Research programme on
"Individual and society in the Mediterranean Muslim World"

Activity summary (May 1996 - October 1999)

Plenaries, seminars and workshops

Plenaries

First plenary session (90 participants), Granada (Spain), 26-28 May 1996

(1) Original analytical research conducted on the seven themes with the goal of identifying basic and particular characteristics of the individual in the various contexts described in the proposals of the program.
(2) Training of young researchers via their participation in the teams' seminars and workshops as active contributors and paper presenters.
(3) Circulation of this research to the international scholarly community (through a series of publications: a first volume appeared in June 1998 (Editions Paul Roubaud, Aix-en-Provence), several volumes are currently being prepared for edition with SUNY (New York) and with Maisonneuve & Larose (Paris).

Second plenary session (100 participants), Istanbul (Turkey), 3-7 July 1998

Third program-wide session, site and date to be determined

Robert ILBERT, University of Provence/MMSH, Program initiator and chairman
Randi DEGUILHEM, CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Program research coordination and publications

Seminars and workshops

Team I: Forms of belonging and modes of social integration

• Seminar 1996-1997, Madrid (8 sessions, 8 presentations)
• Seminar 1996-1997, Haifa (14 sessions, 14 presentations)
• Seminar 1996-1997, Bamberg (4 sessions, 4 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Mulhouse (14 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Salamanca (13 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (10 presentations)
• Workshop 1999, Sarajevo (in preparation)

Team II: Norms and oppositions

• Seminar 1996-1997, Ankara (8 sessions, 8 presentations)
• Seminar 1996-1997, Oxford (6 sessions, 6 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Vienna (13 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (11 presentations)
• Workshop 1999, Oxford (11 presentations)

Team III: Power relationships

• Seminar 1996-1997, Strasbourg and Heidelberg (6 sessions, 6 presentations)
• Seminar 1996-1997, Tunis (6 sessions, 11 papers)
• Seminar 1997-1998, Strasbourg and Heidelberg (7 sessions, 7 presentations)
• Seminar 1997-1998, Tunis (3 sessions, 9 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Istanbul (20 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Tampere, Finland (15 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (14 presentations)

Team IV: Modes of production

• Seminar 1997 Cairo (3 sessions, 14 presentations)
• Seminar 1998 Cairo (4 sessions, 25 presentations)
• Seminar 1999 Cairo (in preparation)
• Seminar 1999 Aix-en-Provence (2 sessions, 16 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Istanbul (13 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Munich (8 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (9 presentations)

Team V: Images and representations

• Seminar 1996-1997, Oxford (12 sessions, 12 presentations)
• Seminar 1996-1997, Leiden (7 sessions, 12 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Bern (20 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (16 presentations)

Team VI Religious activity and experience

• Seminar 1996-1997, Madrid (13 presentations)
• Seminar 1998 Lund (2 presentations)
• Seminar 1998 Bergen (9 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Rome (22 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (12 presentations)

Team VII : Muslims in Contemporary Western Europe

• Workshop 1996, Louvain-la-Neuve (6 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Paris (7 presentations)
• Workshop 1997, Louvain-la-Neuve (14 presentations)
• Workshop 1998, Istanbul (13 presentations)

Detail of seminars and workshops

Seminars

1996-1997

Bamberg University

• 19/12/1996: Susanne Enderwitz (Free University Berlin, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), "Das Thema 'Kindheit' in der palastinensischen Autobiographie"
• 23/1/1997: Silvia Naef (Basel/Genf University), "Zwischen Idealbild und Realitat : Die Darstellung der Frau in der arabischen Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts"
• 14/2/1997: Manuela Marín (CSIC, Madrid), "Sources of women's history in medieval Andalusia"
• 25/2/1997: Avner Giladi (Haifa University), "Medical and legal norms of breastfeeding in Islamic societies"

CSIC, Madrid, "Sources of women's history"

• 7/11/1996: Maria Louisa Avila (Escuela de Estudios Arabes, Grenada), "Arab biographical sources"
• 8/1I/1996: Avner Giladi (Haifa University), "On the history of breastfeeding in premodern Islamic societies"
• 21/1/1996: Teresa Garulo (Complutense University), "Women in classical Arab poetry"
• 12/12/1996: Amalia Zomeno, Rachid El Hour, Cristina De La Puente (CSIC, Madrid), "Women and Islamic law: theory and practice"
• 16/1/1997: Maria Jesus Viguera (CSIC, Madrid), "Women in historical sources"
• 17/1/1997: Klaus Kreiser (Bamberg University) "Research literature on Ottoman women"
• 24/1/1997: Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "The religious foundations and the role of women in Arab and Turkish lands"
• 31/1/1997: Mariette Errazki (Leiden University), "Lalla Awish: a holy party-goer from Marrakesh"

Haifa University, "Women, children and child-woman relations in Middle Eastern Muslim Societies"

• 22/10/1996: Meir Malul (Haifa University), "The Paranymph and the marriage ceremony in ancient Mesopotamia"
• 5/11/1996: Menahem Luz (Haifa University), "Changes in women's status: the Homeric though Hellenistic periods"
• 19/11/1996: Sylvia Schein (Haifa University), "Women in the New Testament and the writings of the Fathers of the Church"
• 17/12/1996: Shulamith Shahar (Tel-Aviv University), "The first stage of childhood and the 'civilizing process' in medieval and early modern Europe"
• 8/4/1997: Ron Barkai (Tel-Aviv University), "Main characteristics of Jewish gynecologial literature in the Middle Ages"

• 3/12/1996: Amalia Levanoni (Haifa University), "Women's rule in Islam: the case of Shajar al-Durr"
• 31/12/1996: Ruth Roded (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Literature on women in Islamic and Middle Eastern history"
• 18/2/1997: Avner Giladi (Haifa University), "Islamic views on breastfeeding and their social implications"
• 4/3/1997: Ya'acov Lev (Bar Ilan University), "Women in the economic and social life of medieval Cairo"
• 25/3/1997: Susanne Enderwitz (Free University, Berlin), "The family in Palestinian autobiographies"
• 6/5/1997: Manuela Marín (CSIC, Madrid), "The family in al-Andalus"
• 20/5/1997: Mahmud Yazbak (Haifa University), "The orphan's status as reflected in the sijill of the shari'a court"
• 27/5/1997: David S. Powers (Cornell University), "Parents and their minor children: familial politics in fourteenth century Algeria"
• 3/6/1997: Iris Agmon (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), "Mothers, fathers and the guardianship of children (hadana): testimonies from the sijill"

Workshops

1997

"Sources for the History of the Mediterranean Muslim Woman"

