Université de Liège
Liège, 6-8 septembre 2012
Under the aegis of Comité International des Sciences Historiques and Commission Internationale de Diplomatique.
With financial support from Fondation Max van Berchem (Genève), Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Patrimoine de l’Université de Liège and Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres.
With financial support from Fondation Max van Berchem (Genève), Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Patrimoine de l’Université de Liège and Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres.
Organizing Committee :
F. Bauden
M. Dekkiche
J. Den Heijer
Scientific Committee :
D. Behrens-Abouseif
M. Bernardini
L. Kalus
J. E. Woods
Programme :
Thursday, September 6
Place du 20 Août, 7 (Bâtiment A1), salle académique
Registration, 9:00
Welcome Address, 9:30
Jean Winand, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Introduction, 9:45-10:15
Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche
Coffee Break, 10:15-10.45
Diplomatic Conventions, 10:45-12:15
Chair: Reuven Amitai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Malika Dekkiche, University of Chicago – Diplomatics or Another Way to See the World
Lucian Reinfandt, Universität Wien – Textual and Ceremonial Aspects of Mamluk Administrative Letters
Yehoshua Frenkel, University of Haifa – Embassies in a Crossroad: Cairo’s Role in the 15th Century Multinational Politics
Lunch, 12:15-14:30
Ambassadors, 14:30-16:00
Chair: Doris Behrens-Abouseif, School of Oriental and African Studies
Anne F. Broadbridge, University of Massachusetts – Careers in Diplomacy among Mamluks, Mongols and Turks, 1260-1405
Cinzia Tavernari, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val de Seine – Lodging Ambassadors: Textual Representation and Architectural Reality
Adam G. Beaver, Princeton University – Pietro Martire in Cairo (1501): Spanish-Mamluk Relations in the Age of Discovery
Coffee Break, 16:00-16:30
Mamluks and the Latin West, 16:30-18:00
Chair: Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Pierre Moukarzel, Université Libanaise – The European Embassies to the Court of the Mamluk Sultans in Cairo
Maria Filomena Lopes Barros, Universidade de Évora – In the Name of the Minorities: the Lisbon’s Muslims as Ambassadors from the King of Portugal to the Sultan of Egypt (1454)
Nicholas Coureas, Cyprus Research Center – Envoys between Lusignan Cyprus and Mamluk Egypt, 1435-1473: The Accounts of Pero Tafur and George Boustronios
Cocktail Hour, 18:00-20:00
Friday, September 7
Place du 20 Août, 7 (Bâtiment A1), salle des professeurs
Mamluks and (Post-) Mongols (1), 9:30-10:30
Chair: Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford
Reuven Amitai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Mamluk-Ilkhanid Diplomatic Contacts: Negotiations or Posturing?
Hend Gilly-Elewy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona – Baghdad between Cairo and Tabriz: Emissaries to the Mamluks as Expressions of Local Political Ambitions and Ideologies during the 14th Century
Coffee Break, 10:30-11:00
Mamluks and (Post-) Mongols (2), 11:00-12:00
Patrick Wing, Universiteit Gent – Between Iraq and Hard Place: Sultan Ahmad Jalayir’s Time as a Refugee in the Mamluk Sultanate
Marie Favereau, Universiteit Leiden – New Insight into Mamluk-Mongol Diplomacy. The Jochid Alliances (1261-62/1415-16)
Lunch, 12:00-14:00
Mamluks and Timurids/Turkmen, 14:00-15:30
Chair: John Woods, University of Chicago
Michele Bernardini, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” – Timur, Toqtamish and the Mamluks. Some Further Considerations
Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, University of London – Sharaf al-Din ‘Ali Yazdi and the Mamluk Sultanate: An analysis of the Extant Correspondence
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège – A Reconstructed Qara Qoyunlu Letter and Its Contribution to the Study of Diplomatic Exchanges Between the Mamluks, the Qara Qoyunlu and the Timurids
Coffee Break, 15:30-16:00
Mamluks and Ottomans (1), 16:00-17:00
Chair: Michele Bernardini, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
John E. Woods, University of Chicago – Documents from the Ottoman Archives on the Mamluks
Christopher Markiewicz, University of Chicago – Molla Gürani between Mamluks and Ottomans: Movement of Scholars and the Ottoman Chancellery in the reign of Mehmed II (1451-1481)
Coffee Break, 17:00-17:30
Mamluks and Ottomans (2), 17:30-18:30
Cihan Yuksel Muslu, University of Texas at Dallas – From al-Majlis al-Samiyy to al-Maqarr al-Karim: Transformation of the Titulature Accorded to the Ottomans by the Mamluk Administration
Kristof D’Hulster, Universiteit Gent – Fixed Rules to a Changing Game? Mehmed the Conqueror’s Realignment of Ottoman-Mamluk Diplomatic Conventions with the International Power Constellation
Saturday, September 8
Place du 20 Août, 7 (Bâtiment A1), salle des professeurs
Mamluks and Western Islamic Lands, 9:00-10:30
Chair: Malika Dekkiche, University of Chicago
Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, Washington University in St-Louis – Diplomatic Correspondence between Nasrid Granada and Mamluk Cairo (13th-15th Centuries). The Last Hope for al-Andalus
Mounira Chapoutot, Université de Tunis – Entre Ifriqiya hafside et Egypte mamlouke: des relations anciennes, continues et consolidées
Lotfi Ben Miled, Université de Kairouan – Sur les traces des missions diplomatiques hafsides jusqu’aux confins turco-mamelouks (fin du XVe s.)
Coffee Break, 10:30-11:00
Mamluks and Arabia/India, 11:00-12:30
Chair: Jo Van Steenbergen, Universiteit Gent
John L. Meloy, American University of Beirut – Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy through Late Medieval Mecca
Eric Valet, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – Umara’ wa-muluk. La place des émirs dans la diplomatique mamluko-rasulide (XIIIe-XVe siècle)
Stephan Conermann, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn – Some Remarks on the Diplomatic Relations between Cairo, Delhi/Daulatabad and Ahmadabad during the 14th and the 15th Centuries
Lunch, 12:30-14:30
Mamluks and Africa, 14:30-15:30
Chair: Ludvik Kalus, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV
Julien Loiseau, Université Monpellier-III/Paul Valéry – Le sultan et le Hati. Lettres et ambassades de l’empereur d’Ethiopie à la cour mamelouke
Rémi Dewière, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne – Peace Be upon Who Follow the Right Way. Diplomatic Practices between Mamluk Cairo and a Sahelian Sultanate at the End of the 14th Century
Coffee Break, 15:30-16:00
Diplomatic Artifacts, 16:00-17:30
Chair: Johannes Den Heijer, Université Catholique de Louvain
Ludvik Kalus, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV – Écritoires: objets fonctionnels et symboliques indissociables des cérémonies officielles à l’époque mamelouke
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, School of Oriental and African Studies – Mamluk Diplomatic Gifts
Valentina Vezzoli, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Precious objects for eminent guests: the Use of Chinese Porcelain during Diplomatic Banquets in Mamluk Cairo. Historical Sources and Material Evidence
Concluding Remarks, 17:30-18:00
Farewell Dinner, 20:00
Registration is free, but those who would like to attend are requested to send a message to F. Bauden.
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