Workshop Cross-cultural life-worlds in pre

Workshop
Cross-cultural life-worlds in pre-modern
Islamic societies: Actors, evidences and strategies
June 22 – 24, 2012 in Bamberg
conference venue: Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien, Fleischstraße 2
The workshop will focus on phenomena and conditions of cross-cultural relationships in Islamic societies from late medieval to
early modern times, when two or more cultural and religious traditions coexisted for longer periods. Iran, Northern Mesopotamia,
Anatolia and the Balkans figure quite prominently among the areas which were exposed to cross-cultural impacts for an extended
period. The Workshop will approach phenomena of cultural contact in these regions from the viewpoint of different
disciplines considering spatial and temporal issues as well as the entanglements of historical actors.
Friday, June 22
14:30 – 15:00 Opening session
Chances and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research and
spatial approaches – introductory remarks
Birgitt Hoffmann und Şevket Küçükhüseyin (Bamberg)
15:00 – 16:30 Material culture, art and the notion of region:
the case of the metalworking industry of 13th c. Mosul
Martina Müller-Wiener (Berlin)
Christian and Muslim architecture in Northern
Mesopotamia – external ‘links’ and mutual ‘influences’
Lorenz Korn (Bamberg)
17:00 -18:30
Transkulturelle Verflechtungen im südlichen
Kappadokien zwischen Byzantinern, Kleinarmeniern
und Seldschuken: Nigde und Umgebung um 1300
Rainer Warland (Freiburg)
The Ottoman architecture of the Balkans: its
significance for the architectural development of the
Empire
Mustafa Tupev (Bamberg)
18:30 – 19:45 Discussion (Chair persons, discussants:
Nana Kharebava, Machiel Kiel)
Saturday, June 23
09:30 -11:00
Seljuk intrusion, assimilation and political culture in
11th century Syria and Asia Minor
Alexander Beihammer (Nikosia)
Webs of conversion. An analysis of social networks of
converts across Islamic-Christian borders in Anatolia,
Southeastern Europe and the Black Sea (13th-15th c.)
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Wien)
generously sponsored by
11:30 – 13:00 Syriac Christians from thirteenth century
Mesopotamia and Islam: between reception and rejection
Herman Teule (Nijmegen)
Ibn al-Fuwatīs biographical dictionary and its approach
to social, cultural and religious diversity in Mongol Iran
Birgitt Hoffmann (Bamberg)
15:00 – 16:30 Between two worlds: Renegates in the Ottoman
Empire
Hedda Reindl-Kiel (Bonn)
Greek epistêmê and the rise of the Ottomans.
Intertextual reading of Ibn Khaldun and Laonikos
Chalkokondyles
Dan Ioan Muresan (Paris)
17:00 – 17:45 Kriva Palanka/Eğidere Palankası: Bevölkerungs-,
Siedlungsgeschichte und Symbiosis in einem
nordmazedonischen Gebirgskanton, 15.-20. Jhdt.
Machiel Kiel (Bonn)
17:45 – 19:00 Discussion (chairpersons/discussants:
Bert Fragner – Daniel König)
Sunday, June 24
09:30 – 11:00 Negotiating confessional boundaries in the Ilkhanate:
Thirteenth and fourteenth century Twelver Shi‘i
reactions to Mongol rule in the Middle East
Judith Pfeiffer (Oxford)
From pioneers to opponents:
heterodox itinerant dervishes in the Ottoman Balkans
Şevket Küçükhüseyin (Bamberg)
Contact:
Department of Iranian Studies
www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik