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International conference “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)” — Münster and online, 20-22 November 2025

In premodern Islamic societies, poetry was one of the central literary forms for producing, transmitting, and disseminating knowledge. Poetic texts can be found in nearly all fields of knowledge–from Qurʾanic studies and theology to grammar, medicine, astronomy, and even alchemy or cooking. This conference explores how poetry functions as a medium of knowledge: its formal and stylistic strategies, its intellectual and social contexts, and the ways in which it transforms the very knowledge it seeks to convey.

Date: November 20–22, 2025
Participation: On-site and via online stream (Register here for online participation)
Venue:
University of Münster

Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Schlaunstraße 2, 2nd floor, room RS 225
48143 Münster

 
 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025

14:30 CONFERENCE OPENING

Syrinx von Hees, Director of the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Münster, and Natalie Kraneiß
Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Schlaunstraße 2, 2nd floor, room RS 225, 48143 Münster

PANEL 1
CHAIR: SYRINX VON HEES

14:45–15:20 Betty Rosen (London): Versifying (ʿilmal-badīʿ: Al-Suyūṭī’s ʿUqūd al-jumān
15:20–15:55 Enes F. Ömeroğlu (Istanbul): Islamic Legal Theory and Poetic Reconfiguration: A Study on al-Suyūṭī’s al-Kawkab al-Sāṭiʿ

15:55–16:25 COFFEE & TEA BREAKPANEL 2
CHAIR: NORBERT OBERAUER

16:25–17:00 Andreas Knöll (Münster): Techniques of Jadal as Techniques of Poetry
17:00–17:35 Serkan Ince (Tübingen): Poetry as Argument: The Kalāmī Method in al-Nābulusī’s al-ʿIqd al-naẓīm

17:35–18:00 BREAK

KEYNOTE

18:00 Stefan Reichmuth (Bochum): Arabic Didactic Poetry between Knowledge Transmission and Socio-Cultural Initiation—Cases from Muslim Communities of Learning in Egypt, North and West Africa in the Early Modern Period (16th-19th Centuries)

19:00 RECEPTION

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025
PANEL 3

CHAIR: ASMAA ESSAKOUTI

09:30–10:05 Claire Gallien (Cambridge): The Epistemic Function of Literature in the Genre of Tartīb al-ʿUlūm

10:05–10:40 Nefeli Papoutsakis (Münster): ʿAlī an-Naḥlah’s (fl. late 10th/16th cent.) encyclopaedic zajal: Didactic poetry in an early-Ottoman Arabic shadow play

10:40–11:10 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

PANEL 4
CHAIR: JENS FISCHER

11:10–11:45 Montse Díaz Fajardo (Barcelona): Ibn al-Ḫayyāṭ’s “Lāmiyya on the Warrior Saturn”

11:45–12:20 Isabel Toral (Berlin): Edible Eloquence: Gastronomic Poetry and Culinary Knowledge in Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq’s Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh (10th century CE)

12:20–12:55 Leonie Böttiger (Berlin): Rhyming Recipes: Poetic Transmissions of Practical Knowledge

12:55–14:30 LUNCH BREAK

PANEL 5
CHAIR: MARCO SCHÖLLER

14:30–15:05 Rabia Egici (Istanbul): Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī’s al-Qaṣīda al-Nūniyya: A Poetic Rendering of the Concept of Taḥqīq

15:05–15:40 Navid Chizari (Istanbul): Theological Unity through Poetry: al-Qaṣīda al-Nūniyya by Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī

15:40–16:10 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

PANEL 6
CHAIR: KRISTOF D’HULSTER

16:10–16:45 Tobias Sick (Münster): “So That They Need Neither Skilled Swimmers nor Shell Divers to Reach its Pearls”: Tracing Knowledge Transfer in a Didactic Arabic Verse Translation

16:45–17:20 Dahir Lawan Mu’az (Kano): From Cairo to Sokoto: Abdullahi Dan Fodio’s Didactic Renditions of al-Suyuti’s al-Itqān and al-Nuqāya in 19th-Century West Africa

17:20–17:55 Natalie Kraneiß (Münster): Versifying a Scholarly Discourse, Seeking the Love of the Ahl al-Bayt: A Poem on ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (d. 561/1166) from the 18th-Century Maghrib

20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (PRESENTERS)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025

PANEL 7
CHAIR: NAZLI VATANSEVER

09:30–10:05 Tuba Nur Saraçoğlu (Mardin): From Riwāya to Poetry: How Has Sīra Narration Changed? The Case of al-ʿIrāqī’s Alfiyya

10:05–10:40 Sahal Varwani (Berkeley): With Rhyme and Reason: Imām ʿUmar al-Kharbūtī’s Logical, Rhetorical, and Dialectical Reading of Imām al-Būṣīrī’s Burdah

10:40–11:00 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

PANEL 8
CHAIR: PHILIP BOCKHOLT

11:00–11:35 Nadine El-Hussein (Berlin): Political Poetry in al-Andalus and the Maghreb during the Almohad Period

11:35–12:10 Paula Manstetten (Bonn): From Biographical Dictionary to Didactic Poem in the Mamluk period: Al-Ṣafadī’s (d. 1363) Urjūza on the Rulers and Governors of Damascus

12:10–12:30 COFFEE & TEA BREAK

CONCLUDING REMARKS
CHAIR: NATALIE KRANEISS

12:30–12:50 Maysoon Shibi (Berlin)

12:50–13:10 Syrinx von Hees (Münster)

13:15 FAREWELL & LUNCH (PRESENTERS)

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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (24 octobre 2025). International conference “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)” — Münster and online, 20-22 November 2025. IISMM. Consulté le 22 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/151ap


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