"Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion": Day 1/4
This online conference, organised by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (6-9 December, 2021) aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions. Find out more: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/fatimid-cosmopolitanism-history-material-culture-politics-and-religion Chapters 00:00 Opening remarks Speakers: Dr Farhad Daftary and Dr Gregory Bilotto 06:30 Keynote address (with questions) Seventeen Years of Excavations in Fatimid Cairo: What We Really Know about the Ismaili Capital City Speaker: Professor Stéphane Pradines 37:41 PANEL I: FATIMID HISTORIOGRAPHY AND MEDIAEVAL NARRATIVES Chair: Dr Sumaiya Hamdani 40:28 A Cosmopolitan Historiography? Remembering and Re-remembering the Period of ‘Shidda’ in Cairo and Fusṭāṭ (454-466/1062-1073) Speaker: Dr Mathew Barber 58:44 Who Writes the Fatimids? The Travel and Transmission of Eyewitness Fatimid Accounts, and their Role in Fatimid (Self-representation in Later Historiography) Speaker: Dr Fozia Bora 1:17:54 Historiographical Approaches to the Reign of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh Speaker: Dr Shainool Jiwa 1:38:49 Ibn al-ʿAdīm of Aleppo (1192-1262) and the Fatimid 10th–11th Century Historiography Speaker: Professor Yaacov Lev 1:52:51 PANEL II: FATIMID ENCOUNTERS WITH CONTEMPORARY CULTURES Chair: Dr Shainool Jiwa 1:54:08 The Fatimids and the Indian Ocean: evidence from the Book of Curiosities Speaker: Professor Yossef Rapoport 2:15:23 The Geniza, the Indian Ocean Trade, and the Cosmopolitan Fatimid World: Highlights of the Published and Unpublished Sources Speaker: Professor Marina Rustow 2:39:44 Who was part of the Fatimid “Cosmopolis”? Speaker: Dr Shiraz Hajiani 3:03:29 “You will be beaten, you will be killed, and you will be released”: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī on Fāṭimids, Sunnīs, and Christians in Palestine and Egypt Speaker: Dr Steven Gertz
This online conference, organised by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London (6-9 December, 2021) aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions. Find out more: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/fatimid-cosmopolitanism-history-material-culture-politics-and-religion Chapters 00:00 Opening remarks Speakers: Dr Farhad Daftary and Dr Gregory Bilotto 06:30 Keynote address (with questions) Seventeen Years of Excavations in Fatimid Cairo: What We Really Know about the Ismaili Capital City Speaker: Professor Stéphane Pradines 37:41 PANEL I: FATIMID HISTORIOGRAPHY AND MEDIAEVAL NARRATIVES Chair: Dr Sumaiya Hamdani 40:28 A Cosmopolitan Historiography? Remembering and Re-remembering the Period of ‘Shidda’ in Cairo and Fusṭāṭ (454-466/1062-1073) Speaker: Dr Mathew Barber 58:44 Who Writes the Fatimids? The Travel and Transmission of Eyewitness Fatimid Accounts, and their Role in Fatimid (Self-representation in Later Historiography) Speaker: Dr Fozia Bora 1:17:54 Historiographical Approaches to the Reign of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh Speaker: Dr Shainool Jiwa 1:38:49 Ibn al-ʿAdīm of Aleppo (1192-1262) and the Fatimid 10th–11th Century Historiography Speaker: Professor Yaacov Lev 1:52:51 PANEL II: FATIMID ENCOUNTERS WITH CONTEMPORARY CULTURES Chair: Dr Shainool Jiwa 1:54:08 The Fatimids and the Indian Ocean: evidence from the Book of Curiosities Speaker: Professor Yossef Rapoport 2:15:23 The Geniza, the Indian Ocean Trade, and the Cosmopolitan Fatimid World: Highlights of the Published and Unpublished Sources Speaker: Professor Marina Rustow 2:39:44 Who was part of the Fatimid “Cosmopolis”? Speaker: Dr Shiraz Hajiani 3:03:29 “You will be beaten, you will be killed, and you will be released”: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī on Fāṭimids, Sunnīs, and Christians in Palestine and Egypt Speaker: Dr Steven Gertz