Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM - Oxford University): "Address".
H.R.H. Crown Prince Hasan Bin Talal: "Address".
Dr. Ghazi Bisheh (Director General of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan): "Recent archaeological excavations in Jordan".
Chair: Mr. Pater Parr (London University
)
Dr. Piotr Bienkowski (Liverpool Museum): "The chronology of Tawilan and the
`dark age` of Edom".
Dr. John Bartlett (University of Dublin): "The situation between the end of the
Edomite kingdom and the appearance of the Nabataeans".
Dr. David F. Graf (University of Miami): "The origin of the Nabataeans".
Dr. Manfred Lindner (University of Nürnberg): "A unique Edomite/Nabataean
archaeological site in the mountains of southern Jordan".
Dr. Gerald L. Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): "Settlement patterns on the
Moabite plateau from Iron Age II through the Nabataean/Roman
period".
Chair: Dr. Judith McKenzie (University of Sydney)
Dr. William Jobling (University of Sydney): "Some new Thamudic and Nabataean
inscriptions of the Hisma in southern Jordan".
Dr. Philip C. Hammond (University of Utah): "The rise of a provincial state:
Nabatene".
Mr. Peter Parr (University of London): "The archaeology of the Petra Town
Centre".
Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): "Early Nabataeans coinage".
Chair: Dr. David Graf (University of Miami)
Dr. Margaret Lyttleton (London): "The sculpture found in the temenos of the
Qasr al'Bint at Petra".
Dr. Marie-Jeanne Roche (Hunter College-USA): "Panels decorated with busts from
Petra".
Dr. Jacqueline Dentzer-Freydy (Sorbonne University): "Le décor architectural du
temple nabatéen de Khirbet edh-Dharih".
Dr. François Villeneuve (École Normale Supérieure-Paris): "Problème de
chronologie de la céramique nabatéenne (1er-2me siècles
ap. J.C.) à partir des fouilles de Khirbet edh-Dharih".
Dr. David Johnson (Brigham Young University): "Nabataean Pyriform Unguentaria:
chronology, production and use, the evidence from Petra".
Chair: Prof. A.F.L. Beeston (Oxford University)
Dr. Khairieh Amr (Department of Antiquities - Amman): "The late kiln at
Zurrabah".
Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities - Amman): "The Nabataean gods in
the Sinai and Egypt".
Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): "Baalshamin dans le monde
nabatéen".
Dr. Ernst Axel Knauf (University of Heidelberg): "Dusares and Shai alqaum".
Chair: Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities - Amman)
Dr. Zeidoun al'Muheisen (Yarmouk University): "The hydraulic and
hydroagricultural installations found in southern Jordan".
Mr. & Mrs. Alistair & Marie Killick (England): "The Nabataeans at Udhruh".
Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University): "The Greek papyri at Nessana (Aujah
Hafir) in the Negev".
Mr. Karl Schmitt-Korte (Frankfurt): "An early Christian record of the
Nabataeans".
Dr. Jean-Marie Fiey (St. Joseph University-Beirut): "From the Nabataeans to the
Nabat".
Chair: Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University)
Dr. Khalid Ismail Ali (Baghdad University): "Etymological and semantic aspects
of the root NBT".
Dr. John F. Healey (University of Durham): "The Nabataean contribution to the
development of the Arab script".
Dr. Saleh Hamarneh (University of Jordan): "The period which followed the end
of the political reign of the Nabataeans".
Dr. Mohammad Abdul'Latif abdul'Karim (Baghdad University): "The Nabataeans in
the Arab tradition".
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ARAM Second International Conference (Oxford University - 23-26 September, 1991):
Syriac-Arab cultural Interchange during the Abbasid era in Iraq
Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM - Oxford University): "Address".
Inaugural talk: Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America): "The apologetic treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis".
Chair: Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University)
Prof. Michael Morony (University of California-LA): "The Aramaean population in
the economic life of early Islamic Iraq".
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".
Dr. Stephanie Dalley (Oxford University): "Gilgamesh after the Cuneiform".
Dr. Richard Dumbrill (London): "The Babylonian origins of Arab medieval music".
Chair: Dr. Fritz Zimmermann (Oxford University)
Dr. Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute-London): "The Life of Mohammad in
Syriac discussions in early Abbasid era".
Prof. Wilfred Madelung (Oxford University): "Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and
Christian theology".
Mrs. Averil Makhlouf (USA): "Elias of Nisibis".
Dr. Carmela Baffioni (Oriental Institute-Rome): "Probable influences in Ihwan al-Safa's logical epistle".
Chair: Dr. Samir Khalil (St Joseph University-Beirut)
Dr. Hans Daiber (Free University of Amsterdam): "Nestorians of 9th Century,
Syriac and Arabic. A survey of unexploited sources with special
reference to I. of Kashkar".
Dr. Bo Holmberg (Lund University): "The Trinitarian terminology of Israel of
Kashkar".
Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University): "The impact of Syriac tradition on
early Judaeo-Arabic Bible exegesis".
