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Sixth Conference of the School of Mamlūk StudiesWaseda University, Tokyo, JapanJune 15-17, 2019 Venue: International Conference Center of Waseda University Saturday, June 15Themed Day: The Sacred in Mamluk Society8:30       Registration9:00       Welcoming Remarks by Tetsuya Ohtoshi (Waseda University)9:10       Part 1-Mehdi Berriah (University of Paris 1 - La Sorbonne/SOAS /UMR 8167) “Visiting the Prophet’s grave: bidʿa or not ? A Case of Divergence and Theological Debate in the Mamluk Period.”-Daphna Ephrat (The Open University of Israel) “The Shaykh, the Saintly Tomb, and the Sacralization of Space: A View from Mamluk Palestine”-Hani Hamza (Independent Scholar, Egypt) “The Curious Case of the unrecognized turba of amīr Jirbāsh Qāshiq: New dating and attribution” 10:40     Coffee Break        11:00     Part 2-Aida Gasimova (Baku State University) “Mamluk sultans, Hurufis and Hurufi Poet Nesimi: Portraits from Medieval Arab Sources”-Elise Franssen (Università Ca' Foscari Venice) “Al-Ṣafadī's al-Faḍl al-Munīf fī al-Mawlid al-Sharīf...  according to his Taḏkira”-Kaori Otsuya (Kyoto University/University of Liège) “Reflections of the sacred in the historiography of Medina, city of the Prophet: Ibn Farḥūn and his Naṣīḥat al-Mushāwir” 12:30     Lunch    14:00     Part 3-Dotan Arad (Bar Ilan University) “Moses, Samuel, Elijah and Ezra: The Cult of Biblical Saints among the Jews in the Mamluk Period”-Asuka Tsuji (Kawamura Gakuen Women's University) “Contesting Sacred Places in Mamluk Egypt: The Case of Lower Egypt”-Yehoshua Frenkel (University of Haifa) "The Sacred in Mamluk Society: A Socio-Historical Investigation" 15:30     Coffee Break        15:50     Part 4              -Eman Shokry Hesham (BTU Cottbus-Sengtenberg) “The Veneration and Beauty of Marble Floors in Mamluk Mosques in Cairo”              -Daniella Talmon-Heller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) “Muṣḥaf ʿUthmān and other Qurʾāns in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt”             -Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University) “Relics and Religious Topography of Mamluk Cairo”17:20     End       18:00     Reception             Sunday, June 16Panels9:00       Mamluk Scholarship and the Transmission of KnowledgeOrganizer and Chair: Elias G. Saba (Grinnell College)-Sean W. Anthony (The Ohio State University) “Before all things God Most High created the light of your prophet from His light”: A Case Study in How to Forge Ḥadīth in the Post-Classical Period”-Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College) “‘Blessed are the strangers’: Interpreting an Apocalyptic Hadith”-Garrett Davidson (College of Charleston) “Reassessing the Role of Mamluk Women in Hadith Transmission”-Elias G. Saba (Grinnell College) “Islamic Law as Intellectual Refinement in the Writing of Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī” 10:45     Coffee Break  11:00     Irrigation, Landscapes, and Environment: Towards a History of Mamluk Agriculture               Organizer: Anthony Quickel (University of Marburg)               Chair: Wakako Kumakura (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)-Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London) “Water management, iqṭāʿ and tribes in the Fayyum, from Fatimids to the Mamluks”-Stuart Borsch (Assumption College) “Water Management and the late Fatimid Restructuring of Egypt”-Muhammad Shaaban (Queen Mary, University of London) “Counting Dirhams, Olives and Wheat: The Relationship Between Urban Institutions and Endowed Agrarian Property in the Haram al-Sharif Documents”-Anthony Quickel (University of Marburg) “A Topography of Taste: Mapping Mamluk Cairo’s Food Markets” 12:45     Lunch                           14:00     Mobility of Ideas, Individuals and Goods               Organizer: Abdelkader Al Ghouz (University of Bonn)Chair: Stephan Conermann (University of Bonn)-Abdelkader Al Ghouz (University of Bonn) “Signs