Dear all

Please, find below (a) the final program of our conference, and attached
(b) the conference leaflet and (c) the poster. May we kindly ask you to
spread the good news?

Best, Andreas Kaplony




Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents, Languages in Historical Context
The Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference
Munich, 7-10 October 2014

Conference website: www.naher-osten.lmu.de/isap_vi

Participation with no lecture: Please send a notice of intent to
participate to Dr. Kathrin Müller ([log in to unmask]) asap. There will
be no conference fee charged. Yet, participants will be asked, on spot,
to be or become members of ISAP. Information on membership can be found
on the ISAP website (www.naher-osten.lmu.de/isap).


Program

Tuesday, October 7th

BAdW (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
09:00 – 11:00 Registration
11:00 – 13:00 Opening

            Address of welcome by the BAdW and the ISAP
            Opening lecture – Manfred Krebernik, Jena: The Genesis and Early
History of the Alphabet - New Perspectives and Problems
            Opening lecture – Hartmut Bobzin, Erlangen: The Qur'an and
Semitic Studies

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Session 1: Administration of Empires

            Chair: to be confirmed  Respondent: Ursula Bsees
            Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Leiden: Networks of Dependency: Requests
and Petitions on Papyrus
            Dieter Weber, Berlin: Reading History Anew: Pahlavi Documents
from Early Islamic Times
            Peter T. Daniels, New York: Aramaic Documents from Achaemenid
Bactria: Connections to the West – and the East
            Response by Ursula Bsees
            Discussion

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Session 2: Geniza Documents seen by new Perspectives

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Oded Zinger
            Tonio Sebastian Richter, Leipzig: Coptic Magic in the Cairo
Geniza
            Munther al-Sabbagh, Santa Barbara: Suhba
            Response Oded Zinger
            Discussion

19:00 – 20:30 Evening Lecture and Reception in the
Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München (LMU)

            Welcome
            Evening lecture – Peter Stein, Jena: Writing Semitic on wooden
sticks: The manuscript tradition of pre-Islamic South Arabia
            Reception and buffet



Wednesday, October 8th

Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung
09:30 – 11:00 Session 3: Literature and Documents

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: W. Matt Malczycki

            Daniel Potthast, Munich: Parallel transmissions of documents: On
the value of the inshāʾ-literature for Arabic papyrology
            Ursula Bsees, Vienna: Early evidence for the second source of
Islam: A preliminary study of four ḥadīth papyri from the Austrian
National Library
            Abdulmalik Ahmad Essayed Shetewy, Riyadh: Sharḥ Ghunyat
al-Kuttāb fī l-Khaṭṭ by Abi Baqr bin Shihāb ad-Dīn Aḥmad bin al-Himsīya
            Response by W. Matt Malczycki
            Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 4: Business and Daily Life according to Documents

            Chair: Petra M. Sijpesteijn Respondent: Marina Rustow

            W. Matt Malczycki, Auburn: Using Papyri to Determine the
Purchasing Power of a Dinar in Early Islamic Egypt
            Oded Zinger, Princeton: Patronage in the Legal Arena according
to Geniza Letters
            Sobhi Bouderbala, Tunis: The waqf system in Early Islam and its
Characteristics based on Documentary Evidence
            Response by Marina Rustow
            Discussion

13:00 – 15:30 – Lunch and Visit to Nymphenburg Castle Park
15:30 – 17:00 Session 5: Inputs from Neighboring Fields

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Ahmad Al-Jallad

            Shamsiddin S. Kamoliddin, Tashkent: Medallion of Mansur Ibn Nuh:
Historical Interpretation
            AbdulSalam Eleasely, Riyadh: Tools and Techniques for the
documentary Evidence of Early Arabic Paper Manuscripts: Discovered
complementary Proofs under the written Arabic Scripts
            Mohamed Ahmed Abd Ellatif Ibrahim, Cairo: Archaeological and
Cultural Study for Three Tombstones Newly Discovered in Elephantine
Island in Aswan
            Response by Ahmad Al-Jallad
            Discussion

17:00 – 17:30 – Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30 Session 6: Documents from Bilād al-Shām

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Lucian Reinfandt
            Ronny Vollandt, Berlin: The Non-Muslim Fragments from the Qubbat
al-Khazna of the Umayyad Mosque at Damascus
            Mohamed Nasr Abdelrahman, Cairo: Marriage and Divorce Contracts
from the Mamluk Jerusalem
             Response by Lucian Reinfandt

             Discussion

18:30 – 19:30 - Snack
20:30 – 23:00 – Evening Tea in the Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren
Osten



Thursday, October 9th

BAdW (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
09:30 – 11:00 Session 7: Language and Formulae

Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Andreas Kaplony

            Craig Perry, Atlanta: The Practice of Domestic Slavery in
Medieval Egypt: an analysis of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic bills of sale
from the Cairo Geniza
            Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Beni-Suef: Words and Phrases of Arabic
Papyri: Are they Systematic?
            Lucian Reinfandt, Vienna: Arabic papyri, elite migration, and
the Persianisation of Egypt in the 9th century AD
            Response by Andreas Kaplony
            Discussion

11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 8: New Documents from Egypt

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Petra Sijpesteijn
            Mohamed Mohamed Morsy, Cairo: Two Unpublished Arabic Papyri from
the Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya
            Ayman Aly Shahin, Bamberg: Three Arabic letters
            Ahmed Nabil, Sadat City: Fāṭimid letter of designation related
to Alexandria
            Response by Petra Sijpesteijn
            Discussion

13:00 – 15:00 - Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Session 9: Multilingualism, Arabicization, and Cultural
Transfer

            Chair: to be confirmed Respondent: Daniel Potthast
            Lajos Berkes, Heidelberg: The Archive of the Fayum Pagarchy in
the 8th century
            Maher Eissa, Fayoum/Anne Boud’hors, Paris: The Coptic Papyri in
the Egyptian Library and Archives
            Alia Hanafi, Cairo: Treatment of Conjunctivitis in the Light of
P. Grenf. I 52, P. Princ. III 155 and Arabic Manuscripts
            Response by Daniel Potthast

            Discussion

17:00 – 18:00 – Presentation of Oriental Manuscripts in the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek
19:30 – 22.00 – Dinner



Friday, Oktober 10th

BAdW (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
09:30 – 11:00 Session 10: Signs, Numerals, and Orthography

            Chair: Andreas Kaplony Respondent: Jessica Goldberg
            Johannes Thomann, Zurich: Arabic Abjad Numerals: Origin, Usage
and Form
            Saied Maghawry Mohammed, Cairo:Numerals and Signs in Arabic
Papyri
            Ahmad Al-Jallad, Leiden: The phonetic Origins of Arabic
Orthography
            Response by Jessica Goldberg
            Discussion

11:00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 – General Meeting of the ISAP
13:30 – 20:00 – Excursion with dinner (optional)