This international conference, organised by Sacha Alsancakli (The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University), Yui Kanda (ILCAA), and Maria Szuppe (CNRS/CeRMI UMR8041), explores how communities in the Eastern Islamic world expressed themselves through the composition, transmission, and reception of popular romances.
| 2026/06/01 | |||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome address | Jean-François Huchet, President of Inalco(Inalco) Sacha Alsancakli(Kyoto University); Yui Kanda(ILCAA); Maria Szuppe(CNRS-CeRMI UMR8041) | |
| 09:15 - 10:35 | Panel 1: Folktales and Legends in Afghanistan | Chair: Francis Richard(CNRS, Paris) | |
| 09:15 - 09:55 | Pirs in Pashto Folktales and Legends | Matteo De Chiara(Inalco-CeRMI UMR8041, Paris) | |
| 09:55 - 10:35 | The Legend of Salsal: Imagining the Bamiyan Buddhas After the Mongol Conquest | Shamim Homayun(IASA, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) | |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:55 - 12:15 | Panel 2: Indo-Persian Religious and Literary Interactions | Chair: Satoshi Ogura(ILCAA, TUFS, Tokyo) | |
| 10:55 - 11:35 | The Maghāzī al-Nabī in the Khamsa of the Kashmiri Sufi Poet Ṣarfī (1521-1595): The Multifaceted Prophet as Spiritual Guide and Exemplary Warrior | Renaud Soler(University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg) | |
| 11:35 - 12:15 | An Indo-Persian Tale: The Story of Madhumālatī and Its Metamorphoses | Victor Baptiste(EPHE, Paris) | |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Panel 3: Classical Texts of Perso-Ottoman Literature | Chair: Justine Landau(Sorbonne Nouvelle University-CeRMI UMR8041, Paris) | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | Editorial Practices in the Transmission of Persian Historico-Legendary epics: “Twin Texts” Production in the Early Modern Period | Maria Szuppe(CNRS-CeRMI UMR8041, Paris) | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | Islamic Values and Other Didactic Aspects in Ḥamzavī (d. 1412–1413)’s Ottoman Iskendernāme | Marc Toutant(CNRS-CETOBaC UMR8032, Paris) | |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | The Timurnāme of ‘Abdallāh Hātefī (1498) and Its Fame in the Ottoman Empire | Michele Bernardini(University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples) | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:50 - 17:50 | Panel 4: The Stories of Amīr Ḥamza and Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya | Chair: Alexandre Papas(CNRS-CETOBaC UMR8032-EPHE, Paris) | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | The Javanese Amir Hamza in the Sultan of Palembang’s Palace, c. 1800, the Motif of Haste, and Cultural Flows in the Java Sea World | Bernard Arps(LIAS, Leiden) | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Amīr Ḥamza and Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya: A Comparison | Nobuaki Kondo(ILCAA, TUFS, Tokyo) | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | The Role of the Prophet and ʿAlī in the Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya Epics | Sacha Alsancakli(The Hakubi Center-Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto) | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Dinner | ||
| 2026/06/02 | |||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | ||
| 09:30 - 11:30 | Panel 5: The Materiality and Circulation of Turco-Persianate Heroic Figures | Chair: Sandra Aube(CNRS-CeRMI UMR8041, Paris) | |
| 09:30 - 10:10 | Epigraphic Traces of Heroization: ʿAlī and His Descendants on Ilkhanid Lustre Tiles | Yui Kanda(ILCAA, TUFS, Tokyo) | |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | From Frontier Lore to Historical Authority: The Anatolian Turkish Warrior Epics in the Turco-Persianate World | Zeynep Aydoğan(Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH, Crete) | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Persianate Stories in the Malay-Indonesian World: Reading the Durr al-Majālis | Majid Daneshgar(CSEAS, Kyoto University, Kyoto) | |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Closing Remarks | Sacha Alsancakli(Kyoto University); Yui Kanda(ILCAA); Maria Szuppe(CNRS-CeRMI UMR8041) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | ||
The in-person venue for the first day is the Auditorium Georges Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche de l’Inalco, and for the second day, Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.