In the context of the seminar “Peuples and powers in medieval Islam”, Sylvie Denoix (research director at the CNRS, Director of Studies of the French Institute of Eastern Archaeology) will give a conference on “How did Arabs govern ancient Egypt?” on Thursday 22 March 2012 at 14. Seminar organised b...

Vadet Jean-Claude. Philosophy and history of medieval Islam ideas. In: Practical school for higher education. Section 4, Historical and Philological Sciences. Booklet 2. Reports on the conferences of the years 1981-1982 and 1982-1983. 1985. pp. 69-70.

The origins of the Maghreb population have long been the subject of historical debate. Prehistorians accept the idea of a very old human presence, but historians, which largely reproduce ancient and medieval mythographs, show the attachment of this population to the old Middle East. While seeking be...

1st Home Day — medieval Islam, organised by Dominique Valérian and Eric Vallet on Thursday 11 June 2015 (9: 30-12: 30) Place: Ish, avenue Berthelot (Lyon, 7e), Marc Bloch area Created in 1997, the menestrel portal (http://www.menestrel.fr) aims to critically present all the online resources needed f...

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In the framework of the Medieval Islam History and Archaeology Seminar, common to the Paris 1 Universities, Sorbonne University and the medieval Islam team of the UMR 8167 East and Mediterranean: Mathieu Eychenne, will present an aspect of his research on rural areas in medieval Syria through a comm...

Paul Benoit, UMR 8589, LAMOP, University Paris I — CNRS, Jean Féraud History Team, BRGM, Mineral Resources Service, Orléans Françoise Micheau, Professor in Paris I and Director of UMR 8084, medieval Islam: cultural spaces, networks and practices, University Paris IV — University Paris I — CNRS Flori...

This article seeks to describe the social interactions between Byzantins and Muslims as a process that has gradually developed over time and was not an immutable series of similar episodes (spectacular embassies, interreligious fierce polemics, etc.) as portrayed by both medieval and modern historia...

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The colloquium took place a few months before the thesis was supported in 2006; the text was taken up for publication; this is part of a chapter of the thesis. The years appeared a little late in September 2009. On the basis of medieval, archaeological textual sources and ethnographic data, the arti...

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The publishers of this beautiful volume on the issue of the body in medieval Islam have classified its articles in four sections: ‘Beauty and dairy: physico-social standards’; ‘Body metaphor: vagabonds and paladins’; ‘Love and suffering’, and ‘Life Cycles’. The twelve texts together offer a wide ran...

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Dans le prolongement de ses nombreux travaux sur le soufisme et le culte des saints en Islam, Nelly Amri présente ici une réflexion foisonnante sur la sainteté et son dispositif de croyance dans le Maghreb médiéval tardif (viiie-ixe/xive-xve siècle), à partir de l’étude de la figure du « ravi en Die...

the history of the body in the medieval Islamic space is, to some extent, a new subject of study. For a long time, medieval Islam historians have confined themselves to frightening the body of individuals of any gender and age that they met in their documentation. They were not always unaware of it....

Longtime as a peripheral region in the Mediterranean and Islam, on the contrary, the medieval Maghreb was at an early stage integrated into exchange networks, first as part of the construction of an Islamic area largely open to the sea and then of a Mediterranean dominated by European Latin powers....

in Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel, Sylvain Gouguenheim purports to refute what he calls a vulgate: the role of Arabs in shaping Latin Europe. She received Greek thoughts from Eastern Christians and then Greek-Latin translators. This book brings the medievists to question the historical method and eth...

NB: The article is copied from the menestrel webpage — portal for research on the Middle Ages (http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?article3121). * * * of the use of the concept of ethnicity in the history of medieval Islam by Boris JAMES, Chercheur associated with the French Institute of the Middle Eas...

Will people be the main actors in Islam’s history? Historiography has for a long time relegated them to the backdrop, fixed in the constant nature of the facts, included in the nomenclature of the offspring of Noé, embracing the stereotypes attributed to them by the adab of the classic era. Just wer...

In the framework of the Seminar “Marges and borders of medieval Islam” take note of the meeting on Thursday 17 November, 10-13: “The land borders of Islam” organised by Cyrille Aillet (University Lyon 2, CIHAM-UMR 5648, IUF)/ cyrille.aillet@univ-lyon2.fr Room André Frossard, ISH Programme Eva Collet...

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Wafayāt al-Aa-yān, a famous collection of biographies written in Damascus by the historian Ibn -Allikān in the VIIth/18th century, was the source of a family of texts. We describe a number of summaries and supplements to the Wafayāt, focusing on novel manuscripts, written up to the xia/xviia century...

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How to understand the emergence of the Islamic world in the VIIth centuries? Is the Islamic Empire the last of the major ancient empires or, on the contrary, the first medieval empire? This book proposes to overcome the opposition between break and continuity. While the Islamic Empire borrows from t...

This conference will consist of a general presentation of the mirrors of composite princes in medieval Islam. The main features will be identified and the different themes addressed therein. This will lead us to question the definition of good government according to the authors of these treaties. D...