ARAM SOCIETY

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ARAM FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

TUESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1989

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

14.00-16.30 Registration

17.00-18.30 Official opening by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hasan of Jordan

19.00-21.00 Inaugural Dinner

WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 1989

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

09.30-10.05 Dr. Piotr Bienkowski (Liverpool Museum):

“The chronology of Tawilan and the ‘Dark Age’ of Edom.”

10.05-10.40 Dr. John Bartlett (University of Dublin):

“The situation between the end of the Edomite kingdom and the appearance of the Nabataeans.”

10.40-11.15 Tea/coffee

11.15-11.50 Dr. David F. Graf (University of Miami):

“The origin of the Nabataeans.”

11.50-12.25 Dr. Manfred Lindner (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg):

“A unique Edomite/Nabataean archaeological site in the mountains of southern Jordan.”

12.25-13.00 Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College):

“Settlement patterns on the Moabite plateau from Iron Age through the Nabataean/Roman period.”

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Chairperson: Mr. Michael Macdonald (Oxford University)

14.30-15.05 Dr. William Jobling (University of Sydney):

“Some new Thamudic and Nabataean inscription of the Hisma in southern Jordan.”

15.05-15.40 Dr. Philip C. Hammond (University of Utah):

“The rise of a provincial state: Nabatene.”

15.40-16.10 Tea/coffee

16.10-16.45 Mr. Peter Parr (University of London):

“The archaeology of the Petra town centre.”

16.45-17.10 Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London):

“Early Nabataean coinage.”

THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 1989

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University)

09.30-10.05 Dr. Margaret Lyttleton (London):

“The sculpture found in the temenos of the Qasr al’Bint at Petra.”

10.05-10.40 Dr. Marie-Jeanne Roche (Hunter College-New York):

“Panels decorated with busts from Petra.”

10.40-11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.15-11.50 Dr. Jacqueline Dentzer-Freydy (Universsity of Paris 1 -Sorbonne):

“Le décor architectural du temple nabatéen de Khirbet edh-Dharih.”

11.50-12.25 Dr. François Villeneuve (Ecole Normale Superieure):

“Problème de chronologie de la céramique nabatéenne (1er-2me ap.J.C.) à partir des fouilles de Khirbet edh-Dharih.”

12.25-13.00 Dr. David Johnson (Brigham Young University):

“Nabataean Pyriform Unguentaria: Chronology, production and use, the evidence from Petra.”

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof. Rifaat Ebied (Sydney University)

14.30-15.05 Dr. Khairieh Amr (Department of Antiquities - Jordan):

“The late Kiln at Zurrabah.”

15.05-15.40 Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities - Jordan):

“The Nabataean gods in the Sinai and Egypt.”

15.40-16.10: Tea/coffee

16.10-16.45 Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University):

“Baalshamin dans le monde nabatéen.”

16.45-17.10 Dr. Ernest Axel Knauf (University of Heidelberg):

“Dušares and Shai alqaum.”

FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 1989

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. John F. Healey (Manchester University)

09.30-10.05 Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):

“The hydraulic and hydroagricultural installations found in southern Jordan.”

10.05-10.40 Mr. Alistair Killick & Mrs. Marie Killick (Oxford):

“The Nabataeans at Udhruh.”

10.40-11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.15-11.50 Dr. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University):

“The Greek papyri at Nessana (Aujah Hafir) in the Negev.”

11.50-12.25 Mr. Karl Schmitt-Korte (Frankfurt):

“An early Christian record of the Nabataeans.”

12.25-13.00 Dr. Jean-Marie Fiey (Université St Joseph-Beirut):

“From the Nabataeans to the Nabat.”

13.00-14.30 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Adnan Hadidi (Department of Antiquities - Jordan)

14.30-15.05 Dr. Khalid Ismail Ali (Baghdad University):

“Etymological and semantic aspects of the root NBT.”

15.05-15.40 Dr. John F. Healey (Manchester University):

“The Nabataean contribution to the development of the Arab script.”

15.40-16.10: Tea/coffee

16.10-16.45 Dr. Salah Hamarneh (University of Jordan):

“The period which followed the end of the political reign of the Nabataeans.”

16.45-17.10 Dr. Mohammad A. Abdul’Karim (University of Baghdad):

“The Nabataeans in the Arab tradition.”

ARAM SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Syriac and Arab Cultures during the Abbasid Era in Iraq

MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1991

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

14.00-17.30 Registration

17.30-19.00 Official opening by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd

Dr. Alison Salvesen: The main projects of ARAM

19.00-21.00 Inaugural Dinner

TUESDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 1991

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

09.00-10.00 Dr. Michael Morony (University of California at Los Angeles):

“The Aramaean population in the economic life of early Islamic Iraq.”

10.00-11.00 Dr. Yousif Ishaq (Sweden):

“The Zuqnin chronicle (Ps Dionysius of Tel-Mahre) as a source of study of the political and economic situation of Northern Iraq during the Abbasid era.”

11.00-11.30 Tea/coffee

11.30-12.30 Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford):

“Gilgamesh after the Cuneiform.”

12.30-15.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Jeremy Black (University of Oxford)

15.00-16.00 Dr. Richard Dumbrill (London):

“The Babylonian origins of Arab medieval music.”

16.30-16.30 Tea/coffee

16.30-17.30 Dr. Lawrence Conrad (wellcome Institute-London):

“The life of Mohammad in Syriac discussions in early Abbasid Syria.”

17.30-18.30 Dr. Wilfred Madelung (University of Oxford):

“Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Christian theology.”

18.30-19.00 Mrs. Averil Makhlouf (Richmond-USA)

“Elias of Nisibis.”

19.00-20.00 Dinner

20.00-21.00 Miss. Carmela Baffioni (PhD candidate: University of Napoli):

“Probable influence in Ihwan al-Safa’s logical epistles.”

WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 1991

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

09.00-10.00 Dr. Hans Daiber (Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam):

“Nestorians of 9^th century: Syriac and Arabic. A survey of unexploited sources with special reference of I. of Kashkar.”

10.00-11.00 Dr. Bo Holmberg (Lund University):

“The trinitarian terminology of Israel of Kahkar.”

11.30-11.30 Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.30 Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew Universsity of Jerusalem):

“The impact of Syriac tradition on early Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis.”

12.30-16.30 Lunch

Free afternoon for shopping and visiting Oxford.

16.30-17.00 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford)

17.00-18.00 Dr. Johannes den Heijer (Leiden University):

“The existence of a Syriac intermediate version of Aristotle’s ‘Historia Animalium’.”

18.005-19.00 Dr. Mauro Zonta (University of Pavia-Italy):

“New evidence for the History of Aristotle’s ‘De Animalibus’ amongst Syrians and Arabs.”

19.00-20.00: Dinner

20.00-21.00 Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America):

“The Apologetic treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis.”

THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1991

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Erica Hunter (Cambridge University)

09.00-10.05 Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):

“The Syriac background of Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s translation technique.”

10.00-11.00 Dr. Gotthard Strohmaier (Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR-Berlin):

“Hunayn ibn Ishaq: an Arab scholar translating into Syriac.”

10.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.30 Dr. Samir Khalil (St. Joseph University-Beirut):

“Le Kitab al-‘Agal de Hunayn retrouvé.”

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Johannes Glenthøj (Oxford)

14.00-15.00 Dr. Henri Hugonnard-Roche (CNRS-Paris):

“Contributions syriaques aux études arabes de logique à l’époque abbaside.”

15.00-16.00 Mr. Robert Hoyland (PhD candidate: University of Oxford):

“Syriac and Arabic historical writing: an example of a cross-cultural collaboration.”

16.00-1615 End of the Conference: A short communication.

ARAM THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

The Decapolis

MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 1992

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

14.00-17.30 Registration.

17.30-18.00 Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd: Welcome and introduction.

18.00-19.00 Dr. David Graf (University of Miami): Opening talk:

“Hellenization and the Decapolis.”

TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 1992

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

09.10-09.50 Dr. Martin Goodman (University of Oxford):

“The Jews in the Decapolis.”

09.50-10.30 Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA):

“Abila: A thriving city of the Decapolis.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster):

“Nabatäer in der Dekapolis.”

11.40-12.20 Mr. Ali Ziayadeh (Birzeit University):

“Urban transformation in the Decapolis cities of Jordan.”

12.20-13.00 Dr. Thomas Weber (Johannes Gutenberg University):

“Indigenous and foreign elements in the sanctuary sculpture of the Decapolis.”

13.00-14.20 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Seán Freyne (Dublin University)

14.20-15.00 Prof. Gedeon Foerster (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):“Nysa-Scythopolis: ‘kata coelen Syrian hellenidon poleon’ as reflected in recent excavations at Bet-Shean, Israel .”

15.00-15.40 Prof. Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

“Roman to Byzantine: Bet Shean (Scythopolis) in the 4^th-7^th centuries.”

15.40-16.10 Tea/coffee

16.10-16.50 Prof. Maurice Sartre (Francois Rabelais University):

“Canatha et Ahadra, cités de Décapole.”

16.30-17.30 Dr. Michael Fuller (St. Louis Community College-USA):

“Survey and ethnoarchaeological studies at Abila of the Decapolis..”

WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1992

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. David Kennedy (University of Western Australia)

09.10-09.50 Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-Gurion University):

“The roman worship of Athena-Allat in the Decapolis and the Negev.”

09.50-10.30 Dr. Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Jordan):

“A l’ombre de Zeus et d’Artemis, Gerasa de la décapole.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Robert Houston Smith (College of Wooster-USA):

“Pre-Christian religions and their survivals at Pella of the Decapolis: Historical and Archaeological evidence.”

11.40-12.20 Dr. Robert Smith (Miami University):

“A Necropolis of the Decapolis: the use of tombs and cemeteries at Abila.”

12.20-13.00 Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University):

“The tombs of Yasileh in comparison with the tombs of the cities of the Decapolis.”

13.00-20.00 Lunch and sightseeing tour.

Chairperson: Dr. Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford)

20.00-20.50 Dr. Margaret O’Hea (University of Adelaide-Australia):

“The glass industry of the Decapolis.”

20.40-21.20 Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London):

“Civic organisation within the Decapolis .”

21.20-22.00 Dr. Yzhar Hirschfield & Dr. Erez Cohen (Israel Antiquities Authority):

“The reconstruction of the Roman baths at Hammath Gader.”

THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 1992

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa)

09.10-09.50 Dr. Leah Di Segni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

“Greek inscriptions of the Bath-House in Hammath Gader.”

09.50-10.30 Dr. John D. Wineland (Miami University):

“Archaeological and numismatic evidence of Greco-Roman religious of the Decapolis with a particular emphasis on Gerasa and Abila.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Zeidoun Al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):

“Le site de Yasileh et ses relations avec les villes de la Décapole.”

11.40-12.20 Dr. Lawrence I. Conrad (Wellcome Institute):

“The cities of the Decapolis on the eve of the Arab conquests: some new lights from verse attributed to Hassan ibn Thabit.”

12.20-13.00 Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney):

“Vestiges of the Decapolis in north Jordan during the late antique – early Islamic transition ”

13.00-14.20 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

14.20-15.00 Dr. Willard Winter (Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary):

“A Byzantine Basilica at Abila.”

15.00-15.40 Dr. Karel J. Vriesen (University of Utrecht):

“The centralised church in Umm Qais.”

15.40-16.10: Tea/coffee

16.10-16.50 Ing. Robert Guinée & Dr. Nicole Mulder (University of Utrecht):

“Survey of the terrace and western theatre area in Umm Qais .”

16.50-17.30 Dr. Susanne Kerner (German Protestant Institute for Archaeology):

“Umm Qais: recent excavations.”

ARAM FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Cultural Interchange in the Umayyad Era

MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 1993

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

14.00-17.30 Registration.

17.30-17.45 Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): Welcome and introduction.

17.45-18.25 Prof. Irfan Shahid (Dumbarton Oaks-USA):

“The Umayyad ajnad: Byzance après Byzance.”

TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Crone (University of Cambridge)

09.10-09.50 Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University):

“The end of the Byzantine period and the beginning of the Islamic period in northern Jordan.”

09.50-10.30 Dr. Elizabeth Savage (London):

“Iraqi Christian links with an early Islamic sect.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Michael Bates (American Numismatic Society):

“Byzantine coinage and its imitations, Arab coinage and its imitations: Arab-Byzantine coinage.”

11.40-12.20 Dr. Michael and Neathery Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA):

“Continuity and cultural interchange at Tell Tuneinir, Syria.”

12.20-13.00 Dr. Pamela Watson (British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History):

“Pictorial painting on pottery and its demise in the mid-7^th century AD: the case of the Jerash bowls.”

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Free afternoon for shopping, sightseeing, etc.

WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 1993

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)

09.10-09.50 Mr. W. A. Oddy (The British Museum):

“The earliest Umayyad coinage of Gerasa and Scythopolis.”

09.50-10.30 Dr. Steven Rosen (Ben-Gurion University):

“The nomadic periphery: archaeology of pastoralists in the south central Negev during Late Antiquity.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Claus-Peter Haase (university of Kiel-Germany):

“Is madinat al-Far in the Balikh region of northern Syria an Umayyad foundation?.”

11.40-12.20 Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney):

“Umayyad Damascus: notes on its population and culture based on Ibn ‘Asakari’s History.”

12.20-13.00 Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago):

“Were there Amsar in Syria?”

13.00-14.20 Lunch.

Chairperson: Dr. Julian Raby (University of Oxford)

14.20.-15.00 Dr. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA):

“The Christian church of Abila of the Decapolis of the Yarmouk valley system in the Umayyad period.”

15.00-15.40 Mr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient):

“A French-Jordanian project for copying the painting in Quseir ‘Amra .”

15.40-16.10 Tea/Coffee

16.10-16.50 Dr. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge):

“The pre-Islamic background of Muslim legal formularies.”

16.50-17.30 Mr. George Kiraz (University of Cambridge):

“Current academic projects on Syriac studies using computational methods.”

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 1993

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Averil Cameron (London University)

09.10-09.50 Dr. Lawrence Conrad (The Wellcome Institute-London):

“Did Walid I found the first Muslim hospital?”

09.50-10.30 Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-GurionUniversity):

“The impact of the Islamic conquest on the Christian communities of the Third Palestine.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Prof. Daniel Sahas (University of Waterloo-Canada):

“Byzantine-Arab cultural interaction during the Umayyad era: the circle of John of Damascus.”

11.40-12.20 Dr. Monica Blanchard (Catholic University of America):

“The Georgian version of the martyrdom of St Michael, monk of Mar Sabas monastery.”

12.20-13.00 Prof.. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America):

“The vita of St. Michael and its reported dialogue between St. Michael and the Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik ”

12.30-14.20 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

14.20-15.00 Prof. Han Drijvers (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen-Holland):

“Testamentum domini nostril Jesu Christi.”

15.00-15.40 Mr. Robert Hoyland (PhD candidate: University of Oxford):

“The correspondence between Leo III (717-741) and ‘Umar II (717-720).”

15.40-16.10: Tea/coffee

16.10-16.50 Dr. Chase F. Robinson (University of Oxford):

“The Shaharija: ‘Christian’ pragmatism in an early Islamic milieu .”

16.50-17.30 Dr. Andrew Palmer (School of Oriental and African Studies-London):

“Two Jacobite bishops, Theodotus (d. 698) and Simeon (d. 734), and their relations with Umayyad authorities.”

17.30-18.0 Conference ends: closing address.

