CONF.- Workshop on Written Culture in Daghestan, Tel Aviv Univ., May 18-20

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CONF.- Workshop on Written Culture in Daghestan, Tel Aviv Univ., May 18-20

Posted by: Moshe Gammer <moshega@post.tau.ac.il>

Written Culture in Daghestan
A Workshop

Organized by Moshe Gammer
Department of Middle Eastern and African History

Tel Aviv University
18-20 May 2008

All sessions will take place in Room 496, Gilman Building, on the main
campus of Tel Aviv University. The sessions are open to the public.

Sunday, 18 May

16:00 17:30: Opening

Chair: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv University)

Amri Shikhsaidov (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhchkala)
Manuscript Collections of Daghestan: their Study and Publication

Monday, 19 May

9:30 11:30 Session 1: Beginnings

Chair: Sonia Chesnin (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv)

Murtazali Hajiev (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
On the History of Writing in Caucasian Albania

Zamir Zakariyayev (Dahgestan State University, Makhachkala)
Epigraphic Monuments and the Question of the Spread of Islam in Daghestan

Alikber Alikberov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences Moscow)
The Birth of Book Culture in Daghestan

Coffee

12:00 14:00 Session 2: Arabic Manuscripts

Chair: Anna Zelkina (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)

Said Hajiev (Daghestan State University, Makhachkala)
Arabic Manuscripts of Daghestan

Patimat Ibrahimova (Dahgestan State University, Makhachkala)
Memorial Entries in the Margins of Arabic Manuscripts

Sonia Chesnin (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv)
Caucasian Diacritical Marks in Arabic Manuscripts from the Middle Volga

Lunch break

15:30 17:30 Session 3: Other Arabic Written Sources

Chair: Alexander Knysh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Milena Osmanova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Arabic Lithographic Books in Daghestan

Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy
of Sciences Moscow)
Arabic Calligraphy in the Service of the Empire: Spiral Texts from
Daghestani Courts, 18601917

Amir Navruzov (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhackala)
Jaridat Daghistan (1913-1918): a Monument to the Written Culture of Daghestan

Tuesday, 20 May

9:30 11:00 Session 4: Written Culture in Other Languages

Chair: Clemens Sidorko (University of Basel)

Hasan Orazayev (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Historical Works in Turkic Languages: an Inside View of Ones Past

Rebecca Gould (Columbia University, New York)
Khaqani and the Persian Cosmopolis

Alexandra Kozlova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Persian Sources of the Manuscript Collection of the Friday Mosque of Derbend

Amirkhan Isayev (Makhachkala)
The Advent and Development of Writing in the National Languages of Daghestan

Jamalutdin Mahomedov (Makhachkala)
Written Culture in the National Languages of Daghestan

Olga Hajieva (Makhchkala)
The Archives of Daghestan State University as a Historical and
Cultural Monument

Coffee

11:30 13:00 Session 5: Sufism and Written Culture

Chair: Rebecca Gould (Columbia University, New York)

Shamil Shikhaliev (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Sufi Rites and Practices in Arabic Written Sources

Zaira Ibrahimova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Muhammad Hajji and Sharapuddin of Kikuni

Zeinab Mahomedova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sughuri: advocate of Sufi Ideals and Ideologue of the
Naqshbandi Tariqa

A. Musalova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Makhachkala)
Muhammad al-Qudutli: a Portrait of his Oeuvre

Lunch break

14:30 - 16:30 Session 6: Collections

Chair: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv University)

Jamila Alieva (Dahgestan State University, Makhachkala)
Manuscripts of the Works of Abd al-Rahman Jami in Daghestan

Efraim Wust (National and University Library, Jerusalem)
Daghestani Manuscripts in the National and University Library in Jerusalem

Natalia Tahirova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
The Book Collection of Hasan al-Alqadari: Thematic Characteristics

Diana Alkhasova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
The Book Collection of the Friday Mosque of Usisha

Tea
17:00 18:00

Makhach Musayev (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Makhachkala)
Creating a Computerised Catalogue of Collections of Arabic Manuscripts

The organiser wishes to thank the following for their support for this
conference:
The Rector
The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
The School of History
The Department of Middle Eastern and African History
The Center for Iranian Studies
The Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies

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