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
• 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

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

Open 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