21 September 2011 International Conference Knowledge and Education in Classical Historical Foundations – Contemporary Impact Program SATURDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2011

Opening Ceremony Conference Hall of the Göttingen State and University Library’s Historical Building (formerly St. Paul’s Church) 11:00 am-01:10 pm Words of Welcome 11:00 am Professor Dr. Sebastian Günther, Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen; President, European Union of Arabists and Islamicists 11:10 am Professor Dr. Wolfgang Lücke, Vice President of the University of Göttingen 11:20 am Professor Dr. Usama al-Abd, Rector of al-Azhar University, Cairo 11:30 am City Councilor Siegfried Lieske, Head of Department for Youth, Education and Law and Order, City of Göttingen 11:40 am Ambassador Dr. Heinrich Kreft, Special Representative for Dialogue among Civilizations, Federal Foreign Office of Germany 11:55 am Dr. Renate Dieterich, Head of Section German-Arab Transformation Partnership, German Academic Exchange Service

12:10 pm Welcome Address The Role of Knowledge and Education in Shaping Muslim Identity H. E. Professor Dr. Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt

12:25-01:10 pm Keynote Address The Humanities through Islamic Eyes: The Beginnings Professor Emerita Dr. Wadad Kadi, Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Introduction by Professor Dr. Reinhard Kratz, Director of the Centrum Orbis Orientalis et Occidentalis (CORO), University of Göttingen

01:10-02:30 pm Lunch Break 2 Please note:

Panels listed in the first column will be held in the Conference Hall of the Göttingen State and University Library’s Historical Building (formerly St. Paul’s Church). Panels listed in the second column will be held in the Lecture Room (Seminarraum) of the Göttingen State and University Library’s Historical Building. Panels listed in the third column will be held in Lecture Room 1 (Seminarraum 1) of the Heynehaus across the street, in the same building as the conference office.

Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3: Knowledge and Education in Early Islamic Development and Forms of Scholarly Islamic Pedagogy: Its Principles and Times Literature in Islam Media Chair: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (School of Chair: Hans-Georg Ebert (University of Chair: Osama Abi Mershed (Georgetown Oriental and African Studies, London) Leipzig) University) 02:30 pm Todd Lawson (University of Toronto): Lale Behzadi (University of Bamberg): Michael Carter (University of Sidney): The Muhammad the Educator: Heroism and the Encyclopædia and Performance: The Example use of verse as a pedagogical medium, Epic of Islam of “Kitāb al-Ḥayawān” by al-Jāḥiẓ principally in the teaching of grammar

03:00 pm Ali Shaban (al-Azhar University): The Role Asma Helali (Institute of Ismaili Studies, Awad Bakr Zaki (al-Azhar University): العالقت بيي الٌص والعقل والسلىك في الفكس اإلسالهي of Sunna in Islamic Education London): Talab al-‘Ilm project: rethinking the notion of “genre” in Islamic religious literature The Relationship Between Text, Mind, and Behavior in Islamic Thought (in Arabic) 03:30 pm Jamal Juda (an-Najah National University, Alexey Khismatulin (University of St. Ahmed Shafik Elkhatib (al-Azhar Nablus): Petersburg): Islamic education reflected in University): Ethics of Classical Islamic the forms of classical scholarly literature: Jam‘, Teaching and Learning: Instructor-Student دوز الوىالي قي التعلين في صدز اإلسالم The Contribution of Mawali to Education in Ta’lif and Tasnif in the Medieval Ages (the Relationship Early Islam (in Arabic) 4/10th – 9/15th cent.)

04:00-4:30 pm Coffee Break

3 Panel 4: Panel 5: Panel 6: Studying the Word of God Knowledge and Education in Abbasid An Islamic Center of Education: Baghdad Al-Azhar University and its History Chair: Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Bryn Chair: Ulrich Marzolph (University of Chair: Arnim Heinemann (University of Mawr College) Göttingen) Bayreuth) 04:30 pm Ulrika Mårtensson (Norwegian University Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn (American University Umar Ryad (University of Leiden): A bridge of Science and Technology): Al-Tabari’s of Sharjah): Educating Princes at the Court of between old and new: the contributions of Methodology: A ‘Classical’ Case of Historical- Harun al-Rashid: A Problem of Historiography early Muslim modernists/reformists to the Critical Quran Studies? education at al-Azhar in Egypt 05:00 pm Luise Ossenbach (University of Jens Scheiner (University of Göttingen): Muhammad Auni Abdelrauf (Ayn Shams Göttingen): Teaching Qur’anic Exegesis - Education through Story-Telling – The Qussas University, Cairo): The “Ten-Laws” for the Some Preliminary Thoughts as Protagonists in scholarly Baghdad reshaping of al-Azhar and affiliated institutions (from 1872 to 1961) (in German)

07:00-10.30 pm Welcome Dinner Archaeological Institute of the University of Göttingen, Nikolausberger Weg 15

4 SUNDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2011

Panel 7: Panel 8: Panel 9: The Educational Career and Influence of Islamic Philosophers on Knowledge and Knowledge and Education among Islamic Individual Muslim Scholars Education Minorities Chair: Josef van Ess (University of Chair: Judith Pfeiffer (University of Chair: Hermann Landolt (McGill Tübingen) Oxford) University) 09:30 am Wilfred Madelung (Institute of Ismaili Sebastian Günther (University of Nuha Al-Shaar ( Office of the Studies): Al-Sahib Ibn ‘Abbad as a religious Göttingen): Al-Kindi on Knowledge Agha Khan Development Network): Educator Acquisition and Education Knowledge-Based Groups in the Buyid period: Curriculum, Practices, and Formation of Social Identity 10:00 am Hans Daiber (University of Frankfurt): The Mariana Malinova (The New Bulgarian Maryam Moazzen (University of Toronto): Malaysian Scholar Syed Muhammad Naquib University): Al-Farabi and His Concept of The Emergence of Shi‘ite Madrasas in Classical al-Attas (born 1931) on Islamic Education: An Epistemological Hierarchy Islam evaluation in view of classical Islamic sources 10:30 am Barbara Stowasser (Georgetown Abu Samad El Shazli (University of Omid Ghaemmaghami (University of University): War and Travel, Patrons and the Göttingen): Knowledge and Education in al- Toronto): Knowledge and the Hidden Imam in Mail: The Education of Abu al-Rayhan al- Ghazali (in German) Imami Shi‘i Islam Biruni

11:00-11:30 am Coffee Break

5 Plenary Session Conference Hall of the Göttingen State and University Library’s Historical Building (formerly St. Paul’s Church)

11:30 am-12:30 pm

11:30 am Word of Welcome Professor Dr. Ali Shaban, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Translation & Director of Islamic Studies in Foreign Languages Program at Al-Azhar University

11:45 am Keynote Address The Role of Classical Knowledge and Education in Modern Arab Higher Education Professor Dr. Peter Heath, Chancellor of the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Introduction by Professor Dr. Todd Lawson, Professor of Islamic Thought, University of Toronto, Canada

12:30-02:30 pm Lunch Break

Panel 10: Panel 11: Panel 12: Gendering Islamic Education Understanding God’s Creation: Teaching Reception and Transformation of Classical Medicine and Mathematics in Islam Islamic Learning in Later Times Chair: Maher Jarrar (American University Chair: Stefan Wild (University of Bonn) Chair: Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Free of Beirut) University of Berlin) 02:30 pm Mohsen Haredy (University of Leiden): Lutz Richter-Bernburg (University of Mehmet Kalayci (Ankara University): Women Scholars of Hadith: A Case Study of the Tübingen): Ideals and realities of medical Attempts to dissociate Theology from 14th Century education in formative and medieval Islam Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Period with reference to Sachaqli-Zâde 03:00 pm Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University): Linda S. Northrup (University of Toronto): Osama Abi Mershed (Georgetown Education, Piety, and Religious Leadership in Medical Education in the Early Mamluk University): Degrees of Interpretive the Late Middle Ages: Reinstating Women in Period: al-Bimaristan al-Mansuri in Cairo - A Autonomy: ijtihad and the constraints of the Master Narrative Case Study competence and context in late medieval Tilimsan 6 03:30 pm Hosn Abboud (Association of Lebanese Sonja Brentjes (University of Seville): Fatima Harrak (University of Rabat): Women Researchers): Modes of producing and communicating Doctrine and knowledge in late 18th century knowledge of the universals and the Morocco الجولت االعتساضيت "وليس الركس كاألًثى" وثقافت particulars in public and private spaces الوف ّسس وشهاًه “And the Male is not like the Female” (Qur’an 3:36) And the Exegete’s Culture and his Time (in Arabic)

