad (Qatar University)
Sunday Dec 10:
Arrival and Coffee (10:30 – 10:45):
Session 3 (10:45 – 12:15):
• Writing Western History in Arabic: Roman History in Ibn Khaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʻIbar Yuta Arai (Kyoto University)
• The Unheralded Contributions of Joseph Schahin to the Field of Crusader Studies, James Wilson (University of Konstanz)
Lunch Break (12:15 – 13:15)
Session 4 (13:15 – 14:45:
• Wholeness, Scale and Authorial Agency in Early 14th Century Chronicles: Comparative Perspectives on Ibn al-Dawādārī and Baybars al-Manṣūrī Gowaart Van Den Bossche (Ghent University)
• Ṣundūq al-ġanāʾim fī ʿaṣr al-raqāʾim: Reading Medieval Text in the Digital AgeMaxim Romanov (Hamburg University)
Coffee Break (14:45 – 15:15)
Session 5 (15:15 – 17:15):
• Dragomans and Pilgrimages to the Holy Land in the Late Mamluk Period Erina Ota-Tsukada (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• ‘There is Benefit for Us in This”: Dhimmī Communities and Muslim Notarial Practice in Late-Mamluk Cairo, Daisy Livingston (Durham University)
• Diplomatic relations between Aragon and Egypt: New light on the 833/1430 truce between Alfonso V and Barsbāy Frédéric Bauden (Liege University)
Concluding Remarks (17:15 – 17:30)
