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Dr. Aleksandar Shopov “Rāḍī al-Dīn al-Ghazzī’s Jāmi‘ Farā’id al-Milāḥa fī Jawāmi‘ Fawā’id al-Filāḥa: the Last Mamluk Book on Farming and Its Context”

Kaori Otsuya Formation of Intellectual Networks and Scholarly Communities in Mecca and Medina in the Bahri Mamluk period

Raffaele Ranieri The Wheel Thrown Pottery in the Southern Bilad-al-Sham (cc. XII-XIII): Pro-duction and Distribution. The Case Study of Shaw-bak (Southern Jordan)

Daisy Livingston Archival Practices in Mam-luk Egypt (c. 1250-1517). Documents and Archives at the Center and Periphery in a Diverse Literate Society

Dr. Josef Zenka Autograph Manuscripts of Andalusi Immigrants

Table of Contents

t Current Fellows

t Previous Events

t Upcoming Events

t Publications

t Imprint

Dr. Alessandro Rizzo Mamluk Diplomatic In-struments Guarantying Mobility to European Emissaries and Mer-chants

Dr. Stephen McPhillips The Social Archaeol-ogy of the North Jordan Valley. Perspectives from Ṭabaqat Faḥl

Nicolò Pini Extended Families, Tribal Ties and Movement of People in the Mamluk Period: Spatial and Socio-economic Struc-tures in Creating, Shaping, and Maintaining the Rural and Urban BuiltEnvironment

Current Fellows

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Previous Events

Lectures (Venue: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “His-tory and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250- 1517”, Heussallee 18-24) 4/9/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-6:00 pm Dr. Aleksandar Shopov (Bonn) “When People Began Dying from Smoking and Treatises on the Health Benefits of To-bacco Began Arriving from Morocco and Spain: The Early History of Tobacco in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean” 11/9/2017 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-6:00 pm Anja Dreiser, M.A. (Bamberg) “Electroplated Mamluk Revival Metalwork from Nuremberg for the Benefits of Muse-ums of All Countries” 13/9/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 2:00-4:00 pm Christian Mauder, M.A (Bonn) “The Sultan Who Loved Flowers: Land-scaping and Gardening in Late Mamluk Cairo under Qanisawh al-Ghawri as Means of Political Legitimation” 19/9/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 10:00-12:00 am Shireen El Kassem, M.A (Bonn) “Silks from Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250- 1400 AD)” 20/9/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 2:00-4:00 pm Dr. Mathieu Eychenne (Bonn) “Urban-Rural Interactions in Mamluk Da-mascus” 12/10/2017 – Opening Academic Year 2017/18, 9:00-11:00 am 19/10/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am

23/10/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-5:30 pm Dr. Josef Zenka (Bonn) “Andalusis of Mamluk Damascus and Their Manuscripts” 26/10/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am

30/10/2017-3/11/2017

-Autumn Vacation- 25-29/9/2017 – Fall School – Webinar “Science and Technology in the Isla-mic Middle Periods” Each fall the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg offers, at no cost, an intensive, five-day course to Mamluk scholars (and those in re-lated fields) at the doctoral and post-doc-toral level on topics of mutual interest. The traditional model for such courses has been group work on medieval Arabic texts. The past two years, however, the Kolleg has in-novated with course delivery and themes, to cultivate interdisciplinarity and expand and enrich our methodological approaches. The theme of the Fall School 2017 was “Science and Technology in the Islamic Middle Periods”. The Islamic Middle Peri-ods (roughly 12th-16th centuries) witnessed a shift to mass production and the develop-ment of new technologies and crafts. To evaluate the contributions of this period in the development of science and technology in general was one goal of this course. This Fall School was taught as a webinar, which allowed students (and instructors) to log in from anywhere in the world and to meet one another in a virtual classroom in real time. The webinar format was chosen as an ap-propriate venue for technological experi-mentation and to create an environment fos-tering scientific exchange. The course ran September 25-29, 2017. There were gener-ally two, two-hour seminars each day, each

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taught by a different instructor (or pair of instructors), who are leading scholars in their field. The seminars combined PowerPoint lec-tures, group discussion of secondary read-ings, group work with period manuscripts (on science), and hands-on (online) exer-cises to develop knowledge about a range of technologies and sciences developed during the Middle Islamic Period. Daily seminars covered the following topics:

t Engineering and Technology of Warfare

t Industry, Production, and Transfer of Trade Knowledge

t Pharmacology and Medicine t Water Technology and Agrarian Sci-

ence t Astronomy and Mapping

The language of instruction was English. Applicants were scholars of medieval Is-lamic history (or related fields) at the doc-toral or postdoctoral level. All participants needed dependable internet access and a Skype account, and agreed to be available the entire week during the times scheduled for the daily seminars.

Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture (Venue: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “His-tory and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250-1517”, Heussallee 18-24) 16/10/2017 – Prof. Dr. Yehoshua Frenkel (University of Haifa), 6:00-8:00 pm “Sensory History: Islamic Performance Traditions and History of Religious Sounds in Mamluk Cairo”

Sensory History is a new developing field of historical research. Hearing sounds that dominated the public space of past societies contributes to our efforts in reconstructing their emotional experience. We can turn on the chronicles and hear the history. This talk is a report on a research project that aims to

study the soundscape of the Mamluk Sul-tanate. The military aristocracy that gov-erned Egypt and Bilad al-Sham used drums and trumpets to broadcast victories and po-litical achievements.

At the gates of their palaces kettle drums and wind instruments (tablkhana) were played daily. The sounds produced by them announced that they were the triumphal masters of the land. The Mamluk sultans cultivated an image of devoted Muslims whose raison d'être was the protection of Islam and the creation of a space where Muslims could practice their belief system and rituals. Awqaf documents cast light on endowments established by them to finance recitation of Quran and of Hadith and to pay the muezzins. The voice of Islam dominated the urban space. A manuscript, as yet unpublished, that con-tains prayers and supplications in Arabic and in Turkish enriches our knowledge about the role of two sultans, Qayit Bay and Qansiv (Qansuh) al-Ghawri in loud ceremo-nial court uttering. The participant in these events applied and supplicated to Allah, de-clared their commitment to His religion. This source illuminates the multi-lingual nature of the Mamluk elite.

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Upcoming Events Lectures (Venue: Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg “His-tory and Society during the Mamluk Era, 1250- 1517”, Heussallee 18-24) 6/11/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-5:30 pm Nicolo Pini, M.A. (Bonn) “Extended Families, Tribal Ties and Movement of People in the Mamluk Pe-riod: Spatial and Socio-Economic Struc-tures in Creating, Shaping, and Maintain-ing the Rural and Urban Built Environ-ment” 9/11/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am 14/11/2017 – Ulrich Haarman Memorial Lecture, 6:00-8:00 pm Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Ohtoshi (Waseda Uni-versity, Japan) “Reconsidering the Cult of Saints, the Ziyara, and Cemeteries in Mamluk Egypt” 16/11/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am 20/11/2017 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-5:30 Dr. Konstantinos Gogos (University of Athens) “Trajectories of Muslim Intellectuals in Turkey: the Case of Necip Fazil Kisakü-rek” 23/11/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am 27/11/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-5:30 pm Dr. Alessandro Rizzo (Bonn) “Mamluk Diplomatic Instruments Guaran-tying Mobility to European Emissaries and Merchants” 30/11/2017 – Internal Discussion Session, 10:00-12:00 am

4/12/2017 – Guest Lecture, 4:00-5:30 pm Prof. Andreas Eckart (University of Co-logne) “The Early Great Debate: a Comment on Ibn al-Haytham's Work on the Location of the Milky Way with Respect to the Earth” 14/12/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 9:00-11:00 pm Dr. Aleksandar Shopov (Bonn) “Rāḍī al-Dīn al-Ghazzī’s Jāmi‘ Farā’id al-Milāḥa fī Jawāmi‘ Fawā’id al-Filāḥa: the Last Mamluk Book on Farming and Its Context” 18/12/2017 – Fellows’ Seminar, 4:00-5:30 pm Raffaele Ranieri, M.A. (Bonn) “The Wheel Thrown Pottery in the South-ern Bilad-al-Sham (cc. 12-13): Production and Distribution. The Case-Study of Shaw-bak (Southern Jordan)” 19/12/2017 – Christmas Party, 6:30 pm

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8-10/12/2017 – International Confe-rence “Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods” (Venue: Günnewig Hotel Bristol, Prinz-Al-bert-Str. 2, 53113 Bonn) This year’s international conference is de-voted to the study of material culture in the Middle Islamic periods, namely the era of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman Sultan-ates and their contemporaries, with a special emphasis on the Mamluk era. Material cul-ture includes the things that people have made and the relationships between people and those things. It is most informative about the realities of daily life, social and economic networks, and the spatial setting of social activities. Rather than focusing on the formal qualities of objects or their “ma-teriality” (dating, provenance, material composition), the conference’s aim is to fa-cilitate the expansion of the kind of ques-tions we can ask about the societies of the Mediterranean in the 12th-16th centuries, through reference to the material record, in-cluding “archaeological texts” (papyri, pa-per documents, and inscriptions recovered from archaeological contexts). The geo-graphical focus of the conference is the Mediterranean and its hinterland. Partici-pants are challenged to address the explore ways in which “things” fashioned by human hands defined, molded, and reconstituted relationships: the relationships between craftsman and consumer, patron and client, and within social or intellectual groups, for example.

Timetable

t Friday, 8th December

9:30-10:00 Bethany Walker (Bonn) Welcome

Panel 1: Complexity of Patronage Chair: Bethany Walker

10:00-10:30 Iman R. Abdulfattah (New York) The Complex of Qalāwūn in Cairo: Accul-turation and Connoisseurship in Early Mamluk Architecturer

10:30-11:00 Noha Abou Khatwa (Cairo) Shaping the Material Culture of Cairo in the 1350s: a Case Study in the Patronage of Amir Sirghitmish al-Nasir 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-12:00 Miriam Kühn (Berlin) Contextualising the Endowment of Mamluk Minbars

12:00-12:30 Muhammad Hafez Shaaban (London) The Curious Case of a Fourteenth Century Madrasa: Who Really Founded the Mad-rasa of Umm al-Sultan Shaʿbān?

