IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1028: Baghdad, Centre of the World
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Letizia Osti, Dipartimento di Lingue & Culture Contemporanee, Università degli Studi di Milano |
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Moderator/Chair: | Maaike van Berkel, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Europese studies en religiewetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Paper 1028-a | The Feeding of the Five Hundred Thousand: The Food Supply of Abbasid Baghdad (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 1028-b | Bandits, Demons, and Singers in Early Abbasid Iraq (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities |
Paper 1028-c | Baghdadi Grammarians and their Wanderings (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | This panel explores movements of people and objects to and from Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate. This is considered the city's golden age as the centre of its own World System, the capital of the Eastern caliphate as well as a point of reference for the world around it. Papers will investigate the practical matters of how the city communicated with its surroundings and the outer world, as well as questions of scholarly affiliation linked to geographical locations. |