Yale Arabic Colloquium
Full List, 1998-Present

Inaugural meeting:

April 15, 1998
Beatrice Gruendler, Professor of Arabic, NELC; Dimitri Gutas, Professor, NELC; and David Reisman, Ph.D., NELC, 2001, Assistant Professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago.
"The Binary World of 'innama': Practice and Theory of the Use of the Medieval Arabic Particle"

1998-1999

October 14, 1998
Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State College.
"Citations of al-Mada'ini in al-Tabari and al-Baladhuri"

November 11, 1998
Howard Miller, graduate student, Medieval Studies, Yale University.
"Mozarabic Legal Documents from the Archives of Toledo, 1085-1300"

February 3, 1999
Walid Saleh, Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University, 2001; Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of Toronto.
"Under the Gazing Eyes of Philology: Medieval Qu'ranic Exegesis"

March 3, 1999
Hilary Kilpatrick, Independent Scholar.
"Abu l-Faraj's Own Words in the Kitab al-Aghani"

April 7, 1999
Dr. Maroun Aouad, CNRS, Paris.
"Textual and Conceptual Traditions in Averroes' Theory of Rhetorical Reasoning"

1999-2000

October 13, 1999
Beatrice Gruendler, Professor of Arabic, NELC, Yale University.
"Motif vs. Genre: Reflections of the Diwan al-Ma'ani of Abu Hilal al-'Askari"

November 10, 1999
Jennifer Bryson, Ph.D., NELC, 2001.
"The Hawi of Razi (d. ca. 925CE), Book One: Citation Genres"

December 8, 1999
Tahera Qutbuddin, Assistant Professor of Arabic, University of Chicago.
"Communion with God: Early Attestations of the Munajat Genre in the Poetry of the Fatimid Da'i al-Mu'ayyad"

March 1, 2000
Aziz al-Azmeh, Visiting Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Yale University
"Islam in Late Antiquity"

March 30, 2000
Gerhard Endress, Professor of Arabic, Bochum University.
"Alexander of Aphrodisias in Arabic Transmission"

October 25, 2000:
Felizitas Opwis, Ph.D., NELC, 2001.
"The Development of Islamic Legal Theory through the Reinterpretation of Legal Cases"

November 8, 2000
Frank Griffel, Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University.
"Ibn Tumart's Aqida: An Early Example for Ibn Sina's Influence on Ash'ari Theology?"

December 6, 2000
Amina Steinfels, Instructor of Religion, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.
"The Language of Initiation in Indian Sufism"

February 28, 2001
Howard D. Miller, Ph.D, Medieval Studies, 2003, Assistant Professor of
History, Jacksonville State University.
"A Mozarabic Puzzle: Fragments from the National Archives in Madrid"

March 28, 2001
Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Professor of Arabic, Bochum University
"Ibn Farighun on Forms of Communication"

2001-2002

October 10, 2001
Ala Alryyes, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University.
"'O People of America': The 1831 Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, an Arab-Speaking Slave"

November 14, 2001
Friederike Pannewick, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Free University of Berlin.
"The Traditional Storyteller in Modern Arabic Drama"

December 5, 2001
David C. Reisman, Ph.D., NELC, 2001, Assistant Professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago.
"'That's Another Headache': Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Correspondence"

February 13, 2002
Everett K. Rowson, Professor of Arabic, New York University.
"An Editing Conundrum: The Recensions of al-'Utbi's Kitab al-Yamani"

March 6, 2002
Irfan Shahid, Oman Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University.
"Pre-Islamic Translations of the Bible: al-Hira"

April 17, 2002
Michael Sells, Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College.
"Love's 99 Names: Translating the Arabic Ghazal"

2002-2003

Otober 23, 2002
Adel Allouche, Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University.
"Al-Majlisi's Missing Link: The Misdeeds of the Caliphs"

November 20, 2002
David C. Reisman, Ph.D., NELC, 2001, Assistant Professor of Arabic-Islamic Thought, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago.
"Pseudepigraphy and Forgery in Medieval Islam: Examples from Philosophical Literature"

December 11, 2002
Kevin van Bladel, graduate student, NELC.
"The Arabic Hermetica and the Question of Their Origins"

February 5, 2003
Suleiman Mourad, graduate student, NELC; Instructor in Religion, Islam, and Western Religions, Middlebury College.
"Between Myth and History: Hasan al-Basri and Early Islamic Thought"

March 26, 2003
Sebastian Günther, Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Toronto.
"Advice for Teachers by the Ninth Century Scholars Ibn Sahnun and al-Jahiz: Two Classical Arabic Texts of Pedagogy and Didactics"

April 23, 2003
Bassam Frangieh, Senior Lector of Arabic, Yale University
"Modern Arabic Poetry and Difficulties of Translation"

2003-2004

Series on Ibn Khaldun's "Science of Society" by Abdesselam Cheddadi, Institut Universitaire de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Muhammad V, Rabat

October 8, 2003
"Conditions for the Existence of Civilization"

October 15, 2003
"Civilization: A Bipolar Phenomenon"

October 29, 2003
"The State, Part I"

November 5, 2003
"The State, Part II"

November 19, 2003
"Urban Civilization: A State Phenomenon"

December 3, 2003
"Ibn Khaldun's Relation to the Graeco-Arabic Heritage"

February 18, 2004
Eva Orthmann, University of Zurich
"Celestial Orders: Islamic Texts on Astrology"

2004-2005

September 29, 2004
Vahid Behmardi, The American University in Beirut
"Rhetorical Values in Buyid Persia according to Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani"

October 6, 2004
Devin Stewart, Emory University
"Emending Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist"

October 20, 2004
Mona Ali, Cairo Uiversity
"Translation as a Deglobalization Process"

November 17, 2004
Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Harvard University
"Theory and Practice in Islamic law: How Juridical Decisions Relate to Legal Principles according to Five Works from the 11th to the 16th Century

March 2, 2005
Wolfhart Heinrichs, Harvard University
“Ibn Khaldun’s Approximation of Historical Linguistics”

March 30, 2005
Sonja Brentjes, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London & Research Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, M.I.T.
“Ancient Sciences and Their Contexts in Islamic Societies before 1800”

April 13, 2005
Sait Ozervarli, Istanbul University
“Ottoman Philosophical Thought and the Tahafut Commentaries”

April 27, 2005
Maroun Aouad, CNRS Paris
“Multi-Causality in History according to Averroes”

May 5, 2005
Sabry Hafez, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
“The Egyptian Novel of the 1900s: Urban and Literary Form”