Sunday, January 11, 2004

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

167. Representations of War in the Medieval Middle East
Omni Shoreham, Suite 273

Chair: Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University
Papers:

Embattled Scholars: Where, How, and Why Did Medieval Islamic Men of Learning Take Up Arms?
Michael Bonner, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Tamerlane or Ghengis Khan? Anachronism and the Justification of War in the Late Fourteenth Century
Anne Broadbridge, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Remembering Damascus: Local Loyalty after Tamerlane’s Invasion of Syria
Zayde G. Antrim, Harvard University
Comment: Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame