THURSDAY, 21.02.2008
18:15
Opening lecture
Beatrice Manz (Medford, Mass.)
Nomad Rulers and Local Armies in the Islamic Middle Period
FRIDAY, 22.02.2008
09:15
Keynote adress: Jürgen Paul (Halle)
09:30
Etienne de la Vaissière (Paris)
Muwaffaq's Mamluks
10:15
Deborah Tor (Ramat-Gan)
A Heretical Re-Evaluation of the Mamluk Military Institution in the
Eastern Islamic World, 800-1040
11:00
Coffee break
11:15
Michele Bernardini (Naples)
The Role of the Turkomans in the Army of Timur: The Evolution of the
Post-Mongol Armies
12:00
Jürgen Paul (Halle)
Who makes Use of Whom? Some Observations on the Khwarazmshah Dynasty
12:45
Lunch
14:45
David Durand-Guédy (Paris/Tehran)
The Role of Nomadic Elements in Seljuq Warfare
15:30
Kurt Franz (Halle)
The See-Saw Policy of the Syrian Bedouin between Mamluks and Mongols
16:15
Coffee break
16:30
Reuven Amitai (Jerusalem)
Ibn Khaldun on Mongol Military Might
SATURDAY, 23.02.2008
09:15
Giorgio Rota (Vienna)
Fighting with the Qizilbash: Some Remarks on Safavid Warfare
10:00
Mansur Sefatgol (Tehran)
Shahri and Hashami: Continuity and Change in the Tribal Structure in
Safavid Iran, 1501-1736
10:45
Coffee break
11:00
Charles Melville (Cambridge)
The Horrors of War and the Arts of Peace: Images of Battle in Persian Manuscripts
11:45
Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich/Istanbul)
(to be announced)
12:30
Lunch
14:30
William Wood (San Diego)
Nomadic Troops in the 19th Century Khivan Khanate: The Example of
the Jamshidis
15:15
Wolfgang Holzwarth (Halle)
The Role of Uzbek Tribal Forces in Russian-Bukharan Military Encounters, 1866-1868
16:00
Coffee break
16:15
Concluding discussion
Chair: Bert Fragner (Vienna)
Veranstalter:
SFB 568 "Differenz und Integration: Wechselwirkungen zwischen nomadischen und sesshaften Lebensformen in Zivilisationen der Alten Welt" der Universitäten Halle-Wittenberg und Leipzig; Institut für Iranistik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; gefördert durch die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung und die Deutsche Forschungsemeinschaft, Halle (Saale)
Information on participating / attending:
Kontakt:
Dr. Kurt Franz
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Orientalisches Institut
Mühlweg 15
06114 Halle (Saale)
Tel.: 0345 5524078
Fax: 0345 5527123
Date:
02/21/2008 18:15 - 02/23/2008 17:30
Event venue:
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Universitätsplatz 11
Löwengebäude
Hörsaal XII
Halle (Saale)
06114 Halle (Saale)
Sachsen-Anhalt
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Law, Philosophy / ethics, Politics, Religion, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
02/18/2008
Sender/author:
Claudia Fiedler
Department:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event22756
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