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• 17 jui 2013

  Paris | Villetaneuse

  Call for papers - Geography

  Oases in globalization: ruptures and continuities

  This conference aims to provide answers to these broad questions, analyze the local impacts of the inclusion / exclusion of the oases in / out of the globalization process. The conference, held over two days, will focus on the following topics: oases in globalized trade networks ; the internal organization of global oasis: centers, margins, peripheries ; and ruptures and discontinuities in oases in a context of resource scarcity.

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• 01 jui 2013

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Arabic Chancellery Documents through the Prism of Historicity

  Writing, Vocabulary, Syntax, and Intertextuality from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib (d. 750) to al-Qalqashandī (d. 1418)

  This conference will address the evolution of chancellery styles, their regional diversity, and the history of the rhymed prose (sajʿ), this language of authority that was supposed to obey rules definitively fixed by the Prophet or the first secretaries of the Islamic Empire. What were the technical modalities for innovation? On what semantic, lexical, syntactical, and/or graphic levels did it manifest? Rather than on norms, codes, and rules, studies will focus on writing styles, orthographic variants, atypical handwriting, deletion, the transgression of norms, semantic revitalization, neologisms, and the variety of styles for citing the Quran or referencing ḥadīth. We are seeking to renew study of a corpus considered not as a fixed and ossified text, technical and off-putting, but as a living, evolving, and diverse ensemble.

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