• Iris Agmon (Ben Gurion University), "Sijill as a source for women's history"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "The religious foundations: women and networking in the Ottoman Empire"
• Susanne Enderwitz (Free University, Berlin), "Women in Palestinian autobiographies"
• Avner Giladi (Haifa University), "Arabic sources for woman-child relationships in medieval Muslim societies"
• Fatima-Zohra Guechi (Constantine University), "Mahkama registers (18th-19th centuries) as a source for the history of women"
• Bernard Heyberger (Haute Alsace University), "Individualisme et modernite politique catholiques d'Alep et du Liban (XVIIe siecle)"
• Klaus Kreiser (Bamberg University), "Women in Ottoman Turkey: introduction to historical research literature"
• Nadia Lachiri (Moulay Ismail University, Meknes), "Proverbs on women"
• Manuela Marín (CSIC, Madrid), "Research literature on women's history in medieval Andalusia"
• Silvia Naef (Basel and Geneva Universities), "Between ideal and reallity: the representation of women in Arab art in the 20th century"
• Cristina De La Puente (CSIC, Madrid), "Women and Maliki law: can they go to the hammam?"
• Borte Sagaster (GWZ Moderner Orient, Berlin), "Autobiographical writings of Turkish women at the turn of the century"
• Selçuk Aksin Somel (Bilkent University), "Archival sources on female education in the late Ottoman Empire"
• Zehra Toska (Bogazici University), "Classical Ottoman literature as a source for women's history"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Iris Agmon (Ben Gurion University), "The family and gendered socialization"
• Beth Baron (City College, New York), "An early Islamic activist in Egypt"
• Assia Benadada (Muhammad V University, Rabat), "De l'individu a la societe : itineraire d'un alim a l'epoque du Protectorat (1912-1956)"
• Cristina de la Puente ( CSIC, Madrid), "The education of the body: Arabic manuals on table manners"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Educational and social training of an individual in late Ottoman Damascus: the reformist shaykh Jamal al-din al-Qasimi"
• Susanne Enderwitz (Free University, Belin), "Mother-daughter relations in Arab personal accounts"
• Halima Ferhat (Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat), "La vie des etudiants a Fes a la veille du Protectorat"
• Avner Gildai (Haifa University), "The individual in Islamic educational thought of the Middle Ages"
• Sylvia Naef ( Basel/Genf Universities), "Shi'ite education in the 20th century in the Arab world"
• Borte Sagaster (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), "Autobiographical writings of Turkish authors"

"Education of the Individual in the Mediterranean Muslim World"

• Avner Giladi (Haifa University), "Individualism and conformity in early Isamic educational thought"
• Benjamin Fortna (School of African and Asiatic Studies, London), "Adaptation, not adoption: Curricular and cartographic change in late Ottoman education"
• Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), "The teaching of the five pillars of Islam in sixth/twelfth century al-Andalus"
• Nadia Maria el-Cheikh (American University of Beirut), "Women's informal education as reflected in a few medieval texts"
• Miguel Angel Manzano (Salamanca University), "Notes on the education, training and performance of the Sultan: Maghribi values and patterns in the late Middle Ages"
• Rachid el-Hour (CSIC, Madrid), "L'education du saint : le temoignange des sources hagiographiques nordafricaines"
• Halima Ferhat (Institut d'Etudes africaines, Rabat), "L'enfant, l'educateur et le faqih au XIVe siecle : le programme pedagogique d'Ibn al-Hajj"
• Manuela Marín (CSIC, Madrid), "Master and disciple: a Moroccan example"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Learning in the Qasimi family in late Ottoman Damascus: two brothers, two educational paths, one value system"
• Assia Benadada (Muhammad V University, Rabat), "Pouvoir et systeme d'education dans les societes islamiques traditionnelles : le cas de Mohamed ben Abdallah, sultan du Maroc"
• Ana Maria Carballeira (Escuela de Estudios Arabes, Granada), "Le paysan devenu saint : l'education d'Ihsan 'Abbas d'apres son autobiographie"
• Selçuk Aksin Somel (Bilkent University, Ankara), "Textbooks as determiners of moral education in late 19th century Ottoman Muslim primary schools"
• Klaus Kreiser (Bamberg University) "Career tracks of the last 'ulama'"

1999

"Childhood individuation in the Mediterranean Muslim World

Seminars

1996-1997

Middle East Technical U., Ankara, "The Emergence of Land Law"

• 26/11/1996: Huri Islamoglu-Inan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), "The Land Code of 1858 as a vocabulary of the Ottoman modern state"
• 3/12/1996: Hatice Kurtulus (Marmara University), "Forms of property and transfers on estates in the vicinity of Istanbul studied in relation to their influence on the formation of the metropolitan city"
• 10/12/1996: Elvan Guloksuz (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), "Modes of negotiating property rights on urban land: cases of new settlements in Istanbul"
• 23/12/1996: Martha Mundy (SOAS, London), "The construction of property: comparing two villages in the southern Syrian plain"
• 24/12/1996: Richard Smith (American University of Beirut), "Mapping property: a technology of imperial rule"
• 18/5/1997: Alain Pottage (SOAS, London), "Evidencing ownership"
• 2/6/1997: Huri Islamoglu-Inan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), "Modes of negotiating property in the 19th century Ottoman Empire"
• 6/6/1997: David Wahbrook (St. Antony's College, Oxford University), "From personal right to private right: property and privilege in South India 1700-1900"

St. Antony's College, Oxford University, "Marginality and exclusion"

• 2/5/1997: Khalid Fahmy (Princeton University), "Prisons and exile in nineteenth century Egypt: legal policies and local reactions"
• 9/5/1997: Dalenda Largueche (Tunis University), "Women, marginality and exclusion in Ottoman Tunisia (18th-19th centuries)"
• (Presentation in English and French in conjunction with La Maison Francaise d'Oxford)
• 16/5/1997: Rund Peters (Amsterdam University), "The infatuated Greek: marginality and the crossing of social boundaries in 19th century Egypt"
• 23/5/1997: Amnon Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Marginal milieu: the coffee houses of 18th century Jerusalem"
• 30/5/1997: Francois Georgeon (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "The drinkers of Istanbul: the consumption of alcohol from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic" (Presentation in English and French in conjunction with La Maison Française d'Oxford)
• 6/6/1997: Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford University), "Madness and marginality in Syria and Egypt"

Workshops

1997

"Norms and Oppositions: Plurality of Norms and State Power from the 18th to 20th centuries"

• Walter Dostal (Vienna University), "Wrongdoing and atonement in Islamic law: some marginal notes from an anthroplogical perspective"
• Khalid Fahmy (Princeton University), "Lawmakers and lawbreakers in 19th century Egypt: the role of the majlis al-ahkam (1850-1880)
• Jan Goldberg (Essen), "Secularization and unification of the law in 19th century Egypt: the role of the majalis al-tujjar (1845-1876)"
• Huri Islamoglu-Inan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), "Property as a contested domain in 19th century Ottoman Anatolia and the Balkans"
• Yunus Koç (Hacettepe University, Ankara), "Le droit coutumier du sultan et la shari`a dans les premiers codes des lois ottomanes"
• Hans Christian Korsholm Nielsen (Aarhus University), "Legal documents, 'urf and the majlis al-'arab in Upper Egypt"
• Chibli Mallat (University of St. Joseph, Beirut), "Islamic law, droit positif and codification: reflections on the longue duree"
• Martha Mundy (SOAS, London), "Property, land and the shar`i tradition in 19th century Damascus"
• Ruud Peters (Amsterdam University), "Law and exclusion in 19th and 20th century Egypt"
• Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford University), "Marginal minds: madness and drunkeness in historical perspective"
• Zafer Toprak (Bogazici University), "Legal reform in the late Ottoman Empire"
• Anna Würth (Berlin), "Shari'a, qanun and 'urf - an old debate revised. The Yemeni case"
• Laila al-Zwaini (Cairo), "Plurality in Yemeni adjudication: an account from the field"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Walter Dostal (Vienna University), "The problem of Sahria and customary law: some remarks"
• Baudouin Dupret (CEDEJ, Cairo), "Defining morality: transsexuality before an Egyptian court"
• Khaled Fahmy (Princeton University), "Medical reform in Egyptian prisons in the nineteenth century"
• Huri Islamoglu-Inan (Middle East Technical University, Ankara), "The Ottoman modern state and its practices of codifying land rules in the 19th century"
• Yunus Koc (Hacettepe University, Ankara), "La notion de 'la loi ancienne' et 'la charia' dans les edicts de justice emis par les sultans au XVIIeme siecle"
• Wolgang Kraus (Vienna University), "Customary law and colonial policy in Morocco"
• Claude Lefebure (EHESS, Paris), "On the customary law of the Berber speaking tribes in the Central High Atlas (Morocco)"
• Chibli Mallat (St. Joseph's University, Beirut), "Approaches to Islamic law in the Muslim Mediterranean: the state of research"
• Martha Mundy (The London School of Economics), "Hierarchical rights to property in late Ottoman times"
• Rudolf Peters (Amsterdam University), "The development of the prison system in 19th century Egypt"
• Eugene Rogan (Oxford University), "Madness and marginality: the Syrian mental hospital"