ARAM FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Palmyra (Tadmor)

MONDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 1995

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

14.00-17.30 Registration

17.30-17.35 Dr Shafiq Abouzayd (Chairman of ARAM): Welcome and introduction.

17.35-18.00 H.E. Dr Najah Al-Attar (The Syrian Minister of Culture): Address.

18.00-18.05 Dr Sultan Muheisen (Director General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities & Museums): Address.

18.00-18.30 Prof Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw):

“News from Palmyra: Current Work and Perspectives of Research”.

18.30-19.15 Reception

19.15-21.00 Dinner (Mr Faisal Kudsi [ARAM Board of Patrons]: Address)

TUESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1995

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw)

09.10-09.50 Dr Sultan Muheisen (Director General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities & Museums):

“Excavation work in Syria.”

09.50-10.30 Dr Khaled Asaad (Director of Palmyra Museum):

"Restoration work at Palmyra."

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr Andreas Schmidt-Colinet & Dr Annemarie Stauffer (University of Bern):

"Textiles and the quarries of Palmyra"/"Eastern and Western Fashion - Reconstruction and Analysis of Palmyrene garments."

11.40-12.20 Dr Andreas Schmidt-Colinet & Dr Annemarie Stauffer:

"Textiles and the quarries of Palmyra"/"Eastern and Western Fashion - Reconstruction and Analysis of Palmyrene garments."

12.20-13.00 Prof Klaus Parlasca (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg):

"Probleme der Palmyrischen Kunst."

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof Han J.W. Drijvers (University of Groningen)

14.20-15.00 Dr Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France - Paris):

"Un cratère palmyrénien inscrit: nouveau document sur la vie religieuse des palmyréniens."

15.00-15.40 Prof Malcolm A.R. Colledge (University of London):

"Palmyrene funerary iconography in its Greek and Roman contexts."

15.40-16.10 Tea/coffee

16.10-16.50 Dr W Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary):

"Abila and Palmyra: Ancient trade routes from Southern Syria into Mesopotamia."

16.50-17.30 Dr Saito Kiyohide (Japanese Mission in Palmyra):

"Excavation at Southeast Necropolis in Palmyra from 1990 to 1995"

19.00-20.00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 1995

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

09.10-09.50 Prof Delbert Hillers (John Hopkins University):

"Palmyrene Aramaic: Lexical and grammatical notes."

09.50-10.30 Dr Mohammad Maraqten (University of Marburg/Lahn):

"Arabic words in Palmyrene inscriptions."

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Prof Han J.W. Drijvers (University of Groningen):

"Inscriptions from Allat’s Sanctuary."

11.40-12.20 Dr Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford):

"Bel at Palmyra, Apamea, and Assur."

12.20-13.00 Dr Jacques Seigne (IFAPO - Jordan):

"The peribolos of the temple of Bel."

13.00-14.20 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford)

14.20-15.00 Dr Valentino Columbo (Italy):

"Nabataeans and Palmyreans: an analysis of the Tell el-Shuqafiyye inscriptions."

15.00-15.40 Dr Eleonora Cussini (University of Bologna):

"Transfer property at Palmyra."

15.40-16.10 Tea/coffee

16.10-16.50 Miss Palmira Piersimoni (Italy):

"A Palmyrene prosography: Methodological Problems."

16.50-17.30 Dr Marek Baranski (University of Warsaw):

"The great colonade of Palmyra reconsidered."

19.00-20.00 Dinner

THURSDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 1995

(Venue: St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Jordan)

09.10-09.50 Dr Ernest Will (Institut de France-Paris):

"Architecture locale et architecture impériale à Palmyre."

09.50-10.30 Dr Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College):

"The Palmyrene luxury trade and Revelation 18: 12-13: a neglected analogue."

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr Muhammad S.D. Megalommatis (Eastern Mediterranaen University - Turkey):

"Aspects of Palmyrene Mithraism."

11.40-13.20 Open discussion.

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-18.30 Free afternoon.

18.30-22.00 Dinner at ARAM House (46 Sunderland Avenue, Oxford)

Closing party; conference ends

ARAM SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University), Dr. J.F. Coakley & Prof. Peter Machinist, (Harvard University)

Who were, or are the Aramaeans?

SUNDAY 9 JUNE 1996

(Venue: Near Eastern Department, Harvard University)

17.00-18.00 Registration at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue.

18.00-19.30 Dinner and business meeting of the ARAM Society.

19.30-20.30 H.E. Dr Najah Al-Attar (The Syrian Minister of Culture): Address.

18.00-18.05 Prof Peter Machinist (Harvard University):

“The emergence of Aramaic popular literature in the first millennium BCE.”

MONDAY 10 JUNE 1996

(Venue: Near Eastern Department, Harvard University)

Chairperson: Dr J.F. Coakley (Harvard University)

09.00-09.45 Dr Paul Dion (University of Toronto):

“Aramean royal courts and civilian structures of authority.”

09.45.-10.30 Dr Hartmut Kühne (Freie Universität Berlin):

"The Arameans on the Lower Habur: 1000-500 BCE."

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.45 Dr Stephen Cole (Harvard University):

"The early history of the Arameans in Iraq."

11.45-12.30 Dr. Stephen Grosby (Villanova University):

"’m klh: a nation of ARAM?"

12.30-14.15 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

14.15-15.00 Prof. John Huehnergard (Harvard University):

"What is Aramaic?"

15.00-15.45 Prof. Stephen Kaufman (Hebrew Union College):

"What isn’t Aramaic? A lexicographer’s dilemma."

15.45-16.15 Tea/coffee

16.15-17.00 Dr Chul Bae (Harvard University):

"Aramaic as a ‘lingua franca’ in the ancient Near East."

16.50-17.30 Prof. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University):

“Aramaic ‘heterograms’ in Iranian scribal traditions."

17.30-18.15 Prof. Yona Sabar (University of California at Los Angeles):

“Parallel features of development in Jewish neo-Aramaic and modern Israeli Hebrew."

19.00-22.00 Conference dinner at the Faculty Club, followed by a talk by Professor Franz Rosenthal (Yale University).

TUESDAY 11 JUNE 1996

(Venue: Near Eastern Department, Harvard University)

Chairperson: Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University)

09.30-10.15 Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University):

"Aramaic-speaking communities of Sassanid Mesopotamia."

10.15-11.00 Dr. Victoria Erhart (Dumbarton Oaks):

"The Arameans of the 6^th-8^th centuries CE."

11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.15 Dr. J.F.Coakley (Harvard University):

"Assyrians or Arameans? In memoriam J.M. Fiey."

12.15-13.00 Dr Jorum J. Buckley (USA):

"Mandaeans in the USA today: the tenacity of traditions."

13.00 Conference ends.

ARAM SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Trade Routes in the Near East:

Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times

MONDAY 15 JULY 1996

(Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford)

14.00-17.30 Registration

17.30-20.00 The opening ceremony

Chairperson: Dr. Andrew Palmer

17.30-18.15 Dr Shafiq Abouzayd; & Dr. Sebastian Brock: Welcome & Introduction.

18.15-19.15 Prof. John Carswell (Islamic Department, London):

“All at Sea: Recent Research in the Indian Ocean”.

19.15-20.00 Reception

20.00-21.00 Banquet

TUESDAY 16 JULY 1996

(Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago):

09.10-09.50 Dr. Aloïs van Tongerloo (University of Leuven):

“The Three Magi wandering Eastward”.

09.50-10.30 Dr. Fawzi Zeyadine (Dept. of Antiquities, Jordan):

“The Spices and Silk Routes in Transjordan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. J. M. Frayn (England):

“Aspects of Trade on the Judaean Coast in the Hellenistic and Roman periods”.

11.40-12.20 Dr. Leo Mildenberg (Zurich):

“Petra on the Frankincense Road? - Again”.

12.20-13.00 Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University):

“Oboda - A Major Nabataean Caravan Halt”.