Chair: Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University)
Dr. Johannes den Heijer (University of Leiden): "The existence of a Syriac
intermediate version of Aristotle's `Historia Animalium`".
Dr. Mauro Zonta (University of Pavia): "New evidence for the history of
Aristotle's `De Animalibus` amongst Syrians and Arabs".
Chair: Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Oxford University)
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): "The Syriac background of Hunayn ibn
Ishaq's translation technique".
Dr. Gotthard Strohmaier (University of Berlin): "Hunayn ibn Ishaq: an Arab
scholar translating into Syriac".
Dr. Samir Khalil (St Joseph University-Beirut): "Le Kitab al 'Agal de Hunayn
retrouvé".
Chair: Dr. Bo Holmberg (Lund University)
Dr. Henri Hugonnard-Roche (C.N.R.S.-Paris): "Contributions syriaques aux études
arabes de logique à l'époque abbasside".
Mr. Robert Hoyland (Oxford University): "Syriac and Arabic historical writing:
an example of a cross-cultural collaboration".
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ARAM Third International Conference (Oxford University - 21-24 September, 1992):
The Decapolis
Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM - Oxford University): "Address".
Inaugural talk: Dr. David Graf (University of Miami): "Hellenization and the Decapolis".
Chair: Mr. Jeaques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman)
Dr. David Graf (University of Miami): "Helenization and the Decapolis".
Dr. Martin Goodman (Oxford University): "Jews in the Decapolis".
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary): "Abila: a thriving city of
the Decapolis".
Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster): "Nabatäer in der Dekapolis".
Mr. Ali Zayedeh (Birzeit University): "Urban transformation in the decapolis
cities of Jordan".
Dr. Thomas Weber (Johannes Gutenberg University): "Indigenous and foreign
elements in the statuary sculpture of the Decapolis".
Chair: Dr. Martin Goodman (Oxford University)
Prof. Gidean Foerster (Hebrew University): "Nysa-Scythnopolis: 'kata coelen
syrian helenidon poleon' as reflected in recent
excavations at Bet-Shean".
Prof. Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University): "From 'Roman' to 'Byzantine':
Bet-Shean (Scythopolis) in the 4th-7th centuries".
Prof. Maurice Sartre (François Rabelais University): "Canatha et Ahadra, cités
de Décapole".
Dr. Michael Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA): "Survey and ethnoarchaeological studies at Abila of the Decapolis".
Chair: Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Oxford University)
Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben Gurion University): "The Roman worship of Athena-Allat in
the Decapolis and the Negev".
Mr. Jeaques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman): "À l'ombre de Zeus et d'Artemis, Gerasa de
la Décapole".
Prof. Robert Houston Smith (College of Wooster-USA): "Pre-Christian religions
and their survivals at Pella of the Decapolis: historical
and archaeological evidence."
Mr. Robert W. Smith (Miami University): "A Necropolis of the Decapolis: the use
of tombs and cemetries at Abila".
Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): "The tombs of Yasileh in comparison
with the tombs of the cities of the Decapolis".
Chair: Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben Gurion University)
Dr. Magaret O'Hea (University of Adelaide): "The glass industry of the
Decapolis".
Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): "Civic organisation within the
Decapolis".
Dr. Wyzhar Hirschfield (Hebrew University): "The reconstruction of the Roman baths at Hammat Gader".
Chair: Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney)
Dr. Leah Di segni (Hebrew University): "Greek inscriptions of the Bath-House in
Hammath Gader".
Dr. John D. Wineland (Miami University): "Archaeological and numismatic
evidence of Greco-Roman religions of the Decapolis, with
a particular emphasis on Gerasa and Abila".
Dr. Zeidounal-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): "Le site de Yasileh et ses
relations avec les villes de la Décapole".
Dr. Lawrence conrad (Wellcome Institute-London): "The cities of the Decapolis
on the eve of the Arab conquests: some new insights from verse
attributed to Hassan ibn Thabit".
Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney): "Vestiges of the Decaoplis in North
Jordan during the late Antique-early Islamic transition".
Chair: Dr. Lawrence conrad (Wellcome Institute-London)
Dr. Willard Winter (Cincinnati Bible College & Seminary): "A Byzantine basilica
at Abila".
Dr. Karel J. Vriezen (University of Utrecht): "The centralised church in Umm
Qais".
Dr. Nicole Mulder & Mr. Robert Guinée (University of Utrecht): "Survey of the
terrace and western terrace area in Umm Qais".
Dr. Susanne Kerner (G.P.I.A.-Ammna): "Umm Qais: recent excavations".
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ARAM Fourth International Conference (Oxford University, 27-30 September, 1993):
Cultural Interchange during the Umayyad Era in Bilad al-Sham
Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM - Oxford University): "Address".
Inaugural talk: Prof. Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University): "The Umayyad ajnad: Byzance après Byzance".
Chair: Dr. Patricia Crone (University of Cambridge).
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): "The end of the Byzantine period
and the beginning of the Islamic period in northern
Jordan".
Dr. Elizabeth Savage (London): "Iraqi Christian links with an early Islamic
sect".