1999

"Marginal Milieux and Practices"

• Amnon Cohen (Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv), "Coffee in 17th century Jerusalem"
• Francois Georgeon (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), "Alcohol in 19th/20th century Istanbul"
• Baudouin Dupret, "Transexuals in Cairo"
• Khaled Fahmy (Princeton University), "Brrothels in Cairo"
• Sami Zubayda (London), "Singers and musicians in Iraq"
• Martin Stokes, "Singers and musicians in Turkey"
• Karin van Nieuwkerk, "Performers in Cairo"
• Mina Ener (Villanova University), "The Cairo Poor House"
• Ruud Peters, "Prisons in Egypt"
• Eugene Rogan (Oxford University)
• Asylums in Lebanon and Egypt
• Dalenda Largueche, "Houses for disobedient women in Tunis"

"Private Property in the Ottoman Empire"

Seminars

1996-1997

Strasbourg and Heidelberg Universities, "Individual identity and power relationships in Mediterranean Muslim societies"

In Strasbourg:

• 7/11/1996: Nicolas Vatin (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "Identites lapidaires : steles funeraires et cimetieres ottomans"
• 16/1/11997: Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi (Tunis University), "Trajectoires individuelles dans les societes de l'Egypte et de la Syrie mamloukes"
• 13/3/1997: Rhoads Murphey (Birmingham University), "Perspectives on multiple identity from the bottom up: popular mythmaking and the Ottoman military ethos",

• 28/11/1996: Meropi Anastassiadou (CNRS, Strasbourg University), "Des defunts hors du commun : les possesseurs de livres dans les inventaires apres deces musulmans de Salonique"
• 13/2/1997: Hans Georg Majer (Munich University), "L'individu dans les documents d'archives ottomanes"
• 24/4/1997: Martin Strohmeier (Kiel University), "Costume, statut social et identite individuelle : a propos des reglementations vestimentaires dans l'Empire ottoman"

Tunis University: "Individual paths in the Egyptian, Syrian and North African societies"

• 16/11/1996:
  • Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi (Tunis University), "Individu et elite mameluke a l'epoque bahride"
• 16/12/1996:
  • Amira Abou-Sumbul, "Trajectoires individuelles au sein de la societe egyptienne au XVIIIe siecle"
  • Mohamed Hedi Cherif: (Tunis University), "Profils de carriere de l'individu dans la Tunisie du XVIIIe siecle"
• 25/1/1997:
  • Nelly Amri-Salama, "Le saint et le politique en Ifriqiya hafside"
  • Fatima Zohra Guechi, "L'individu dans la societe constantinoise du XVIIIe siecle"
• 15/2/1997:
  • Yassine Essid, "Le katib : rapport au savoir, vision du pouvoir"
  • Abdelhamid Languech, "Statut minoritaire et trajectoire individuel a Tunis aux XVIIIe et XIXe siecles"
• 8/3/1997:
  • Halima Ferhat, "Le pouvoir du saint dans le Maroc medieval"
  • Abdelhamid Henia (Tunis University), "L'individu entre la logique etatique communautaire dans la Tunisie moderne"
• 17/4/1997:
  • Mohamed Kably, "Individu et pouvoir dans le Maroc medieval"
  • Habib Kazdaghi, "Individu et pouvoir colonial en Tunisie dans la premiere moitie du XXe siecle"

1997-1998

"Individual identity and power relationships in Mediterranean Muslim societies"

• 30/10/1997: Bernard Heyberger (Haute Alsace University, Mulhouse), "Individualisme et modernite politique : les devotes d'Alep et du Liban"
• 15/1/1998: Selim Derigil (Bogazici University), "Tenir son rang dans la societe ottomane. Le pouvoir et ses signes sous le regne d'Abdulhamid II"
• 12/3/1998: Meropi Anastassiadou (CNRS, PROTASI, Strasbourg), "Les possesseurs de livres dans les inventaires apres deces musulmans de Salonique. Dis-moi ce que tu lis, je te dirai (peut-être) qui tu es..."
• 28/5/1998: Sylvie Denoix (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Individu et communaute. Le systeme des waqf dans les villes arabes medievales"

• 27/11/1997: Michael Glunz (Zurich University), "The man behind the text - a futile search ?"
• 13/2/1998: Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), "Reseaux, familles et pouvoirs a Smyrne (XVIIIe - XIXe siecles)"
• 30/4/1998: Ulrich Harmann (Kiel University), "Mamluk autocracy and learned arrogance. On the art of surviving with dignity. The case of Abu Hamid al-Maqdisi (d. 888/1483)"

Tunis University, "Individual paths in the Egyptian, Syrian and North African societies"

• 7/3/1998:
  • Mohamed Salah Baïzig , "L'individu ordinaire a Bougie a l'epoque medievale : typologie des comportements"
  • Brahim Jadla, "Les individus normaux et le "berberisation" de la societe"
  • Khaled Kehir, "La place de l'individu dans la litterature biographique arabe : etude des femmes contemporaines de Safadi"
• 18/4/1998:
  • Abdelhamid Henia, "L'individu de l'etat de sujet a l'etat de citoyen en Tunisie a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine"
  • Abdelhamid Larguech, "La naissance de l'individu aliene au XIXe et au debut du XXe siecle"
  • Habib Kazdaghli, "Les individus ordinaires et le mouvement national"
  • Paul Dumont, "Faire son chemin dans l'Empire ottoman a l'age des reformes (fin XIXe - debut XXe siecle)"
• 8/5/1998:
  • Jamal ben Tahar and Mohamed Hedi Cherif, "Comment devenir ordinaire en Tunisie a l'epoque moderne ?"
  • Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, "Être un individu ordinaire a l'epoque bahride (645/1245-741/1340)"

Workshops

1997

"Individual identity and power relations"

