| Date / Time | Sat 15 Dec 2018 14:00–17:00 / Sun 16 Dec 2018 10:30–17:00 |
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| Venue | Room 304, ILCAA |
| Language | English |
| Jointly sponsored by | - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and legitimacy of the Islamic dynasties from the perspective of the early modern empires” (15H01895) - Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World” |
| Admission: Free Note: If you would like to attend the symposium, please contact us by e-mail before 13 December. E-mail: n-kondo[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp *Please change [at] to @. |
| Saturday, December 15 | |
| 14:00–14:20 | Introduction Nobuaki Kondo |
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| Literature and legitimacy Chair: Kazuo Morimoto | |
| 14:20–15:00 | Louise Marlow, Wellesley College "Articulations of Legitimacy in Mirrors for Princes of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries" |
| 15:00–15:40 | Osamu Otsuka, the University of Tokyo “The Flowering of Persian Literature under the Patronage of the Hazaraspid Dynasty: How did Local Rulers Legitimate Their Rule in the Late Ilkhanid Period?” |
| 15:50–16:30 | Shahzad Bashir, Brown University “Legitimacy in Rhyme and Meter: Poetry in Timurid and Safavid Historiography” |
| 16:30–17:00 | Discussion |
| Sunday, December 16 | |
| Ideology and Religion Chair: Yukako Goto | |
| 10:30–11:10 | Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina “A Timurid Iamblichus in Search of a Julian: Ibn Turka as Early Modern Philhellenizing Imperial Ideologue.” |
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| 11:10–11:50 | Masaki Sugiyama, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies “For the Sufi Shaykh or for the "Mahdi's Son"?: The Re-examination of the Relation between Sultan Husayn Mirza and Shah Qasim Faydbakhsh” |
| Ottoman discourses Chair: Hiroyuki Ogasawara | |
| 13:00–13:40 | Retsu Hashizume, Chiba Institute for Science “Luṭfī Pasha’s theory of the caliphate” |
| 13:40–14:20 | Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham “Persian Emigres and Ottoman Discourses of Rule in the Early Sixteenth Century” |
| From Egypt to Afghanistan Chair: Jun Akiba | |
| 14:40–15:20 | Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University “An Egyptian Perspective on Ottoman Legitimacy in the Seventeenth Century: Mer’i b. Yusuf’s Golden Necklaces on the Virtues of the Ottoman Dynasty” |
| 15:20–16:00 | Nobuaki Kondo, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies “Sunni Rule over Shi‘i Population: Legitimation of Afghan Rulers in Iran, 1722–29” |
| 16:10–17:00 | General Discussion |