Dr. Michael Bates (american Numismatic Society): "Byzantine coinage and its
imitations, Arab coinage and its imitations:
Arab-Byzantine coinage".
Dr. & Mrs Michael & Neathery Fuller (St. Louis Community College-USA):
"Continuity and cultural interchange at Tell Tuneinir,
Syria".
Dr. Pamela Watson (BIAAH-Amman): "Pictorial painting on pottery and its demise in the mid-7th century AD: the case of the Jerash bowls".
Chair: Dr. Jeremy Johns (Oxford University).
Mr. W. A. Oddy (The British Museum): "The earliest Umayyad coinage of Gerasa
and Scythopolis".
Dr. Steven Rosen (Ben-Gurion University): "The nomadic periphery: archaeology
and pastoralists in the south central Negev during Late
Antiquity".
Dr. Claus-Peter Haase (University of Kiel): "Is Madinat al-Far, in the Balikh
region of northern Syria, an Umayyad foundation?"
Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney): "Umayyad Damascus: notes on its
population and culture based on Ibn 'Asakir's History".
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago): "Were there `amsar` in Syria?"
Chair: Dr. Julian Raby (Oxford University).
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA): "The Christian church
of Abila of the Decapolis of the Yarmouk valley system in the
Umayyad period".
Mr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (IFAPO-Amman): "A French-Jordanian project for copying
the painting in Quseir Amra".
Dr. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge): "The pre-Islamic background of Muslim legal formularies".
Chair: Prof. Averil Cameron (London University).
Dr. Lawrence Conrad (The Wellcome Institute): "Did al-Walid I found the first
Muslim hospital?".
Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-Gurion University): "The impact of the Islamic conquest
on the Christian communities of the Third Palestine".
Prof. Daniel Sahas (University of Waterloo): "Byzantine-Arab cutlural
interaction during the Umayyad ear: the circle of John of
Damascus".
Prof. Sydney Griffith (The Catholic University of America): "The vita of
St. Michael and its reported dialogue between St. Michael
and the Caliph Abd al-Malek".
Chair: Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University).
Prof. Han Drijvers (University of Groningen): "Testamentum domini nostri Jesu
Chrisiti".
Mr. Robert Hoyland (Oxford University): "The correspondence between Leo III
(717-41) and 'Umar II (717-720)".
Dr. Chase F. Robinson (Oxford University): "The Shaharija: `Christian`
pragmatism in an early Islamic milieu".
Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): "Two Jacobite bishops, Theodotus (d.698) and Simeon (d. 734), and their relations with Umayyad authorities".
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ARAM Fifth International Conference (Oxford University, 25-28 September, 1995):
Palmyra (Tadmor)
Under the Patronage of H. E. Dr. Najah al-Attar, the Syrian Minister of Culture
Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM): "Welcome and introduction".
H.E. Dr. Najah Al-Attar (The Syrian Minister of Culture): "Address".
Dr. Sultan Muheisen (Director General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities &
Museums): "Address".
Inaugural talk: Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw):"News from Palmyra: current work and perspectives of research".
Chair: Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw)
Dr. Sultan Muheisen (Director General of the Syrian Department of Antiquities &
Museums): "Excavation work in Syria".
Dr. Khaled al-Assaad (Director of Palmyra Museums): "Restoration work in
Palmyra".
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".
Prof Klaus Parlasca (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg):"Probleme der
Palmyrischen Kunst".
Chair: Prof Han J.W. Drijvers (University of Groningen)
Dr Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France - Paris): "Un cratère
palmyrénien inscrit: nouveau document sur la vie religieuse des palmyréniens".
Prof Malcolm A.R. Colledge (University of London): "Palmyrene funerary
iconography in its Greek and Roman contexts".
Dr W Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary): "Abila and Palmyra: Ancient
trade routes from Southern Syria into Mesopotamia".
Dr Saito Kiyohide (Japanese Mission in Palmyra): "Excavation at Southeast Necropolis in Palmyra from 1990 to 1995".
Chair: Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Prof Delbert Hillers (John Hopkins University): "Palmyrene Aramaic: Lexical and
grammatical notes".
Dr Mohammad Maraqten (University of Marburg/Lahn): "Arabic words in Palmyrene
inscriptions".
Prof Han J.W. Drijvers (University of Groningen): "Inscriptions from Allat's
Sanctuary".
Dr Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford): "Bel at Palmyra, Apamea, and Assur".
Dr Jacques Seigne (IFAPO - Jordan): "The peribolos of the temple of Bel".
Chair: Dr Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford)
Dr Valentino Columbo (Italy): "Nabataeans and Palmyreans: an analysis of the
Tell el-Shuqafiyye inscriptions".
Dr Eleonora Cussini (University of Bologna): "Transfer property at Palmyra".
Miss Palmira Piersimoni (Italy): "A Palmyrene prosography: Methodological
problems".
Dr Marek Baranski (University of Warsaw): "The great colonnade of Palmyra reconsidered".
Chair: Dr Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Jordan)
Dr Ernest Will (Institut de France-Paris):"Architecture locale et architecture
impériale à Palmyre".