• Laura Bottini (Rome University), "The social, political and cultural role of the disciples of the 9th-12th imams (818-874)"
• Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi (Tunis University), "Badr ibn Gamâon;`a, un homme de pouvoir qui a ecrit sur le pouvoir"
• Paul Dumont (Strasbourg University), "L'autobiographie politique a l'epoque de la revolution jeune turque"
• Edhem Eldem (Bogazici University), "Individuals post mortem: the testimony of stones"
• Jane Hathaway (Ohio State University), "Çerkes Mehmed Bey: rebel, traitor, hero?"
• Abdelhamid Henia (Tunis University/IRMC), "L'individu entre la logique etatique et la logique communautaire : le cas de la Tunisie a l'epoque moderne (XVIIe-XXe siecle)"
• Frédéric Hitzel (CNRS, Strasbourg), "Reflexions sur la formation des reformateurs ottomans du temps du Selim III"
• Antonio Jurado Aceituno, "Carrieres politiques a l'epoque seldjoukide"
• Paulina Lewicka, "Individuality, power and the Mamluk world: the case of Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun"
• Tuomo Melasuo (Tempare University, Finland), "Les mouvements nationaux algeriens et leur conception de l'individu"
• Odile Moreau (University of Paris IV), "Ahmed Muhtar pacha : l'identite d'un general ottoman"
• Christoph Neumann (Prague), "Consumption patterns as a marker of individuality: two case studies from the eighteenth century"
• Arzu Ozturkmen, "Locality, gender and identity in Tirebolu"
• Gabriel Piterberg, "Historiography, identity and the state: Abaza Mehmed Pasha's Isyan"
• Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (EHESS, Paris), "Strategies individuelles et collectives dans la "colonie" française de Smyrne. L'exemple de la famille Fontrier"
• Isik Tamdogan-Abel (EHESS, Paris), "Figures de nomades dans la region d'Adana au XVIIIe siecle"
• Ehud Toledano (Tel-Aviv University), "The Ottoman Middle East and North Africa from hegemonic rule to dynastic order"
• Michael Ursinus (Heidelberg University), Tahrir-i Nufus and Tezkere-i Murur: the tightening grip of the modernizing Ottoman state on the individual subject, 1826-1836
• Kirsi Virtanen, "La position du musulman algerien dans le mouvement du front populaire français : immigrant-ouvrier, sujet ou individu politique ?"
• Jerzy Zdanowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), "Emir Saud and his court. Markers of individuality in the Wahhabi society"

Reshaping the individual and power relations in the context of colonial experiences

• Kirsi Virtanen, "The position of an Algerian Muslim in the French Popular Front Movement - immigrant worker, colonial subject or political actor ?"
• Katri Wallenius, "Resistance movements in Morocco from the French perspective, 1894/1900-1912"
• Abdelhamid Henia, "Statut de l'individu dans le milieu tribal en Tunisie a la veille du Protectorat français"
• Tuomo Melasuo, "National movements and the individual in the Algerian colonial soceity"
• Susanna Myllylä, "The role of the NGOs in the post-colonial world"
• Bjørn Olav Utvik, "The revolution of the pious: the modernizing force of Islamism"
• Anna Baldinetti, "Le nationalism egyptien et la formation de l'idee de "nation libyenne" : les refugies libyens en Egypte"
• Aini Linjakumpu, "Islam, individual and society in a global interet system"
• Maaret Pallnen, "The change of historiography on the Palestinian expulsion"
• Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, "Passages and barriers to fieldwork: methodology and intervening feelings"
• Riina Isotalo, "Writing against insider/outsider dichotomy: the case of Palestinian return"
• Y. Erdem Harkan, "Wise old man, propagandist and ideologist: Kodja Sekbanbashi on the Janissaries, 1907"
• Susanne Dahlgren, "Women with too many rights: The Adeni women and Yemeni unification"
• Pertti Multanen, "Religious and ethnic factors in national politics and international conflict in the Middle East"
• Jorma Kuitunen, "Research and higher education in the Arab world. Some reflections of a pilot study"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Laura Bottini (Rome University), "Une famille imamite a Alep : les Banu Hashshab"
• Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi (Tunis University), "Êon;tre un individu ordinaire en Egypte mamluke"
• Mohamed Hedi Cherif (Tunis University), "Un hagiographe et ses saints "ordinaires" dans la Tunisie de la deuxieme moitie du XIXeme siecle"
• Jane Hathaway (Ohio University), "The Qurayshi Circassians of Egypt: changing identity within an Ottoman elite"
• Abdelhamid Henia (Tunis University/IRMC), "L'individu : de l'etat de sujet a l'etat de citoyen en Tunisie a l'epoque moderne et contemporaine"
• Khaled Kchir (Tunis University), "Peut-on parler d'individu a travers les biographies de femmes ? Exemple du A'yan al-'Asr de Safadi (m. 1363)"
• Abdelhamid Largueche (Tunis University), "Le Code penal a l'individualisation de la peine en Tunisie au XIXeme siecle"
• Christoph K. Neumann (St. Charles University, Prague), "The Russian experience: Nerati Efendi in captivity"
• Arzu Ozturkmen (Bogazici University), "Transition to 'bridehood': the experience of Tirebolu women"
• Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (EHESS, Paris), "Changer de nationalite au XIXeme siecle dans l'Empire ottoman : un moyen pour les individus de redefinir leurs rapports au pouvoir ? L'exmple d'individus et de familles ottomans de Smyrne"
• Johann Strauss (Strasbourg University), "Theodore Cassape (Teodor Kasap) ou comment peut-on etre ottoman"
• Isik Tamdogan-Abel (EHESS, PAris), "Osman Hoca or Osman Efendi ? Un comptable de l'armee au tournant du siecle (fin XIXeme - debut XX siecle) a travers ses carnets"
• Ehud Toledano (Tel-Aviv University), "The Ottoman-Algerian power elite revisited"
• Michael Ursinis (Heidelberg University), "Changing place and face: the journey of the individual through Ottoman population records of the Tanzimat period"

Seminars

1997

American University in Cairo

• 22/2/1997
  • Abbas Hamdani (Wisconsin University, Milwaukee), "The Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa and the controversy over the origins of the guilds in the medieval Islamic world"
  • Mohamed Hakim (Cairo University), "The Egyptian village: homogeneity or exploitation?"
  • Issam Isawi (Cairo University), "Ciftlik and `uhd under Muhammad `Ali"
  • Armin Kredian (American University of Cairo) , "The private papers of an Armenian merchant family in the Ottoman Empire (1912-1914)"
• 22/3/1997
  • Muna 'Atallah (Cairo University), "Railway stations: space and social life in 19th century Egypt"
  • Elizabeth Sartain (American University of Cairo), "Trade with Nubia"
  • Rasha al-Gammal (American University of Cairo), "Class patterns of consumption in early 19th century Egypt"
  • Nicolas Michel (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo), "Individuality and collectivity in the agricultural economy of precolonial Morocco"
  • Pascale Ghazaleh (American University of Cairo), "The manufactory at al-Khurunfish: an experiment in industrialisation?"
• 24/5/1997
  • Ghislaine Alleaume (CNRS, CEDEJ, Cairo), "The currency crisis and economic decline"
  • Muhammad Hakim (Cairo University), "The jitlik: between individualisation and militarisation"
  • Eberhardt Kienle (CEDEJ, Cairo), "State and economy in 20th century Syria"
  • Amina Elbendary (American University of Cairo), "The worst of times: crisis management in al-Shidda al-`Uzma"
  • Peter Gran (Temple University, Pennsylvania), "Modern Egyptian history - beyond enigmas"

1998

American University in Cairo

• 28/2/1998: Individual behavior and finances
  • Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University, Istanbul), "Istanbul and Cairo in the Ottoman monetary system, 16th-19th centuries"
  • Abdel Aziz Ezzel Arab (American University of Cairo), "An inquiry into the significance of April 1879 in the history of Egypt before the British occupation"
  • Yehia Muahmmad Ahmad (Tanta University, Kafr el Sheikh campus), "Britain's abandonment of the gold standard and its effects in Egypt, 1914-1945"
  • Sayed Ashmawi (Cairo University), "The image of the Greek moneylender in Egyptan historical memory, late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries"
  • Ramadan al-Khuli (Ayn Shams University), "Managing the property of orphans in the Ottoman period"
  • Muhammad Afifi (Cairo University), "Economic policies of waqf in Ottoman times"
• 29/3/1998: Merchants and trade, economics of labor
  • Stewart Sears (American University of Cairo), "Grand theories: the rise and fall of the Pirenne thesis"
  • Sadok Boubaker (Tunis University), "Merchants and modes of enrichment in the Regency of Tunis, seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries"
  • Ahmad Abdel Latif (American University of Cairo), "The Avierino: a Greek entrepreneurial family in modern Egypt"
  • Iman Farag (CEDEJ, Cairo), "Egypt's unemployment crisis of the 1930s"
  • John Chalcraft (New York University), "The fall of the guilds in Egypt, 1876-1892"
  • Elizabeth Horsting (American University of Cairo), "Feminization of two villages - social and economic effetcs of male out-migration: the example of two Syrian villages "
• 16/5/1998: The individual, political economy, economy and class
  • Paul Sullivan (American University of Cairo), "The economic road to conflict: Palestine 1881-1948"
  • Peter Gran (Temple University, Pennsylvania), "The age of Isma'ilian Egyptian Risorgimento (natural awakenig)"
  • Fanny Colonna (CEDEJ), "Microhistory and the re-examination of pauperist paradigms: the emergence of Badissian islah in Aures (Algeria), 1930-1940"
  • Ivan Ivekovic (American University of Cairo) and Karim Khalil (American Univrsity of Cairo), "Violence "from above" and violence "from below" in the Middle East: a historical retrospective"
  • Corinne Morisot (IFAO), "Material conditions of life of the doormen (bawwab) in medieval Cairo: an example of the use of waqfiyat as sources for economic and social history"
  • Imad Hilal Shams Eldin (Zaqaziq Univerty, Banha campus), "Slaves and agriculture in nineteenth century Egypt"
• 13/6/1998: Ottoman individuals, economies and economics
  • Mohamed Hakim (Cairo University), "Speaking in tongues: the late Ottomanization of Egyptin historiography and the elimination of social communication from the Muhammad 'Ali period"
  • Magdi Abdul Hafiz ( Helwan Universty), "The fortunes of 'ulama' (?) and the effects on their political roles, 1790-1805"
  • Pascale Ghazaleh (American University of Cairo), "Artisans in early nineteenth century Cairo"
  • Fatma al-Zahraa Langhi (American University of Cairo), "Family structure in Ottoman Palestine: a study on class and gender in Palestine in the 18th and 19th centuries"
  • Dara Santina (Cairo University), "The tikiyyas of Mecca and Madina in the nineteenth century"
  • Abdel-Raziq Issa (Ayn Shams University), "Financial resources of judges in Egypt in the eighteenth century"
  • Husam Abd al-Mu'ti (Mansura University), "Trade in Indian textiles during the Ottoman period"

1999

American University in Cairo

Maison Mediterraneenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence, 26-28 February 1999: "Individual relations with and within Ottoman guilds"

2-3 April 1999 and 14-15 May 1999: "The individual, poverty and wealth"

• Brigitte Marino (Institut Français d'Etudes Arabes de Damas), "Le militaire a Damas au XVIIIe siecle"
• Amy Singer (Tel-Aviv University), "The individual and soup kitchens in early Ottoman Jerusalem"
• Eric Chaumont (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "L'individu, la pauvrete et la richesse"
• Mahmoud Yazbak (Haifa University), "Poverty and wealth in Ottoman Haifa"
• Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich University), "The individual, wealth and guilds in 17th century Anatolia"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Individualization and the creation of fixed wealth in the form of the religious foundations in Ottoman Damascus"
• Abd al-Karim Rafeq (Damascus University), "The individual in relation to poverty and wealth in Ottoman Damascus"
• Sadok Boubaker (Tunis University), "Le marchand pauvre et le marchand riche a Tunis au XVIIIe siecle"
• Abdelhamid Henia (Tunis University)
• Le vocabulaire de la richesse et de la pauvrete en Tunisie au XVIIIe et au XIXe siecle
• Sylvie Denoix (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Des waqf mamluks et l'individu"
• Colette Establet (Provence U.) and Jean-Paul Pascual (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Pce), "Des fortunes des individus a Damas au XVIIIe siecle"
• Manuela Marín (CSIC, Madrid), "Rich individual, poor individual and eating habits in Andalusia"
• Nelly Hanna (American University of Cairo), "The poor woman, the rich woman in 18th century Cairo"
• Dina Rizk Khoury (George Washington University, USA), "Wealth and the individual in 18th and 19th century Iraq"
• Leila Fawaz (Tufts University, Boston) (title to be communicated)
• Meropi Anastassiadou (CNRS, PROTASI, Strasbourg), "L'individu et la soupe populaire a Istanbul au XVIIIe siecle"
• Farouk Bilici (Institut National des Langues et des Civilisations Orientales, Paris), "L'individu et la soupe populaire en Anatolie au XVII et au XVIIIe siecle"

Workshops

1997

"Individual and enrichment in the Mediterranean Muslim World"

• Meropi Anastassiadou (CNRS, PROTASI, Strasbourg), "Propriete fonciere et embourgeoisement : l'exemple du quartier d'Osman Aga a Kadikoy vers 1875"
• Sadek Boubaker (Tunis University), "Le mecanisme de l'enrichissement marchand a Tunis (XVIIe - debut XIXe siecles)"
• Amina al-Bindari (American University of Cairo), "The worst of times: crisis management and al-shidda al-`uzma"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence), "Enrichment via speculation of waqf urban properties in the 19th century Ottoman Empire"
• Edhem Eldem (Bogazici University), "Istanbul 1903-1918: a quantitative analysis of a bourgeoisie"
• Hakan Erdem (Bogazici University), "The price of human merchandise: slave prices in the ineteenth century Ottoman Empire"
• Leila Fawaz (Tufts University, Boston)
• Ersilia Fransesca (Naples University), "Religion and spirit of capitalism: the Ibadi case"
• Pascale Ghazaleh (American University of Cairo), "The manufactory at al-Khurunfish: an experiment in industrialization"
• Nelly Hanna (American University of Cairo), "The state, the economy and getting rich before 1800"
• Claudia Kickinger (Vienna University), "Galloping capitalism, smiling modernity and the progressing dissolution of the professional corporations"
• Brigitte Marino (French Institute for Arab Studies of Damascus), "Quelques remarques sur les 'askar dans la seconde moitie du XVIIIe siecle"
• Gretty Mirdal (Copenhagen University)
• Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University), "Money, society and state in the Ottoman Middle East"
• Zafer Toprak (Bogazici University)

"Ottoman Guilds, 16th - 19th centuries"

