Literature and Intellectual Life in Islamic Anatolia in the 14th-15th Centuries:
Historical, Social and Political Perspectives
Istanbul, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 12-13 September 2014
Friday 12 September
9:30 Panel 1: Arabic and Persian religious and literary texts of 14th C Anatolia
Bruno De Nicola (University of St Andrews)
The Fusṭāṭ al-ʿadāla: a Unique Manuscript on the Religious Landscape of Medieval Anatolia
Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
Arabic Literature and Literacy in Fourteenth Century Anatolia
10:45 coffee
11:15 Panel 2: Alevi Poetry and Hagiography in the 14th-15th centuries
Zeynep Oktay (Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Paris)
Layers of Mystical and Political Meaning in the Works of Kaygusuz Abdâl
Yoni Brack (University of Michigan)
Was Ede Bali a Wafa’i/Vefa’i shaykh? The transmission and translation of the Menakib-i Seyyid Ebu’l-Vefa and genealogical creativity in the early Ottoman world
12:30 lunch
2pm Panel 3: Literary Patronage under the beyliks
Sara Nur Yıldız (University of St Andrews)
Aydınid literary patronage and textual communities of fourteenth-century western Anatolia
Hatice Aynur (Istanbul, Şehir University)
Textual Production at the Isfendiyarid (Candarid) Court, 1292-1461
Selim Kuru (University of Washington, Seattle)
The Self-promoting Poor One: Gülşehri as a ‘Sheikh of the Book’ in Fourteenth-century Anatolia
4pm coffee/tea
Evening reception/dinner
Saturday 13 September
9:30 am Panel 4 Eastern Approaches to Ottoman Scholarly Culture
Scott Trigg (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Fatḥallah al-Shirwānī and the Transmission of Science from Samarqand to Istanbul
Abdurahman Atçıl (Queens College, CUNY)
Scholarly Encounters and Interactions: Musannifek’s Migration from Herat to Konya and to Istanbul during the Fifteenth Century
10:45 coffee
11:15 Panel 5: Literature at the 15th Century Ottoman Court
Sooyong Kim (Istanbul Koç University)
Literary Activity and Patronage in 15th-Century Kütahya
Dimitris Kastritsis (University of St. Andrews)
Alexander in the Ottoman Empire
Evrim Binbaş (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Ibn al-Jazari on the Ottomans
1:15 lunch
2:30 Panel 6: Fifteenth Century Anatolian Theology and Philosophy
Ertuğrul Ökten (Istanbul 29 Mayıs University)
A Nurbakhshi in the Aqquyunlu domains: Husam al-Din al-Bidlisi’s (d. 900/1495) Kanz al-Hafa fi Maqamat al-Sufi
Sait Özervarlı (Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul)
Ottoman Engagement in Philosophical Theology: An Examination of Sources and Debates in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century
Ahmed Zildz̆ić (The Oriental Institute in Sarajevo)
Agonizing terminology: Qutb al-din Izniqi and the boundaries of the acceptable
4:15pm Concluding remarks