Emerging forms of piety centering on Muḥammad as reflected in Arabic literature

This International Workshop is organized by Dr. Ines Weinrich and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Syrinx von Hees in cooperation with the DFG Project "mawlid - Texts from the 13th to the 18th Century: Prophetic Piety as Ritual Performance?" and the ALEA Leibnizpreis-Research-Unit "Arabic Literature and Rhetoric, 1100 - 1800".
It will take place on the 6th and 7th of December 2019 at the Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft (2nd floor), Schlaunstraße 2, 48143 Münster.
Program:
Friday, December 6
14:00 - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction > Ines Weinrich
14:30 - 15:15 Al-Qaṣidah al-Shuqrāṭīsiyyah: Rhetoric and the Aesthetics of Devotional Poetry in Madīḥ Nabawī > Suzanne Stetkevych
15:15 - 15:35 Coffee Break
15:35 - 16:20 Vorislamisches Prophetenlob: Ibn Daftarḫān (d. 1257) islamisiert die Muʿallaqāt > Thomas Bauer
16:20 - 17:05 Spätabbasidisches Prophetenlob: Ein Gedicht von aṣ-Ṣarṣarī (st. 1258) > Annabel Gering
18:00 Dinner
Saturday, December 7
10:00 - 10:45 Reading Practices of the Arabic mawlid > Ines Weinrich
10:45 - 11:30 Prophetenlob in dialektalen Strophengedichten (zaǧals) > Hakan Özkan
11:30 - 11:50 Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:35 Tawshīḥ, zajal and Devotional Repertoire in the Moroccan Nūba Tradition > Carl Davila
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:15 - 15:00 Der Brief Yūsuf b. Ḥaǧǧāǧs an das Grab des Propheten > Andreas Herdt
15:00 - 15:45 A muʿāraḍa on al-Būṣīrī’s Burdah by Ibn Abī Ḥajalah (d. 1375) > Syrinx Hees
15:45 - 16:05 Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:50 ʿĀʾisha and Muḥammad: Praise of the Prophet in the late 9th/15th Century > Emil Homerin
16:50 Closing Discussion > Chaired by Stefan Reichmuth
You can download the flyer with the program here.