10:00 - 10:30am
Symposium

Introduction to the symposium

Jean-Noël Robert
Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic
10:00 - 10:30am
    Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
    -

    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Noël Robert

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    Introduction to the symposium
    Jean-Noël Robert

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    Persian competitors in Samarkand, 10th-11th c., according to the latest discoveries
    Frantz Grenet

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:10am

    Sacred Language, Sacred Script?…
    Nicholas Sims-Williams

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:10pm

    The status of Aramaic in the Bible and Jewish culture. New proposal
    Arnaud Sérandour

    Symposium
    12:10 - 12:50pm

    Writing on skin : from Aramaic to Syriac in this world and the next
    Muriel Debié

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:10pm

    Muhammad's Arabia : variations in naming God
    Christian Robin

    Symposium
    3:10 - 3:40pm

    Assessing the sacredness of the Arabic language in medieval Sunni Islam
    Pierre Lory

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:40pm

    Arabic and other languages in Eastern Christianity (17th-18th centuries )
    Bernard Heyberger

    Symposium
    4:40 - 5:20pm

    See also

    Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization
    Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
    Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic