Programme - SCORE Conference 2022"The Theory and Practice of Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World" (22-24 Sept. 2022)
23. August 2022, von AAI Webmaster
We are delighted to publish the programme for our upcoming conference in September 2022 during which we will discuss theoretical as well as practical aspects of rebellious activities with a number of leading researchers in the field.
"The Theory and Practice of Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World"
22-24 September 2022 - Universität Hamburg
Conference Programme
Thursday, 22 September
09:15–09:45 Registration
09:45–10:00 Welcome
Panel 1: Contention and the State
Chair: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Universität Hamburg)
10:00–10:45 Mehdy Shaddel (Universiteit Leiden), ‘How Does Civil War Impact State Formation? The Case of the Early Caliphate’
10:45–11:30 Alon Dar (Universität Hamburg), ‘“We Did Not Pull Our Hand from Obedience”: The Rebellion of the jund against al-Faḍl ibn Rawḥ ibn Ḥātim al-Muhallabī (794 CE)’
11:30–11:45 Break
Panel 2: Questioning Labels
Chair: Jürgen Paul (Universität Hamburg)
11:45–12:30 Natalie Kontny-Wendt (Universität Hamburg), ‘Making a Rebel, an Imam, or a Bandit? – The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ‘Alī (d. 125/743) in Khurāsān’
12:30–13:15 Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Universität Hamburg), ‘Poet, Scholar, Khārijite? Navigating Rebellion with ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703 CE)’
13:15–14:30 Lunch
Panel 3: Landscapes
Chair: Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg)
14:30–15:15 Christian Sahner (University of Oxford), ‘The Medieval Islamic World: A View from the Mountains. Conquest, Conversion, Revolt, and State Formation’
15:15–16:00 Walter Beers (University of Haifa), ‘Becoming “People of the Mountain”: Aristocratic Accumulation and the Ruralization of Anti-Chalcedonianism in Sixth-Century Northern Mesopotamia’
16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–17:15 Philip Grant (University of California, Irvine), ‘The Zanj Revolt (255–279 AH/869–883 CE) as Infrastructure: Fighting, Nature, Culture, and Agency’
18:30 Reception
Friday, 23 September
Panel 4: Rebellious Discourses and Rhetoric
Chair: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Universität Hamburg)
09:30–10:15 Marjan Asi (University of Edinburgh), ‘(Anti-)Rebellion Discourse in the Hadith Corpus: The Politics of Islamic Scholarly Giants’
10:15–11:00 Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge), ‘“He Made All the Muslims’ Wealth that was Pleasant ... into Something for His Own Glory”: Pleasure, Wealth, and the Image of the Umayyads’
11:00–11:15 Break
Panel 5: Urbanism
Chair: Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg)
11:15–12:00 Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan University), ‘The “Urban Autonomy” Paradigm and Medieval Muslim Society’
12:00–12:45 Antonia Bosanquet (Universität Hamburg), ‘A Leader, an Army, a City, a People. Agents of Rebellion Against Aghlabid Rule in the 3rd /9th Century’
12:45–14:30 Lunch
Panel 6: Constituencies
Chair: Jürgen Paul (Universität Hamburg)
14:30–15:15 Alison Vacca (Columbia University), ‘The Rebels of Early Abbasid Albania’
15:15–16:00 Robert Haug (University of Cincinnati), ‘Arab Rebellion and Local Resistance: The Response among the People of Khurāsān and Transoxiana to the First and Second Fitnas and the “Rebellions” of ʿAbdallāh b. Khāzim and his son Mūsā’
16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–17:15 Leone Pecorini (University of Edinburgh), ‘“When the Banū ʿUmayya Reach Thirty Men They Will Appropriate the Wealth of God, Seize the Servants of God, and Corrupt God’s Book”: A Generational Explanation of the Third Fitna (126–136/744–754)’
19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, 24 September
Panel 7: Khurūj and Identity
Chair: Natalie Kontny-Wendt (Universität Hamburg)
09:30–10:15 Adam Gaiser (Florida State University) & Enki Baptiste (Université Lumière Lyon 2), ‘Early Ibāḍī Historiography: the Case of the Khawārij’
10:15–11:00 Najam Haider (Barnard College), ‘Making an Imam in the Shadow of Power: Zaydi Reconstructions of the Revolt of Ṣāḥib Fakhkh Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī (d. 169/786)’
11:00–11:15 Break
Panel 8: Taxation
Chair: Alon Dar (Universität Hamburg)
11:15–12:00 Marie Legendre (University of Edinburgh), ‘Revolts and Papyri: Everyday Administration and Elites in the Turbulent Long Eighth Century’
12:00–12:45 Alasdair Grant (Universität Hamburg), ‘Armenia, 774–5: A Tax Revolt?’
12:45–14:30 Lunch
Panel 9: Religion and/as Symbol
Chair: Alasdair Grant (Universität Hamburg)
14:30–15:15 Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), ‘Religion and Rebellion: Mobilizing a Following Through Religious Image-Building, the Cases of the Qaramita and Zanj’
15:15–16:00 Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), ‘Three Ka‘abas, Three Rebellions: Pilgrims, Rebels and Religiopolitical Imaginations in Early Islamic World’
16:00 Concluding Remarks
19:00 Informal Dinner
All abstracts can be found here (pdf). The conference programme is also available as pdf.
If you are interested in attending, please register by writing an e-mail with your name and affiliation to score.aai"AT"uni-hamburg.de. Please note that this is an in-person conference only.