13.10-14.00 Lunch

16.00-16.45 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

17.00-17.40 Drs Lucida Dirven (Rijks University-Leiden):

“A possible trade connection between Dura-Europos and Palmyra”.

17.40-18.20 Dr. John F. Healey (Manchester University):

“Palmyra and the Arabian Gulf trade”.

18.20-19.00 Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College-USA):

“The King’s Highway, the Desert Highway, and Central Jordan’s Kerak”.

19.10-20.00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 1996

(Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute-London):

09.10-09.50 Dr. Andrew Palmer (SOAS-University of London):

“The Routes of Pilgrims to Jerusalem”.

09.50-10.30 Dr. Marlia Mundell Mango (University of Oxford):

“Byzantine Trade with the East”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Prof. Amos Kloner (Bar-Ilan University):

“Stepped Roads in Roman Palestine”.

11.40-12.20 Dr. Mohammad A. R. Al-Thenayian (King Saud University-Saudi Arabia):

“The Yemeni Highland Pilgrim Route between San‘a and Mecca”.

12.20-13.00 Dr. Mohammed Maraqten (University of Marburg-Germany):

“Dangerous Trade Routes: On the Plundering of Caravans in the Ancient Near East”.

13.10-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 A guided visit to the Ashmolean Museum. For more details please contact ARAM at Keble College.

14.15-16.30 ARAM Annual General Meeting:

14.15-15.30 ARAM Committe

15.30-16.30 Members

at ARAM House, 46 Sunderland Avenue, Summertown.

16.00-16.45 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester):

17.00-17.40 Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (University of United Arab Emirates):

“Spasinu Charax and its commercial Relations with the East through the Arabian Gulf”.

17.40-18.20 Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago):

“The Darb Zubayda: An Abbasid trade route and its settlements across Saudi Arabia”.

18.20-19.00 Prof. Nicola A. Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

“External Trade of Bilad al-Sham under the Early Abbasids”.

19.10-20.00 Dinner

THURSDAY 18 JULY 1996

(Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):

09.10-09.50 Dr. Sarit H. Oked (Ben Gurion University):

“Patterns of the Transport Amphora at Ostrakine during the 6th and 7th Century”.

09.50-10.30 Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw):

“The Euphrates Route between Syria and Mesopotamia”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-13.00 Round-Table Discussion.

13.10-14.00 Lunch

14.00- Free Afternoon

18.30-22.00 Dinner at ARAM House (46 Sunderland Avenue, Oxford)

Closing party; conference ends.

ARAM EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

The Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham:

History and Archaeology

TUESDAY APRIL 1 1997

(Venue: Alumni Club, Beirut, Lebanon)

The Opening Ceremony

16.30-18.15 Rev. Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Chairman of ARAM Society): Address

H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri (The President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers): Address.

Reception

18.15-19.00 Inaugural talk: Prof Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

“The Mamluks in the Balance”.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 2 1997

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Director of the German Institute for Oriental Studies-Beirut)

09.00-09.40 Prof. Ahmad Hoteit (Lebanese University):

“Les expéditions mameloukes du centre du Mont-Liban: Répercussions sur la répartition des habitants”.

09.40-10.20 Prof. Elias Kattar (Lebanese University):

“La géographie de la population et relations entre les groupes au Liban à l’époque des mameloukes Circassiens”.

10.20-10.35 Break: Tea/Coffee

10.35-11.15 Dr. Erica Cruikshank Dodd (University of Victoria):

“Christian Arab Painters under the Mamluks”.

11.15-11.55 Dr. Lucy-Anne Hunt (University of Birmingham):

“The Production of Illustrated Manuscripts by Christians in 13th-14^th century Syria and Mesopotamia”.

11.55-12.35 Prof. Rifaat Ebied: (University of Sydney):

“Inter-religious attitudes: al-Dimashqi’s (d. 727/1327) letter to the people of Cyprus”.

12.35-14.15 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney)

14.15-14.55 Dr. Adnan Darwiche (IFEAD. Damascus):

Ibn Qadi Shouhba, un historien syrien de la période des Mameloukes”.

14.55-15.05 A commentary by Prof. Dr. H. Grotzfeld:

“Note sur un manuscrit du Tarikh d’Ibn Hijji, copi=E9 en partie par Ibn Qadi Shuhba”.

15.05-15.45 Prof. Dr. Heinz Grotzfeld (University of Munster):

“Contes populaires de l’époque des Mameloukes dans les Mille et Une Nuits”.

15.45-16.25 Drs. Sabri Jarrar (Oxford University):

"Suq al-Ma‘rifa (Market of Knowledge), a Hanbalite Shrine in al-Haram al-Sharif”.

THURSDAY APRIL 3 1997

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Mr. Camille Asmar (Director General of the Lebanese Department of Antiquities & Museums):

09.00-09.40 Drs. Sami el-Masri (Free University of Berlin):

“Medieval pottery from Beirut’s Downtown excavations: the first results”.

09.40-10.20 Dr. Eveline J. van der Steen (University of Leiden):

“What happened to Arabic-Geometric pottery in Beirut?”

10.20-10.50 Break: Tea/Coffee

10.50-11.30 Mr. Abrecht Fuess (University of Cologne):

“Beirut during the Mamluk Era”.

11.30-12.15 Prof. Omar Tadmury (Lebanese University):

“The Mamluk Architecture of Tripoli al-Sham”.

12.15-14.15 Break: Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)

14.15-14.55 Dr. Marcus Milwright (University of Oxford):

“The Cup of the Saqi: origins of an emblem of the Khassakiyya.”

14.55-15.35 Dr. Lutz Wiederhold (University of Halle):

“Legal - Religious Elite and Temporel Authority in Mamluk society: a “Zahiri Revolt” in Damascus in 1386”.

15.35-16.15 Prof. Suad al-Hakim (Lebanese University):

“Le soufism et son message culturel durant la période des Mameloukes”.

FRIDAY APRIL 4 1997

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut)

09.00-09.40 Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney):

“Village Life in Mamluk Jordan: Views of the Jordan Valley from Fahl (Pella)”

09.40-10.20 Drs. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO-Amman):

“Une installation d’époque islamique dans le sanctuaire de Zeus de Jérash: la céramique, chronologie et technologie”.

10.20-10.35 Break: Tea/Coffee

10.35-11.45 Ms. Alison McQuitty, Ms. Mads Sarley, Ms. Mona Khoury and Ms. Chantell Hoppe: (BIAAH-Amman):

“Archaeology from Khirbet Faris (Jordan): the Mamluk evidence”.

11.45-12.25 Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden):

"The Excavation at Tell Abu Sarbut - a Mamluk village in the Jordan Valley”.

12.25-14.15 Break: Lunch

Chair: Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (Emeritus Professor)

14.15-14.55 Dr. Sarab Atassi (IFEAD, Damascus):

“Damas au temps des Mameloukes, la poursuite d’un développement urbain soutenu”.

14.55-15.35 Dr. Howyda Al-Harithy (American University of Beirut):

“Mamluk Architecture in Damascus”.

15.35-16.15 Dr. Nasser Rabbat (MIT-Boston):

“The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A classical Syrian medium requires a Mamluk signature”.

16.15-16.45 Closing address

ARAM NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula

MONDAY 14 JULY 1997

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Dept. of Antiquities, Jordan)

09.00-09.50 Prof. Vitaly Naumkin & Prof. Victor Porkhomovsky (Institute of Oriental Studies-Moscow):

Scotran oral tradition and cross-cultural contacts”.

09.50-10.30 Dr. Mohammad Maraqten (Marburg University-Germany):

“Mari and Arabia: Some Aspects of Tribal Organisation and Social Institutions”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney):

“Aspects of Socio-cultural change and continuity in the Hijaz and its contacts with Syria in the early Islamic period”.

11.40-12.20 Dr. Amin T. Tibi (England):

“Relations between Arabia and East Africa - as depicted in three documents”.

