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Social Contexts of Rebellionin the Early Islamic Period

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Online Workshop: "Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule"

On 7–8 December 2023, the SCORE team hosted an online workshop on the theme ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’. This workshop considered the social history of Armenia in the period between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the Bagratuni kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries AD/ first to third centuries AH. (Please click here  to download the PDF)

Recordings of all papers, plus their dedicated responses, can be accessed online. For details, email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.

Programme

Workshop Programme
(Please click here  to download the PDF)
Thursday 7 & Friday 8 December 2023
Convened by the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE), Universität Hamburg
Online via Zoom; free and open to all
All times in CET = GMT +1
For registration and queries, email alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de
Visit our website at https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html

Day 1 (07.12.23)
Chair: Alon Dar (Hamburg)
14:00–14:15: Welcome, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
14:15–15:00: ‘Past and present: The Canons of Partaw (768 CE)’, Tim Greenwood (St Andrews); respondent: Emilio Bonfiglio (Hamburg)
15:00–15:15: Break
15:15–16:00: ‘Around the frozen Lake of Bznunik. Climatic and environmental aspects of the Arab rule in Armenia, 7th–9th centuries’, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna); respondent: John Haldon (Princeton)
16:00–16:15: Break
16:15–17:00: ‘Taxation and tribute’, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg); respondent: Noëmie Lucas (Edinburgh)
17:00–17:15: Break
17:15–18:00: ‘From Abū al-Dawāniq to Caṙay Dangi: Writing caliphal rule in Armenia’, Leone Pecorini Goodall (Edinburgh/St Andrews); respondent: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)

Day 2 (08.12.23)
Chair: Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
14:00–14:45: ‘The Oratio Synodalis and the Council of Dvin (719): Catholicos Yovhannēs Odznets‘i (c. 717–728) and the Consequences of Direct Caliphal Rule’, Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge); respondent: Walter Beers (Hamilton)
14:45–15:00: Break
15:00–15:45: ‘The birth of Armenian documentary epigraphy in the early Islamicate world’, Nik Matheou (Edinburgh); respondent: Lewis Read (Vienna)
15:45–16:00: Break
16:00–16:45: ‘Deflections and marriages in the Byzantine–Arab borderlands’, Ani Honarchian (Saint Louis); respondent: Antonia Bosanquet (Utrecht)
16:45–17:00: Concluding remarks, Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)