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Juli July |
1 23.7.08 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Dr. Nukhet Varlik / James Madison University Disease and Empire: A History of Plague Epidemics in the Early Modern Ottoman Era (1453-1600) The present study aims at establishing the interplay between disease and empire in the historical example of the early modern Ottoman Empire of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The study primarily examines how the growth of the Ottoman Empire shaped the outbreaks of plague, on the basis of a variety of sources, including Ottoman archival documents, court registers, chronicles, travellers’ accounts, medical and legal literature on the plague, as well as Italian, Greek and Armenian sources. By tracing the territorial growth of the Empire through conquests and the subsequent establishment of networks of communication and trade between the newly conquered territories, as well as the growth of new urban centers, the study shows that outbreaks of plague had attained new channels through which the disease could spread over a more extensive area. The outbreaks of plague in the Ottoman lands between 1453 and 1600 are analyzed in three distinct periods. The study of the first period, which covers the outbreaks between 1453 and 1517, establishes the emergence of a new east-west axis in the Mediterranean. The second period, which covers the outbreaks between 1517 and 1570, underlines the emergence of multiple networks of trade and communication that tied the Mediterranean, Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Black Sea basin to the extended networks of Central Asia and the Indian Ocean. The third period, which covers the outbreaks between 1570 and 1600, demonstrates the integration and consolidation of the multiple networks, with Istanbul at their intersection. The present study then focuses on various discussions of how the outbreaks of plague, which were a by-product of the Empire, in turn shaped the perception, attitudes, and the responses of the Ottoman society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The analysis of the metaphors and imagery used in Ottoman historical texts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries reveals the changes in popular perceptions of the disease within the urban context of Istanbul. On the other hand, the examination of Ottoman plague treatises demonstrates that notions of contagion were embraced by the learned Ottoman elite, and were gradually harmonized and made compatible with the tenets of Islamic law and constituted the basis for legal policies of the early modern Ottoman state in the sixteenth century. Finally, the study of the means and measures, by which the Ottoman central administration tried to monitor, control, and fight plague epidemics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries shows the growing involvement of the state in matters of health, and that successive and harsh plague outbreaks of the sixteenth century prompted a series of changes that can be viewed as the beginning of a new conception of “public health” in the early modern Ottoman Empire. |
November November |
Internationale Konferenz in Tripoli / International Konference in Tripoli 13. - 15. November 2008 (Orient Institute / Lebanese University, Department of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Tripoli)
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Dezember December |
Konferenz / Conference 11. -13. December 2008 |
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Vergangene Veranstaltungen / Previous events
Juli July |
10.7.08 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Prof. Ussama Makdisi / Rice University Neither Imperialists nor Philanthropists: The True Story of American Missionaries to the Levant This lecture will explore the enduring significance of the first American missionaries, those disciples of a millennialist enthusiasm, who left the United States as a reaction to both what they considered to be the “infidel” and liberal trends in Protestantism there and what they considered to be a deplorable and intense racism regarding the Indian heathen. This lecture will also ask how was it that this same mission ended up paradoxically, a generation later, founding in 1866 the Syrian Protestant College, a most liberal but at the same time highly racialized institution of higher education in the Middle East. The talk will be based on Ussama Makdisi's new book Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East |
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Juni June |
24.6.08 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Dr. Thomas Scheffler / DAAD Visiting Professor, USJ Words and Violence: Blasphemy and Honour as International Security Risks In the history of violent conflict, words have often played a fateful role. This lecture deals with a particularly paradoxical type of cases, namely, verbal insults, i.e., symbolic aggressions that seem to be not violent in themselves, but are, nevertheless, considered as deserving a violent response by those who feel offended by them.