13.00 Lunch

16.00-16.30 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. John Healey (University of Manchester):

16.30-17.10 Dr. William D. Glanzman (University of British Columbia-Canada):

“South Arabia’s International Commerce (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD)”: A Re-assesment of the Evidence”.

17.10-17.50 Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart-Milan):

“The Source of Spice: Europe, Oman and Zanzibar during the XIX Century”.

17.50-18.30 Open discussion (The speakers of the day are kindly required to be present).

19.00 Banquet

TUESDAY 15 JULY

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford):

09.00-10.30 Dr. Christian Robin, Dr. Joëlle Beaucamp, Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Maison de la Méditerranée-Aix en Provence):

“La persécution des Chrétiens des Chrétiens de Najran et la chronologie himyarite.”

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (University of the United Arab Emirates):

“Christianity in East”.

11.40-12.20 Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):

“Isaac the Syrian and other ascetics from Qatar”.

13.00 Lunch

16.00-16.30 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

16.30-17.10 Dr. Andrey Korotayev (Institute of Oriental Studies-Moscow):

“‘Aramaeans’ in a late Sabaic inscription”.

17.10-17.40 Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (Institute of Oriental Studies-Petersburg):

“A gezerah-decree from ancient South Arabia (new approach to the interpretation of MAFRAY-Hasi 1).”

17.40-18.20 Dr. Marek Baranski (Poland): “The adoption of the Arch structure in the Architecture of the Arabian Peninsula”.

18.20-18.50 Open discussion (The speakers of the day are kindly required to be present).

19.00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 1997

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Vitaly Naumkin (Institute of Oriental Studies-Moscow):

09.00-09.40 Mr. Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority):

“The Nabataeans standing stones and their interpretations”.

09.40-10.20 Dr. Robert Wenning (Westfälische Wilhelms University-Münster):

“Petra and Hegra: What makes the difference?”.

10.20-10.50 Tea/Coffee

10.50-11.30 Mr. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO-Jordan):

“Le temple nabatéen du Wadi Ramm et son environnemnt culturel: à propos de recherches récentes”.

11.30-12.30 Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Dept. of Antiquities-Jordan) & Mrs. Saba Fares (IFAPO-Beirut):

“The Arabian tribes of Wadi Iram (Jordan)”.

12.30-12.45 Closing address.

13.00 Lunch at Mansfield College

ARAM TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

The Early Ottoman Period in Bilad Al-Sham (16^th-17^th centuries): History and Archaeology

TUESDAY April 14 1998

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Prof. Mohammad al-Bakhit (Al al-Bayt University, Jordan).

09.00-09.15 Prof. Mohammad al-Bakhit (Al al-Bayt University, Jordan):

Opening address.

Scotran oral tradition and cross-cultural contacts”.

09.15-09.55 Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

“The coming of the Ottomans.”

09.55-10.35 Prof. Linda T. Darling (University of Arizona):

“The Syrian provinces in Ottoman eyes.”

10.35-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.40 Prof. Dr. Wolf Hütteroth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg):

“Northeastern Syria and adjoining parts of Iraq and Turkey under early Ottoman rule (16^th century).”

11.40-12.20 Dr. Taisir El-Zawahreh (Mu’tah University, Jordan):

“The Turks (al-Rum) in the works of Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi.”

12.20-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Orient-Institut, Beirut):

14.00-14.40 Dr. Joseph Rahme (The University of Michigan-Flint):

“Some socio-economic observations on late sixteenth century Ottoman Syria.”

14.40-15.20 Dr. Issam Khalifeh (Lebanese University):

“Les moulins, les roues à soie et le pressoirs d’huile et de raisin dans le nord du Liban au XVIme siècle”.

15.20-15.40 Tea/coffee

15.40-16.20 Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut):

“Al-Fatwa al-Khairiyya: juridical literature as a source for the study of socio-economic and religious trends in the 17^th century Ottomon Palestine.”

16.20-17.00 Dr. Boutros Labaki (Lebanese University):

“L’histoire économique de la principauté ma‘anaïte.”

WEDNESDAY April 15 1998

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Dr. Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford).

09.00-09.40 Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence):

“Le pouvoir ottomon en Syrie au XVIme siècle: Kununname et inscriptions monumentales.”

09.40-10.20 Mr. Stefan Weber (German Institute-Damascus):

“Imperial architecture and local design: decoration of the Damascene buildings in the early Ottoman period in Syria.”

10.20-10.40 Tea/coffee

10.40-11.20 Dr. Robert Schick (Albright Institute):

“The archaeology of Palestine/Jordan in the early Ottoman period..”

11.20-12.00 Dr. Mohammad Adnan al-Bakhit (Al al-Bayt University, Jordan):

“The waqf of Tulkarm (Palestine) during the early Ottoman period.”

12.00-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence)

14.00-14.40 Drs. Hind el-Soufi-Assaf (Université Libanaise):

“Les vestiges ottomans de Tripoli, 16me-17me siècles.”

14.40-15.20 Mr. Reuben Thorpe (American University of Beirut):

“Ottomon archaeology in the Beirut Souks area”.

15.20-15.40 Tea/coffee

15.40-16.20 Dr. Hassan Ramez Badawi (Université Libanaise):

“Trois mosques à Saida (Sidon) de l’époque pale-ottomane.”

16.20-17.00 Drs. Ruba Kanaan (University of Oxford):

“The Travels of Evliya Shelebi: a re-interpretation of the urban history of seventeenth-century Bilad al-Sham..”

THURSDAY April 16 1998

(Venue: American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd(University of Oxford).

09.00-09.40 Dr. Mounir Ismail (Université Libanaise):

“La transformation du système des privileges étrangers au système des fidéicommissaires durant le règne de Soleiman al-Qanouni.”

09.40-10.20 Dr. Hasan Yahyia (Université Libanaise):

“le dévelopements du système governemental entre l’autorité ottomane et le pouvoir local dans Bilad al-Sham, 1520-1636.”

10.20-10.40 Tea/coffee

10.40-11.20 Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney):

“An unknown poem on the siege of Aleppo and the violent events of A.H. 1065/A.D. 1655.”

11.20-12.00 Dr. Otfried Weintritt (Albert-Ludwig University/Freiburg):

“Tarikh ‘Abd al-Qadir: biography as historiography in an early 17^th century chronicle from Syria.”

12.00-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Boutros Labaky (Lebanese University):

14.00-14.40 Dr. Samir Khalil (Université St. Joseph):

“Les chrétiens et les prémices de la renaissance arabe aux 16me et 17me siècles.”

14.40-15.20 Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (German Institute, Beirut):

“Some remarks on the hierarchy of the Greek-Orthodox Church in Bilad ash-Sham in the 16^th-17^th centuries.”

15.20-16.00 Drs. Souad Slim (Balamand University, Lebanon):

“The situation of wagf between ‘Timar’ system and Iltizam.”

16.20-16.15 Closing address: Dr. Boutros Labaky (Lebanese University).

ARAM ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Cultural Interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula

MONDAY JULY 13 1998

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Moawiyah Ibrahim (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)

09.00-09.45 Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University):

“From Qatar to Tokyo, by way of Mar Saba: the translations of Isaac of Niniveh’s writings”.

09.45-10.30 Prof. John Healey (Manchester University) & Dr. Hamad Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University):

“Aramaic in the Gulf: towards a corpus”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.45 Dr. Bruce Ingham (University of London):

“The bedouins of Qatar in the light of cultural interaction”.

11.45-12.30 Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic Universiyt of the Sacred Heart-Milan):

“Sa‘id bin Sultan of the Al Bu Sa‘idi of Oman (1806- 1856) and his relationship with Europe”.

13.00 Lunch

15.45-16.15 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

16.15-17.00 Dr. Aviva Klein-Franke (Universitنt zu Kِln):

“The Hebrew and the Arabic inscription in the mosque of Beith al-Hadr”.