• Gisela Prohazka-Eisl, "A literary account of Ottoman artisans: the surname of 1582"
• Gilles Veinstein (Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris), "Taxation, prestations and 16th century Ottoman esnaf"
• Isik Tamdogan-Abel (Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris), "Adana artisans in the 18th century"
• Eleni Gara (Vienna University), "Craftsmen in 17th century Karaferye"
• Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "Religious mixity, salaries and infrastructure in the mason guild in mid-19th century Damascus"
• Claudia Kickinger (Munich University ), "Changing technologies among Cairo coppersmiths"
• Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich University), "Disputes among Istanbul guilds in the 18th century"
• Zafer Toprak (Bosphorus University, Istanbul), "The end of Ottoman guilds"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Meropi Anastassiadou (CNRS, Strasbourg), "L'abandon d'enfants a Istanbul au XIXeme siecle"
• Sadok Boubaker (Tunis University), "Milieu marchand et enrichessement individuel a Tunis a l'epoque moderne"
• Kakan Erden (Bogazici University), "Ottoman social history"
• Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich University), "Sources on the history of Ottoman esnaf"
• Francois Georgeon (EHESS, Paris), "Journal d'un bourgeois d'Istanbul en 1915 et 1919"
• Claudi Kickinger (Vienna University), "Relations of production in the light of the Kitab al-Dhakah'ir"
• Brigitte Marino (IFEAD, Damascus), "Poursuite des recherches sur les askar de Damas dans la seconde moitie du XVIIIeme siecle"
• Donald Quataert (Binghamton Univesity, New York), "The organization of labor in the coal fields of Zonguldak, 1820-1920"
• Jean-Paul Pascual

1999

"Economics and the individual in the Mediterranean Muslim world from the anthropological perspective"

Seminars

1996-1997

Oxford and Leiden Universities, "Individuation in literature and art: marginal voices"

In Oxford:

• 24/10/1996: James Montgomery (Leeds University), "Of sex and alcohol: the voice of Abu Nuwas"
• 31/10/1996: As'ad Jaber (Leiden University), "Writing down the bones: the literature of the intifada"
• 7/11/1996: Ulrich Haarmann (Kiel University), "A marginal voice from 15th century Cairo: Abu Hamid al-Qudsi"
• 14/11/1996: Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden University), "Ali ibn Sudun and his critics"
• 21/11/1996: Filiz Yenisehirlioglu (Cambridge University), "Creativity and the individual: how to find the architect's signature"
• 28/11/1996: Maarten Kossmann (Leiden University), "The invariablity of the Berber fairytale"
• 30/1/1997: Geert Jan van Gelder (Groningen University), "The nodding noddles or jolting the yokels: a composition for marginal voices by al-Shirbini (fl. 1687)"
• 6/2/1997: Layla Dasmal (Oxford University), "Veiling and unveiling in the short stories of an Emirates writer: Muhammad al-Murr"
• 13/2/1997: Faustina Aerts (Leiden University), "Sirat al-Iskandar: the marginal voice of a popular romance"
• 20/2/1997: Michelle Hartman (Oxford University), "Intertextuality and gender identity in Huda Barakat's Ahl al-Hawa"
• 27/2/1997: Maaike van Berkel (Amsterdam University), "al-Qalqashandi: the chancellor and his peer group"
• 6/3/1997: Petra de Bruijn (Leiden University), "Nineteenth century Turkish Orta Oyunu: folk theatre in performance"

• 27/9/1996:
  • Arnoud Vrolijk (Leiden University), "`Ali ibn Sudun and his critics"
• 1/11/1996:
  • Andrew Lane (Oxford University), "Experiences of a Sufi sheikh on the margins of society: 'Abd al-Ghani ibn Isma'il al-Nabulsi (1641-1731)"
  • Maarten Kossmann (Leiden University), "The invariability of the Berber fairytale"
• 13/12/1996:
  • Emma Westney (Oxford University), "The cafe man: the short stories of Zakaria Tamir"
  • As`ad Jabir (Leiden University), "Writing down the bones: the literature of the intifada"
• 24/1/1997:
  • Petra de Bruijn (Leiden University), "Nineteenth century Turkish Orta Oyunu: folk theatre in performance"
  • Layla Dasmal (Oxford University), "Veiling and unveiling in the short stories of an Emirates writer: Muhammad al-Murr"
• 28/2/1997:
  • Faustina Aerts (Leiden University), "Sirat al-Iskandar: the marginal voice of a popular romance"
  • Debbie Cox (Oxford University), "Gender and self-representeation : Rachid Boujedra's Lailiyat Imra'ah Ariq"
• 21/3/1997:
  • Geert Jan van Gelder (Groningen University), "ash-Shirbini"
  • Michelle Hartman (Oxford University), "Intertextuality and gender identity in Huda Barakat's Ahl al-Hawa"
• 2/5/1997:
  • Maaike van Berkel (Amsterdam University), "al-Qalqashandi: the chancellor and his peer group"

Workshops

1997

"Poets'/writers' missions as seen by themselves"

• N. al-Bagdadi, "Zur Spannung zwischen Vergesellschaftung und Individualisierung bei den Literati der 1870-90er Jahr"
• J. C. Bürgel (Bern University), "The poet and his demon - Imru'alqays and after"
• S. Enderwitz (Free University, Berlin), "Der Auftrag des (palastinensischen) Selbstbiographen"
• H. Fahndrich, "Die Funktion der Intellektuellen bei 'Abdalqadir al-Ganabi"
• P. Furrer, "Vom Auftrag des Schriftstellers zur Aufgabe der Lesserin - Uber die Tuchen der Metafiktion bei Bilge Karasu und Pinar Kur"
• E. Glassen, "Das Recht auf Dichtung - Orhan Veli Kanik (1914-1950) und Garip"
• S. Guth, "Postmodernism, apoliticality, "settling accounts" - on Ahmet Altan's Dort Mevsim Sonbahar"
• R. Haag-Higuchi, "Mission cancelled - new trends in Persian prose literature after the Islamic Revolution of 1979"
• P. Kappert, "Ahmed Hasim (1884-1933) und sein dichterisches Selbstverstandnis"
• V. Klemm, "Ideals and reality - European ideals of literary commitment in the postcolonial Middle East: the case of 'Abdalwahhab al-Bayâtî"
• S. Leder (Halle University), "Formen des Autorenschaffens in der vormodernen Bildungsliteratur"
• A. Neuwirth, "Poetry as a sacfricial act - Mahmûd Darwîsh's restaging of the mystic lover's relation towards a superhuman beloved"
• R. Ostle (Oxford University), "Poet, individual and society - the case of Abu l-Qasim al-Shabbi"
• W. Roos, ""Zettelt eure Kriege an, bevor die andern es tun, und folgt mir!" - Zum Auftrag des Schriftstellers nach Salîm Barakât's autobiographischen Schriften"
• I. Stumpel, "Zum Selbstverstandnis moderner iranischer Autorinnen"
• C. Szyska, "Najib al-Kilani on his career or how to become an ideal Muslim writer"
• G. J. van Gelder (Groningen University), "Persons as texts/texts as persons in classical Arabic literature"
• R. van Leeuwen (Amsterdam University), "The poet and his space - the prose works of Mahmud Darwish"
• S. Weidner, "Huter der Verwandlung? Die gesellschaftliche Relevanz hermetischer Dichtung im Spiegel des Werks von Adunis"
• R. Wielandt, "Befreiung wozu? Autobiographische Romane und schriftstellerisches Selbstverstandnis von Suhayl Idris"

"Images and Representations"

