LibMed Webinar 2022-2023 Schedule in English

Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries) Sources, Analyses, Projects A monthly Webinar (Zoom) Link on demand at: [email protected] Despite being well-known for the Greek and Roman era, Libya remains rather unknown for the tenth centuries of the Islamic era, that began with the Islamic conquest of the 1st/7th century and ended with the progressive establishment of the Ottoman rule in the 10th/16th century. Thus, this webinar aims at reactivating the academic interest toward this space, that can be conceptualized as a crossroad within the global Islamic world, connecting the Maghrib with the Mashriq, the Mediterranean Sea and Saharan Africa. Following the first conference cycle (20212022), in 2022-2023 we will continue to explore the sources available to the historians to write, reshape and reconsider the history of medieval Libya. A special emphasis will be put on new corpuses, especially material documentation. Organization committee : Hafed ABDOULI (LERIC, University of Sfax, Tunisia) ; Inas Mohamed Ali BUBTANA (Archaeology department, University of Benghazi, Libya) ; Sébastien GARNIER (UMR 8230-Centre Jean-Pépin, France) ; Aurélien MONTEL (UMR 5648-CIHAM; UMR 8167Orient&Méditerranée, France) Schedule • Session 1 (19 October 2022, 18h CET) : “The Libyan Experience in Preserving the Medieval Heritage (Archaeological and Manuscript): what has been achieved, what the current situation is and which goals we propose” (in Arabic) Salah AGAB (Permanent Delegate of Libya to UNESCO, Paris) • Session 2 (16 November 2022, 18h CET) “De cap de Mazurata fins a Port Trebuch. Catalan slave trade networks in late medieval Cyrenaica” Iván ARMENTEROS MARTÍNEZ (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) • Session 3 (21 December 2022, 18h CET) “A local memory of Tripolitania, between history and legend. How can we handle the ms. BnF Ar. 1892?” Sébastien GARNIER (Centre Jean Pépin-UMR 8230, Paris, France) • Session 4 (18 January 2023, 18h CET) “From the Mountains to the Tripolitanian pre-desert: Analysing the spatial distribution of the gsour sites from the 6th to the 10th centuries CE” (in Arabic) Muftah AL-HADDAD (az-Zaytuna University, Tarhuna, Libya) • Session 5 (22 February 2023, 18h CET) “Science, trade and what lies between them... among the diaspora of Tripolitanian elites in the East, from Alexandria to Ghazna and Kolkata (5th/11th-10th/16th centuries)” (in Arabic) Lotfi BEN MILED (Faculté des lettres, des arts et des humanités de la Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia) • Session 6 (22 March 2023, 18h) “The Manuscripts in Libya. The current situation and what we still ignore” (in Arabic) Intiṣār BIANKŪ (Omar Al-Mukhtar University, el-Beyda, Libya) • Session 7 (19 April 2023, 18h CET) “Libyan mints in the early medieval period” (in Arabic) Abdelhamid FENINA (Faculté des Lettres et de Sciences Humaines, Tunis, Tunisia) • Session 8 (24 May 2023, 18h CET) “Medieval Tripoli through the eyes of Christian captives from the Ottoman era: the narrative of the French surgeon Dominique Girard (17th century CE) as a case study” Aurélien MONTEL (CIHAM-UMR 5648, Lyon, France) • Session 9 (21 June 2023, 18h CET) “Arabic inscriptions from Cyrenaica (7th-10th centuries CE)” (in Arabic) Inas Mohamed Ali BUBTANA (University of Benghazi, Libya)