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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><div align="center"><font size=6>ISLAMIC
CITIES IN THE CLASSICAL AGE</font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=4><b>a symposium sponsored
by</b></font><font size=3><br>
</font><font size=4><b>The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at
MIT</b></font><font size=3><br><br>
</font></div>
<font size=2>This symposium will bring together leading historians,
archaeologists, art and architectural historians of late Antiquity and
Early Islam to assess the current state of our knowledge on the context
of urbanism in that transitional period. The focus will be on the
urban development and cultural climate of the nascent Islamic world from
the eve of the Islamic conquests through the early Abbasid period (7-10
century).</font><font size=3><br>
<div align="center"><b><br>
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2005</b><br>
2:00 - 5:30<br>
<b><br>
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005</b><br>
10:00 - 12:30 & 2:00 - 6:00<br>
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MIT room 6-120</b></font><font size=3><br>
<b>MAP:
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Event is free and open to the public. </b><br>
<b>For information: call 617 253 1400 or e-mail <akpiarch@mit.edu>
or on the web
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/symposium05.html" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/symposium05.html</a></b><br>
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PROGRAM</font><font size=3><br>
<b><br>
FRIDAY, MAY 6</b><br>
2:00 - 5:30<br>
<b><br>
Irfan Shahid</b><br>
</font><font size=2>Georgetown University</font><font size=3><br>
<i>The Arab Background, Islamic and Pre-Islamic, of Umayyad Urbanism in
Bilad al-Sham</i><br><br>
<b>Annabel Wharton</b><br>
</font><font size=2>Duke University</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Classical Jerusalem and Its Post Classical Apparition</i><br><br>
<b>Hugh Kennedy</b><br>
</font><font size=2>University of St Andrews</font><font size=3><br>
<i>From Shahristan to Medina</i><br><br>
<b>SATURDAY, MAY 7</b><br>
10:00 - 12:30<br><br>
<b>Stefan Heidemann</b><br>
</font><font size=2>Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet,
Jena</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Shaping an Imperial Metropolis: Al-Raqqa - Al-Rafiqa</i><br><br>
<b>Frank Trombley</b><br>
</font><font size=2>Cardiff University</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Towns and their Territories in Egypt and Syria: An iInterregional
Comparison</i><br><br>
<b>Alan G. Walmsley</b><br>
</font><font size=2>University of Copenhagen</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Mosques-Money-Memory. The Placement of Mosques and Their Impact on
Towns in Early Islamic Bilad al-Sham</i><br><br>
<b>2:00 - 6:00</b><br><br>
<b>Chase Robinson</b><br>
</font><font size=2>University of Oxford</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Baghdad, Samarra and Abbasid Authority</i><br><br>
<b>Marcus Milwright</b><br>
</font><font size=2>The University of Victoria</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Industrial Zones and the Urban Space in the Early Abbasid Period: The
Case of Raqqa, Syria</i><br><br>
<b>Alastair Northedge</b><br>
</font><font size=2>Université de Paris I
(Panthéon-Sorbonne)</font><font size=3><br>
<i>'Askar al-Mu'tasim: An Analysis of the Central City of
Samarra</i><br><br>
<b>Donald Whitcomb</b><br>
</font><font size=2>The University of Chicago</font><font size=3><br>
<i>Archaeology in "The Places where Men Pray
Together"</i><br><br>
<b>Symposium organized by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor at
MIT</b><br>
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</pre><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=3></font>Jose Luis
Arguello<br>
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture<br>
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MIT, 10-390<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA<br><br>
Phone: 617-253-1400<br>
Fax: 617-258-8172<br><br>
Aga Khan Program Web Site:
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/</a><br>
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