Organizzazione del panel "Baghdad, centre of the world" (session 1028) all'International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 12-15 luglio 2010.

This panel explores movements of people and objects to and from Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate. This is considered the city's golden age as the centre of its own World System, the capital of the Eastern caliphate as well as a point of reference for the world around it. Papers will investigate the practical matters of how the city communicated with its surroundings and the outer world, as well as questions of scholarly affiliation linked to geographical locations. Organiser: Letizia Osti, Dipartimento di Lingue & Culture Contemporanee, Università degli Studi di Milano. Chair: Maaike van Berkel, Department of History, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Paper 1028-a: The Feeding of the Five Hundred Thousand: The Food Supply of Abbasid Baghdad - Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds. Paper 1028-b: Bandits, Demons, and Singers in Early Abbasid Iraq - Michael D. Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles. Paper 1028-c: Baghdadi Grammarians and their Wanderings. Letizia Osti, Dipartimento di Lingue & Culture Contemporanee, Università degli Studi di Milano.