Tuesday 6/5/2008

9:30- 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 11:00 Opening Session 

·         Prof. Ismail Serageldin (Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Opening Speech                       

·         Prof. Youssef Ziedan (Director of the Manuscript Center)

On the Concept of Lost and Embedded Manuscript Texts  

11:00 – 12:00 Session 1

Moderator: Prof. Abdullah Yusuf Al-Ghunaim (Kuwait)

·         Prof. Roshdi Rashed (Egypt /France)

Lost & Embedded Manuscript Texts in Mathematics and Science

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30-1:30 Session 2

Moderator: Dr. Omar Fikri (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

• Prof. Len Berggren (Canada)

Lost and Embedded Manuscripts in the Works of Abū-Sahl al-Qūhī

• Prof. Régis Morelon (France)

Lost Manuscripts of Astronomy

1:30 – 2:30  Session 3

Moderator: Prof. Mohamed El-Faham (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

• Prof. Hélène Bellosta (France)

Lost and Embedded Manuscripts through Ibn Sinān's Mathematical Works

• Prof. Pascal Crozet (France)

Al-Sijzī and the Sections of the Cylinder

2:30 – 4:00 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)

4:00 – 5:00 Session 4

Moderator: Prof. Muhammad Ali Al-Kordi (Egypt)

• Prof. Ahmed Chahlane (Morocco)

Hebrew Translation & Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Nichomanchean Ethics

• Dr. Mohamed Jamal Tahhan (Syria)

Al-Balkhī's Lost and Embedded Manuscript Texts

Wednesday 7/5/2008

9:30 – 10:30 Session 5

Moderator: Prof. Magdi Nagi (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) 

• Prof. Abdelhamid  I.  Sabra (Egypt/USA)

The European Journey of Ibn al-Haytham's MSS of his Optics

10:30 – 11:30 Session 6

Moderator: Prof. Hamed Taher (Egypt)

• Dr. Elaheh Kheirandish (USA)

Revealing Manuscripts and Embedded Texts: The Case of Arabic Optics

• Dr. Mohamed Kamel Gad (Egypt/UAE)

Lost and Embedded Chemistry Manuscript Works

11:30- 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 – 1:15 Session 7

Moderator: Dr. Muhammad Saleh (Egypt)

• Dr. Michael Marx (Germany)

Quranic Mss According to the Corpus Coranium

·         Prof. Stefan Leder (Germany/Lebanon)

The Role of Copyists (Warrāqūn) in the Production of Texts and Titles

1:15 – 2:00 Session 8

Moderator:  Prof. Mohamed Anani (Egypt)

• Prof. Hassan Hanafy (Egypt)

Lost & Embedded Manuscript Texts: the Dialectic of Inclusion & Exclusion

2:00 – 3:15 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)

3:15 – 5:00 Session 9

Moderator: Mr. Mohammed Kujjah (Syria)

• Prof. Ayman Fouad Sayyid (Egypt)

Yahiyā bin-Abī Tayy's Lost History

• Prof. Mohamed Al-Said Gamaledin (Egypt)

Fathnama al-Sind

·         Dr. Abdellattif Jilani (Morocco)

Destroying and Obliterating Manuscript Texts in Arabic and Islamic Heritage

5:00- 6:30  Session 10

Moderator: Prof. Ahmed Chouqui Binebine (Morocco)

• Prof. Ahmed Hewedi (Egypt)

Lost Books in the Old Testament

• Prof. Nazek Ibrahim Abdul-Fattah (Egypt)

Sa'adia Gaon's al-Mukhtār fi al-Amānāt wa al-I'tiqādāt

• Dr. Faeza Ezzeldine (Egypt)

      The Story of the Seven Young Men of Ephesus

Thursday 8/5/2008

9:30 – 10:30 Session 11

Moderator: Prof. Roshdi Rashed (Egypt /France)

• Prof. Josef Van Ess (Germany)

Newly Found Mu'tazilte Manuscripts

10:30 – 12:00 Session 12

Moderator: Prof. Abdul-Mu’aty Baiyumi (Egypt)

·         Prof. Radwan El-Sayed (Lebanon)

Lost & Embedded Manuscript Texts: Kitāb al-Siyar by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya

·         Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Salimi (Oman)

Ibadhi Lost Manuscripts: The case of Kitāb al-Taqiīd

·         Dr. Mhammed Abdou (Morocco)

Al-Ghazālī's Lost Works: Replies to the Jurist Ibn al-‘Arabī

12:00-12:15 Coffee Break

12:15-2:00 Session 13

Moderator: Mr. Adil Salahi ( Syria / UK)

• Prof. Ahmed Mabad Abd El-Karem (Egypt)

Lost and Embedded Manuscript Texts: Examples from the Main Works of Hadith

• Dr. Mahmoud Masri (Syria)

Lost and Embedded Manuscript Texts in Hadith Literature

• Dr. Mohamed Yousry Salama (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Lost and Embedded Sources of Prophetic Biography

2:00-3:15 Lunch at the Hilton Cafeteria (Conference Guests)

3:15-4:30 Session 14

Moderator: Dr. Faysal El-Hafyan (Syria/ Egypt)

• Prof. Badiea Gomaa (Egypt)

Lost & Embedded Persian Manuscript Texts in Dar al-Kutub al-Misriyya

• Prof. Hassan Tayyan (Syria)

Lost & Embedded Manuscript Texts and Arabic Cryptology

• Dr. Abdul Hakim Al-Anis (UAE))

Where Can We Find the Lost Book of al-Funūn?

4:30- 6:00 Session 15

Moderator: Mr. Muhammad El-Sayed Eid (Egypt)

• Metropolitan Gregorios (Syria)

Patriarch Avram I Barsūm's History of Syrian Parishes

• Fr. Bigoul Al-Suriany (Egypt)

The Lost Original Manuscript of John of Nikiu

• Dr. Magdy Abdul-Raziqk (Egypt)

The Ethiopian Book of Secrets

6:00- 6:15 Closing Session

Prof. Youssef Ziedan (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

9:00 Conference Dinner at Salamlik Hotel

Friday 9/5/2008

Excursion