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The Manuscript Center 3rd International Conference Commentary Manuscripts March 2006
Tuesday 7/3/2006
9:00- 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:30 Opening Session
· Gen. Abdul-Salam Al-Mahgoub (Governor of Alexandria) Alexandria: City of Heritage · Prof. Ismail Serageldin (Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina) Arabic Heritage and the Production of Knowledge · Prof. Youssef Ziedan (Director of the Manuscript Center) The Concept of the Commentary Manuscript
Inauguration of the Commentary Manuscripts Exhibition
10:30 – 11:30 Session 1 Moderator: Prof. Hassan Hanafi (Egypt)
· Prof. Roshdi Rashed (France/Egypt) Commentaries on Ptolemy's Almagest attributed to Ibn al-Haytham
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 1:15 Session 2 Moderator: Prof. Jan Witkam (Netherlands)
· Dr. Robert G. Morrison (USA) The Arabic Commentaries on Ptolemy’s Almagest and their Role in the History of Arabic Astronomy · Prof. Abdulhay Komilov (Tajikistan) Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī's Commentary on Ptolemy's Apotelesmatica · Prof. Mahmoud Al-Hamza (Russia) Ibn al-Baghdādī's Commentary on the Tenth Book of Euclid's Elements
1:15 – 2 :15 Session 3
Moderator: Prof. Alaeldine Lolah (Syria)
· Prof. Mariam Rozhanskaya (Russia) al-Khāzinī's Commentary on al-Birūnī's treatise on the Specific Weights · Prof. Constantin Canavas (Germany/ Greece) Commenting Arabic Technological Treatises in Illustrated Manuscripts: a Typology in the Case of Banū Mūsā's Kitāb al-Hiyal
2:15 – 3:00 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)
3:00 – 4:00 Session 4 Moderator: Prof. Abdullah Yusuf Al-Ghoneim (Kuwait)
· Prof. Jan Witkam (Netherlands) Poverty or Richness? Some Opinions on the Generation of Islamic Texts Revisited
4:00 – 5:15 Session 5 Moderator: Prof. Muhammed El-Kordi (Egypt)
· Rev. Dr. Makram Naguib (Egypt) Varying Perspectives in Biblical Hermeneutics: the Text and Reality · Prof. Kamal Nabhan (Egypt) Commentaries: a Human Need and a Cultural Function · Ramy El-Gamel (Egypt) Should we stick to the point?! Commentaries and the Hermeneutic Value of Digression
5:15 – 5:30 Coffee Break
5:30 – 6:30 Session 6 Moderator: Prof. Hamid Taher (Egypt)
· Prof. Maher Abdel-Qader (Egypt) al-Dakhwār's Commentary on Hippocrates' Prognosticom: the Transition from Textual Interpretation to Textual Deconstruction · Mikhaly Solomonidis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) Commenting through Translation: The Case of Hunayn bin-Ishāq
9:00 Reception at Renaissance Hotel
Wednesday 8/3/2006
9:30 – 1 0:30 Session 7 Moderator: Prof. Gamal Hagar (Egypt)
· Prof. George Saliba (USA/Lebanon) Originality in Late Scientific Commentaries: The Case of Šams al-Dīn al-Khafrī (d.1550)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Session 8 Moderator: Prof. Radwan El-Sayyed (Lebanon)
· Dr. Ayman Fouad Sayyid (Egypt) Addenda on Historical Primary Texts · Prof. Omar Abdul-Salam Tadmori (Lebanon) Commentaries of Ibn al-Jazrī and al-Dhahabī on al-Muqtafā by al-Birzālī · Dr. Andrew Peacock (UK) Commentaries on al-‘Utbī’s Tā’rīkh al-Yamīnī
12:15 – 2:00 Session 9 Moderator: Prof. George Saliba (USA/Lebanon)
· Prof. Maroun Aouad (France/Lebanon) Signs and Remarks of the Marginalia in the Manuscripts of Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric (Talkhīs al-Khatāba)
