Arabo-Byzantine Workshop

18-22 may 2026
École française de Rome (Piazza Navona, 62)
Istituto Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo(Piazza dell'orologio, 4)

ORGANISATION

• Sara Abram (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
• Luca Farina (École française de Rome)

PROGRAMME 

► MONDAY 18 MAY - EFR

09 H 30

• Sara Abram & Luca Farina - Università degli Studi di Palermo & École française de Rome
  Arabo-Byzantine Studies as a Field: Means and Tools

10 H 00
Palaeography and Codicology

• François Déroche - Collège de France & Institut de France
  The Challenges of a Paleographical Approach to Early Qur’anic Scripts
• Daniele Bianconi - Sapienza Università di Roma
  L’irresistibile fascino della ‘collezione filosofica’

14 H 00

• Boris Liebrenz - Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
  Book Archaeology—Sources and Methods to Make Manuscripts Talk
• John Habib - Yale University
  The Translator Who Wasn’t: Reassessing the Role of Ibn al-Faḍl in the Transmission of the Arabic Psalms
• Eylül Çetinbaş - Bilkent Üniversitesi & Koç Üniversitesi
  St. Catherine of Alexandria and Rābiʿa of Basra: Comparative Cults of Female Saints in the Byzantine-Arabo Traditions

► TUESDAY 19 MAY - ISIME

10 H 00
Sigillography and Numismatics

• Sébastien Gasc - CNRS (IRAMAT UMR 706)
  Conquest, Arabization, Islamization: Seals and Coins in al-Andalus (8th Century)
• Vivien Prigent - CNRS (Orient & Méditerranée UMR 8167)
  Coinage in Transition: Arabo-Byzantine Coins in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa

14 H 00

• Sébastien Gasc & Vivien Prigent - CNRS
  Hands-on Approaches to Islamic and Byzantine Seals and Coins
• Nicoletta De Troia - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
  Relations and Identities in a Saharan Environment (Late III-X Century CE): Preliminary Results
• Annalise Whalen - University of Central Florida
  Medieval Data, Modern Maps: Integrating Arabo-Byzantine Sources into Modern GIS Analyses
   

► WEDNESDAY 20 MAY - EFR

10 H 00
Classical and Digital Philology

• Beatrice Gründler - Freie Universität Berlin
  ‘Kalīla wa-Dimna’—A Fluid Textual Tradition at a Glance
• Caroline Macé - Universität Hamburg
  Editing the Oldest Text State of the ‘Physiologus’ between Greek, Latin, Syriac and Armenian

14 H 00

• Federico Alpi - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  Traditional Critical Editions and Digital Tools: The Prototype of CRITERION
• Germano Gorga - Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca 
  Avicenna’s Theory and Practice of Astronomy: The Case of Solar Motions
• Victor Bou Tanos - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
  John Chrysostom’s ‘Homilies on the Letter to the Ephesians’: Elements on the Eastern Mediterranean Transmission of an Exegetical Text
   

► THURSDAY 21 MAY - EFR

10 H 00
Diplomatics

• Jeremy Johns - University of Oxford
  A Greek-Arabic ‘Hybrid’ Deed of Sale of Dīwānī Land to the Jew Yaʿqūb ibn al-Šayḫ Faḍlūn b. Ṣāliḥ (Palermo, 30 January 1161)
• Cristina Rognoni - Università degli Studi di Palermo
  Greek Documents from Messina and Palermo in the 12th Century: Byzantine Models and Islamic Practice

14 H 00

• Nadia Jamil & Cristina Rognoni - University of Oxford & Università degli Studi di Palermo
  Hands-on Approaches to Islamic and Byzantine Documents
• Hossameldin Ali - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  The Legal Infrastructure of Landholding in Muslim Sicily
• Carlo Emilio Biuzzi - Universiteit Gent & École Pratique des Hautes Études
  Understanding Church Social Organization from Legal Collections: The Case of the Miaphysite Canonical Collection

► FRIDAY 22 MAY - EFR

10 H 00
Papyrology

• Petra Sijpesteijn - Universiteit Leiden
  Solving Conflicts: Legal and Social Institutions in Early Islamic Egypt
• Jean-Luc Fournet - Collège de France & École Pratique des Hautes Études
  The Arabization of Egypt according to Greek Papyrological Documentation
• Adam DeSchriever - Yale University
  The Lakhmids’ Fall from Grace: Comparing Syriac and Arabic Narrative Sources

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Illustration: Palermo, Museo della Zisa, Inscription in Four Languages, 1149