Cambridge in Sarajevo: Perspectives on Islamic and Middle Eastern 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
- 10 May 2011
- 11 May 2011
- 12 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
• Discussion13:15-14:30 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
• Discussion16:00-16:20 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
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
• Discussion11:00-11:30 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
• Discussion13:00-14:30 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
• DiscussionOpen session with simultaneous translation (CIPS-Campus of the University of Sarajevo)
18:30-20:00 Round Table Discussion (Chair: Ahmet Alibašić)
Yasir Suleiman (University of Cambridge): Arab Spring/Arapsko proljeće
Excursions include Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka
News stories
- Dnevni avaz (17 May 2011): Interview with Professor Suleiman (Teme: Jasir Sulejman, stručnjak za arapske studije na Kembridžu)
- University of Cambridge: Research News: Cambridge in Sarajevo
- University of Sarajevo: Symposium: The ‘Cambridge in Sarajevo – Perspectives of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies’ Visit: A Visit by the Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge