Leiden Centre for Late Antiquity & Early Middle Ages

Conference next week on theological, historiographical, grammatical, literary debates in the first there centuries of islam

Thur 3 - Sat 5 December 2015 | Juynboll Conference | Islam @ 250 - Events - Geesteswetenschappen... Het Leids Universitair Centrum voor de studie van Islam en Samenleving (LUCIS) is een interdisciplinair kenniscentrum van de Universiteit Leiden.

Fantastische bron met nieuwtjes over Klassieke Arabische teksten en moderne applicaties daarvan: de aantekeningen, gedachten en observaties van Wim Raven.

Wat wordt dit? Het Leeswerk Arabisch en Islam is een uitdijend bloek dat notities en opmerkingen bevat naar aanleiding van overwegend oude literaire en religieuze teksten in het Arabisch. De vertalingen en Arabis...

Meeting of the GUiding Travelers initiative on the way religious communities are visible in texts and material culture such as archaeology

http://hum.leidenuniv.nl/lucis/events/guiding-travelers-lucis.html

10 December | Guiding Travelers Workshop: Visual Religion - Events - Geesteswetenschappen -... Het Leids Universitair Centrum voor de studie van Islam en Samenleving (LUCIS) is een interdisciplinair kenniscentrum van de Universiteit Leiden.

Egypt Connected | Khaled Younes on the organization of the hajj in early Muslim Egypt |

The word ḥajj literally means to set out towards a certain place. In Islamic law, it signifies the annual pilgrimage to Mecca to fulfill the last of the five pillars of the Muslim faith. According to Islamic law, pilgrimage is obligatory, at least once in a lifetime, on all Muslims, both men and women, as long as they are physically and financially able to do so and as far as the roads are safe to undertake the journey (Q 3:97). The pilgrimage season always takes place during the first two weeks of the last month of the Muslim calendar, Dhū al-Ḥijja. The religious, political and social meanings of the ritual of ḥajj have been widely discussed by both ancient and modern historians and jurists. On the other hand, the emotional dimension of this ritual has been hardly discussed. This paper stresses the emotional aspects of the journey and rituals of the ḥajj on the basis of a number of published and unpublished papyri

Egypt Connected: Migration | Lecture | Lucian Reinfandt (University of Vienna) on Persian presence in Egypt in the 9th
century

Not long after assuming power, the Abbasid caliphs’ control over territories was put at stake by an increasing regionalisation. Important provinces became factually independent from the centre of the empire. Political events were simply surface phenomena symptomatic for deeper processes, among them repeated migration movements of considerable geographic reach. The administrative personnel in provinces of the empire, here Egypt, is of special interest in this regard, because both elites and middle-level technocrats had considerable influence on local political decision making. Their migration, predominantly from eastern lands, brought along an import of specific forms of control over territorial resource extraction but could change from group to group and would have lasting effects on local conditions. The staff composition of the caliphal administration on a local level influenced adjacent social milieus and introduced technological innovations. In the long run it affected the political fate of the empire itself. Taking Egypt as an example, I will analyse the administrative personnel on lower hierarchical levels outside the capital on the basis of their own writings. The data will be categorised into ideal types of administrators and a comparison undertaken with the administrative situation in more central lands of the empire against the background of political events during the 9th century CE.

Vivien Prigent | les lients entre l'Egypte et les provinces centrales de la Mediterranee

In addition to Nick Tackett some other greats in Tang history and literature will be in town for a first workshop on "The Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Reign," a classic in East Asia since the eighth century.| Leiden University | June 29th

Egypt Connected: Cultural, Economic, Political and Military Interactions (500-1000 CE) | Leiden University | Thu-Sat 18-20 June 2015

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/highlights/egypt-connected.html

Thu-Sat 18-20 June 2015 | Egypt Connected: Cultural, Economic, Political and Military... The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies harbours research in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Asian Studies.

Wednesday 10 June | Round Table by Melanie Wasmuth
"Ancient Civilisation Studies meets Historical Geography: mapping political diversity"

Time: 11.00-13.00
Venue: to be announced

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/highlights/10-june-round-table-by-melanie-wasmuth.html

Wednesday 10 June | Round Table by Melanie Wasmuth - What's on - Humanities -... The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies harbours research in the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Asian Studies.

The Calendar in Pre-Islamic Mecca | Hideyuki Ioh
Free download available until 31 July 2015

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700585-12341319?utm_campaign=5646390_15+May+MIA+most+downloaded&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Brill&dm_i=25XA,3D0S6,JO675D,C0VQC,1

The Calendar in Pre-Islamic Mecca » Brill Online In pre-Islamic times, pilgrimages were made to sanctuaries in various regions of Arabia. Feasts connected with idolatry and annual fairs were held at convenient seasons of the year. To keep all these events in order, a lunisolar calendar was used, and the calendar adjuster of the Banū Kināna was cha…

The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade | Stefano Costa
Free available @ Brill till 31 July 2015

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340029?utm_campaign=5646396_15+May+Classics+most+downloaded&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Brill&dm_i=25XA,3D0SC,JO675D,C0VR0,1

The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade » Brill Online

12 May | Buddhism & Social Justice | LECTURE | Bryan Lowe 15.00-17.00, Eyckhof 2 room 5 (Leiden University)

This talk will place three projects within the broader historical and cosmological climate of eighth-century Japan. http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/events.html

Buddhism & Social Justice | Events In the middle of 748, Queen Consort Kōmyō commissioned one hundred copies—many on fine colored paper—of a relatively obscure work, entitled the Scripture on Saving and Protecting Body and Life. This text promises protection from attacks by demons and sorcerers, as well as from other threats that pla…