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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>WRITTEN CULTURE IN DAGHESTAN</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>A WORKSHOP</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Organized by Moshe Gammer</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Department of Middle Eastern and African
History</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Tel Aviv University<BR>18 - 20 May 2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>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.</FONT></P>
<P><BR><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sunday, 18 May<BR>16:00 – 17:30:
Opening</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Chair: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv
University)<BR><BR>Amri Shikhsaidov (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Makhchkala)<BR>Manuscript Collections of Daghestan: their
Study and Publication</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Monday, 19 May<BR>9:30 – 11:30 Session 1:
Beginnings<BR><BR>Chair: Sonia Chesnin (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel
Aviv)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Murtazali Hajiev (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala)<BR>On the History of Writing in
Caucasian Albania</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Zamir Zakariyayev (Dahgestan State University,
Makhachkala) <BR>Epigraphic Monuments and the Question of the Spread of Islam in
Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Alikber Alikberov (Institute of Oriental Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow)<SPAN class=839314403-10052008>
<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Birth of Book Culture in
Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Coffee</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4></FONT><BR><FONT face=Garamond size=4>12:00 – 14:00 Session
2: Arabic Manuscripts<BR>Chair: Anna Zelkina (School of Oriental and African
Studies, London)<BR><BR>Said Hajiev (Daghestan State University,
Makhachkala)<SPAN class=839314403-10052008> <BR></SPAN>Arabic Manuscripts of
Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Patimat Ibrahimova (Dahgestan State University,
Makhachkala) <BR>Memorial Entries in the Margins of Arabic
Manuscripts</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sonia Chesnin (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel
Aviv)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>"Caucasian" Diacritical Marks in
Arabic Manuscripts from the Middle Volga</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lunch break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>15:30 – 17:30 Session 3: Other Arabic Written
Sources<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Chair: Alexander Knysh (University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Milena Osmanova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Arabic Lithographic
Books in Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy of </FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sciences
Moscow)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Arabic Calligraphy in the Service
of the Empire: Spiral Texts from Daghestani </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Courts, 1860–1917</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Amir Navruzov (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhackala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Jaridat Daghistan
(1913–1918): a Monument to the Written Culture of Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>Tuesday, 20 May<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>9:30 – 11:00 Session 4: Written Culture in Other
Languages<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Chair: Clemens Sidorko
(University of Basel)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hasan Orazayev (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Historical Works in
Turkic Languages: an Inside View of One’s Past</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Rebecca Gould (Columbia University, New
York)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Khaqani and the Persian
Cosmopolis</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Alexandra Kozlova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Persian Sources of the
Manuscript Collection of the Friday Mosque of Derbend</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Amirkhan Isayev (Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>The Advent and Development of Writing in the National
Languages of Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Jamalutdin Mahomedov (Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>Written Culture in the National Languages of
Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Olga Hajieva (Makhchkala)<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>The Archives of Daghestan State University as a Historical
and Cultural </FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Monument</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Coffee</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>11:30 – 13:00 Session 5: Sufism and Written
Culture<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Chair: Rebecca Gould (Columbia
University, New York)<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Shamil Shikhaliev
(Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sufi
Rites and Practices in Arabic Written Sources</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Zaira Ibrahimova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Muhammad Hajji and
Sharapuddin of Kikuni</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Zeinab Mahomedova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>‘Abd al-Rahman
al-Sughuri: advocate of Sufi Ideals and Ideologue of the </FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>Naqshbandi Tariqa</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>A. Musalova (Daghestan Scientific Centre, Russian
Academy of Sciences,<SPAN class=839314403-10052008>
</SPAN>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Muhammad al-Qudutli: a
Portrait of his Oeuvre</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lunch break</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>14:30 - 16:30 Session 6:
Collections</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Chair: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv
University)<BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Jamila Alieva (Dahgestan
State University, Makhachkala) <BR>Manuscripts of the Works of ‘Abd al-Rahman
Jami in Daghestan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Efraim Wust (National and University Library,
Jerusalem) <BR>Daghestani Manuscripts in the National and University Library in
Jerusalem</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Natalia Tahirova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Book Collection of
Hasan al-Alqadari: Thematic Characteristics</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Diana Alkhasova (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Book Collection of
the Friday Mosque of Usisha</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Tea</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4><BR>17:00 – 18:00</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Makhach Musayev (Daghestan Scientific Centre,
Russian Academy of Sciences, </FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>Makhachkala)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Creating a Computerised
Catalogue of Collections of Arabic Manuscripts</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The organiser wishes to thank the following for
their support for this </FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>conference:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Rector<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>The School of History<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>The Department of Middle Eastern and African History<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>The Center for Iranian Studies<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>The Morris E. Curiel Institute for European
Studies</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>