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In a joint effort with the Centre for Turkish Studies (RU Gent), the CSG will host an international workshop on 'The Medieval City in the Islamic World'. The purpose will be to ascertain knowledge and research on urban history in Northern Africa and the Middle-East, spanning the period between the 7th and 16th century.Programme09.15 Introduction (Peter Stabel)From the West to the East: western perceptions of the medieval Islamic worldChair Peter Stabel09.30 Introduction09.40 Jelle De Rock (Ghent University, IUAP) Images of the Islamic city in the late medieval Low Countries10.00 Tineke Van de Walle (University of Antwerp, CSG) Jerusalem and Cairo in western travel accounts from the 15th and 16th century10.20 Comments and discussion10.50 CoffeeRecent work on medieval cities in the Islamic worldChair Tim Soens11.10 Introduction11.20 Hilmi Kaçar (Ghent University) Constantinople / Istanbul: constructing an empire on a city11.40 Jelle Bruning (University of Leiden) Governing an old capital in a new province: Alexandria versus Fustat in early Islamic Egypt12.00 Simon O’Meara (Utrecht University) The Kaaba and the City12.20 Comments and discussion13.00 LunchApproaches of comparative history of medieval cities in the European and Islamic worldChair Jo Van Steenbergen14.00 Introduction14.10 Patrick Lantschner (Oxford University) Fragmented Cities in the Later Middle Ages: Contention in the Urban Belts of Europe and the Near East14.30 James Davis (Queen’s University Belfast) Common Foundations: Local Trade Across the Medieval World14.50 Peter Stabel (University of Antwerp, CSG) Guild or no guilds. Is this the question? Economic regulation in the medieval city in the Islamic world. Some thoughts by an outsider15.10 Comments and discussion15.40 CoffeeThe city in a Mamluk contextChair Jan Dumolyn16.00 Introduction16.10 Linda Northrup (University of Toronto) Qalawun’s Endowment for the Mansuri Hospital and City Building in Early Mamluk Egypt16.30 Jo Van Steenbergen (Ghent University) Ritual, Politics and the City in Mamluk Cairo: the Bayna l-Qasrayn as a dynamic ‘lieu de mémoire’ (1250-1382)16.50 Comments and discussion17.20 Conclusions and after thoughts Henk De Smaele followed by closing discussion18.00 Drinks (Agora)Participation is free, but all participants should register before 1 December.More information and registration: tineke.vandewalle@ua.ac.beInfos:http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CSG&#38;n=104655&#38;ct=104655&#38;e=306537