of Greek Science in Ibn al-Akfānī’s (d. 749/1348) Treatise Irshād al-qāṣid ilā asmā al-maqāṣid”-Bethany Joelle Walker (University of Bonn) “Locally Produced but Regionally Consumed: The Circulation of Household Goods in the Syrian Countryside”-Anna Kollatz (University of Bonn) “Mobility in Immobility: Tracing travelling Narratives in Ibn Iyās’ Writings” 15:20     Coffee Break                           15:35     Mamluks and Asia: Views from the EastOrganizer and Chair: Nobutaka Nakamachi (Konan University)-Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University) “Maragha across the Euphrates: The Observatory in Mamluk Sources”-Yihao Qiu (Fudan University) “An Episode of the conflict between Qaidu and Yuan in Mamluk Chronicle”-Yasuhiro Yokkaichi (Rikkyo University) “From Fārs to Misr: Re-examining the Indian Ocean trade network between the Il-khanate and Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt”-Yoichi Yajima (Nara Women’s University) “Diplomatic correspondence between the Mamluks and the Mongols” 17:20     End Monday, June 17Panels 9:00     Approaching Mamlūk Historiography: Narratologically, Literarily, Computationally            Organizer: Maxim Romanov (University of Vienna)Chair: Kenneth Goudie (Ghent University)-Maxim Romanov (University of Vienna) “Computational Historiography: al-Ḏahabī’s Taʾrīḫ al-islām and His Sources”-Rihab Ben Othmen (Ghent University) “Moving texts: a few remarks on textual brokerage, intertextuality and authorial identity in the fifteenth century Mamluk Historiography”-Kenneth Goudie (Ghent University) “A Tale of Two Dawādārs: al-Biqāʿī’s Narrative Construction of Īnāl’s Court”-Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont (Ghent University) “The Inbāʾ al-ġumr bi-abnāʾ al-ʿumr and inter-maḏhab competition: a network analysis case study” 10:45     Coffee Break             11:00    Intellectual Activities across the Regions in the Mamluk periodOrganizer and Chair: Kentaro Sato (Hokkaido University)  -Maribel Fierro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [CSIC]) “Maliki jurists from the Maghrib in the Mamluk sultanate”-Mayte Penelas (CSIC) “Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar as a Source for Mamluk Scholars on Iberian History”-Abdenour Padillo Soaud (CSIC) “The scholars of the maghrib in the Mamluk madrasas”-Teruaki Moriyama (Doshisha University) “From Khurasani “Ashab al-Hadith” to Mamlukid Shafi‘i School: Succession to the Classical Hadith Studies” 12:45     Lunch 14:00     The Material Culture of Mamluk CairoOrganizer: Naoko Fukami (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS])Chair: Takenori Yoshimura (Daito Bunka University)-Nicholas Jon Warner (American University in Cairo) “The urban fabric of Mamluk Cairo as represented in Matteo Pagano’s view of 1549”-Naoko Fukami (JSPS) “Typologies of Mamluk religious architecture and their relation to Ilkhanid, Timurid, and Ottoman forms”-Gentaro Yamada (Tokai University) “Computational-geometrical Study of Mumluk Muqarnas: Comparative analysis of its morphology using 3D-parametric models” 15:20     Coffee Break             15:35     The Versatile Approach to the Diplomatic DialogueOrganizer: Alessandro Rizzo (Milá y Fontanals Institute, CSIC)Chair: Stephan Conermann (University of Bonn)-Georg Christ (University of Manchester) “"Alexander of our time": Was Venice part of the Mamluk Islamic Empire?”-Frédéric Bauden (University of Liège) “Brokering power in Mecca: Rasulid-Mamluk diplomatic exchanges about the Meccan Sharifate”-Malika Dekkiche (University of Antwerp) “Like father like son? Timurid parallel diplomacy with the Mamluk Sultanate”-Alessandro Rizzo (Milá y Fontanals Institute, CSIC) “Beyond the dār al Islām/dār al-ḥarb paradigm: the multiform dialogue between Mamluks and Christian powers through a diplomatic approach” 17:20     Concluding remarks by Tetsuya Ohtoshi and Frédéric Bauden18:00     End                                   19:30     Farewell dinner                  