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• Tools with Which to Think: Some Recently ‘Discovered’ Sources for Sicily in the Fatimid Era
  Alex Metcalfe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

• Salvatore Morso’s Descrizione di Palermo antico and the Elision of Fatimid Sicily
  Nida Jaffer, Brown University, United States
• Muslim Sicily in the European Imaginary Before 1861: Alterity and Civilisational Hierarchy
  Giovanna Cuillo,Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland
• Forgotten Sicilian Sultanas
  Giuseppe Mandalà, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

• The Fatimids and Sicily: A Symbiotic Relationship
  Shainool Jiwa, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
• Managing the Border with the Rūm in the Fatimid World (10th–11th Centuries): The Emirate of the Sicilian thaghr
  Michelangelo Messina, École Française de Rome-section Moyen Âge, Italy
• Fiscal Policy and Christian Communities in Kalbid Sicily (c. 948–1053)
  Theodora Zampaki, Hellenic Open University (online), Greece

• Between Messina, Cairo, and Tripoli: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Ḥasan b. ʿAmmār al-Kalbī (d. 1000)
  Aslisho Qurboniev, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
• The Last Kalbids (1019–1053): Sicily and the Shifting Balance of Power in the Mediterranean
  Giacomo Favaretto, Independent Scholar, Italy
• Structural Ties that Bind: The Kalbid (and Other Sicilian Muslims’) Connection to the Fatimids in the 11th Century
  Ksenia Ryzhova, Princeton University, United States

• Fatimid Sicily in the Book of Curiosities
  Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University London, UK
• Porous Frontiers and Corrupted Bodies: Sicily as Lived Space in the Book of Curiosities
  Muntazir Ali, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States
• Beyond the Frontier: mudun, ḥiṣn, raḥal. The New Settlement Pattern of Fatimid Sicily
  Lucia Arcifa, University of Catania, Italy
• Beyond the Quarter: Rethinking the Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba in Fatimid Palermo
  Ali Asgar H. Alibhai, University of Texas at Dallas, United States and the MENARAH Initiative

Chair: Alex Metcalfe

• The Qāḍīship of Fatimid Sicily as a Doctrinal Chokepoint: Neglected Passages from Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’s Tartīb al-Madārik
  Sayyed Ibrahim Almahdaly, American University in Cairo, Egypt
• The Transmission of Mālikī Traditions in Fāṭimid Sicily: An Isnād-Based Analysis
  Hossameldin Ali, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
• “Siculo-Fatimids” in the Scholarly Networks of Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī (d. 1180)
  Delia Cortese, Middlesex University, London, UK
• Some Little-Known Stories about Sicily and North Africa in Abū Bakr al-Ṭurṭūshī’s Sirāj al-Mulūk
  Josep Suñé, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Madrid, Spain

• Pottery Production in Fatimid Sicily: Connectivity and Innovation
  Viva Sacco, University College London, Institute of Archaeology, UK
• Glass Production and Mediterranean Connectivity: Sicily within Fatimid Economic Networks
  Francesca Colangeli , University College London, UK
• Material, Memory, and Historiography in the Silk Production of Fatimid and Norman Sicily
  Claire Dillon, Columbia University, United States

• War and Negotiation in the Central Mediterranean: Fatimid Attacks on Mainland Italy from Sicily (10th–11th Centuries)
  Marco Di Branco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• “The Domestikos Cast Away His Cross”: Reappraising the Battle of the Straits (354/965) through Ibn Hāniʾ al-Andalusī
  Yusuf Umrethwala, Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, India

Chair: Umberto Bongianino – University of Oxford

• Habitus at the Kalbid, Norman and Hohenstaufen Courts of Sicily: from Kuttāb to Notari
  Nicola Carpentieri, University of Padua, Italy
• From IfriqiyaMediaeval Muslim name for modern-day Tunisia; also the area where the Fatimids founded their state in the early tenth century. to Siqulliya: Materia Medica in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean
  Robin S. Reich, Seattle University, United States
• Against the Hyphen: The Palermo Formation
  Seyed Abdolreza Hosseini, University of Vienna (online), Austria
• Fatimid Influence on Sicilian Art and Architecture
  Khalil K. Pirani, United States

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