17.6.08 Vortrag /lecture 7pm Admiral Dr. Samir El Khadem / Director of the Arab Institute for East and West Studies المظاهر أو السّمات الاستراتيجية للأزمة اللبنانية
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Mai May |
09.-11.5.2008 (verschoben / postponed) Konferenz / Conference Ibn Khaldun (OIB, CAMES , AUB)
27.5.2008 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Dr. Sālih Zahr ad-Dīn مجازر اللأرمن (1915) في ضوء الوثائق العثمانية والتركية (Lecture held in Arabic)
09.-11.5.2008 Canceled Konferenz / Conference (OIB, CAMES , AUB) |
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April April |
23.4.2008 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Dr. Asma Hilali / University of Halle الحديث من منظور الرواة : الرحلة في طلب العلم بين التصور والتاريخ جاء في كتاب الحاكم النيسابوري أن المحدثين: "قوم آثروا قطع المفاوز والقفار على التّنعّم في الدّمن والأوطار وتنعّموا بالبؤس في الأسفار مع مساكنة العلم والأخبار وقنعوا عند جمع الأحاديث والآثار بوجود الكسر والاطمار قد رفضوا الإلحاد الذي تتوق اليه النّفوس الشهوانيّة وتوابع ذلك من البدع والأهواء والمقاييس والآراء والزّيغ جعلوا المساجد بيوتهم وأساطينها تكاهم وبواريها فرشهم. (النيسابوري، علوم، ص 2|3) Le hadith lu à travers sa transmission: le voyage à la quête du savoir entre concept et histoire |
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März March |
14.3.08 Opening of an exhibition in OIB / 6pm to 9 pm by: Anna Fasshauer on: New Sculpture from 15 to 20 March opening hours: Monday-Thursday 9am - 4pm / Friday 9am - 2pm
07.3.2008 Vortrag Lecture 7 pm Dr. Nader Srage / Lebanese University and Council for Development and reconstruction
هذا الكتاب يسّرت المدرسة اللسانية الوظيفية للمؤلف نادر سراج آليات وكيفيات الاتصال برواة لغويين متعدّدي المنابت الجغرافية والأصول المناطقية والاهتمامات الحياتية، الأمر الذي راكم لديه خبرات متنوعة لأنماط التواصل وصيغ التعاطي، وزوّده بمروحة غنية من أدبيات التخاطب وتعابير "تسليك الأمور" التي تروج لدى الجمهور الواسع وتغيب أحياناً عن أسماع النخب. |
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Februar February |
On the occasion of commemorating the first anniversary of the Lebanese historian Iliya Harik's decease 26.2.2008 Vortrag Lecture 7 pm Dr. Massoud Daher / Lebanese University / History Department المسألة اللبنانية عند إيليا حريق
7.2.2008 Vortrag Lecture 7 pm Dr. John Meloy / AUB , History and Archaeology History Writing and the Politics of the Sultanate of Mecca in the 15th Century |
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Dezember 2007 December 2007 |
11.12.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Dr. Abdallah Said / Lebanese University تطورالريف اللبناني بين 1850 و 1950 – إشكاليات و مفاهيم Language: Arabic
5.-8. Dezember 2007 Verse Transfer Berlin - Beirut من بيت الى بيت برلين - بيروت
04.12.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Dr. Souad Slim Abou El-Rousse / University of Balamand With Comments by Dr. Mahmoud Haddad / University of Balamand Languages: English and Arabic |
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November Novenber |
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September September |
28. - 29. 9. 2007 Konferenz in Byblos, Jbail / Conference in Byblos, Jbail Verschoben auf Ende November. Näheres wird noch bekannt gegeben. "Mehr als 75 Jahre nach ihrer Entdeckung und nach einem dreiviertel Jahrhundert ihrer Erforschung: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Direction générale des Antiquités für Inv.-Nr. 16598
26.09.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Dr. Alexander Schilling / University of Tuebingen Antiquarian Interests, Historiographical Ability.
