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Date: 04 Apr 2013
From:Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies aram at orinst.ox.ac.uk
Subject:Christian Contribution to Arab Renaissance Conference Program

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies:
Thirty Seventh International Conference

Christian Contribution to Arab Renaissance


Programme



MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)


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09:00-09:50
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09:50-10:40 Dr. Paola Pizzo (University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy)
“Nāṡīf al-Yāzijī: his fortune in East and West at the beginning of the
Arab Renaissance.”

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00-11:50 Ms. Rana Issa (PhD candidate at UIO, Norway)
“Bible translation and modernization of the Arabic language in the 19th
century.”
11:50-12:40 Dr. David Grafton (Lutheran Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia): “The 1865 so-called Van Dyck Arab translation of the Bible:
Contribution to 19th century textual criticism of the New Testament.”

12:40-13:00 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Tea/coffee

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15:30-16:20 Dr. Marco Demichelis (University of Turin)
“Kalām viewpoints in F. Anṭūn vs. M. ‘Abduh’s debate on Secularization.
God’s absolutism and Islām irrationality as cornerstones of the Orientalist
Arab-Christian thought during the Nahḍa.”
16:20-17:10 Dr. Samir Khalil (St Joseph University - Beirut)
“La contribution de Germanos Farhat à la Renaissance Arabe.”
17:10-18:00 Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford)
“The Maronite contribution to the preservation of Arabic language during
the Ottoman period.”


TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)


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09:00-09:50 Dr. Abjar Bakhou (Baylor University)
 “Subject to be defined.”
09:50-10:40 Rev. Željko Paša, SJ (Pontificium Istitutum Orientale, Roma)
“The Concept of God’s Trinity in the ‘Kitāb farāᵓid al-fawāᵓid fī uṣūl
ad-dīn wa-l-ᶜaqāᵓid” of ᶜAḇdīšūᶜ bar Brīḳā’.”

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00-11:50 Dr. Paolo Maggiolini (Luspio University, Rome)
“Tradition and Modernity. The Melkite Catholic Church from the late Ottoman
Empire until the Mandate system in the Middle East.”
11:50-12:40 Dr. Ioana Feodorov (Rumanian Academy, Bucharest)
“Beginnings of Arabic Printing in Ottoman Syria (1706-1711): the Romanians’
part in Patriarch Athanasios Dabbās’s achievements.”

12:40-13:00 Lunch

Chairperson:
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15:00-15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30-16:20 Dr. Anas Soufan (Geneva University)
“Syrian architectural Modernity between Ottomanism and Arabism?”
16:20-17:10 Dr. Carsten Walbiner (Birzeit University, Palestine)
“Ilyas Basil Faraj – a Lebanese protagonist of the Nahda in Jerusalem.”
17:10-18:00 Dr. Geoffrey Roper (London)
“The Arabic press in Malta, 1825-1842: its influence on the 19th century
Arab renaissance.”
19:00-22:00 Banquet

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

(Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane)


Chairperson: Dr. Carsten Walbiner (Birzeit University, Palestine)

09:00-09:50 Dr. Mahmoud O. Haddad (University of Balamand)
 “The role of the Christian clergy in the 19th century: religious and
scientific.”
09:50-10:40 Dr. Hilary Kilpatrick (Lausanne - Switzerland)
“What were the aims of Christian writers of the 17th and early 18th
century?”

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:00-11:50 Dr. Hayat Bualuan (American University of Beirut)
“Contribution of 18th Century Christian Historians of Bilad al Sham to the
Arab Renaissance.”
11:50-12:40 Dr. Souad Slim (Balamand University - Lebanon)
“The role of the Greek Orthodox in the starting of the civil society in
Bilad al-Sham and in confirming Arab identity.”
12:40-13:00 Lunch

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15:00-15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30-16:20 Dr. Abjar Bahkou (Baylor University, Waco, Texas)
 “Jurji Zaydan: Activist and reformer of the Arabic language and
literature.”
16:20-17:10
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17:10-18:00
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