Universität Bonn

Abteilung für Islamwissenschaft und Nahostsprachen

26. February 2026

26-27 March 2026 / WORKSHOP: Genealogies in Motion: Recording, Visualizing, and Mobilizing Lineage Across the Islamicate World Genealogies in Motion: Recording, Visualizing, and Mobilizing Lineage Across the Islamicate World

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DAY I (26 March 2026, Thursday)

12:00–12:15 Opening remarks by Kazuo Morimoto and Evrim Binbaş

12:20–15:30 First Panel: Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogies

Chair: Ayako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Kazuhiro Arai (Keio University). Tradition of Recording Genealogy: A Case of Hadrami Sayyids.

Barbara Henning (University of Hamburg). Seyyid Status as a Career Asset? Genealogy in Late Ottoman Personnel Files.

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David Jordan (Ruhr University Bochum). A Nasab that Connects the Maghrib and the Mashriq: The Construction of Sayyid Aḥ mad al-Rifāʿī’s (d. 578/1183) Multiple Saintly Genealogies in the Late Ottoman Empire.

Kazuo Morimoto (The University of Tokyo). Techniques for Composing and Revising Diagrammatic Compendia of Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy: Two Case Studies.

15:50–19:00 Second Panel: Dynastic Genealogies

Chair: Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Hiroyuki Nagamine (National Institute of Technology, Oyama College). The Jochid Ulus in Ottoman Sources.

Sacha Alsancakli (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). From Umayyads to Abbasids, the Shifting Ancestry Claims of the Ḥakkārī Emirs in Kurdistan.

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Markus Friedrich (University of Hamburg) and Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn). Felix Petancic's Genealogia Turcorum imperatorum and the Humanists' View of the Ottoman Dynasty

Osamu Otsuka (The University of Tokyo). The ʿIlm-i Siyāqat and the Making of Persian Genealogical Tables.

DAY II (27 March 2026, Friday)

10:00–12:20 Third Panel: Sufi Genealogies

Chair: Lloyd Ridgeon (The University of Tokyo)

Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn). A Juybari Genealogical Tree in Ottoman Turkish

Carol Fan (University of Bonn). Visual Strategies in an Early 16th-Century Sufi Genealogy.

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Tatsuya Nakanishi (Kyoto University). Two Spiritual Genealogies of a Qādirī Sub-Order in China.

14:20–15:45 General Discussion

General Comments by: Tomoyasu Iiyama (Waseda University)

[Extra Program] 16:30–17:30 Presentation of the Database “Dynastic Genealogical Trees in the Early Modern Period: Visualizing Historical Imagination and Political Legitimacy in the Islamic World”.

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