09:30–10:00

Welcome Address and Introduction

Opening of the Conference: Mohamed Kamal, Director of the IARS

Introductory Remarks on behalf of the IARS:Samy Soliman Ahmed(Cairo University / IARS);

on behalf of kalimat: Beatrice Gruendler, Johannes Stephan, and Oualid El Khattabi (Freie Universität Berlin)

10:00–11:10

Panel 1 · Epistemological Foundations and Narrative Constituents

Chair: Johannes Stephan (Freie Universität Berlin)

1 · Said Yaktine (Mohammed V University, Rabat) — Rāwī (Transmitter/Narrator): From Poetry to Narrative

2 · Mohamed Zarrouk (University of Kairouan) — khabar: Reconstruction and Fictionalization

11:10–11:30

Coffee break

11:30–12:40

Panel 2 · Advice Literature

Chair: Oualid El Khattabi (Freie Universität Berlin)

3 · Makram Abbès (Institut français d’Égypte) — Advice for the Rulers

4 · Riwa Roukoz (University of Chicago) — Jawāmiʿ al-Ladhdha between Education and Entertainment: The Problem of Classifying al-bāh books within the Advice Literature Genre

12:40–14:00

Lunch break

14:00–15:45

Panel 3 · Liminal Fictionalities

Chair: Amany Fouad (Academy of Arts, Cairo / IARS)

5 · Monem Chiha (University of Kairouan) — al-Munāẓara (Debate) as a Fictional Literary Genre

6 · Ingrid Austveg Evans (Freie Universität Berlin) — From the Dīwān to the Musāmir: The Fictional Voice in Ibn Zaydūn’s Comic Epistle

7 · Ahmad Korim Bilal (Independent scholar, Egypt) — The Issue of takhyīl in Classical Arabic Rhetoric: Between Critical Theorization and Literary Practice

15:45–16:15

Coffee break

16:15–18:00

Panel 4 · Classifying Prose Genres and Their Cultural Context

Chair: Samy Soliman Ahmed (Cairo University / IARS)

8 · Dorine Nasr (Saint Joseph University of Beirut / University of Balamand) — The Sociocultural Context of Non-fuṣḥā Narration: A Pragmatic Study of the Functions of the ‘ḥikāya’ and the ‘Popular Account’

9. Mahmoud Abdelbary Tehamy (Arabic Academy in Cairo) — Examining the Identity of Literary Genres: The Role of Referentiality and Narrativization in the Classical Arabic Epistle

10 · Lina Jammal (American University of Beirut) — The Literary manāma (dream): A Term That Escaped the Grasp of Arabic Lexicons

18:00–18:15

Short break

18:15–19:15

Online Evening Lecture

Chair: Beatrice Gruendler (Freie Universität Berlin)

11 · Michael Cooperson (University of California, Los Angeles) — The Maqāma

20:00

Conference Dinner

10:00–11:10

Panel 5 · Defining Poetry and Poetic Genres

Chair: Khairy Douma (Cairo University)

12 · Samy Soliman Ahmed (Cairo University / IARS) — Theorizing Genres in the Framework of the Implicit Consciousness. The Relation between Poetry and Storytelling in a Marginalized Text by Ibn Rashīq al-Qayrawānī

13 · Jokha Alharthi (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman) — Defining the Ghazal

11:10–11:30

Coffee break

11:30–12:40

Panel 6 · Poetic Forms and Their Performance

Chair: Mahmoud Abdelbary Tehamy (Arabic Academy in Cairo)

14 · Hakan Özkan (Aix-Marseille Université) — The Transformation of al-bullayq: From a Regional Synonym to an Independent Literary Genre.

15 · Adam Talib (The American University in Cairo) — A Contribution on the Term qiṭʿa

12:40–14:00

Lunch break

Catering at the venue or lunch at a nearby restaurant

14:00–15:45

Panel 7 · The Transformation of Genres and Aesthetics

Chair: Beatrice Gruendler (Freie Universität Berlin)

16 · Asmaa Essakouti (University of Münster) — Impolite adab

17 · Muhammed Tarık Ablak (Sakarya University, Turkey) — The Arabic Ghazal in the Ottoman Context: Köprülüzade ʿAbd Allah Pasha and the Boundaries of Literary Genres

18 · Mariam Elashmawy (Freie Universität Berlin / The American University in Cairo) — Reading Commendation: Taqrīẓ (Commendation) and the Making of Literary Meaning in the Age of Print

15:45–16:15

Coffee break

16:15–16:45

Closing Session

17:00

Launch of the kalimat Compendium and Closing Dinner

Johannes Stephan, Joudy Sido Bozan, and Oualid El Khattabi (Freie Universität Berlin)