Unit 4 Geographic Information Systems for Islamic Area Studies

"Research Seminars on the Processing of Historical/Geographical Information"

Discussed the work and analysis required for the preparation of landcover data on the Ponneri region of southern India provided by LANDSAT TM images as well as the digitization and analysis of the village statistics in 1801, the time of the implementation of the Zamindari System and maps made for the 1850 land register of the village census. (Sessions 1-11: 5.21, 6.4, 6.18, 7.2, 7.16, 8.5, 8.19, 9.25, 10.23, 11.27, 12.18., 1998)

"Research Seminars on Turkish Urban Space"

(Sessions 1-7: 4.3, 5.26, 7.6, 9.30, 11.26., 1998; 1.20, 2.24., 1999)

Unit 5 Islamic History and Culture

5.30.1998

"The Saray Albums Seminar"

YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako "Direction of the Seminar", "An Outline of the Seminar", "The History of Research on the Saray Albums"

7.18.1998

YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako "Summary of Research on the Saray Albums"; SUGIMURA Toh "Chinese Influences on Persian Painting"

7.20.1998

"Pictures in Islamic Area Studies"

8.26-27.1998

FUJII Morio "Persian Literature and the Life of the Prophet According to the Mystics"; ISHII Kazuko "Buddhism and Shivaism in Pre-Islamic Ancient Java"; YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako "Depictions of Heretics and Sufism in the Saray Albums"; KOMAKI Sachiyo "Folklores of the Prophet Mohammed: The Case of North Indian Muslim Society"

8.31.1998

SAITO Tsuyoshi "N. Lindisfarne-Tapper & B. Inghamﾕs Approaches to the Study of Dress in the Middle East"; SUZUKI Eiko "J. Nortonﾕs Faith and Fashion in Turkey"

10.3.1998

"Mystical Visions of God in Three Abrahamic Religions"

11.7.1998

SEKI Yoshifusa "The Structure of Muraqqa's Preface"; IWATAKE Akio "Publishing During the Ilkhanid Dynasty: the Case of Waqf Documents"; YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako and KOSHIBA Harumi "Preliminary Studies of the Topkapi Palace Museum: Subsequent Research Policies and Directions"

11.14.1998

KURIYAMA Yasuyuki "The Analysis of Arabic Texts Concerning Southern Arabia, With a Focus on 16th-Century Hadramut"; FUKAMI Naoko "Report on Traditional Architecture in Isfahan: Housing of the Safavid Dynasty"; SOLEYMANIYYE Kimiya "Report on Traditional Architecture in Kashan: Housing of the Qajar Dynasty"

11.18.1998

KUSABU Hisatsugu "Byzantine Heretical Writings and the Image of Islam: What 12th-Century Accounts Show Us"; KUDO Masato "Algerian Muslims, As Described by 18th-Century Europeans"

12.19.1998

"The Potentials of Historiography"

MORITAKA Kumiko "Between History and Literature: Theories about wazir"; IWATAKE Akio "Persian-Language Histories of the Mongol and Post-Mongol Eras"; YAJIMA Yoichi "Accounts of Saints' Lives in Persian: An Overview"; TAKAMATSU Yoichi "Hulasa: Ottoman Political Documents of the Late 18th Century"; SHIMIZU Yasuhisa "Documents of the Haleb Financial Administration Concerning Loan Contracts of the Late 16th-Century Mukattah"

1.18.1999

MAEDA Hirotake "The Current Situation in the Caucasus"; MATSUNAGA Akira "Islamic Policy of Japan in 1938, and the Tartars of the Far East"

1.23.1999

YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako "On H.2153, 2160 of the Saray Albums, the Focus of Our Study"; KOBAYASHI Kazue "Meeting for Creating a Database of H. 2153, 2160"

2.20.1999

MATSUI Masako "Classification and the Travel Documents of Merchants in the Ottoman Empire"; OISHI Takashi "Muslim Mercantile Capital and the British Colonial Administration: Rights to Profit from the Meccan Pilgrimage"; KOMATSU Kaori "The Problems of Ottoman Naval Independence: Capitalism and Cabotage"

2.25-26.1999

"Worship in Ziyara: Historical and Anthropological Research of Islamic Rites"

AKAHORI Masayuki "Ziyara and Saint Veneration Among the Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt"; Abder-Rahmane LAKHSASSI, "Ziyara to a Pilgrimage Center in Southwestern Morocco"; SATO Noriko "The Shi'ite Women's Practices of Ziyarat and Nadhr in Quetta, Pakistan"; Irina PETROSYAN "Pilgrimage Sites in the Early Ottoman State: The Problem of Interrelation of Islam and Christianity"

3.1.1999

Abder-Rahmane LAKHSASSI "Religion and Society in Morocco"

3.4.1999

Abder-Rahmane LAKHSASSI "Ibn Khaldun and Philosophy"

3.29.1999

SAKAI Shinzo "A Formation of Saintliness: A Case Study on Oral Literature in Mali"; TAKAGI Keiko "On A. Popovic and G. Veinstein (eds.) Les voies d'Allah: les ordres mystiques dans le monde musulman des origines � aujourd'hui and C. Hamesﾕs Confr屍ies soci師市 et sociabilit�"

　Unit 6 Source Materials for the Study of Islamic Civilization

12.3.1998

Efim REZVAN "Historical Texts at the St. Petersburg Center for Eastern Studies"

12.13.1998

"The Potential of Historical Manuscripts and Texts for Islamic Area Studies"

SATO Tsugitaka "Documents on the Iqta' System"; IWATAKE Akio "Historical Texts and Manuscripts in Iranian History: An Overview Focusing on Waqf Texts"; TAKAMATSU Yoichi "Historical Documents of the Ottoman Empire"; UMEMURA Hiroshi "Research on and Use of Materials in the St. Petersburg Center for Eastern Studies: Focusing on the Uighur Collection"; HORIKAWA Toru "Qadi Documents in the Khanate of Khiva"

1.23.1999

Ehsan ESHRAQI "The Social Meanings of Several Inscriptions Found in the Friday Mosque of Qazvin"

Persian Language Manuscript Study Seminars (5 times: 1.21, 1.26, 1.28, 2.2, 2.4., 1999) Instructor: Ehsan ESHRAQI