GENEALOGICAL TREES BEYOND LEGITIMIZATION IN THE MENA REGION AND SOUTH ASIA
24-25 January 2025
IMPULSE – House for Intellectual
Innovation and Creativity
Universität Bonn
Adenauerallee 131
53113 Bonn
Program:
24 January 2025
08:50 – 09:00: Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn
Opening remarks
09:00 – 10:00: Kazuo Morimoto, University of Tokyo
The Compilation of al-Aṣīlī under the Ilkhanate: Mapping a Confessional Community
10:00 – 11:00: Mohamad Ballan, Stony Brook University
‘The Last of the Himyarites’: Arab Genealogy and Islamic Kingship in Nasrid Granada
11-00 – 11:30: Coffee & Tea
11:30 – 12:30: Evrim Binbaş, University of Bonn
Genealogical Trees as Ancestral Constitutions in Early Modern Islamic History
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: Carol Fan, University of Bonn
The unstudied manuscript of the Gülşenü’t-Tevârîh (c. 1688): A Universal Genealogy Illuminating the late Safavids in transformation
15:00 – 16:00: Shamil Shikhaliev, Austrian Academy of Sciences
(Pseudo-)Genealogies of Daghestani Rulers of the 16th-19th Centuries in Local Arabic-Script Historical Sources
25 January 2025
09:00 – 10:00: Emma Kalb, University of Bonn
Embodying Lineage in the Late Mughal Harem
10:00 – 11:00: Corinne Lefèvre, CNRS; Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi
Drawing the Emperor’s Nasab: Mughal Figurative Shajara and Genealogical Material Culture
11-00 – 11:30: Coffee & Tea
11:30 – 12:30: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
On Dynastic Memories in Some Sufi Genealogies of the Middle Period
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Thinking in the Vernacular: Genealogy as Ethnography
15:00 – 16:00: Shahzad Bashir, Agha Khan University
A Nineteenth-Century Indian Genealogy of the World on a Lithograph Scroll
16:00 – 17:00: Final discussion