Dr Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): "The Palmyrene luxury trade and Revelation 18: 12-13: a neglected analogue"
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ARAM Sixth International Conference (Harvard University, 9-11 June, 1996):
Who are, or are, the Aramaeans?
Opening Ceremony:
Dr. Jim F. Coakley (Director of ARAM-Harvard University): "Address".
Inaugural talk: Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University): "The emergence of Aramaic popular literature in the first millennium BCE".
Chair: Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Oxford University)
Prof. Paul Dion (University of Toronto): "Aramean royal courts and civilian
structures of authority".
Dr. Hartmut Kühne (Free University of Berlin): "The Aramaeans on the Lower
Habur, 1000-500 BCE".
Prof. Spehen Cole (Harvard University): "The early history of the Aramaeans in
Iraq".
Prof. Stephen Grosby (Villanova University): "'rm klh: a nation of Aram?".
Chair: Prof. Peter Machinist (Harvard University)
Prof. John Huehnergard (Harvard University): "What isn't Aramaic? a
lexicograher's dilemma".
Dr. Chul Bae (Harvard University): "Aramaic as a lingua franca in the Ancient
Near East".
Prof. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University): "Aramaic`heterograms` in Iranian
scribal traditions".
Dr. Yona Sabar (University of California at L.A.): "Parallel features of
development in Jewish neo- Aramaic and modern Israeli Hebrew".
Professor Franz Rosenthal (Yale University): A free talk followed by a dinner.
Chair: Dr. J. F. Coakley (Harvard University)
Dr. Erica C. D. Hunter (Cambridge University): "Aramaic-speaking communities of
Sasanide Mesopotamia".
Dr. Victoria Erhart (Dumbarton Oaks): "The Aramaeans of the 6th-8th centuries
CE".
Dr. J.F. Coakley (Harvard University): "Assyrians or Aramaeans? In memoriam
J.M.Fiey".
Dr. Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley (USA): "Mandaeans in the U.S.A. today: the tenacity of traditions".
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ARAM Seventh International Conference (Oxford University, 15-18 July, 1996):
Trade Routes in the Near East: Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times
Opening Ceremony:
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (Chairman of ARAM - Oxford University): "Welcome &
introduction".
Inaugural talk: Prof. John Carswell (Islamic Department, London): "All at sea: Recent research in the Indian Ocean".
Chair: Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago)
Dr. Aloïs van Tongerloo (Catholic University of Leuven): "The Three Magi
wandering eastward".
Dr. Fawzi Zeyadine (Department of Antiquities-Amman): "The spice and silk
routes in Transjordan in the Hellenistic and
Roman periods".
Dr. Joan M. Frayn (London): "Aspects of trade on the Judaean coast in the
Hellenistic and Roman periods".
Dr. Leo Mildenberg (Zurich): "Petra on the Frankincense road? - again".
Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University): "Oboda - A major Nabataean caravan
halt".
Chair: Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut)
Drs Lucida Dirven (Theology Institute-Leiden): "A possible trade connection
between Dura- Europos and Palmyra".
Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester): "Palmyra and the Arabian Gulf
trade".
Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College-USA): "The King's highway, the desert highway, and Central Jordan's Kerak".
Chair: Dr Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute-London)
Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): "The routes of pilgrims to
Jerusalem".
Dr. Marlia Mundell Mango (Oxford University): "Byzantine trade with the East".
Prof. Amos Kloner (Bar Ilan University): "Stepped roads in Roman Palestine".
Dr. Mohammad A. R. Al-Thenayian (King Saud University): "The Yemeni Highland
pilgrim route between San'a and Mecca".
Dr. Mohammed Maraqten (University of Marburg/Lahn): "Dangerous trade routes: On
the plundering of caravans in the ancient Near East".
Chair: Dr. John F. Healey (Manchester University)
Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University): "Spasinu Charax and
its commercial relations with the East through the Arabian Gulf".
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago): "The Darb Zubayda: An Abbasid
trade route and its settlements across Saudi Arabia".
Prof. Nicola A. Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): "External trade of Bilad al-Sham under the early Abbasids".
Chair: Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University)
Dr. Sarit H. Oked (Ben Gurion University): "Patterns of the transport Amphora
at Ostrakine during the 6th and 7th Century".
Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (Warsaw University): "The Euphrates route between Syria and Mesopotamia".
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ARAM Eighth International Conference (American University of Beirut, 1-4 April, 1997)
The Mamluks in Bilad Al-Sham: History and Archaeology
Under the Patronage of H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri, the President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers
Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM Society): Address
H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri (The President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers):
Address.
Inaugural talk: Prof Nicola Ziadeh (Emeritus Professor): "The Mamluks in the balance".
Chair: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Director of the German Institute for Oriental
Studies-Beirut)
Prof. Ahmad Hoteit (Lebanese University): "Les expéditions mameloukes du centre
du Mont-Liban: Répercussions sur la répartition des habitants".
Prof. Elias Kattar (Lebanese University): "La géographie de la population et
relations entre les groupes au Liban à l'époque des
mameloukes Circassiens".