The Didascalla in Rhetoricam Aristotelis ex glosa Alpharabii: Introduction of al-Farābī's Great Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric · Prof. Emma Gannagé (Lebanon) A Commentary in a Commentary: Extracts of Greek Philosophical Commentaries found in Alchemical Manuscripts
2:00 – 2:45 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)
2:45 – 4:15 Session 10 Moderator: Faysal Al-Hafyan (Egypt/Syria)
(Prof. Abdel-Hamid Sabra's speech upon receiving the Sarton Medal 2005)
· Prof. Abdel-Hamid Sabra (USA/Egypt) The Commentary that Saved the Text: The Hazardous Journey of Ibn al-Haytham's Optics (read by Ramy El-Gamel)
· Dr. Mustaf Jahic (Bosnia) Characteristics of Bosnian Commentary Manuscripts
4:15 – 5:15 Session 11 Moderator: Dr. Mohamed Soliman (Egypt/ Syria)
· Dr. Abdel-Latif Al-Jilani (Morocco) Commentary Turrar in Moroccan Manuscripts · Iyad Ahmed Al-Ghouj (Jordan) Common and Rare Patterns of Commentary Manuscripts
5:15 – 5:30 Coffee Break
5:30 – 7:00 Session 12 Moderator: Prof. Abdul-Sattar Al-Halwagi (Egypt)
· Dr. Abdullah Muharib (Kuwait) Commentaries of Dīwān al-Hamāsa · Prof. Mohamed Fikri (Morocco) The Literary Commentary Manuscript: a New Approach · Dr. Ahmed Selem Ganem (Egypt) Commentaries on Abū-Tammām's Dīwān
Thursday 9/3/2006
9:30 – 10:30 Session 13 Moderator: Dr. Halit Eren (Turkey)
· Prof. Hassan Hanafi (Egypt) Late Commentary Manuscripts (a reading into the manuscripts of 'Ilm al-Usūl)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Session 14 Moderator: Prof. Ahmed Shawki Benbin (Morocco)
· Dr. Genevieve Humbert (France) Commentaries on Sībawayih's Kitāb · Isam Shanti (Egypt/Jordan) Commentaries on Islāh al-Mantiq · Dr. Yahya Mir Alam (Kuwait) Commentaries of Grammatical Manuscripts (the case of the Commentaries of al-Īdāh by Abū-'Alī al-Fārisī)
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 2:30 Session 15 Moderator: Prof. Sheikh Ali Gomaa (Grand Mufti of Egypt)
· Prof. Ahmed Mi'bid Abdel Karim (Egypt) Commentaries of al-Manzūma al-Alfiyya fīl-Sīra al-Nabawiyya · Dr. Abdel Samie Al-Anis (Emirates) Commentary Manuscripts of Hadith · Dr. Mahmoud Masri (Syria) Hadith Terminology and Commentaries on Ibn al-Salāh's Kitāb‘Ulūm al-Hadīth
2:30 – 3:15 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)
3:15 – 4:45 Session 16 Moderator: Adil Salahi (UK/Syria)
· Prof. Radwan El-Sayyed (Lebanon) Early Fiqh Treatises: Commentaries of Mukhtasarāt (the case of al-Muzanī) · Prof. Abdul-Wahid Dhanoon (Iraq) Commentary Manuscripts of Theology (the case of al-Kawkab al-Mutalālī) · Prof. Abdul-Illah Nabhan (Syria) al-Taftazānī's Commentary on al-Nasafī's Tafsīr
4:45 – 6:15 Session 17 Moderator: Mohammed Qija (Syria)
· Dr. Abdel-Hakim Al-Anis (Emirates) Earthly Commentaries on a Heavenly Book · Dr. Hassan Tayyan (Kuwait/Syria) al-Māliqī's Methodology in al-Dur al-Nathīr · Dr. Karam Amin Abu-Karam (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) Sufi Commentaries between Explanation and Interpretation
6:15- 6:30 Closing Session
Moderator: Prof. Youssef Ziedan Between the Two Conferences!
6:45- 7:30 Planetarium Show (Cosmic Voyage)
9:00 Conference Dinner at Salamlik Hotel
Friday 10/3/2006
Excursion
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