Centre of Islamic Studies

Cambridge in Sarajevo: Perspectives on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Kembridž u Sarajevu: Teme iz islamskih i bliskoistočnih studija

9-13 May 2011
University of Sarajevo

Professor Suleiman, Director of Centre of Islamic Studies, with Professor Faruk Èaklovica, Rector of University of Sarajevo

Programme is available here.
Poster is available here.

All abstracts (English and Bosnian) are available here.

Video uploads
• Yasir Suleiman
• Paul Anderson 1 & 2
• Ahmet Alibašić

Programme

10 May 2011

Opening/Otvaranje (Ceremonial Hall)

9:30-10:45 Opening ceremony (Moderator: Asim Zubčević)

• Welcome address by Professor Hazim Bašic, Deputy Rector of University of Sarajevo

• Welcome address by Professor Jasmin Ðindo, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy

• Welcome address by Professor Yasir Suleiman, Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

• Presentation on the work of the Centre of Islamic Studies, Dr Saeko Yazaki

• 'Contextualising Islam in Britain' (project presentation), Professor Yasir Sulaiman and Paul Anderson

10:30-11:15 Coffee Break

Working programme/Radni dio programa (registered and invited participants only)

Presentations by University of Cambridge scholars (Senate Hall)

11:15-13:15 Session 1 (Chair: Paul Anderson)

• Yasir Suleiman: Language, Conflict and Inter-Cultural (Mis)Understanding
• Yonatan Mendel: Language and Security in Israel: The Arabic Oriental Class as a Case Study
• Saeko Yazaki: Al-Makki, Ibn Baquda and Yahuda: Muslim and Jewish Mysticism in the 11th and 20th Centuries
• Discussion

13:15-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 2 (Chair: Yasir Suleiman)

• Abdullah Baabood: The Need for a Coherent EU Policy in the Arab World
• Khalid Almezaini: Political Survival and National Identities in the Middle East
• Discussion

16:00-16:20 Coffee Break

16:20-17:50 Session 3 (Chair: Saeko Yazaki)

• Paul Anderson: Explaining Extraordinary Events in Syria: The Rise and Fall of Aleppo's Financial Entrepreneurs
• Hawraa al-Hassan: Utopian Propaganda in the Novels of Saddam Hussein
• Ahmet Alibašić: Images of the Ottomans in History Textbooks in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Discussion

11 May 2011

Working programme/Radni dio programa (registered and invited participants only)

Presentations by University of Sarajevo scholars (Senate Hall)

9:30-11:00 Session 4 (Chair: Munir Mujić)

• Esad Duraković: Deductive Poetics of the Qur'an: Intertextuality and Contextualisation
• Enes Karić: Twentieth Century Islamic Thought in Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Short History
• Fikret Karčić: How Islamic Law is Studied at the University of Sarajevo
• Discussion

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session 5 (Chair: Elma Dizdar)

• Munir Mujić: Implications of Wad' al-lugha Theory on Arabic Rhetoric
• Amra Mulović: Arabic Linguistic Tradition in Bosnia: Work of Mustafa Ejubovič – Shaykh Yuyo
• Mirza Sarajkić: Characteristics of Late Sufi Ghazal in Arabic: The Case of Ahmad Khatam Akowalizade
• Discussion

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 6 (Chair: Mirza Sarajkić)

• Elma Dizdar: Between Syntax, Semantics and Stylistics: The Miracle of Arabic
• Ðenita Haverić: Influence of Persian Classics in Literary Works of Bosniaks in Persian Language (with Special Emphasis on Fewzi's Bulbulistan)
• Sabina Bakšić: Politeness Strategies in Turkish
• Discussion