Dr. Erica Cruikshank Dodd (University of Victoria): "Christian Arab
painters under the Mamluks".
Dr. Lucy-Anne Hunt (University of Birmingham): "The production of illustrated
manuscripts by Christians in 13th-14th century Syria and Mesopotamia".
Prof. Rifaat Ebied: (University of Sydney): "Inter-religious attitudes:
al-Dimashqi's (d. 727/1327) letter to the people of
Cyprus".
Chair: Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney)
Prof. Dr. Heinz Grotzfeld (University of Munster): "Contes populaires de
l'époque des Mameloukes dans les Mille et Une Nuits".
Drs. Sabri Jarrar (Oxford University): "Suq al-Ma'rifa (Market of Knowledge), a Hanbalite Shrine in al-Haram al-Sharif".
Chair: Mr. Camille Asmar (Director General of the Lebanese Department of
Antiquities & Museums):
Drs. Sami el-Masri (Free University of Berlin): "Medieval pottery from Beirut's
Downtown excavations: the first results".
Dr. Eveline J. van der Steen (University of Leiden): "What happened to
Arabic-Geometric pottery in Beirut?"
Mr. Abrecht Fuess (University of Cologne): "Beirut during the Mamluk Era".
Prof. Omar Tadmury (Lebanese University): "The Mamluk architecture of Tripoli
al-Sham".
Chair: Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
Drs. Marcus Milwright (Oxford University), "The cup of the Saqi: Origins of an
emblem of the Khassakiyya".
Dr. Lutz Wiederhold (University of Halle): "Legal-religious elite and
temporal authority in Mamluk society: a "Zahiri Revolt" in
Damascus in 1386".
Prof. Suad al-Hakim (Lebanese University): "Le soufism et son message culturel durant la période des Mameloukes".
Chair: Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut)
Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney): "Village life in Mamluk Jordan: Views
of the Jordan Valley from Fahl (Pella)"
Drs. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO-Amman): "Une installation d'époque islamique dans
le sanctuaire de Zeus de Jérash: la céramique, chronologie et technologie".
Ms. Alison McQuitty, Ms. Mads Sarley, Ms. Mona Khoury and Ms. Chantell Hoppe:
(BIAAH-Amman): "Archaeology from Khirbet Faris (Jordan): the Mamluk evidence".
Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden): "The excavation at Tell Abu Sarbut
- a Mamluk village in the Jordan Valley".
Chair: Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (Emeritus Professor)
Dr. Sarab Atassi (IFEAD, Damascus): "Damas au temps des Mameloukes, la
poursuite d'un développement urbain soutenu".
Dr. Howyda Al-Harithy (American University of Beirut): "Mamluk architecture in
Damascus".
Dr. Nasser Rabbat (MIT-Boston): "The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A classical Syrian medium requires a Mamluk signature".
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ARAM Ninth International Conference (Oxford University, 14-16 July, 1997):
Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula
Chair: Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Jordanian Department of Antiquities)
Prof. Vitaly Naumkin & Prof. Victor Porkhomovsky (Moscow University):
"Scotran oral tradition and cross-cultural contacts".
Dr. Mohammad Maraqten (Philipps-Universität, Marburg/Lahn): "Mari
and Arabia: Some aspects of tribal organisation and social
institutions".
Dr. Ahmad Shboul (Sydney University): "Aspects of socio-cultural change and
continuity in the Hijaz and its contacts with Syria in
the early Islamic period".
Dr. Amin T. Tibi (Oxford): "Relations between Arabia and East Africa - as depicted in three documents".
Chair: Prof. John Healey (Manchester University)
Dr. William D. Glanzman (University of British Columbia): "South Arabia's
international commerce (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD)": A
re-assesment of the Evidence".
Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): "The
source of spice: Europe, Oman and Zanzibar during the
XIX century".
Open discussion (The speakers of the day are kindly required to be present).
Chair: Prof. Vitaly Naumkin (Moscow University)
Dr. Christian Robin (Maison de la Méditerranée, Dr. Joëlle Beaucamp (Université
de Provence), Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France): "La
persécution des Chrétiens de Najraµn et la chronologie
himyarite".
Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University): "Christianity in East
Arabia".
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): "Isaac the Syrian and other ascetics from Qatar".
Chair: Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University)
Dr. Andrey Korotayev (Moscow University): "'Aramaeans' in a late Sabaic
inscription".
Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (St. Petersburg University): "A gezeµrah-decree
from ancient South Arabia (new approach to the
interpretation of MAFRAY-H|as\iµ 1)"
Dr. Marek Baranski (Warsaw University): "The adoption of the arch structure in
the architecture of the Arabian peninsula".
Open discussion (The speakers of the day are kindly required to be present).
Chair: Prof. Vitaly Naumkin (Moscow University)
Mr. Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority): "The Nabataean standing stones
and their interpretations".
Dr. Robert Wenning (Münster): "Petra and Hegra: What makes the difference?".
Mr. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO): "Le temple nabatéen du Wadi Ramm et son
environnemnt culturel: à propos de recherches récentes".
Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Jordanian Department of Antiquities) & Mrs. Saba Fares
(IFAPO): "The Arabian tribes of Wadi Iram (Jordan)".
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ARAM Tenth International Conference (American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 14-17 April, 1998):
The Early Ottoman Period (16th and 17th centuries)
Chair: Prof. Mohammad Adnan Al-Bakhit (Al al-Bayt University)
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): "The Coming of the Ottomans".
Prof. Linda T. Darling (University of Arizona): "The Syrian provinces in Ottoman eyes".
Prof. Dr. Wolf Hütteroth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): "Northeastern Syria and adjoining parts of Iraq and Turkey under early Ottoman rule (16th Century)".
Dr. Taisir El-Zawahreh (Mu'tah University, Jordan): "The Turks (al-Rum) in the works of Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi".
Chair: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Orient-Institüt, Berlin)
Dr. Joseph Rahme (Michigan University): "Some socio-economic observations on late 16th century Ottoman Syria".
Dr. Issam Khalifeh (Université Libanaise): "Les pressoirs et les moulins au Mont-Liban, XVIme - XVIIme siècles". (En arabe avec une traduction française).
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 17th century Ottoman Palestine".
Dr. Boutros Labaki (Université Libanaise): "L’histoire économique de la principauté ma‘anaïte". (En arabe avec une traduction française).
Chair: Dr. Eugene Rogan (Oxford University)
Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence): "Le pouvoir ottoman en Syrie au XVIe siècle: Kanunname et inscriptions monumentales".
Mr. Stefan Weber (German Institute-Damascus): "Imperial architecture and local design: decoration of the Damascene buildings in the early Ottoman period in Syria".
Dr. Robert Schick (Albright Institute): "The Archaeology of Palestine/Jordan in the early Ottoman period".
Dr. Mohammed Adnan al-Bakhit (Al al'Bayt University): "The Waqf of Tulkarm (Palestine) during the early Ottoman period".
Chair: Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence)
Drs. Hind el’Soufi-Assaf (Université Libanaise): "Les vestiges ottomans de Tripoli, 16me-17me siècles".
Dr. Reuben Thorpe (German Institute-Beirut): "Ottoman archaeology in the Beirut Souks area".
Dr. Hasan Ramez Badawi (Lebanese University): "The Mosques of Sidon in the early Ottoman period (16th-17th centuries)". (In Arabic with an English translation).
Drs. Ruba Kana‘an (Oxford University): "The Travels of Evliya Çelebi: a re-interpretation of the urban history of 17th century Bilad al-Sham".
Chair: Prof. Valeria Piacentini (University of Milan)
Dr. Mounir Ismail (Université Libanaise): "La transformation du système des priviléges étrangers au système des fidèicommissaires durant le règne de Soleiman al-Qanouni". (In Arabic with a French translation).
Dr. Hasan Yahyia (Université Libanaise): "Les dévelopements du système governemental entre l'autorité ottomane et le pouvoir local dans Bilad al-Sham, 1520-1636". (In Arabic with a French translation).
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".
Dr. Otfried Weintritt (Albert-Ludwig University/Freiburg): "Biography as historiography in an early 17th century chronicle from Syria".
Chair: Dr. Boutros Labaki (Université Libanaise)
Rev. Dr. Samir Khalil (Université St. Joseph): "Les chrétiens et les prémices de la renaissance arabe aux 16e et 17e siècles".
Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (German Institute-Beirut): "Some remarks on the hierarchy of the Greek-Orthodox Church in Bilad ash-Sham in the 16th- 17th centuries".
Drs. Souad Slim (Balamand University): "The situation of Waqf between ‘Timar’ system and ‘Iltizam’".
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ARAM Eleventh International Conference (Oxford University, 13-15 July, 1998):
Cultural Interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula
Chair: Prof. Moawiyah Ibrahim (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): "From Qatar to Tokyo, by way of Mar Saba: the translations of Isaac of Niniveh’s writings".
Prof. John Healey (Manchester University) & Dr. Hamad Bin Seray (U.A.E. University): "Aramaic in the Gulf: towards a corpus".
Dr. Bruce Ingham (University of London): "The bedouins of Qatar in the light of cultural interaction".
Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart-Milan): "Sa‘id bin Sultan of the Al Bu Sa‘idi of Oman (1806-1856) and his relationship with Europe".
Chair: Prof. John Healey (Manchester University)
Dr. Aviva Klein-Franke (Universität zu Köln): "The Hebrew and the Arabic inscription in the mosque of Beith al-Hadr".
Prof. Paolo M. Costa (University of Bologna): "The ancient Jewish community of Sohar (Oman)".
Mr. Carl Phillips (University of London): "Cultural interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula illustrated by the excavations at Kalba (UAE)".
Chair: Mr. Michael Macdonald (University of Oxford)
Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney): "East Arabia and Syria during the Umayyad period".
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): "Trade and travel in the Arabian Gulf in the Middle Ages".
