11:30 to 12:10
Symposium

Sacred Language, Sacred Script? Syriac and Its Competitors in the Christian and Manichaean Texts from Turfan

Nicholas Sims-Williams
Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic
11:30 to 12:10
    Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Nicholas Sims-Williams

    SOAS, Religions and philosophies

    Events

    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Jean-Noël Robert

    Introduction to the symposium
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:10
    Frantz Grenet

    Persian competitors in Samarkand, 10th-11th c., according to the latest discoveries
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:10
    Nicholas Sims-Williams

    Sacred Language, Sacred Script?…
    Symposium
    12:10 to 12:50
    Arnaud Sérandour

    The status of Aramaic in the Bible and Jewish culture. New proposal
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:10
    Muriel Debié

    Writing on skin : from Aramaic to Syriac in this world and the next
    Symposium
    15:10 to 15:40
    Christian Robin

    Muhammad's Arabia : variations in naming God
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:40
    Pierre Lory

    Assessing the sacredness of the Arabic language in medieval Sunni Islam
    Symposium
    16:40 to 17:20
    Bernard Heyberger

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

    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