What Was Philology in Arabic?
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Programme Contact The conference investigates the neglected history Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh 13-15 July 2017 of Arabic-Islamic textual practices and interpretative Freie Universität Berlin methods in the early modern world. Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik Freie Universität Berlin Although philology has always been a global Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin knowledge practice, no such account of its history has ever been written. Wherever texts exist, a method of For registration and programme: making sense of them has existed as well. What were www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/whatwasphilology these methods? What forms did textual practices take in Arabic-Islamic scholarship before the encounter with The Conference is organised by the Dahlem International What was European philology? Network Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period" (Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh, Philology in Arabic? The conference focuses on three interrelated areas: Colinda Lindermann, Rossella De Luca, Katharina Kloss). It is supported by: • Text critical practices Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices transmission, verification, care for the text, detecting corruption, emendation in the Early Modern World • The growth and evolution of texts reading, commentaries, glosses, polemic, abridgements, anthologies and encyclopaedias • The Arabic Cosmopolis Arabic textual practices as world philology Schedule Thursday, 13 July 2017 Friday, 14 July 2017 Saturday, 15 July 2017 9:15 – 9:30 Arrival and Coffee 9:30 – 10:30 BILAL ORFALI 9:30 – 10:30 KONRAD HIRSCHLER 9:30 – 10:00 ISLAM DAYEH American University of Beirut Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Black Humor and Qur'ānic References in Philology and Multiple-Text Manuscripts What was Philology in Arabic? Hamadhānī’s al-Maqāma al-Mawṣiliyya in the Middle Period Some Preliminary Notes 10:30 – 11:30 SHAMIL JEPPIE 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break KATHY VAN VLIET, ISLAM DAYEH University of Cape Town Brill, Freie Universität Berlin 11:00 – 12:00 MARIA MAVROUDI The Making of a Timbuktu Biographical Launch of Philological Encounters (Brill) University of California, Berkeley Dictionary 10:00 – 11:00 LARA HARB Byzantine Translations from Arabic Princeton University into Greek 11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break Philology and Aesthetics in ʿIlm al-maʿānī 12:00 – 1:00 JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ DELGADO Universidad de Granada 12:00 – 1:00 KATHRYN A. SCHWARTZ 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break The Hebrew Word-Lore and the Judeo- Arabic Harvard University Lexicography in al-Andalus The Role of the Commissioner in 11:30 – 12:30 ADAM TALIB (10th-15th Centuries) Canonizing the Printed Canon Durham University Emblematic or Exceptional? aṣ-Ṣafadī’s 1:00 – 2:30 Lunch Break 1:00 – 3:00 Lunch Ghayth and ad-Damāmīnī’s Nuzūl 12:30 – 1:30 MYKHAYLO YAKUBOVYCH 2:30 – 3:30 CHRISTOPHER BAHL The National University of Ostroh Academy SOAS, University of London Tafsīr Glosses in the Ottoman Tradition The Circulation of al-Damāmīnī's Grammar Commentaries Across the Western Indian 1:30 – 3:00 Lunch Break Ocean 3:00 – 4:00 ASAD Q. AHMED 3:30 – 4:30 TORSTEN TSCHACHER University of California, Berkeley Freie Universität Berlin Palimpsests of Themselves: Commentaries The Limited Universal: Arabic through a Tamil and Glosses in Post-Classical Islam Lens 4:00 – 4:30 Coffee Break 4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Break 4:30 – 5:30 AHMED EL SHAMSY 5:00 – 6:00 AHMAD KHAN Venue University of Chicago Universität Hamburg Freie Universität Berlin, Lecture Hall -1.2009 Anti-Philology in the Arabo-Islamic Traditon Islam in an Age of Print: Editors, Fabeckstraße 23 – 25, 14195 Berlin in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries Antiquarianism, and a Republic of Letters 5:30 – 6:30 RIDWAN AL-SAYYID 6:00 – 7:00 JONATHAN BROWN Higher Institute for Islamic Studies, Beirut Georgetown University Islamic Studies and the Return to Philology How British Translators in India Revolutionized (Accidentally) Islamic Legal History.