7.- 19. 9. 2007 Reise für Studenten des christlichen Orients (OIB, NEST, Universitäten Göttingen, Halle-Wittenberg, München)
07.09.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Dr. George Sabra / Academic Dean of the Near Eastern School of Theology Two Ways of Being Christian in the Middle East |
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Juni June |
26.6.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm Cancelled Richard Wittmann / Orient-Institut Istanbul He must not climb Walls, ...or lift the Headscarves of the Ladies... 22.-24.6.2007 Has been cancelled Kolloquium / Colloquium Die Quellen zur Stadt Tyros in der Antike und Mittelmeer. 6.-8.6.2007 Konferenz /Conference Khalil Hawi and the Development of Modern Arabic Poetry (OIB, The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at AUB with al-Abhath )
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Mai May |
24.05.07 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm is postponed Dr. Moshalleh al-Moraekhi / King Saoud University, Riyahd Saudi Arabia
تفريغ لنقش أم الجمال الأول The Origin and development of the Arabic script in the light of recent archaeological discoveries The presentation deals with a recent and important archaeological discovery made at al-Mabiyyat site in al-Ula region in the north-West of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The discovery was an Arabic inscription dateable to the 3rd century A.D. The significance of this inscription stems from its early date which predates the earliest known Arabic inscriptions the paleographic characteristics of which are associated with the origin of Arabic alphabets. (Lecture will be held in arabic)
17.- 20. Mai Konferenz in Istanbul / Conference in Istanbul Das östliche Mittelmeer vom 11. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert zwischen christlichem Europa und islamischem Orient (OIB, OII, DHI Rom, DHI Paris, DHI London) 15.05.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm
الدراسات اليابانية عن العالم العربي (Lecture will be held in arabic) Poetry Reading and Discussion 8. Mai / May in OIB, 7p.m. Adel Karasholi The famous poet Adel Karasholi was born in Damascus in 1936. He left Syria in 1959 via Beirut to Germany, where he has been living in Leipzig since 1961. He finished his studies of Literary Theory and Theater in Leipzig with a PhD on Bertolt Brecht. He writes poetry in Arabic and German and has published more than ten volumes of poetry until today. Moreover, he is a productive critic, essayist and translator. He has been honored with numerous awards and has been invited extensively to give lectures and readings in Europe, North America and the Middle East. Konferenz / Conference 2.-4. Mai / May in LAU Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East |
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April April |
30.04.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm AkDir. Dr. Reinhard Lehmann / University of Mainz Can you hear what he wrote? On writing performance and grammar in the Phoenician inscriptions from Karatepe. "A comparison of the three almost identical versions of the great Phoenician inscription of Azatiwadda, one of which seems to be written in some kind of scriptio continua, shows that not only dividing gaps are used to denote paragraphs. Also, spacing sometimes appears as a graphemic account of phonemic features to avoid certain ambiguities of the written text. Even more sophisticated occasional spaces are used to write not only grammar but reflect the scores of oral technique and versification, which means that traces of a certain 'background radiation' of the oral process can be detected." 27.-28.04.2007 Internationales Kolloquium / International Colloquium (closed workshop) War and leadership (OIB / IFPO / FES )
21. April Konferenz / Conference Interpretation and Authority The German Oriental Institute Beirut (OIB) announces a conference that will take place in Beirut on the 21st of April, 2007 on the topic “Interpretation and Authority”. This theme will be dealt with from various religious perspectives.
