Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Hyatt, Elizabeth Ballroom H
Co-Sponsor(s): Medieval Academy of America
Chair: Brian A. Catlos, University of California at Santa Cruz
Papers:
Conquest, Kinship, and Conversion: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim-Christian Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean
Mark D. Meyerson, University of Toronto
Knowing, and Not Knowing, Your Enemy: Changing Attitudes Toward Islam during the Crusade Era
Jay C. Rubenstein, University of Tennessee
Muslims Living (and Eating) under Christian Rule: The Intersection of Muslim and Christian Food Ways in Spain, Italy, and Outremer
Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame
Comment: David J. Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University

Session 118. Rethinking the Medieval Mediterranean
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Hyatt, Manchester Ballroom B
Co-Sponsor(s): Medieval Academy of America
Chair: Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota
Papers:
Ethno-religious Relations in the Medieval Mediterranean: Resolving the Paradox
Brian A. Catlos, University of California at Santa Cruz
Doing Literary History in the Medieval Mediterranean
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California at Santa Cruz
Northern Africa and the Greater Mediterranean: Gold Routes, Urbanism, and Textual Praxis in the Eighth to Thirteenth Centuries
Ray A. Kea, University of California at Riverside
Comment: Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota

Session 203. Illuminating the Importance of Islands and Maritime Interaction Points in Islamic Empires, Part 2: Illuminating the Importance of Islands and Maritime Interaction Points in the Mediterranean World
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott, Marina Ballroom Salon E
Chair: Brian A. Catlos, University of California at Santa Cruz
Papers:
The Island of Cyprus in the Early Islamic World: Harmonizing Legal and Geographical Visions
John J. Curry IV, University of Las Vegas
Lampoon, Splendor, Homesickness: Ships and Maritime Affairs in Arabic Poetry and Their Cultural and Historical Implications
Barbara Jockers, Institut fur Philosophie III, Universitat Wurzburg
Commanders of Sea Raids (wulat ghazw al-bahr): Early Islamic Maritime Policy in the Syrian Coast
Rana Mikati, University of Chicago
"Our Ships Are Horses": The Anti-Crusader Defense Strategy of the Mamluks, 1250–1517
Albrecht Fuess, CNRS - Université de Tours
Sea Ghazis, Warrior Priests, and One Ottoman Patron's Articulation of Just War, c. 1497–1508
Nabil Sirri Al-Tikriti, University of Mary Washington
Comment: Brian A. Catlos, University of California at Santa Cruz

Also of interest:
Session 170. Illuminating the Importance of Islands and Maritime Interaction Points in Islamic Empires, Part 1: Illuminating the Importance of Islands and Maritime Interaction Points in the Indian Ocean
Saturday, January 9, 2010: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Marriott, Marina Ballroom Salon E
Chair: Isa Blumi, Georgia State University
Papers:
The View From the Boat: Rethinking the Early Arab “Conquests” in Sind and Hind From Maritime and Riverine Perspectives
Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University
Red Sea and Persian Gulf Island Polities in the Tenth–Fifteenth Centuries
Roxani Eleni Margariti, Emory University
Piracy, the Military Revolution, and the Transformation of Ottoman Ship-Building Technology in the Early Modern Indian Ocean
Giancarlo L. Casale, University of Minnesota
On the Edge of Empire: Politics, Trade, and Violence in Coastal Gujarat in the Eighteenth Century
Ghulam Nadri, Georgia State University
Comment: The Audience