4th Conference on the Layout and Structure of Arabic DocumentsPreliminary programme and registration

18 November 2020

In the frame of our current project on "The Digital Diplomatics of Arabic Documents" (2016-2021), following the conferences in Vienna (2016), Zurich (2018), and Granada (2019), this is the fourth and last conference. Due to the current situation, our meeting will be held entirely online, from November 26th to 28th, 2020. As in former workshops, we will stick to relatively few presentations and leave much time for discussion. We will also present the final version of the new Munich database on text and layout structure. As this is the last of our four workshops on typology, we are planing to publish a collective volume.

To register for the discussion, please contact ursula.bsees"AT"lmu.de with your CV and research interests.

Preliminary Programme

THURSDAY, NOV 26th

3:00 pm CET Arrival, check-up on audio/video settings

4:00 pm Welcome address

Andreas Kaplony (Munich)
Patricia Hswe (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York)

4:30 Session 1: Documents from the West

Jeremy Johns (Oxford): The Documenting Multiculturalism Project: the types of Arabic documents from Sicily and their structures
Nadia Jamil (Oxford): The Documenting Multiculturalism Project: Particularities of the Arabic deeds of sale from Norman Sicily
Josef Ženka (Prague): The original and its copies: Three Andalusi documents from the 15th century
Discussion (registered participants)

FRIDAY, NOV 27th

1:00 pm CET Arrival, check-up on audio/video settings

1:30 Session 2: Legal documents

Rocio Daga Portillo (Munich): The role of religion in legal documents: Law formulas and religious formulas from the East to the West
Khaled Younes (Cairo/Vienna): Arabic labor contracts on Papyrus: Layout and phraseology
Wissem Gueddich (Paris): Les étagères du tribunal: reconstituer la classification de l'écrit à partir des documents légaux de la Genizah du Caire
Discussion (registered participants)

3:30 Presentation of the APT (Arabic Papyrology Typology) by the Munich team

Short general introduction
Tutorials on the new tool in small groups

 4:30 Session 3: Organising data, building structure: Registers, tables, statements

Michail Hradek (Munich): Possibilities, limits, and perspectives: Towards a typology of Arabic list documents
Naïm Vanthieghem (Paris): A new typology of tax receipts from Abbasid Upper Egypt
Johannes Thomann (Zurich): New astronomical tables and diagrams
Leonora Sonego (Munich): Bows, loops, hooks and curved wedges: How can angles help us date Arabic papyrus documents?
Discussion (registered participants)

SATURDAY, NOV 28th

3:00 pm CET Arrival, check-up on audio/video settings

4:00 Session 4: The art of writing and the art of writing to

Jessica Goldberg (Los Angeles): Diplomatic Indications of status relationships in Geniza merchant letters
Ed Hayes (Leiden): Corresponding with the Imams: What can we learn from letters transcribed in Shiʿi sources?
Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge): Introductory formulae in Arabic Qasr Ibrim letters
Andreas Kaplony (Munich): Four Arabic documents from the Afghan Genizah
Discussion (registered participants)

6:30 Farewell address