• Richard van Leeuwen (IMNO, Amsterdam), "Marginality and disguise in the stories of Qamar al-Zaman, As`ad and Amjad"
• Philip Kennedy (New York University), "The poetics of recognition in medieval Arabic literature: a provisional taxonomy"
• Gillain Vogelsang-Eastwood (Rijksuniversitet, Leiden), "Images of Mamluk women"
• Filiz Yenisehirlioglu (Cambridge Univesity), "How to find the architect's signature?"
• Vlad Atanasiu (Sorbonne, Paris), "Le chaos : reponses individuelles a l'influence de la frequence des lettres en calligaphie"
• Karin Adahl (Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm), "The Islamic ornament in Western art - influences in disguise"
• Christoph Bürgel (Institut fur Islamswissenschaft, Bern), "The guise and disguise of poverty in poetry"
• Reem Saad (American University in Cairo), "The shaykh has no clothes?"
• G. J. J. van Gelder (Rijksuniversitet, Groningen), "Buffoons high and low"
• Remke Kruk (Rijksuniversitet, Leiden), "Heroes and anti-heroes in Arabian popular epic: 'Umar and al-Battal"
• Michael Gilsenan (New York University), "Buffoons and heroes in a contemporary Lebanese setting"
• Robin Ostle (St. John's College, Oxford), "Individual and individuation from medieval to modern times"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Karin Ådahl (Uppsala University), "Foreign painters/artists and patrons in 18th century Istanbul"
• Suat Alp (Hacettepe University, Ankara), "Arts and symbols in the Sufi tradition"
• Christoph J. Bürgel (St. Charles University, Prague), "The guise and disguise of poverty in early Arabic poetry)"
• Jean-Charles Depaule (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "A place of own's own: text, space and the individual"
• Elif Gokcigdem, "Figural representation in Seljuk metalwork"
• Stephan Guth (Bern University), "Individuation in modern Turkish literature"
• Sabry Hafez (SOAS, London), "The Arab intellectual in the 17th and 18th centuries"
• Remke Kruk (Amsterdam University), "Polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic"
• Ulrich Marzolph (Marchens Encyclopedia, Gottingen), "Sanitizing humour: Islamic Mediterranean jocular tradition in a comparative perspective"
• Luitgard Mols (CNWS Research School, Leiden), "The personal stamp in Mamluk ironwork"
• Tarkan Okcuoglu (istanbul University), "Wall paintings: the ideal space in the Ottoman imagination"
• Robin Ostle (Oxford University), "Individuation in modern Arabic from rihla to autobiography"
• G. J. H. van Gelder (Rijks University, Groninegen), "Disguises in the maqamat of Ibn Nagiya (410/1020-485/1092)"
• Richard van Leeuwen (Amsterdam University), "Marginal roles and marginal spaces in Alf Layla wa-Layla: the story of Hasan al-Basri"
• Dilek Yacin and G. Gokalp, "Individual and society in the 19th century Ottoman-Turkish novel"
• Filiz Yenisehirlioglu (Hacettepe University, Ankara), "Elements of privacy in Ottoman domestic architecture pre- and post 1700"

Seminars

1996-1997

CSIC, Madrid, "Political language, action and religion"

• 7/2/1997: Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi (Tunis University), "Le sultan mamluk, un souverain elu"
• 18/2/1997: David Waines (Lancaster University), "`Alî `Abd al-Râziq revisited"
• 28/2/1997: Knut Vikør (Bergen University), "Jihad, 'ilm and tasawwuf: two justifications of war from the Idrisi tradition"
• 7/3/1997: Joanna Wronecka (Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw), "Le langage politique d'ibn 'Arabi d'apres son Kitab al-tadbira al-ilahiyya fi islah al-mamlaka al-insaniyya"
• 11/31997: Tilman Seidensticker, "Martyrs and martyrdom in Islam"
• 14/3/1997: Jocelyne Dakhlia (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "Le langage de la marge politique"
• 21/3/1997: Francisco Rodríguez Manas (CSIC, Madrid), "Carisma y coercion : la legitimacion religiosa de la 'apropiacion' en Marruecos (ss. XVI - XVII)"
• 11/4/1997: Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CSIC, Madrid), "La justicia del santo: modelos de castigo en el lenguaje religioso"
• 18/4/1997: Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid), "El Imam y el Mahdi: Ibn Abi Mahali"
• 7/5/1997: Patrice Cressier (Casa de Valasquez, Madrid), "Discurso arquitectonico, mensaje politico y escenografia del poder: el papel de la decoracion monumental del emirato al final de la Edad Media"
• 9/5/1997: Maribel Ferro (CSIC, Madrid), "Tres modelos de activistas religiosos y politicos en el Islam occidental : ibn Yasin, ibn Tumart y ibn Qasi"
• 9/6/1997: Houart Touarti (EHESS, Paris), "La dawla : de l'attente chiliastique au tour de force violent"
• 19/6/1997: Sandra Houot (Institut Français d'Etudes Arabes de Damas, Syrie), "De la religion a l'ethique. Exemple d'une morale religieuse musulmane contemporaine"

1998

Lund and Bergen Universities, "Political language, action and religion"

In Lund

• Oddbjørn Leirvik (Oslo), "Conscience in Modern Egyptian Islam and in Christian-Muslim dialogue: 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad, Fathi 'Uthman, Kamil Husayn, Khaid Muhammad, Sayyid Qutb"
• Garbi Schmidt (Lund), "Religious experience and activity among Muslim students' associations in Chicago"

• 16/01/98: Knut S. Vikør (Bergen), "Poltical language, action and religion. An overview and introduction"
• 30/01/98: Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), "The religious and legal policy of the Almohads"
• 13/02/98: R.S. O'Fahey (Bergen), "Reformers, rejectors and ignorers: remarks on a relationship"
• 6/03/98: Anh Nga Longva (Bergen), "Democracy between tribalism and Islam: the perspectives form Kuwait"
• 27/03/98: Mete Pamir (Bergen), "Turkish state-religion relations in historical comparative perspective"
• 24/04/98: Philip Halldén (Lund), "The Arabic Demosthenes, metarhetorics in Islamic tradition and contemporary practice"
• 8/05/98: Jonas Svesson (Lund), "Theological legitimation of women's rights in a contemporary Islamic discourse"
• 29/05/98: Catharina Raudvere (Lund), "The use of disorder: the devlopment of zikr riturals in contemporary Istanbul"

Workshops

1997

"Conversion to Islam in the Mediterranean Muslim World"

• Frédéric Abecassis (Blaise Pascal University), "La conversion, chant du cygne de l'appartenance communautaire ?"
• Camilla Adang (Tel-Aviv University), "From Malikism to Shafi`ism to Zahirism: the conversion of Ibn Hazm"
• Stefano Allievi (Milan University), "Les conversions des Europeens a l'islam : continuites et changements"
• Carmela Baffioni (Naples University): , "Conversion in the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa'"
• Salvatore Bono (Perugia University), "Conversion to Islam during colonial times"
• Giovanna Calasso (Rome University), "Recits de conversion, zele devotionnel et instruction religieuese dans les biographies des "gens de Basra" du Kitab al-tabaqat de Ibn Sa`d (IXe siecle). Reflexions autour de la notion de conversion selon l'Islam"
• Dominique de Courcelles (University of Paris III), "Lessing (1729-1781) et la conversion a l'islam d'un pasteur du XVIe siècle"
• Jocelyne Dakhlia (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "Les convertis de cours et leur reinscription familiale et sexuelle : Maghreb XV - XIXe siecles"
• Hassan Elboudrari (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "Conversion spirituelle en islam et rupture dans l'identite"
• Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman: , "The forced conversion of Jewish orphans in Yemen"
• Pierre-Antoine Fabre (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "La conversion infinie des "conversos" : enquête sur le statut des nouveaux chretiens dans la Compagnie de Jesus au XVIe siecle"
• Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), "The persecution and conversion of heretics and apostates in al-Andalus"
• Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid), "Dreams and reason: autobiographies of converts in religious polemics"
• Amel Grami, "De la conversion a l'apostasie"
• Bernard Heyberger (Haute Alsace University), "Frontieres confessionnelles et conversions chez les chretiens orientaux (XVII - XVIIIe s)"
• Mohammed Kenbib (Rabat University), "Les conversions dans le Maroc contemporain (1860-1956). Presentation et etude d'un corpus"
• Mohammed Kerrou (Tunis University), "Logiques de l'abjuration et la conversion a l'islam en Tunisie aux XIXe et XXe siecles"
• Claire Mouradian, "Forced conversion to Islam of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"
• Mayte Penelas (CSIC, Granada), "A new approach in conversion to Islam in al-Andalus"
• Bernard Vincent (CNRS, EHESS, Paris), "La conversion des musulmans dans l'Espagne du XVIIe siecle"
• David J. Wasserstein (Tel Aviv University), "Conversion and the Islamization of the Jews"
• Jerzy Zdanowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), "Conversion and culture. From the experience of the Arabian Mission"