17.00-17.45 Prof. Paolo M. Costa (University of Bologna):

“The ancient Jewish community of Sohar (Oman)”.

17.45-18.30 Mr. Carl Phillips (University of London):

“Cultural interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula illustrated by the excavations at Kalba (UAE)”.

19.00 Dinner.

TUESDAY JULY 14 1998

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Mr. Michael Macdonald (University of Oxford)

09.00-09.45 Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney):

“East Arabia and Syria during the Umayyad period”.

09.45-10.30 Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

“Trade and Travel in the Arabian Gulf in the Middle Ages”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/coffee

11.00-11.45 Prof. Clive Holes (University of Oxford):

“Dialogue Poems in Eastern Arabia: a literary link with ancient Mesopotamia”.

11.45-12.30 Dr. Hasan R. Badawi (Lebanese University):

“La viabilité à Tyr et l’échange culturel avec l’est de la péninsule arabe à l’époque tardo-antique”.

13.00 Lunch

15.45-16.15 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Mr. Peter Parr (University of London)

16.15-17.00 Dr. Hanae Sasaki, (Kanazawa University-Japan):

“Ancient maritime trade and cultural interchange between the Arabian Gulf and East Asia”.

17.00-17.45 Prof. Valeria Piacentini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart-Milan):

“Merchant families in the Gulf. A mercantile and cosmopolitan dimension: the written evidence (11-13 centuries AD)”.

17.45-18.30 Dr. Salma Samar Damluji (London):

“The vernacular architecture in the cities of Oman and the United Arab Emirates”.

18.30 Conference ends

ARAM TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafid Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Beirut: History and Archaeology

TUESDAY APRIL 13 1999

(Venue: The American University of Beirut)

Chairperson: Dr. Helen Sader (American University of Beirut)

08.45-09.00 Opening Address

09.00-09.30 Dr. J.P. Thalmann (Université Paris I - Sorbonne):

“The Bronze Age on the Syro-Lebanese coast (Tell ‘Arqa and Beirut).”

09.30-10.00 Dr. Michel Al-Maqdissi (IFAPO-Damas):

“Les données récentes sur l’آge du Bronze ancien dans la plaine de Jablé (côte syrienne).”

10.00-10.30 Dr. Leila Badre (American University of Beirut):

“The Bronze Age of Beirut: Major results.”

10.30-11.00 Break: Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.30 Discussion

11.30-12.00 Dr. Hans Curvers (University of Amsterdam):

“The lower town of pre-classical Beirut.”

12.00-12.20 Dr. Uwe Finkbeiner (University of Tübingen):

“The Iron Age fortification and city gate: new evidence.”

12.20-12.40 Mr. Francisco Nunez Calvo (University of Pompeu Fabra-

Barcelona):

“An approach to trade relations in Iron Age Beirut: the ceramic evidence.”

12.40-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Break: Lunch

Chairman: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

14.30-15.00 Mrs. Françoise Chaput (University of Tübingen):

“Un cimetière de chiens de l’époque perse à Beyrouth”

15.00-15.30 Dr. Hussein Sayegh (Université Libanaise):

“L’architecture domestique durant la période perse.”

15.30-16.00 Discussion

Dr. Naji Karam (Université libanaise): Pannau / Panel

17.00-19.00 Reception: at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche Orient (IFAPO): Centre Culturel Français

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 1999

(Venue: The American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Prof. Pascal Arnaud (Université de Nice- Sophia Antipolis)

09.00-09.30 Dr. John W. Hayes (University of Oxford):

“Aspects of Hellenistic/Roman pottery (finds from site Bey 004 and their connections).”

09.30-09.50 Mme. Catherine Aubert (IFAPO-Beirut):

“Architecture hellénistique et peinture murale à Beyrouth.”

09.50-10.10 Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden):

“The results of the excavations at BEY 011: the Hellenistic and Byzantine souk”.

10.10-10.30 Mr. Dominic Perring (University of York):

“Classical Beirut: themes of urban continuity and change: Hellenistic to Byzantine Beirut.”

10.30-10.50 Break: Tea/Coffee

10.50-11.10 Dr. Barbara Stuart (University of Amsterdam):

“Cemetries in Beirut.”

11.10-11.40 Discussion

11.40-12.00 Dr. Ulrike Outschar (Austrian Academy of Science)

“Amphorae Peacock Class 45 (micacous water jars) and their trade in the Eastern Mediterranean”.

12.00-12.20 Dr. Kevin Butcher (American University of Beirut):

“Coin circulation in Roman Beirut: the Assemblages from BEY 006 and 045.”

12.20-12.40 Mr. Reuben Thorpe (A.C.R.E.):

“The Imperial Thermae of BEY 045 and Observations on the Topography of Roman Beirut.”

12.40-13.00 Discussion

Dr. Naji Karam (Université libanaise): Pannau / Panel

13.00-14.30 Break: Lunch

Chairperson: Mr. Dominic Perring (University of York)

14.30-14.50 Drs. Noor Mulder-Hijmans (University of Maastricht):

“Egg shell oil lamps from the Roman souk of Bey 011.”

14.50-15.10 Ms. Rima Mikati (American University of Beirut):

“The spatial, functional and chronological aspects of lamp studies; the Roman Bath Lamps, BEY 045”

15.10-15.30 Drs. Lidewgde de Jong (University of Amsterdam):

“The Roman burial practices in Beirut”.

15.30-16. 00 Discussion

Dr. Hassan Badawi & Dr. Manuel Asmar (Université Libanaise): “Thermes romains: histoire et restauration”: Pannau / Panel

16.30-17. 00 Break: Tea/Coffee

17.00-17.30 Prof. Pascal Arnaud (Université de Nice- Sophia Antipolis):

“Beirut commerce and trade: late Hellenistic to Byzantine times.”

17.30-17.50 Ms.S. Jennings (English Heritage) & Ms. Joanna Abdallah (AUB)

“Glass from Beirut: Roman to Mamluk.”

17.50-18.30 Discussion

THURSDAY APRIL 15 1999

(Venue: The American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Chairperson: Prof. Jean-Marie Dentzer (IFAPO)

09.00-09.30 Dr. Linda Jones Hall (St Mary’s College of Maryland):

“Beirut through the Classical texts: From Colonia to Civitas.”

09.30-10.00 Dr. Henry I. MacAdam (Princeton University):

“The Roman Law School of Beirut.”

10.00-10.20 Discussion

10.20-10.50 Break: Tea/Coffee

10.50-11.20 Dr. Frederic Alpi (IFAPO):

“Beyrouth byzantine et proto-islamique: continuité et ruptures (V^e-VIII^e s.)”

11.20-11.50 Dr. Muntaha Saghieh-Beydoun (Lebanese University):

“The stratigraphy and architecture of sector BEY 004”.

Dr. Paul Reynolds (American University of Beirut):

11.50-12.10 “Pottery in Beirut: Economic trends in the 6th-7th centuries A.D.”

12.10-12.30 Dr. John Meloy (American University of Beirut):

“Beirut’s political and economics status in the Islamic periods.”.

12.30-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Break: Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)

14.00-14.20 Ms. Patricia Antaki (American University of Beirut):

“Le château croisé de Beyrouth”.

14.20-14.40 Ms. Eveline van der Steen (University of Leiden):

“Mamluk and Ottoman pottery.”

14.40-15.00 Dr. Joseph G. Rahme (The University of Michigan-Flint):

“Demographic History of Ottoman Beirut, 1516-1918.”

15.00-15.30 Discussion

15.30-16.00 Break: Tea/Coffee

16.00-16.20 Mr. Oussama Kabbani (Solidere-Beirut):

“Preservation and restoration of historical buildings (Solidere)”

16.20-16.40 Mrs. Isabelle Skaf (Direction Générale des Antiquités):

“Lifted mosaics from the Beirut excavations: conservation problems.”

