9.30 – 11.00: Session 1, Writing History in the Future Tense, Chair – Sarah Bowen Savant, AKU-ISMC

Heaven and History: Astrology and the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Early Islam
Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland

Writing History in the Future Tense: Colonialism and Modernity in Abu Rasʾ Ajaʾib al akhbar
Arthur Asseraf, University of Cambridge

11.00 – 11.15: Coffee

11.15 – 12.45: Session 2, Up close under the Ottomans, Chair – James McDougall, University of Oxford

Afterlives of the ʿammiyyas: the Mount Lebanon commoner leaguers of 1800-1840 in later chronicles and histories
Peter Hill, University of Oxford

Reading Ibrahim Fasih al-Haidari: An Everyday History of Ottoman Iraq
Janna Aladdin, New York University

12.45 – 13.45: Lunch

13.45- 15.15: Session 3, Using the past to identify and classify, Chair – Andreas Görke, University of Edinburgh

Emotion and Social Status: Examples from Arabic Literary and Documentary Sources
Karen Bauer, The Institute of Ismaili Studies

Taking the Tribes to the Museum: the institutionalisation of Qatari Identity
Javier Guirado Alonso, Autonomous University of Madrid

15.15 – 15.45: Afternoon Tea

15.45 – 17.15: Session 4 “Lost” Sources, Chair – Maxim Romanov, AKU-ISMC / Vienna

The Khwadaynamag
Michael Bonner, University of Cambridge

Muḥammadd b. Isḥāq and the Composition of his Sīrah: A New Account
Kevin Jaques, Indiana University