Prof. Clive Holes (Oxford University): "Dialogue Poems in Eastern Arabia: a literary link with ancient Mesopotamia".
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".
Chair: Mr. Peter Parr (University of London)
Dr. Dr. Hanae Sasaki (Kanazawa University-Japan): "Ancient maritime trade and cultural interchange between the Arabian Gulf and East Asia".
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)".
Dr. Salma Samar Damluji (United Arab Emirates University ): "The vernacular architecture in the cities of Oman and the United Arab Emirates".
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ARAM Twelfth International Conference (American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 13-16 April, 1999):
Beirut: History and Archaeology
Chair: Piero Bartoloni (Institute of Phoenician and Punic Civilisation, Rome)
Dr. J.P. Thalmann (Université de Sorbonne): "The Bronze Age on the Syro-Lebanese coast (Tell ‘Arqa and Beirut)".
Dr. Michel Al-Maqdissi (IFAPO-Damas): "Les données récentes sur l’Âge du Bronze ancien dans la plaine de Jablé (côte syrienne)".
Dr. Leila Badre (American University of Beirut): "The Bronze Age of Beirut: Major results".
Dr. Hans Curvers (University of Amsterdam): "The lower town of pre-classical Beirut".
Dr. Uwe Finkbeiner (University of Tübingen): "The Iron Age fortification and city gate: new evidence".
Mr. Francisco Núñez Calvo (University of Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona): "An approach to trade relations in Iron Age Beirut: the ceramic evidence".
Chair: Dr. Helen Sader (American University of Beirut)
Mrs. Françoise Chaput (University of Tübingen): "Un cimetière de chiens de l’époque perse à Beyrouth".
Dr. Hussein Sayegh (Université Libanaise): "L'architecture domestique durant la période perse".
Chair: Prof. Pascal Arnaud (Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis)
Dr. John W. Hayes (University of Oxford): "Aspects of Hellenistic/Roman pottery (finds from site Bey 004 and their connections)".
Ms. Catherine Aubert (IFAPO-Beirut): "Architecture hellénistique et peinture murale à Beyrouth".
Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden): "The results of the excavations at BEY 011: the Hellenistic and Byzantine souk".
Mr. Dominic Perring (University of York): "Classical Beirut: themes of urban continuity and change - Hellenistic to Byzantine Beirut".
Dr. Barbara Stuart (University of Amsterdam): "Cemetries in Beirut".
Dr. Ulrike Outschar (Austrian Academy of Science): "Amphorae Peacock Class 45 (micacous water jars) and their trade in the Eastern Mediterranean".
Dr. Kevin Butcher (American University of Beirut): "Coin circulation in Roman Beirut: the assemblages from BEY 006 and 045".
Mr. Reuben Thorpe (A.C.R.E.): "The Imperial Thermae of BEY 045 and Observations on the Topography of Roman Beirut".
Chair: Mr. Dominic Perring (University of York)
Drs. Noor Mulder-Hijmans (University of Maastricht): "Egg shell oil lamps from the Roman souk of Bey 011".
Ms. Rima Mikati (American University of Beirut): "The spatial, functional and chronological aspects of lamp studies; the Roman Bath Lamps, BEY 045"
Drs. Lidewgde de Jong (University of Amsterdam): "The Roman burial practices in Beirut".
Prof. Pascal Arnaud (Université de Nice- Sophia Antipolis): "Beirut commerce and trade: late Hellenistic to Byzantine times".
Ms. Sarah Jennings (English Heritage) & Ms. Joanna Abdallah (AUB): "Glass from Beirut: Roman to Mamluk".
Chair: Prof. Jean-Marie Dentzer (IFAPO)
Dr. Linda Jones Hall (St Mary’s College of Maryland): "Beirut through the Classical texts: From Colonia to Civitas".
Dr. Henry I. MacAdam (Princeton University): "The Roman Law School of Beirut."
Dr. Frederic Alpi (IFAPO): "Beyrouth byzantine et proto-islamique: continuité et ruptures (Ve-VIIIe s.)".
Dr. Muntaha Saghieh-Beydoun (Lebanese University): "The stratigraphy and architecture of sector BEY 004".
Dr. Paul Reynolds (American University of Beirut): "Pottery in Beirut: Economic trends in the 6th-7th centuries A.D."
Dr. John Meloy (American University of Beirut): "Beirut’s political and economic status in the Islamic periods".
Chair: Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
Ms. Patricia Antaki (American University of Beirut): "The Crusader castle of Beirut".
Ms. Eveline van der Steen (University of Leiden): "Mamluk and Ottoman pottery."
Dr. Joseph G. Rahme (The University of Michigan-Flint): "Demographic history of Ottoman Beirut, 1516-1918".
Mr. Oussama Kabbani (Solidere-Beirut): "Preservation and restoration of historical buildings (Solidere)."
Mrs. Isabelle Skaf (Directorate General of Antiquities): "Lifted mosaics from the Beirut excavations: conservation problems".
Mrs. Renata Tarazi (Départment Libanais des Antiquités): "Loi et pratique dans la conservation du patrinoine culturel".
Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut): "Dialoguing with the past: Will Beirut’s past still speak to the future?"
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ARAM Thirteenth International Conference (Harvard University, 13-15 June, 1999):
The Mandaeans
Baptisms in the Charles River
Chair: Professor Karen King
Dr. Nathaniel Deutsch (Swarthmore College): "The palm tree and the wellspring: Mandaeism and Jewish mysticism".
Dr. Roberto Sánchez Vanlencia (Univeristy of Iberoamericana, Mexico): "An approach to the identity of 'Adversarius legis et prophetarium' by St. Augustine".
Dr. Fabrizio Pennacchietti (University of Torino): "An Arabo-Islamic tale in agreement with the Mandaean belief that John the Baptist got married".
Chair: Professor Peter Machinist
Mr. James Tabor (University of North Carolina): "John as Saviour of the world: some pro-John the Baptist readings in medieval Shem-Tob’s Hebrew Mathew and their New Testament provenance".
Dr. Francesca Rochberg (University of California at Riverside): "Babylonian celestial divination and astrology in the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac".
Chair: Professor James Russell
Dr. Erica Hunter (University of Cambridge): "Mandaean bowls in the British Museum".
Dr. Mikhail Tarelko (Belarusian State University, Minsk): "A magical scroll in the Drower collection".
Dr. Edwin M. Yamauchi (Miami University): "Mandaic incantation texts: lead rolls and magic bowls".
Chair: Prof. John Huehnergard
Panel on the Mandaic language, featuring native speakers.
A showing of Lady Drower's 1954 film of Mandaean ceremonies in Iraq, with commentary by Jorunn J. Buckley.
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Chair: Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (University of Oxford)
Dr. Sinasi Gündüz (University of Ondokuz Mayis, Turkey): "Problems on the Muslim understanding of the Mandaeans".
Dr. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College): "The use of colophons and scribal postscripts in envisioning Manadaean history".
Dr. Edmondo F. Lupieri, (University of Udine, Italy): "On the history of early contacts between Mandaeans and Europeans".
Chair: Prof. Wolfhart Heinrichs
Miss Roberta Broghero (University of Torino): "A 17th century glossary of Mandaic".
Mr. Brian Mubaraki (Sydney, Australia): "The development and advantages of typed Mandaic".
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Chair: Prof. Amos Kloner (Hebrew University)
Dr. Daphna V. Arbel (University of British Columbia): "Junction of tradition in Edessa: possible interaction between Mesopotamian mythological and Jewish mystical traditions in the first centuries CE".
Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (University of Petersburg): "Antioch in South Arabian tradition and in medieval Ethiopian literature".
Chair: Prof. Riccardo Contini (University of Venice)
Mr. Alain Desreumaux (Paris): "Nouvelles inscriptions araméennes édesséniennes en Osrhoène".
Prof. Catherine Saliou (Paris): "Mythes et récits de fondation d’Antioche".
Chair: Prof. Zeidoun Al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University, Jordan)
Dr. Grégoire Poccardi & Mr. Jacques Leblanc (Université de Nanterre): "Nouvelles recherches sur la ville d’Antioche et ses faubourgs: le stade olympique de Daphné".
Dr. Hans Erbes (University of Uppsala): "The Syro-Hexapla readings in relation to the Peshitta variants and related versional readings in Joshua 1-5".
Chair: Prof. Chip Coakley (Harvard University)
Dr. Muriél Debié (Paris): "Record keeping and chronicle writing in Antioch and Edessa".
Dr. Witold Witakowski (University of Upsala): "The Antiochene continuation of Eusebius’ chronicle in Syriac".
Chair: Prof. Paolo Costa (University of Bologna)
Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (University of Oxford): "The untamed violence of Syrian ascetics: a study of the problem of violence and killing in the Liber Graduum".
Dr. Ephrem Yousif (Université Paris X): "Les calamités: Sauterelles, famine, peste, guerre, tremblement de terre, à Édesse et à Antioche du quatrième au septième siècle dans les chroniques syriaques".
Chair: Dr. Theresa Ubrainczyk (University of Oxford)
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): "The Impact of Hellenism on Syriac: Greek loanwords in the writings of two authors of Edessa, Ephrem & Narsai".
Prof. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich): "Peter the Fuller and Cyrus of Edessa".
Chair: Dr. R. Bas Ter Haar Romeny (University of Leiden)
Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University): "The transmission of Greek scientific knowledge: Cambridge ms. Mm. 6.29".
Dr. Klaus-Peter Todt (University of Mainz): "Antioch and Edessa in the so-called treaty of Deabolis/Devol (September 1108)".
Chair: Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney)
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): "Dawood al-Antaki (David of Antioch) in Arab history".
Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (Orient-Institut, Beirut): "The city of Antioch in the writings of Macatius ibn Azza‘im (17th century)".
Dr. Nikolaj Serikoff (Wellcome Institute): "Patriarch Gregory al-Haddad and his gift to Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia. (About the Christian Arabic MSS preserved in the St-Petersburg Institute of Oriental Studies)".