16.40-17.00 Mrs. Renata Tarazi (Direction Générale des Antiquités):

“Loi et pratique dans la conservation du patrinoine culturel.”

17.00-17.20 Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut):

“Dialoguing with the past: Will Beirut’s past still speak to the future?”

17.20-18.00 Closing Session: “Final Discussion.”

ARAM THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, (University of Oxford) & Dr. J.F. Coakley, (Harvard University))

The Mandaeans

SUNDAY JUNE 13 1999

(Venue: Harvard University, USA)

08.00-13.00 Mandaean baptism in the Charles River

13.00-16.00 Lunch

16.00-17.30 Registration at the Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue.

Chairperson: Prof. Cyrus Gordon

(Venue: Harvard Divinity School, USA)

19.00-19.15 Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Chairman of the ARAM Society): Opening remarks.

19.15-19.25 Mr. Nasser Sobbi (New York): Short Statement.

19.25-20.00 Sheikh Salem Choheili (Ahwaz, Iran):

“The Mandaeans and on the living water in Mandaeism.”

20.020-20.30 Dr. Leila alroomi (Glasgow, Scottland):

“Al-Sabea, a social, religious and historic view.”

20.30-21.00 Dr. M.J. Farhan (Nottingham, England):

“The current situation of the Mandaean community in Iraq and Iran.”

21.00-22.00 Mandaean chants & concluding prayer.

MONDAY JUNE 14 1999

(Venue: Near Eastern Dept. Harvard University)

Chairperson: Prof. Karen King (Harvard University).

09.00-09.40 Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch (Swarthmore College, USA):

“The palm tree and the wellspring: Mandaean and Jewish mysticism.”

09.40-10.20 Dr. Roberto Sánchez Valencia (Universidad Iberoamericana):

“An approach to the identity of the treatise ‘Adversarius legis et prophetarum.”

10.40-11.20 Prof. Fabrizio Pennacchietti (University of Turin):

“John the Baptist in an Arabo-Islamic reinterpretation of the Legend of Susanna.”

11.20-11.40 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University)

11.40-12.20 Prof. James Tabor (University of North Carolina):

“John as Saviour of the world: Some pro-John the Baptist readings in medieval Shem-Tob’s Hebrew Matthew and their New Testament provenance.”

12.20-13.00 Prof. Francesca Rochberg (University of California at Riverside):

“Babylonian celestial divination and astrology in the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac.”

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Prof. James Russell (Harvard University)

14.00-14.40 Dr. Erica Hunter (Cambridge University):

“Mandaean bowls in the British Museum.”

14.40-15.20 Dr. Mikhail Tarelko (Belarusian State University, Mink):

“A magical scroll in the Drower collection.”

15.20-16.00 Prof. Edwin Yamauchi (Miami University, Ohio):

“Mandaean incantation texts.”

16.00-16.15 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Prof. John Huehnergard (Harvard University)

16.15-17.00 A panel on the Mandaic language, featuring native speakers.

17.00-17.45 A showing of Lady Drower’s 1954 film of Mandaean ceremonies in Iraq, with commentary by Jorunn J. Buckley.

18.00-20.00 Conference dinner at the Biology Labs Café, 16 Divinity Avenue.

20.00-21.00 Mrs. Margaret Hackforth-Jones (Daughter of Lady Drower):

“The dedication of Lady Drower to the Mandaean culture and people.”

TUESDAY JUNE 15 1999

(Venue: Near Eastern Dept. Harvard University)

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University).

09.00-09.40 Prof. Sinasi Gündüz (Istanbul University, Turkey)):

“Problems on the Muslim understanding of the Mandaeans.”

09.40-10.20 Prof. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College, USA):

“The use of colophons and scribal postscripts in envisioning Mandaean history.”

10.40-11.20 prof. Edmondo F. Lupieri (University of Udine, Italy):

“On the history of early contacts between Mandaeans and Europeans .”

11.20-11.40 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Wolfhart Heinrichs (Harvard University)

11.40-12.20 Drs. Roberta Borghero (University of Turin, Italy):

“A seventeenth-century glossary of Mandaic.”

12.20-13.00 Mr. Brian Mubaraki (University of Sydney):

“The development of typed Mandaic.”

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Chairperson: Dr. J.F. Coakley (Harvard University)

14.00-15.00 Press conference at Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue.

15.00-15.20 Conference ends: Address

ARAM FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Antioch and Edessa

MONDAY JULY 12 1999

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Amos Kloner (Bar-Ilan University).

09.15-10.00 Dr. Daphna V. Arbel (University of British Columbia):

“Junction of tradition in Edessa: possible interaction between Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish mystical traditions in the first century C.E..”

10.00-10.45 Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (Oriental Institute-Petersburg):

“Antioch in South Arabian tradition.”

10.45-11.15 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Ricardo Contini (University of Venice)

11.15-12.00 Dr. Alain Desreumaux (Paris):

“Nouvelles inscriptions araméennes édesséniennes en Osrhoène.”

12.00-12.45 Prof. Catherine Saliou (Paris):

“Mythes et récits de fondation d’Antioche.”

12.45-14.00 Lunch

16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University, Jordan)

16.30-17.45 Dr. Grégoire Poccardi & Mr. Jeacques Leblanc (Université de Nanterre):

“Nouvelles recherche sur la ville d’Antioche et ses faubourgs: le stade olympique de Daphné.”

17.45-18.30 Dr. Hans Erbes (University of Upsala):

“The syro-Hexapla readings in relation to the Peshitta variants and related versional readings in Joshua 1-5.”

TUESDAY JULY 13 1999

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. J.F. Coakley (Harvard University).

09.15-10.00 Dr. Muriel Debié (Paris):

“Record keeping and chronicles writing in Antioch and Edessa..”

10.00-10.45 Dr. Witold Witakowski (University of Upsala):

“The Antiochene continuation of Eusebius’ chronicle in Syriac.”

10.45-11.15 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Paolo Costa (University of Bologna)

11.15-12.00 Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University):

“The untamed violence of Syrian ascetics: a study of the problem of violence and killing in the Liber Graduum.”

12.00-12.45 Dr. Ephrem Yousif (Université Paris X):

“Les calamites: sauterelles, famine, peste, guerre, tremblement de terre, à Édesse et à Antioche du quatrième au septième siècle dans le chroniques syriaques.”

12.45-14.00 Lunch

16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Theresa Ubrainczyk (University College, Dublin)

16.30-17.15 Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford):

“The impact of Hellenism on Syriac: Greek loanwords in the writings of two authors of Edessa, Ephrem and Narsai.”

17.15-18.00 Prof. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich):

“Peter the Fuller and Cyrus of Edessa.”

TUESDAY JULY 13 1999

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. R. Bas Ter Haar Romeny (University of Leiden).

09.15-10.00 Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (University of Cambridge):

“The transmission of Greek scientific knowledge: Cambridge ms. Mm. 6.29..”

10.00-10.45 Dr. Klaus-Peter Todt (University of Mainz):

“Antioch and Edessa in the so-called treaty of Deabolis/Devol (September 1108).”

10.45-11.00 Tea/coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney)

11.00-11.45 Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut):

“Dawood al-Antaki (David of Antioch) in the Arab history.”

11.45-12.30 Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (Orient-Institut, Beirut):

“The city of Antioch in the writings of Macarius ibn Azza‘im (17^th century).”

12.30-13.15 Dr. Nikolaj Serikoff (Wellcome Institute):

“Patriarch Gregory al-Haddad and his gift to Nicholas II, the emperor of Russia. (About the Christian Arabic MSS preserved in the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Studies.”

13.15-13.30 Conference End: Address.

ARAM FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Water in the pre-modern Near East

MONDAY 17 JULY 2000

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. J.F. Coakley (Harvard University)

09.30-10.10 Dr. Tsvika Tsuk (Israel):

“Urban water reservoirs in the land of the Bible during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (3000-586 B.C.)”.

