The Abba Eban Conference Room
 The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus

 

Morning Session  9:00-12:30
Chair: Michal Biran, Hebrew University
 
Amikam Elad (Hebrew University) - “Shakiriyya in the early Islamic period until the reign of al-Mu"tasim (218/833-227/842) according to Arabic sources”
 
Jacob Lassner (Northwestern University, Illinois, USA) - “Structural Imbalances in the Islamic State: The Introduction of Slave Units in the Imperial Army”
 
John Turner (Colby College, Maine, USA) - “The Death of "Abbas b. al-Ma’mun and a Thwarted coup d’etat”
 
Matthew Gordon (Miami University, Ohio, USA) - “The Second Generation Samarran Turks: the Career of Ahmad ibn Tulun”
 
Afternoon Session  14:00-17:30
Chair: Reuven Amitai, Hebrew University
 
Etienne de la Vaissière (CNRS, France) - “The Origins of the Mamluk System as Seen from Central Asia”
 
Deborah G. Tor (Bar Ilan University) - “The Limitations of the Military Slave System in the Persianate Dynastic Period”
 
Yehoshua Frenkel (University of Haifa) - “Mamluks ahead of the Mamluk Sultanate: A Short Review of Military Slavery in the Fertile Crescent”
 
Yaacov Lev (Bar Ilan University) - “Military Slavery in the North African and Egyptian Context, 9th-12th Centuries”

 
Organizing committee: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, Amikam Elad, Yohanan Friedmann

This workshop is held with the kind and generous support of the Mordechai and Ruth Abir Fund, and the assistance of the Conference Committee of the Hebrew University