Aden, 3.-5. April 2007. 4.4.2007 Vortrag / Lecture by Prof. Manfred Kropp / Orient-Institut Beirut Individual public confession and pious ex voto, or: stereotypical and stylized trial document and stigmatizing tablet for the pillory? The expiation texts in ESA. أزأحة ألتلبيك في صناعة ألتفكيك. نقوش الإعتراف والكفَّارة في اليمن القديم. |
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März 2007 March 2007 |
27.03.2007 Vortrag / Farewell lecture 7 pm Dr. Stefan Weber / Orient Institut Beirut Rihlat Bilad al-Sham (please confirm your attendance 01-376598/oib-dir@oidmg.org)
22.-24.3.2007 Verschoben auf Mai 2008 / Postponed to May 2008 Konferenz / Conference Ibn Khaldun (OIB, CAMES , AUB)
15.03.2007 Kolloquium / Colloquium Dr. Arnim Heinemann / OIB Moderne libanesische Poesie
08.03.2007 Kolloquium / Colloquium Dr. Sarah Binay / OIB Witzkultur im Libanon
01.03.2007 Praktische Einfuehrungen / Practical Introductions Dr. Andreas Drechsler / OIB Bibliothekarische Informationsquellen: webbasierte Kataloge, Neuerwerbungslisten, Datenbanken
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Februar 2007 February 2007 |
01.02.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Dr. Mohammed Maraqten / Universität Marburg The Forgotten Archives of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Recent epigraphic discoveries of the American Foundation for the Study of Man at Mahram Bilqis, Marib, Yemen. |
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Januar 2007 January 2007 |
25.01.07 Kolloquium / Colloquium Zeki Bilgiç / OIB Der arabische Dialekt von Saida. Die vorläufigen Ergebnisse der Feldforschung. 23.01.2007 Vortrag / Lecture 7pm (abgesagt) Prof. Dr. Rainer Voigt / Freie Universität Berlin On the South Arabian Origin of Ethiosemitic |
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Dezember December |
19.12.2006 Vortrag / Lecture 7 pm Arnim Heinemann “كنحل يطارد ملكة” 07.12.2006 Kolloquium / Colloquium 11:00 am Kirill Dmitriev Adi Ibn Zayd und sein Gedicht über die Erschaffung der Welt 2. Teil |
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November November |
30.11.2006 Kolloquium / Colloquium 11:00 am Kirill Dmitriev Adi Ibn Zayd und sein Gedicht über die Erschaffung der Welt
17.11.06 Vortrag / Lecture, 7pm / OIB Hani Hayajneh / Associate Professor at the Department of Epigraphy, Faculty of Archaeology & Anthropology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, JORDAN. The concept of resurrection in the Arabic-Islamic tradition and its origins in Pre-Islamic Arabia as seen from camel burial remains and epigraphical material . 15.-17.11.2006 Konferenz / Conference Public Opinion in the Media; Europe and the Middle East (OIB, FES, IFPO) |
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Oktober 2006 October 2006 |
17.10.06 Vortrag / Lecture, 8:30 pm / OIB in coordination with Professor Jan Bouzek / Czech Charles University, Prague
Konferenz / Conference OIB / AUB October 2-13, 2006 Traveling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures (Sommerakademie Wissenschaftskollegs Berlin, Anis Makdisi Program for Literature at AUB, OIB)
10.10.06 Vortrag / Lecture 8:30pm / OIB Friederike Pannewick / University of Oslo The Performative Potential of Tradition |
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Juli 2006 July 2006 |
3-4 Juli / July |
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Juni 2006 June 2006 |
30.06.06 Buchpräsentation / Bookpresentation In memory of Jean-Maurice Fiey Pressebericht An-Nahar/Pressreport An-Nahar
29.06.06 Vortrag / Lecture, 7 pm / OIB Norman Nikro / Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies Faculty of Humanities, Notre Dame University Reflecting the Past – Memory and War in the Work of Elias Khoury Norman Nikro's current research activities lie in post-colonial literature, ethnic minority literature, and critical theory. Beside the research on contemporary Australian literature around the themes of language, landscape, parody and identity as well as the issue of ethnic minority literature, he's developing his work on the novels of the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury. Among his recent publications is “Writing Lebanese Diaspora”. In Paul Tabar (ed) Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism, and Belonging (LAU Press, Beirut, 2005).
