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The Manuscript Center 7th International Conference Heritage Continuity (Origins and Preliminaries of Arabic/Islamic Heritage) 25-27 May 2010/ BA Conference Center Tuesday 25/5/2009 9:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:45 Opening Session · Prof. Ismail Serageldin (Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina) Opening Speech · Prof. Youssef Ziedan (Director of the Manuscript Center & Museum) Origins and Preliminaries of Arabic/Islamic Heritage 10:45 – 11:45 Session (1) Moderator: Prof. Youssef Ziedan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
The Revival of Origins: The Birth of Scientific and Philosophical Thought in Islam
11:45 – 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 – 1:30 Session (2) Moderator: Prof. Nefertiti Megahed (Egypt)
The Arabic Tradition of Euclid's Data and the Birth of Geometrical Analysis
· Prof. Nader El-Bizri (Lebanon/UK) Ibn al-Haytham's Conception of Place and Aristotle's Topos
1:30 – 2:30 Session (3) Moderator: Prof. Muhammad El-Faham (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) · Prof. Angeliky Ziaka (Greece) Sources and Means of Transmitting the Aristotelian Thought to the Arab-Islamic Civilization
Monsters, Angels, Curiosities: Multiple Paths and Heritage Continuance from the Late Antiquity to Persian and Arabic/Islamic Cosmography
2:30 – 3:30 Lunch (Conference Guests)
3:30 – 5:00 Session (4) Moderator: Mr. Muhammad Kujjah (Syria)
· Prof. Abdullah Al-Ghunaim (Kuwait) Cultural Continuity in Arabic Geographical Heritage
· Prof. Ayman Fouad Al-Sayed (Egypt) Origins and Preliminaries of Arabic Heritage: The Case of Ibn al-Nadīm's al-Fihrist
· Dr. Adel Mohamed Zeyada (Egypt) Public Baths in Islam: Traces of a Pre-Islamic Heritage
5:00 – 6:30 Session (5) Moderator: Mr. Fakhry Saleh (Jordan)
Pre-Islamic Literature and the Theory of Torah Sources
Tracing Mythical Influences in Arabic Literature Before and After Islam
· Dr. Ahmed Selim Ghanem (Egypt/KSA) The Output of Acculturation in Kalila and Dimmna
Wednesday 26/5/2010 9:30 – 10:30 Session (6) Moderator: Prof. Muhammad Salim Al-Awa (Egypt)
Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity in Islamic Heritage
10:30 – 12:00 Session (7) Moderator: Mr. Ramy El-Gamal (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
Idrīs and ‘Uzayr
The Eucharist in the Qur’ān: A Linguistic and Comparative Reading of the Conclusion of Sūrat Al-Mā’ida
12:00 – 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 – 2:30 Session (8) Moderator: Prof. Hassan Hanafy (Egypt)
· Prof. Andrew Rippin (Canada) The Pre-History of the Text of the Qur’ān
· Prof. Gerald Hawting (UK) Messengers and Prophets in the Qur’ān
· Prof. Angelika Neuwirth and Dr. Michael Marx (Germany) The Qur’ān and Late Antiquity
2:30 – 3:15 Lunch (Conference Guests)
3:15– 4:00 Session (9) Moderator: Dr. Faysal El-Hafyan (Syria/Egypt)
· Prof. Radwan El-Sayed (Lebanon) Language, Religion and Heritage Continuity Before and After Islam
4:00 - 5:00 Session (10) Moderator: Dr. Sameh Fawzy (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
Christian Theology and Kalām: The Example of ‘Ammār al-Basrī
Christian-Islamic Interaction in Egypt till the Tenth Century
5:00 – 5:15 Coffee Break
5:15 - 6:15 Session (11) Moderator: Prof. Bashar Awad Marouf (Iraq/Jordan)
The Reality of Jewish Influences on Arabic-Islamic Heritage and their Manifestations
Manifestations of Heritage Continuity in the Thought of Ahl al-Sunna Wa al-Jamā‘a
Thursday 27/5/2010 9:30 – 10:30 Session (12) Moderator: Prof. Muhammad El-Said El-Dakkaq (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) · Prof. Irene Christinaki (Greece) The Principle of Legality in the Seventh Century
· Prof. Kyriaco Nicolaou (Greece) The Penalty of Stoning for Adultery between the Qur’ān and Sunna
10:30 – 12:00 Session (13) Moderator: Prof. Muhammad al-Dalee (Egypt)
· Prof. Salah Abdul-Aziz Mahgoub (Egypt) Days of the Arabs in Syriac Literature
· Dr. Magda Anwar (Egypt) Diacritics and Accentuation Marks from Greek and Syriac into Arabic
· Prof. Magdi Abdul-Razik (Egypt) Abyssinian Words in the Qur’ān and Sunna: A Study of their Lexical Connotations
12:00 – 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 – 1:15 Session (14) Moderator: Prof. Ashraf Farrag (Egypt) · Mr. Mikhaly Solomonidis (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) Logos: From Greek Philosophy to Islamic Perception
Mandaeism and Islam
1:15 – 2:45 Session (15) Moderator: Prof. Abdul-Halim Noureldeen (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
· Prof. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Finland) Ibn Wahšiyya al-Nabatī: Nabateans and the Transmission of Ancient Mesopotamian Culture
· Prof. Okasha El-Daly (Egypt/UK/Qatar) Ancient Egyptian Culture in Medieval Arabic Writings
2:45 – 3:30 Lunch (Conference Guests)
3:30 – 4:30 Closing Plenary Session Moderator: Prof. Youssef Ziedan Prof. Roshdi Rashed Prof. Hassan Hanafy Prof. Bashar Awad Marouf Fr. Prof. Samir Khalil Samir Prof. Andrew Rippin Prof. Gerald Hawting Prof. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila Prof. Radwan El-Sayed 5:00 – 6:30 Culturama & Planetarium Shows (Conference Guests)
9:00 Conference Dinner at Salamlek Hotel (Conference Guests)
Friday 28/5/2010 Excursion & Library Tour (Conference Guests) |
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