Norman Sicily and Ifrīqiya - Documents, Scripts and Islamic Law
Thursday 1st December 2022, The Buttery, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
14:00—14.05
Umberto Bongianino (DocuMult: University of Oxford) Welcome
14:05—14:35
Moez Dridi (Senior Archivist, Qatar National Library)
Arabic documents in the library of Kairouan: from the formation of the collection to prospects for study and research
14:50—15:20
Nadia Jamil (DocuMult: University of Oxford)
The creative repurposing of Mālikī legal formulae in the Arabic documents of Norman Sicily
15:35—16:05
Sonia Merli (DocuMult: Università di Palermo)
“The Treasure of the Holy African Church” revisited (Tabulario della Cappella Palatina, pergamena no. 11: post 1159 A.D.)
16:20—16:50
Umberto Bongianino (DocuMult: University of Oxford)
The king’s new pen-pushers: revisiting the introduction of dīwānī scripts in the Norman chancery
17:05—17:35
Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil (DocuMult: University of Oxford)
Arabic documents from Ifrīqiya and Sicily (Kalbid and Norman) amongst the “Damascus Fragments” (İstanbul, Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi, Şam Evrakı): a second sondage
18:00: Refreshments
