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On 15, 16 and 17 May 2013, GhentUniversity will host the 22nd edition of CHESFAME, the international"Colloquium on the History of Egypt and Syria inthe Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras (10th-15th centuries)".The colloquium starts on Wednesday 15 May, 9 am, and willtake place at the following venue:Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.All are most welcome to attend.Fordetails of the programme, see below or visit the CHESFAME webpage via http://www.mamluk.ugent.be/Programme CHESFAME 22 (2013)15-17 May 2013Jozef PlateauzaalJozef Plateaustraat 22, Ghent (Belgium)Wednesday 15 May9.30-9.45: Welcome9.45-11.00L. Richter-Bernburg(Universität Tübingen): “Caesarea’s Fatimid period mosque with seaview”M. Frenkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):“Al-Raqqa in Fatimid and Ayyubid Times: Evidences from the Cairo Geniza”J.-Ch. Ducêne (Université libre deBruxelles): “L’environnement d’Alexandrie au XIIe siècle selon IbnDjumayʿ”11.30-12.30M. Swanson (Lutheral Schoolof Theology at Chicago): “Two Coptic Martyrdoms of the Fatimid Period, Part1: The Martyrdom of Jirjis (al-Muzahim)”J. den Heijer (Université Catholique de Louvain): “Two Coptic Martyrdoms ofthe Fatimid Period, Part 2: The Martyrdomof Bifam b. Baqurah al-Sawwaf”14.00-15.45D. Nicolle (Nottingham): “From Aght’amar to ʿAyn Diwar: Evidence for aheavily armoured elite in the 10th-12thcentury Islamic Middle East”Y. Benhima (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris3): "Les Banû Hilâl en Égypte (Xe-XIe s.). Un réexamen des sourcesécrites"Y. Lev (Bar Ilan University): “DirectQuest for Justice in Fatimid-Ayyubid Egypt”16.15-17.45N. Christie (Corpus Christi College, Vancouver): “ʿAlī ibnṬāhir al-Sulamī and the Inevitable Repetition of History”B.H. Qureshi (University of Minnesota): “An ExistentialThreat? Zengi, Damascus, and Jerusalem before the Second Crusade”N. Coureas (Cyprus Research Centre): “Envoys betweenthe Mamluk Lands and Cyprus under Venice (1473-1517)”Thursday 16 May9.00-10.45B. Major (Péter Pázmány CatholicUniversity): “The rabads of al-Marqab and the town of Valenia”R. McClary (University of Edinburgh): “Adoption andAbsorption - The penetration of the Ayyubid aesthetic into the architecture of13th century Saljuq KonyaD.Vandekerckhove (Cardiff University): “The Armenian Kingdom and the MamlukSultanate — The influence of the Mamlukthreat on the Armenian fortifications in Cilicia (1289-1307)”11.15-12.45M. Zouihal (Ecole Pratique des HautesEtudes, Paris): "La zāwiya al-ġarbiyya de Damas de la fin du XIe siècle audébut du XIIIe siècle"A. Petersen(University of Wales, Trinity Saint David): "The Architecture of Sufi Shrinesand Mosques in Mamluk Palestine"H.Hamza (Cairo): "Waqf manuscripts and late Mamluk architecture of Cairo: theTurba of Girbāsh Qāshiq — A new attributionand dating"14.00-15.45H. Taragan (Tel Aviv University): “‘Figures in Procession’: Images of theKhāṣṣakiyya onAyyubid and Mamluk MetalwareW. Flinterman (University of Amsterdam): “The Royal Image of Sultan Qalāwūn(1277-1290)”Y. Daoudi (Ghent University): “The Representation of Sultan Jaqmaq(1438-1453) as Ritual Iconoclast: A criticalassessment”16.15-17.45S. Calderini (Roehampton University): “Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān on women asimams: legal andesoteric interpretations of the ḥadīth “the woman does not lead (taʾummu)people from the front in the ritual prayer”(al-Kulaynī, 3:2; Ibn Bābawayhi, 1:23 etc)”K. Richardson (Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, UniversitätMünster): "Two new biographical works from the Damascene scholar al-NāṣirMuḥammad b. Zurayq (d. 900/1495)”M.Dekkiche (Ghent University): “Khādim al-Ḥaramayn: Mamluk ReligiousPatronage in Mecca — A survey”Friday 17 May9.00-10.45M. Koornwinder (Bussum): “Damietta in the Low Countries: sources andresearch”K. Yosef (Bar IlanUniversity): "Masters and Slaves: Substitute kinship in the Mamluk Sultanate”C. Onimus (Institut Français du procheorient / Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris): “Babalawud: étude de casde la transmission d’un iqṭāʿ sous lesultanat mamelouk”11.15-12.45P. Moukarzel (Université Libanaise): “The Franciscans in the Mamluksultanate: aprivileged community subject to the politico-economic balance between Europeand the East”G. Christ (University ofManchester): “A small divergence ? The Mamluk Empire, Venetian statehood andthe changing economic balance in theEastern Mediterranean (1300-1400)”St. Borsch (Assumption College): “The Water Regime of Alexandria in theLongueDurée: 1315-1814”14.00-15.45Y. Frenkel (University of Haifa): “The Story of Tamīm al-Dārī: preliminaryremarks on aBerlin manuscript from the Mamluk era”G. Lelli (Ghent University): “The philosophical basis of Ibn Khaldūn’spoetics”G. Schallenbergh (Ghent University/KULeuven): “Of Chess and Shiism: a Poem byṢafāʾ al-Ḥillī (d. 1351)”16.15-17.45T. El-Azhari (Qatar University): “Travel and Coins in medieval MediterraneanArabic as a lingua franca”J. Drory (BarIlan University): “Foreign rulers in al-Maqrīzī’s biographical dictionaryDurar al-ʿUqūd”B. Martel-Thoumian(Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble): “Ibn Iyās et les chanteusesou quand l’art s’invite dans la chroniquehistorique (872/1468-923/1517)”U. Vermeulen (Ghent University), "TBC"---------------------------------------Prof.Dr. Jo Van SteenbergenProfessor in Arabic &#38; Islamic Studies/Mamluk History and CultureGhent UniversityJozefPlateaustraat 22B-9000 Gent, BelgiumTel. ++ 32 (0)9 264 3805 &#38; ++32 (0)9 264 3555 (secr.)Fax: ++ 32 (0)9 264 4271E-MAIL : Jo.VanSteenbergen@UGent.behttp://www.mamluk.ugent.behttp://www.pirenne.ugent.behttp://www.ccc.ugent.behttp://www.turksestudies.ugent.behelpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php