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Mai 2006 May 2006
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Joint lecture Series with LAU: Philip F. Kennedy, NYU 17.5.06 at 6pm / LAU Sons and Lovers and The Mirage: Recognition in the fiction of Mahfouz and other writings 18.5.06 at 7pm / OIB Anagnorisis in the Islamic Narrative Tradition 19.5.06 at 4:30pm / LAU Seminar on Abu Nuwas |
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April 2006 April 2006 |
25.4.06 Vortrag / Lecture Michael Provence / Assistant Professor at University of California Ottoman Military Education and Armed Revolt in the Arab East, 1920-1948. 11.4.06 Kolloquium / Colloquium Zeki Bilgic / OIB Der arabische Dialekt von Saida 6.4.06 Kolloquium / Colloquium Claudia Rammelt Ibas von Edessa. Ein Bischof im Streit zwischen Orthodoxie und Häresie 4.4.06 Vortrag / Lecture Maurice Cerasi The Istanbul Divanyolu and Mediterranean multiculturalism in architecture |
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Februar 2006 February 2006 |
13.2.2006 Vortrag / Lecture Sacha Dehghani M.A. PH.D. Candidate / Free University of Berlin / Center for Literary Research A Case of Martyrdom in the 19th Century: The Babi Episode 7.2.06 Vortrag / Lecture Denis Hermann / IFRI Le role du vaqf dans l'organisation des communauté religieuses hétérodoxes en Iran à la période qâjâre: Le cas de l'école shaykhi (1843-1871) |
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Januar 2006 January 2006 |
26.1.06 Vortrag / Lecture Prof. Dr. Sheikh Jaafar al-Mohajer Ibn Tawq and his book "at-Ta'liq" |
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Dezember 2005 December 2005 |
8.-13.12.05 A Training Workshop Social Change and Identity in Muslim Societies
12.-15.12.05 Internationale Konferenz / International Conference International Conference on the Economy and Society of Pre-Islamic Arabia |
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November 2005 November 2005 |
9.-11.11.05 Konferenz / Conference Media and European-Middle Eastern Relations. |
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Oktober 2005 October 2005
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Workshop from the27th till the 29th of October 2005 Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms Project Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms This new project at the Orient Institute focuses on the indigenous coinage that was produced in the Arabian peninsula from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. Until recently, the numismatic material from this region continued to grow with the emergence of many new and previously unknown types and series such as the early coinage of the Qatabanians. Apart from this largely undocumented increase in new and mostly South Arabian material, no study exists as yet that integrates the coinage of the Nabataeans, of North and South Arabia and of the Gulf region. Due to the fact that no interdisciplinary research has been undertaken on these coins, many of the fundamental questions relating to dates and attribution of individual series have not been solved satisfactorily. The Institute's CCK project therefore aims at both documenting the material in an accessible manner and at bringing together a number of internationally renowned experts on the history, numismatics and epigraphy of ancient Arabia for an interdisciplinary workshop. This workshop, which will take place from October 27 to 29, 2005, will put the coinage in its historical and numismatic context (trade routes and monetary systems), tackle epigraphic and linguistic problems related to the coinage and deal with economic aspects and questions of monetary circulation. It is hoped that, together with the presentation of the material, such a study would not only become a standard handbook, but provide the basis for future numismatic reasearch such as die-studies, metrological and metallurgical studies. Morover, by making use of coins as primary historical sources it will represent a significant contribution to research in other fields and generally advance our knowledge of ancient Arabia. The proceedings of the workshop, together with a catalogue, will be published in a comprehensive volume. Project coordinator: Martin Huth 26.10.05 Vortrag / Lecture Kevin Butcher / American University of Beirut The Silver Coinage of Roman Arabia This is the opening lecture of the upcoming Workshop: Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms Project 4.10.05 Konferenz / Conference Soirée de Maurice Awwad Conférence de Maurice Awwad: "Tarjamat al-Injil ila-l-Lubnani"(en Libanais) Avec l'introduction de Arkadiusz Plonka (Université Jagellone, Cracovie, Pologne), (en Français) Presentation de Issam Assaf: "La Poésie de Maurice Awwad" (en Français et Libanais) |