04:00-04:30 pm Coffee Break

Panel 13: Panel 14: Panel 15: The Impact of Classical Islamic Learning Reading, Writing, and Manuscript The Path to God: Sufi Concepts of on Contemporary Societies Production in Classical Islam Learning and Knowledge I Chair: Christoph Schumann (University of Chair: Verena Klemm (University of Chair: Claudia Ott (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Leipzig) Erlangen-Nürnberg) 04:30 pm Nadeem Memon (Islamic Teacher Maya Shatzmiller (The University of Steffen Stelzer (American University in Education Program, Mississauga, Canada): Western Ontario, London, Ontario): Cairo): “Al-Rafiq qabl al-tariq”: Al-Ghazali’s The Relevance of Classical Islamic Conceptions Manuscripts Production in Medieval Islam and description of the Education of a Sufi of Education to Contemporary Islamic the Literacy of the Workforce: The Economic Schooling Foundations of the “Golden Age of Islam” 05:00 pm Zahid Munir Amir (University of the Konrad Hirschler (School of Oriental and Nada Saab (Lebanese American Punjab, Lahore): The Impact of Classical African Studies, London): Learning to read University): Texts as agents of Islamic Learning on the Contemporary and the spread of literacy in the Middle Period transformation; a study in the formation and Educational System of Pakistan (Egypt and Syria) function of early Sufi manuals

06:00 pm Dinner (not included - enjoy one of the local restaurants)

MONDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2011

Excursion To the beautiful medieval City of Wernigerode and the farm village of Ebergötzen Starting at 08:30 am at the Hotel EDEN and at 8:40 am at the InterCity Hotel Göttingen 7 TUESDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2011

Panel 16: Panel 17: Panel 18: Islamic Education Between Informality Trajectories and Developments of Islamic The Role of the Quran and Quranic and Institutionalization Learning in the Modern Arab World Concepts in Muslim Education Chair: Aisha Geissinger (Carleton Chair: Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana Chair: Ali Shaban (al-Azhar University) University) University) 09:00 am Julia Bray (University of Paris): Informal Susanne Enderwitz (University of Mohammed Atta (University of Tanta): التسبيت القسآًيت وأثسها في االتجاهاث اإلسالهيت education: a family’s range of choices from the Heidelberg): Education and 'Modernity'. The الوعاصسة: اإلخىاى الوسلوىى ًوىذجا 2nd-5th/8th-11th centuries generation of Taha Husayn Quranic education and its impact on contemporary Islamic trends: the example of the Muslim Brotherhood (in Arabic) 09:30 am Damien Janos (University of Göttingen): André Elias Mazawi (University of British Nermeen Mouftah (University of Al-Ma’mun’s Patronage of Astrology and the Columbia): Knowledge and Academic Labour Toronto): Deciphering God’s Signs: Bayt al-hikma in the Arab region Allah in Transnational Muslim Study Networks 10:00 am Ingrid Hehmeyer (Ryerson University): Muhammad Badran (Qina University): Ahmed Ismail Salem (al-Azhar :(University إلى أيي ترهب هصس؟ أدبياث إسالهيت تش ّكل هستقبل :Educational institutions in the Islamic city هٌهج القسآى في التسبيت بالتسغيب والتسهيب هصس بعد ثىزة 55 يٌايس some practical aspects as observed in Zabid, 5022 Yemen Where does Egypt go to? Islamic Literature Quranic methodology in instructing people via forms the Future of Egypt after 25th January encouraging them to do certain acts or Revolution (in Arabic) dissuading them from doing certain others (in Arabic)

10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break 8

Panel 19 – EDRIS-Panel: Panel 20: Panel 21: Muslim and Non-Muslim Learning: The Modern Examination and Adaption of Narration and Experiments as Means of Interrelations, Challenges, and the Classical Islamic Educational Concepts Education Question of Identity Chair: Sebastian Günther (University of Chair: Steffen Stelzer (American Chair: Todd Lawson (University of Göttingen) University in Cairo) Toronto) 11:00 am Martin Tamcke (University of Göttingen): Hossam Mohammed (al-Azhar Mohammed Rustom (Carleton Exercise of theological knowledge in the University): Hadith-Teaching and Hadith- University): Story-Telling as Philosophical Church of the East, provoked by the Learning in the Introduction of al- Pedagogy: The Case of Suhrawardi coexistence with the Muslims (7th-8th Mubarakfuri’s Book “Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi, century) Annotations to Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi” (in German) 11:30 am Ute Pietruschka (University of Halle): A Noha El-Bassiouny (German University in Marianus Hundhammer (University of Christian Arabic gnomologium between Greek, Cairo): Between Antiquity and Modernity in Bamberg): Qur’an, Qisas al-anbiya’ and their Syriac and Arabic Islamic Character Education: The Case of the Didactical Function in Arabic Children’s Balanced Leader Program Literature 12:00 pm Assem El Ammary (Ayn Shams University, Farah Ahmed (University of Cambridge): Angi Adawy (Helwan University): Terhal: A Cairo): Muslims in Europe: Migration, Tarbiyah for Shakhsiyah (Education for Constructive Learning Approach for Excellence Integration, Identity and European Values (in Islamic Character) - Synthesizing Classical in Islamic Education German) Islamic and modern pedagogy to meet the needs of Muslim children in the 21st Century

