The meeting “Cities, People, and Knowledge Connected by Ijāza” will be jointly organized by B01 Publicly Offered Research “Research on the Human Nexus of the Civilian Elite Through a Digital Analysis of Pre-Modern Arabic Texts” and C01 “Analyses of Connectivities by Digital Humanities Methods” with ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Visualization of the History and Historical Space of the Middle East: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age”

ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Visualization of the History and Historical Space of the Middle East: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age,” The 3rd Meeting “Cities, People, and Knowledge Connected by Ijāza”

Date & Time: January 29th (Sat), 2022 at 13:00-15:30

Program:

13:00 Introduction

13:10 Ryo Mizukami　(Project Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
“Ijāza flying from city to city: focusing on the cases of Baghdad in the 13th and 14th century”

13:45 Erina Ota (Tsukada) (Project Assistant Professor, ILCAA)
“Relationship-building among urban elites through issuance of Ijāza of Istiduʻāʼ: Focusing on al-Sakhāwī’s Ḍawʼ al-Lāmiʻ , a biographical dictionary of notables in the 15th century”

14:30 Comment by Toru Miura (Professor Emeritus, Ochanomizu University)

Discussion

15:30 Closing

Language: Japanese
Venue: Online via Zoom

Pre-registration: Please fill in the pre-registration form.

Co-organizer:
・Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Research on the Human Nexus of the Civilian Elite Through a Digital Analysis of Pre-Modern Arabic Texts” (Principal Investigator: Erina Ota (Tsukada) (ILCAA), 21H05374)
・Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako Kumakura (ILCAA), 20H05830)

Contact
Wakako Kumakura　kumakura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp