The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present a workshop on:
THE ASCENDANT FIELD: CRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH OTTOMAN ARABIC LITERATURE
October 2-3, 2020
Over Zoom (Please RSVP for link)
Friday October 2, 2020
9:00 AM EST/1:00 PM GMT
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Patriarchs, Poets and the Tihāma Connection: Methodological Challenges and Thematic Innovation in Ottoman Arabic Literature”
Hilary Kilpatrick
Introduction by Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard University)
11:00 AM EST/3:00 PM GMT
PANEL I: History and Literature
“A Republic of Arabic Letters? The Epistolary Network of a Sixteenth-Century Syrian Scholar”
Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge University)
“Losing the Plot in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Poetics of the Maqāma Rūmiyya within the Breakdown of Pan-Ottoman Sociability”
Ghayde Ghraowi (Yale University)
“Familiarity with Persian among Early Modern Arabic Anthologists”
Theodore Beers (University of Chicago)
Moderator: William Granara (Harvard University)
Saturday October 3, 2020
9:30 AM EST/1:30 PM GMT
PANEL II: Ottoman Arabic Mystical Literature
“Prophetic Piety and Mysticism in Pre-Modern Arabic Devotional Literature”
Rachida Chih (Ehess-Cnrs, Paris)
“The evolution of the Sufic zajal from its beginnings through the Ottoman period”
Hakan Özkan (University of Muenster)
Moderator: Shady Nasser (Harvard University)
11:00 AM EST/3:00 PM GMT
PANEL III: Single Author Studies: Māmayya al-Rūmī’s (d. 1577/9)
“Between Lamenting Vicissitudes of Life and Celebrating Ottoman Authority: Māmayya al-Rūmī’s (d. 1577/9) Times and Poetry”
Hacı Osman “Ozzy” Gündüz (Harvard University)
“Memory, Mimesis and the Modern: The Literary Heritage in Māmayya’s Poetry”
Alev Masarwa (University of Münster)
Moderator: Justine Landau (Harvard University)