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September 2005 September 2005 |
29th September and 1st October Opening of Suq al-Haraj restoration
Anläßlich des 50. Todestages von Georg Graf Tagung am 17.-18. September in Dillingen Der stille Heros der christlich-arabischen Studien Georg Graf 1875-1955 |
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Juli 2005 July 2005 |
7.7.05 Kolloquium / Colloquium Christian Sassmanshausen Was Zahlen "erzählen": Ein Viertel-Zensus (daftar al-mukhtar) der frühen Mandatzeit als Quelle sozialgeschichtlicher Forschung zum spätosmanischen Tripoli |
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Juni 2005 June 2005 |
28.6.05 Vortrag / Lecture Stefan Winter / Université du Québec à Montréal Periphery or Keystone? The Province of Raqqa under Ottoman Rule 23.6.05 Vortrag / Lecture Sebastian Guenther / University of Toronto The Ten Commandments and the Quran 16.6.05 Vortrag / Lecture Manfred Kropp / Orient-Institut Beirut The bureaucrat and the mystic: a new reading into the novel Hadrat al-muhtaram by Naguib Mahfuz |
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Mai 2005 May 2005 |
24.5.05 Vortrag / Lecture Vahid Behmardi / American University of Beirut The Pleasure Excursion of Lovers: A Survey of the Recently Discovered Arabic Ghazal of Ayn al-Qudat (d. 525/1131) 19.5.05 Vortrag / Lecture Zeynep Celik / University of New York Public Space, Modernity and Empire Building: A Comparative Study 9.5.05 Kolloquium / Colloquium Christian Lange / Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow / Committee on the Study of Religion / Harvard University Public Punishment under the Saljuqs: The Eschatology of tashhir A close reading of some cases of public parading and their religio-cultural and legal background 3. -7. 5.05 Internationale Konferenz / International Conference organized by the UOB and the OIB The Mamluk Era: Prosperity or Deterioration, Tolerance or Persecution? 3.5.05 Vortrag / Lecture Jorgen Nielsen / University of Birmingham Christian Participation in the Ayyubid and Mamluk state: A historiographical Reflection |
April 2005 April 2005 |
21.4.05 Vortrag / Lecture Gert Borg / Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Communication in pre-Islamic Poetry 14.4.05 Vortrag / Lecture Ekkehart Schmidt-Fink / Isoplan-Institut Saarbrücken 100 years of Arabic migration to Germany: The changing perception of Muslim workers, students and refugees after 9/11 12.4.05 Vortrag / Lecture Manfred Kropp / Orient-Institut Beirut Magic, boast and devotion: The Genesis of written Arabic seen through the earliest records |
März 2005 March 2005 |
23.3.05 Kolloquium / Colloquium Frau Cordelia Koch Zwischen Zusammenschluss uns Ausschluss: Konkordanzdemokratische Verfassung und Bürgerkrieg im Libanon 17.3.05 Vortrag / Lecture Catharina Dufft / Research Fellow, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Freie Universität Berlin East and West: A literary playground: The local becoming part of the universal in Orhan Pamuk's novels 8.3.05 Kolloquium / Colloquium Frau Dr. Rima M. El-Hassan The use of Information and Communication Technologies to support Urban Heritage Appraisal: The Case of Medieval Tripoli 3.3.05 Vortrag / Lecture Verena Daiber / Research Fellow, Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute-Damascus Ayyubid-Mamluk ceramics from Baalbek: New material from the 2001-2004 seasons
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Januar 2005 January 2005 |
20.-22.1.05 Internationale Konferenz / International Conference Al-Jahiz: A Muslim Humanist for our Time in cooperation of AUB and OIB, Conference Report |
