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The other narratives of early Islam contemporary sources and critical readings CONFERENCE, MARCH 22nd-23rd 2024 Friday March 22nd 10:00-10:50 registration 10:50-11:00 A very brief introduction: Hagit Nol 11:00-12:30 The Qur'an and Qur'an manuscripts, chair: Serap Ermis Guillaume Dye, Université libre de Bruxelles - What is the Qur'an's representative potential? Alba Fedeli, Universität Hamburg - Reading the manuscript text as a system to nd its narrative: methodologies and criticism of early Qur'anic manuscript studies 12:30-13:30 lunch 13:30-15:00 Manuscripts and narratives in Syriac, chair: Nathan Gibson Adrian C. Pirtea, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna Monastic book culture in Syro-Palestine and Sinai. Syriac and Christian Arabic manuscripts as sources for early Islamic history Marianna Mazzola, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - A critical reading of Christian sources on the surrender agreements during the Arab Conquest 15:00 coffee break 15:30-17:00 Poetry, chair: Bekim Agai Adam Talib, The American University in Cairo - The Taphonomy of Early Arabic Poetry Kirill Dmietriv, University of St. Andrews - The poetry of al-Walīd Ibn Yazīd (709–744), methodological approaches in recent scholarship 17:00 coffee break 17:30-19:00 Isnad-cum-matn applications, chair: Rana Alsou Marjan Asi, University of Edinburgh - Hadiths and isnad -cum-matn: tools for Islamic ideological history Jens Scheiner, Universität Göttingen - Isnad-cum-matn -analysis: chances and limitations 19:00 reception ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ Saturday March 23rd 9:30-11:00 Documents: papyri and ostraca, chair: Hartmut Leppin Lajos Berkes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Navigating Greek, Coptic, and Arabic papyri from early Islamic Egypt Eline Scheerlinck, Leiden University - Understanding early Islamic scal practice with the help of Greek and Coptic documentary papyri and ostraca 11:00 coffee break 11:30-13:00 Documents: papyri and coins, chair: Dirk Wicke Arietta Papaconstantinou, Aix-Marseille Université - Do papyri only allow a 'micro' economic history? Stefan Heidemann, Universität Hamburg Reconstructing historical evidence (coins) 13:00-14:30 lunch 14:30-16:00 Inscriptions and excavations, chair: Sepideh Maziar Ilkka Lindstedt, University of Helsinki - New inscriptions, old poems: pre-Islamic wasiyyas on stone and in verse Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton - Digging in and for dirt: archaeology, interpretation and story-telling 16:00 coffee break 16:30-18:00 Laboratory archaeology, chair: Astrid Stobbe Vladimir Dabrowski, CNRS - Sowing the seeds of archaeobotany: variety of disciplines, methodological challenges and application to the early Islamic Arabia Marcos García-García, Universidad de Alicante - Putting esh on the bones: archaeo(zoo)logical approaches to the study of al-Andalus 18:30 dinner ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ The conference aims at allowing a direct dialogue between the various semi-disciplines of early Islamic history (the 7th to 9th century). For that purpose, it brings together scholars who study early Islam either through contemporary sources or through a critical reading of later texts. One objective is to introduce the different methodologies and discuss their merits and aws. As part of the rst objective, we hope to advance the use of both archaeological methods and archaeological theory in Islamic history in general and in discussions about early Islam in particular. The second objective is to examine which kind of historical questions can be answered by contemporary sources – fragmentary and local as they are. The third objective is to encourage students to use contemporary sources and critical methods by highlighting their advantages and slightly breaking the central position of the later narrative texts. Room 1.314 (Eisenhower Saal), IG Farben building, Goethe-University Frankfurt For registration, please write hnol@em.frankfurt-uni.de until March 10th 2024