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Camilla Adang (Tel-Aviv University), "Ibn Hazm on fitna"
• Giovanna Calasso (Rome University), "La dimension individuelle entre hagiographie et recits de voyage : temoignage oculaire et 'experience'"
• Hassan Elboudrari (EHESS, Paris), "Dieu et moi : un sublime face à face. De quelques experiences limites de religiosite individuelle en Islam"
• Ana Fernandes Felix (SCIC, Madrid), "Children on the margins of Islam. Ways of belonging to Islam according to Maliki jursiprudence"
• Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid), "Muslim self-exclusion from the community: the ghuraba in al-Andalus in the sixth/twelfth century"
• Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid), "The pure and the believer: tahara in the creation and confirmation of Muslim identity"
• Leah Kinberg (Tel-Aviv University), "Dreams in Islam: the individual's experience as it applies to the Community"
• Fernando Rodríguez-Mediano (CSIC, Madrid), "L'experience de la crainte dans les recits hagiographiques maghrebins"
• Knut S. Vikør (Bergen University), "Muhammadan piety and Islamic enlightenment: survey of a historiographical debate"
• David Waines (Lancaster University, England), "Piety and food for the gods"
• G. A. Wiegers (Rijks University, Leiden), "Processes of conversion among Moriscos and New Muslims in the Maghrib in the first half of the seventeenth century"
• Joanna Wronecka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), "L'experience d'amour chez Ibn 'Arabi"

Workshops

1996

"Definition de la problematique sur les nouveaux discours islamiques en Europe"

• Stefano Allievi (Milan University), "Le discours des convertis"
• Felice Dassetto (Louvain Catholic University, Belgium), "Discours de jeunes musulmans, interviews"
• B. Duprez, "Le repertoire normatif islamique en contexte europeen"
• Jorgen Grignard (Free University of Brussels), "Analyse de tracts du GIA"
• Brigitte Marechal (Louvain Catholic University), "La notion de la liberte chez des jeunes femmes islamisees"
• Olivier Roy (CNRS, CERI, Paris), "Productions individuelles de discours islamiques"

1997

"Definition de la thematique des appartenances"

• Stefano Allievi (Milan University)
• Anna Bozzo (Rome University)
• Felice Dassetto (Louvain Catholic University)
• Philip Lewis (Leeds University)
• Gretty Mirdal (Copenhagen University)
• Olivier Roy (CNRS, CERI, Paris)
• Jorgen Bæk Simonsen (Copenhagen University)

"Muslims in Contemporary Western Europe"

• Stefan Allievi (Milan University), "La production intellectuelle des convertis a l'islam"
• Valerie Amiraux (Marc Bloch Center, Berlin), "Strategies d'integration individuelle et structures collectives : les Turcs en Allemagne"
• Anna Bozzo (Rome University), "Islam, societe civile et citoyennete sur les deux rives de la Mediterranee a l'age de la mondialisation"
• Jocelyne Cesari (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "La querelle des anciens et des modernes dans le discours islamique français"
• Felice Dassetto (Louvain Catholic University), "Discours musulman d'Europe. A propos de la plaquette : le statut des moines"
• Franck Fregosi (CNRS, Strasbourg), "Laïcite et identite musulmane chez Tarik Ramadan : le discours de la methode"
• Gerdien Jonker (Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin), "New perspectives on Islamic conduct in the German diaspora"
• Gretty Mirdal (Copenhagen University), "The concept of identity, self and non-self in migration research: definitions and illustrations"
• Jonas Otterbeck (Lund Univesity, Sweden), "Salaam. Analysis of the messages of a monthly Islamic journal"
• Olivier Roy (CNRS, CERI, Paris), "L'individualisation dans l'islam europeen contemporain"
• Jorgen Bæk Simonsen (Copenhagen University), "Muslim Discourses in Denmark"
• Gaby Strassburger (Migration and Intercultural Institute, Osnabruck, Germany), "Fundamentalism and human rights: headscarf discourses in a French town"
• Manço Ural (Saint Louis University, Brussels), "Individualisation du discours et des pratiques de la confrerie Naksibendi. Une amorce de secularisation"
• Jacques Waardenburg (Lausanne University), "What is normative Islam?"

1998

Conversion a l'Islam en Europe contemporaine

• Stefano Allievi (Milan University)
• Felice Dassetto (Louvain Catholic University, Belgium)
• Sarah Daynes
• Setta el-Houari
• Ali Kose (TDV, Istanbul)
• Lewis K. Rambo (San Fransisco Theological Seminary)
• Pedro Antonio Sanchez
• Madeleine Sultan (Faculty of Theology, Uppsala)
• Monika Wolrab-Sahr (Free University, Berlin)
• Thomas Luckmann (Konstanz University)

1998

Istanbul workshop

• Stefano Allievi (Milan University), "Conversions to Islam in Europe"
• Valerie Amiraux (Marc Bloch Center, Berlin), "Jeunes musulmanes turques d'Allemagane. Voix et voies de l'individuation"
• Anna Bozzo (Rome University), "Islam in Western Europe"
• Jocelyne Cesari (CNRS, IREMAM/MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), "New generations of Muslim in France: the issue of pluralism"
• Felice Dassetto (Louvain Catholic University), "Discours individuels et appartenances collectives dans l'islam contemporain"
• Franck Fregosi (CNRS, Strasbourg), "Les concours discursifs d'unbe reliogisite citoyenne : l'exemple de Tariq Ramadan"
• Gerdien Jonker (Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin), "Islamic trelevsion programs 'made in Berline' or how the cneter reaches out to the periphery"
• Ural Manco (Saint Louis University, Brussels), "Discours et pratiques de la confrerie Nakshibendi. Individualisme et embourgeoisement comme une amorce de secularisation"
• Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University, Sweden), "Salaam - analysis of an Islamic journal in Sweden"
• Olivier Roy (CNRS, CERI, Paris), "L'individualisation dans l'islam européen contemporain"
• Jorgen Bæk Simonsen (Copenhagen University), "The new Muslim discourse in Denmark"
• Gaby Strassburger (Migration and Intercultural Institute, Osnabruck, Germany), "Fundamentalism and human rights: headscarf discourses in a French town"
• Jacques Waardenburg (Lausanne University). "Normative Islam in Europe"

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