10.10-10.50 Mr. Yehuda Peleg (Frontius Geselschaft):

“The stone pipeline of Susita-Hippos (Decapolis)”.

10.50-11.10 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Ahmed Khalifa Al-Shamsi (Fujairah-United Arab Emirates)

11.10-11.50 Dr. Estee Dvorjetski (Haifa University):

“Thermo-mineral waters in the eastern Mediterranean basin: historical, archaeological and medicinal aspects”.

11.50-12.30 Dr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (CNRS-Paris):

“Water problems during the Umayyad period in Jordan: architectural evidence”.

12.30-16.00 Lunch

16.30-16.30 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Jeremy Black (University of Oxford)

16.30-17.10 Dr. Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority):

"Ancient agricultural settlement in ‘Uvda valley, southern Negev, 6^th – 3^rd millennium B.C.”

17.10-17.50 Dr. Stephanie Dalley (Oxford University):

“Water management in Assyria in the ninth to seventh centuries B.C.”.

17.50-18.30 Dr. Danila Piacentini (University of Rome):

“Palmyra’s springs in the epigraphic sources”.

TUESDAY 18 JULY 2000

(Venue: Rhodes House, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Mr. Michael Macdonald (University of Oxford)

09.30-10.10 Dr. Khaleel Al-Muaikel (King Saud University):

“A unique water system in Wadi al-Shuwahitiyah, north Arabia”.

10.10-10.50 Dr. Fiorella Scagliarini (Italy):

“The origin of the qanat system in the Al ‘Ula area in the light of the Gabal ‘lkma inscriptions”.

10.50-11.10 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Mr. Peter Parr (University of London)

11.10-11.50 Mr. John P. Zeitler (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg):

“Irrigation in Nabataean agriculture in the greater Petra area”.

11.50-12.30 Prof. Dr. Amos Kloner (Bar-Ilan University):

“Water cisterns and reservoirs in Judaea and Nabatea during the Hellenistic and the Roman Periods”.

12.30-16.00 Lunch

16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Amos Kloner (Bar-Ilan University)

16.30-17.10 Dr. Zeev Meshel (Tel Aviv University):

“The water supply of the Hellenistic-Roman desert fortress near the Dead Sea”.

17.10-17.50 Prof. Dr. Paolo Costa (University of Bologna):

"Reservoirs and accelerators in the traditional water management of Arabia"

17.50-18.30 Prof. Dr. Serge Cleuziou (CNRS-France):

"Irrigation in the early Bronze Age in the Oman Peninsula: the evidence from Hili".

ARAM SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

Palestinian Christianity

MONDAY 16 JULY 2001

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Paolo Costa (University of Bologna)

09.15-09.50 Prof. Maria Teresa Viviani (Catholic University of Chile):

“The Jordan river as a natural barrier between two expressions of Christianity. An architectural analysis of 4^th – 7^th centuries Palestine and Hawran”.

09.50-10.25 Rev. Dr. David Clark (University College London):

“Jordanian Byzantine churches and space syntax analysis: an application toward a hierarchical theology”.

10.25-10.55 Tea/Coffee

10.55-11.30 Dr. Estee Dvorjetski (Haifa University):

“The synagogue-Church at Jerash in Jordan and its contribution to the study of ancient synagogues”.

11.30-12.05 Mr. Peter Fabian (Ben-Gurion University):

“A unique monumental church at Beer-Sheva”.

12.05-12.40 Dr. Steven L. Derfler (University of Wisconsin-River):

“The Byzantine church at tel Keriot, Negev”

12.40-15.30 Lunch

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Hannah Hunt (University of Leeds)

!6.00-16.35 Mr. Doron Bar (Hebrew University):

“The Christian rural population of Palestine during Late Antiquities: a case of forced conversion or proselytising?”

16.35-17.10 Dr. Jacqueline Calzini Gysens (Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient):

“Change and continuity in urban settlement patterns in Palaestina Tertia: the case of Christian Areopolis (Rabba, Jordan)”.

TUESDAY 17 JULY 2001

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Amos Kloner (Bar Ilan University)

09.15-09.50 Dr. Haim Goldfus (Ben-Gurion University):

“Urban monasteries in Early Byzantine Palestine”.

09.50-10.25 Prof. Rehav Rubin (Hebrew University):

“Greek and Syriac Anchorites in the laura of St. Firmin”

10.25-10.55 Tea/Coffee

10.55-11.30 Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn (Westf. Wilhelms Universität Münster):

“Trading in tradition – martyrdom and persecution in early Byzantine Gaza”.

11.30-12.05 Dr. David Woods (University College Cork, Ireland):

“The ‘martyrdom’ of Bishop Sophronius of Jerusalem”.

12.05-12.40 Dr. Roberto Sanchez Valencia (University of Mexico):

“The Monophysite conviction in the East versus Byzantium’s political convenience: A historical look to Monothelism in Palestine”.

12.40-13.15 Dr. Kathleen Hay (University of Melbourne):

“Severus of Antioch: an inheritor of Palestinian monasticism”

12.40-15.30 Lunch

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)

16.00-16.35 Dr. Andrew Oddy (British Museum):

“The Christian coinage of early Muslim Syria?”

16.35-17.10 Dr. Christa Müller-Kessler (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena):

“The survival of holy stories in Christian Palestinian Aramaic texts”.

WEDNESDAY 18 JULY 2001

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester)

09.15-09.50 Mr. Pachomios R. Penkett (University of Reading):

“Palestinian Christianity in the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos”.

09.50-10.25 Prof. Pau Figueras (Ben Gurion University):

“Mythological themes in Palestinian Byzantine mosaics”.

10.25-10.55 Tea/Coffee

10.55-11.30 Dr. Kate Leeming (University of Oxford):

“The adoption of Arabic as a liturgical language by the Palestinian Melkite”.

11.30-12.05 Dr. Mariam Nanobashvili (Tbilisi State University):

“The development of literary contacts between the Georgians and the Arabic speaking Christians in Palestine from the 8^th to the 10^th century”.

12.05-12.40 Dr. Mika Levy-Rubin (The Kibbutzim College & The Hebrew University):

“The reorganisation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem during the early Moslem period”.

12.40-15.30 Lunch

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)

16.00-16.35 Prof. Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University):

“Arab Christianity in Palestine in pre-Islamic times”.

16.35-17.10 Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America):

“Jerusalem and the holy places: a setting for Muslim/Christian encounters in Arab Christian texts in the early Islamic period”.

17.10-17.15 Closing Address.

ARAM SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Organised by Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd, University of Oxford)

The Mandaeans

SUNDAY 07 JULY 2002

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

Chairperson: Dr. Ghassan Al-Murani (Oxford)

08.00-13.00 Mandaean baptism in the Thames River, Wolvercote village, near the Trout Inn Restaurant.

13.00-16.00 Lunch

16.00-17.30 An exhibition of Mandaean arts and culture at the Oriental Institute.

MONDAY 08 JULY 2002

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)

A- ACADEMIC PAPERS

Chairperson: Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester)

09.15-09.50 Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University):

“Modern Mandaean communities in Iraq”.

09.50-10.30 Dr. Şinasi Gündüz (Ondokuz Mayis University-Turkey):

“Mandaean parallels in Yezidī beliefs and folklore”.

10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.00-11.40 Mr. Martin Lindgren (University of Uppsala):

“Mandaean or Nasurai: an anthropological perspective”.

11.40-12.20 Miss. Roberta Borghero (University of Cambridge):

“Some linguistic features of a Mandaean manuscript from the seventeenth century”.

12.20-13.00 Prof. Edmondo Lupieri (University of Udine):

“Friar of Ignatius of Jesus (Carlo Leonelli) and the first scholarly book on Mandaeaism (1652)”.

13.00-16.00 Lunch

15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Michael Sokoloff

For Syro-Mesopotamian Studies

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