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THE SECOND SELJUKIAN CULTURE AND CIVILISATION SYMPOSIUM
Science and Thought in Seljukian Era
(October 20- 23, 2011) Konya-Turkey


The advancement and entrance of Seljuk into Islamic world is as if
like a tale; this migratory community dominated an area of Khorasan
(Iran), Armenia, the Caucasus, Iraq and up to Anatolia in such a short
time like fifty years. They expanded their dominance by expelling Sii
Fatimiis from Syria, Palestine, the Hejaz and Yemen likewise they took
the Baghdad Caliph under control. They consolidated the area from
Kashgar to Jerusalem under a single political authority by uniting the
divided Islamic world. They commenced a new area of “raising and
expansion” of Islam by invigorating the receding Islamic conquests
against Byzantium with the “Victory of Malazgird” that they won
against Byzantium in 1071. When Great Seljukians lost their central
authority, their successor states were founded in Iraq, Kirman, Syria
and Anatolia.  Turkey Seljukians was the most conspicuous among these
from both political and cultural aspect. There are about thirty states
today on the land where the Seljukians expanded once.

       As far as the achievements in military and political fields,
the entrance of Seljuks into Islamic history represents the opening of
a new epoch in “science and thought” field. Seljukians inherited the
four-century old Islamic civilisation and advanced this civilisation
by developing to such ahead that it is possible to mention about a new
phase of Islamic civilisation between XI and XIII centuries; while
Medreses (Moslem Seminary) were widening with the support of
Seljukians on one side, Sufism experienced the period of denomination
on the other side. Kelam carried out its advancement with specific
arguments initiated by first Gazali, Razi, Perdevis   New inventions
and discoveries were being made in the fields of medicine, astronomy,
mathematics, physics, botany, engineering. It is possible to emphasise
the scientific richness of this period when we talk about the 340
works written solely in tefsir field, more than 200 Islam jurist were
brought up, almost all of the classical books on Islamic information
methodology (usul) were written in XI century and on Seljukian lands.
As the era of Seljukin (XI-XIII) still is studied slightly “it is a
world of discoveries, bring up best scholars, as hodjas, students and
adjacencies are not known sufficiently, it is like a “light insect”

Seljukian era represents not only a peak but also the beginning of an
end in the history of Islamic science and thought; this civilisation
came to a standstill with the great impacts of interior revolts,
Batinis, Mongol invasion and crusaders. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar speaks
likewise for the civilisation of Selcukian which experienced
resurrection and invigoration in Anatolia among all these
destructions: “Seljukian Renaissance is like the springs under
unexpected blizzards”.  It has been discussed for a long time in
scientific platforms that it was an unproductive period in the
development of Islamic civilisation in XII and XIII centuries, a
limitation in knowledge procurement and a change in thought structure.

We would like to discuss Seljukian era “Science and Thought” life at
an international symposium bringing the professional of the discipline
together in Konya, the capital of Seljuks, with the pioneering of
“Selcuklu Municipality” and “Selcuk University” with all aspects.
Yours Faithfully

I- Symposium Partners
Selcuklu Municipality-Ugur Ibrahim Altay-Mayor
Selcuk University-Süleyman Okudan-Rector

II- Symposium Chairman
Assoc. Dr. Mustafa DEMIRCI (chairman)
Prof. Dr. Hasan BAHAR
Asst. Prof. M. Ali HACIGÖKMEN
Asst. Prof. Sefer SOLMAZ
Ali DÜZ
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Temizel

III-Science and Advisory Board:

Prof. Dr. Gary LAISER (the Netherlands)
Prof. Dr. Mikâil BAYRAM (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Crole HILLENBRAND (England)
Prof. Dr. Alexios GC SAVVIDOS (Greece)
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yasar OCAK (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Speros Vryonis (USA)
Prof. Dr. Tuncer BAYKARA (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Hossein GHARACHANLU (Iran)
Assoc. Dr. Christian LANGE (England)
Assoc. Dr. Elnur MIHAILOV (Azerbaijan)
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Öztürk (Turkey)
Assoc. Dr. Yehoshua FRENKEI (Israel)
Prof. Dr. Nureddin NIMETÎ (Iran)
Prof. Dr. Tsugitaka SATO (Japan)
Assoc. Dr. Muhittin Uysal (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Hossein MAHSONÎ (Iran)
Prof. Dr. Süheyl Zekkar (Syria)
Assoc. Dr. Ibrahim RENCBER (Iran)
Assoc. Dr. Nuh ASLANTAS (Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Tadasi Suziki (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Dimitri Vasiliyev (Russia)
Prof. Dr. Ramazan Altintas (Turkey).
IV-Symposium Topics:
1- “Positive Sciences”: Mathematics, Astronomy, Physic, Medicine etc.
in Seljukian period
2- “Philosophical sciences and thought life” in Seljukian period:
Systematic Philosophy, Kelam (Islamic theology), Sufism, Logic
3- Advancement of Islamic information in Seljukian period: Tefsir, Hadis, Fikih
4- Human Sciences in Seljukian period: History, Geography, Language-
Literature, Poetry, Politics
 5- Science institutions in Seljukian period, Madrasahes,
Observatories, Libraries, Medicine Madrasahes, Charities for
Knowledge, Certificates, Education and Training Institutions etc.
6-  Science and Thought life at Konya, the capital Seljukian (a
special session will be held for this subject)
7- The indications of recession in Islamic science and thought in
XII-XIII centuries and the reasons of this recession
8- Translations from various languages in Seljukian period and
synchronous comparison of this thought world with Chinese, Roman and
Byzantium science and thought world synchronically

V-Symposium Languages: Turkish -Arabic-English-French-Russian.

VI- Features required to the accepted papers for symposium:
1- Papers must be not published anywhere before
2- The paper’s subject must be eligible with the symposium context
3- Papers must be “original” from the aspect of methodology, subject and sources
4- The text of the paper must be in A4 size and maximum 20 pages
5- The text of the papers must be submitted to symposium secretariat
before symposium
6- Unless approved by the science board members and full text papers
that are not submitted before the deadline will not be published,
authors will not invited to the symposium even if their abstracts are
accepted.
7- Papers must put forth a new knowledge or hypothesis
8- Abstracts, maximum 300-500 word, must be submitted before the stated deadline

VII- Important Dates:
1-      Deadline for the abstract submission: 20 April 2011
2-      Notification of accepted papers: 15 May 2011(1. Call)
3-      Last call for the symposium participants: 30 August 2011( 2. Call)
4-      Deadline for the full text submission of the papers: 30
September 2011(3.Call)
5-      Symposium date: 20-22 October 2011.
Note: Travel and Accommodation expenses of the participants will be
welcomed by the organisation.

Contact and Secretariat
Research Asst. Zehra ODABASI
Research Asst.Esra SERT
Research Asst.Ahmet DÖNMEZ
Dr.  Hatice Küçükbezci
Mailing address:
Assoc.  Dr. Mustafa Demirci