12:30-02:30 pm Lunch Break

Panel 22: Panel 23: Panel 24: The Fine Art of Knowledge: Education and Knowledge and Education in Mamluk The Role of Language and Translation in Adab Times Classical Islamic Education Chair: Monika Winet (University of Chair: Jens Peter Laut (University of Chair: Assem El Ammary (Ayn Shams Göttingen) Göttingen) University, Cairo) 02:30 pm Klaus Hachmeier (German Federal Sophia Vasalou (Free University of Mustafa Alfakharany (al-Azhar Ministry of Economics and Technology): Berlin): Ibn Taymiyya on moral knowledge: A University): The Contribution of Arabic ‘Adab and insha’: Literary education as a new Islamic reason? translation in knowledge exchange (in secret code for the Abbasid katib German) 9 03:00 pm Sayyed Ahmad Fathallah Abouzid (al- Hinrich Biesterfeldt (University of Ibrahim Salama (al-Azhar University): The Azhar University): Rules of knowledge and Bochum): Original work vs. Compendium - Role of Translation and Research Methods in rules of education in al-Mawardi’s book “Adab discussions among Mamluk scholars the Development of Education and Sciences in al-dunia wa-l-din” - on questions of politeness the Early Stages of Islam (in German) in secular and religious conduct (in German) 03:30 pm Luca Patrizi (University of Naples Christian Mauder (University of Mahmoud Haggag (al-Azhar University): “l’Orientale”): The Divine Banquet. Göttingen): Educated Warriors - Knowledge The role of language in Ibn Qutaiba’s (d. 889) Formation and Development of the Technical and Learning among the Military Elite in the concept of education (in German) Notion of Adab in Islam Early Mamluk Period

04:00-04:30 pm Coffee Break

WEDNESDAY, 5 OCTOBER 2011

Panel 25: Panel 26 – EDRIS-Panel: Panel 27: The World of Education and the Written The Path to God: Sufi Concepts of The Development of Islamic Education in Word – A Multifaceted Relationship Learning and Knowledge II Broad Historical Perspective Chair: Helen Blatherwick (School of Chair: Jens Scheiner (University of Chair: Akram Bishr (University of Oriental and African Studies, London) Göttingen) Göttingen) 09:00 pm Antonella Ghersetti (Ca’ Foscari Waleed Ahmad (University of Göttingen): Iman Elnabawi (al-Azhar University): The University of Venice): Learned men and The Sufi Aspirant’s Pursuit of Learning in al- impact of Islam on the development of the educators: literary representations between Risala al-Qushayriyya scientific movement since the advent of Islam jidd and hazl until the second Abbasid era 09:30 pm Lucian Reinfandt (University of Vienna): Yoones Deghani Farsani (Ferdowsi Awatef Elnabawi (al-Azhar University): الوسلوىى األوائل وجهىدهن في التسبيت هٌر صدز Scribal Traditions in Early Islamic University, Mashhad): Mystic as a اإلسالم وحتى العصس العباسي الثاًي Chancelleries pedagogue: Some Educational Examples of ’s Poem Efforts of early Muslim educators in education from Pre-Islamic era until the second Abbasid era (in Arabic)

10:00-10:30 am Coffee Break

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Concluding Plenary Session Chairs: Asma Afsaruddin, Lale Behzadi, Ali Shaban, Jens Scheiner, Sebastian Günther, Todd Lawson

10:30 am * Panel summaries and comments by panel chairs * Open discussion

12:30 pm End of panel sessions

Special Lecture & Cultural Event

06:00 pm Ingrid Hehmeyer, Professor in the History of Science and Technology, Ryerson University, Toronto Water and Magic: Healing and Averting Evil in Popular Belief (in German)

European Bread Museum Göttinger Straße 7 37136 Ebergötzen

All conference participants are cordially invited to attend this additional lecture, organized by the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in collaboration with the European Bread Museum, Ebergötzen, and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Göttingen.