12:30-13:30 Lunch

Panel 2: The Built Environment Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich/Istanbul)

13:30-14:00 Bethany Walker (Bonn) On Houses and Households: the Built En-vironment of Family Life in Late Medieval Syria

14:00-14:30 Nicolò Pini (Bonn) Walls of Identities. Built Environment as Social Marker

14:30-15:00 Elisa Pruno, Raffaele Ranieri, Chiara Marcotulli (Florence) The Material Culture in Shawbak Between Ayyubid and Mamluk: the Case-Study of Hospitaller Chapel

15:00-15:30 Ahmad Lash (Department of Antiquities of Jordan) The Graffiti at Qusayr Amra

15:30-16:00 Break

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16:00-17:30 Stephennie Mulder (Texas) Keynote Address Sharing Sanctity: Sunnis, Shi’is, and Ar-chitectural Patronage in Medieval Damas-cus

t Saturday, 9th December

Panel 3: Material Culture as Text Chair: Iman R. Abdulfattah

10:30-11:00 Rachel Ward (Independent Scholar) Allegiance by Design: Mamluk Blazons

11:00-11:30 Daisy Livingston (Bonn) Documents Lying Around: Astage in the Archival Life-Cycle of Administrative Doc-uments from the Margins of Mamlūk Egypt 11:30-12:00 Tobias Nünlist (Zürich) Devotion and Protection: the Amuletic Scroll Is 1624

12:00-13:30 Lunch

Panel 4: Things and their Ever Chang-ing Social Lives Chair: Warren Schultz

13:30-14:00 Bilal Badat (Tübingen) The Reuse and Ritualisation of Materials in Ottoman Calligraphy: a Case Study of the Legacy Of Şeyh Hamdull

14:00-14:30 Fien De Block (Ghent) The Timekeeper-Teacher and His Discur-sive Instruments: a Material Approach to Ibn al-Majdi‘s “al-Jami‘ al-Mufid”

14:30-15:00 Julie Bonnéric (Kuwait) The Function and Symbolical Role of Ob-jects: Lighting Devices in Mamluk Mosques

15:00-15:30 Break

Panel 5: Cultural Appropriation and Identity Chair: Abdelkader Al Ghouz (Bonn)

15:30-16:00 Nikolaos Vryzidis (Athens/Is-tanbul) Islamic Material Culture in Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Context (13th-16th Centuries): Shifting Meanings and Meth-odological Problems

16:00-16:30 Adriana Gașpar (Bucharest) A Preliminary Report on the Ottoman Pot-tery from Timișoara (Romania) 16:30-17:00 Kurt Franz (Tübingen) The Devotional Use of the Pilgrim Roads to Mecca: Places, Constructions, and Communality

t Sunday, 10th December

Panel 6: Decoding Daily Life Chair: Lorenz Korn (Bamberg)

09:00-09:30 Alexander Shopov (Bonn) Experiencing Balsam in Sixteenth-Century Cairo

09:30-10:00 Stephen McPhillips (Bonn), co-authored with Wissam Halabi-Halawi (Exeter) and Elise Voguet (CNRS and IRHT, Paris) A Materiality of Rural Life in Mamluk Jabal Lubnan?

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-11:00 Warren Schultz (Chicago) Coins as Artifacts, Coins as Evidence: Contextualizing Copper Fulūs in the Material Culture of Middle Islamic, Southern Bilād al-Shām

11:00-11:30 Catherine Rose (London) Tombstones & Textiles: Funerary Materi-als as Sources for the Lives of Children and Parents in Mamluk Society 11:30-12:00 Gül Kale (Montréal) Stuff of the Mind: Material Possession Within the Network of Ottoman Scholars

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12:00-13:00 Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich/Is-tanbul) Concluding Notes & End of Conference Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30 Visiting Christmas Market

Publications

http://www.v-r.de/de/muslim_jewish_rela-tions_in_the_middle_islamic_period/t-0/1096911/

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funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). www.mamluk.uni-bonn.de

Mamluk Studies – Band 016 Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Is-lamic Period. Jews in the Ayyubid and Mam-luk Sultanates (1171–1517) Stephan Conermann (ed.) This book contributes to the history of medie-val Jewry in general, as a basis for a compar-ative study of the position of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Late Middle Ages. The eight articles written by leading experts on this topic pay special attention to the fol-lowing issues: the measure of tolerance of the Mamluk rulers and the Muslim populace to-ward the Jews; Jews in government positions and as court physicians; conversion and atti-tudes toward converted Jews; the Sufi (mysti-cal) nature of Jewish leadership and its rela-tion to the Sufi Islamic discourse; profes-sional, intellectual, and legal interactions be-tween Jews and Muslims. In the end, the con-tributions help us to sharpen our understand-ing of Jewish life during the Middle Islamic Period in the Near East.