25. - 26.09.2009

The use of herbs in Yemeni healing practices. An interdisciplinary workshop on traditional knowledge and cultural concepts in scientific perspective.

Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Mühlweg 15
06114 Halle

Organizers

Dr Hanne Schönig
Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Mühlweg 15, 06114 Halle - Germany
Tel.: ++49-345-55-24081
Fax: ++49-345-55-27299
E-mail: hanne.schoenig(a)zirs.uni-halle.de
homepage: www.zirs.uni-halle.de/zirs-hanne-schoenig.php

Prof. Dr Ingrid Hehmeyer
Department of History, Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3 - Canada
Tel.: ++1-416-979 5000 #6141
Fax: ++1-416-979 5110
E-mail: ihehmeye(a)ryerson.ca
homepage: www.ryerson.ca/history/faculty/Hehmeyeri.html

Dr Anne Regourd
CNRS, UMR 7192
E-mail: amalik(a)libertysurf.fr
homepage: www.anne.regourd.org

Generously supported by Ryerson University, the Royal Ontario Museum Yemen Programme Fund, CNRS (Paris), and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Participants/contributions

Programme

Friday, 25 September 2009

09.00

Registration

09.40

Opening remarks: HANNE SCHÖNIG

09.50

Welcome address: PROF. DR. SHEIKH BAWAZIR, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the Republic of Yemen, Berlin

10.00

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Chair: HANNE SCHÖNIG

 

INGRID HEHMEYER (Toronto, Canada)
The validity of traditional medicine as an effective tool in issues of human health

10.40

EFRAIM LEV (Haifa, Israel)
Medieval medicine and pharmacology: Evidence from the Cairo Genizah

11.20

Tea and coffee break

11.40

Section 2: THE YEMEN-WIDE PERSPECTIVE
Chair: ANNE REGOURD

 

DAN M. VARISCO (Hempstead, NY, USA)
Qât, sex and traditional healing

12.20

DINAH JUNG (Heidelberg, Germany)
The use of agarwood in Yemen

13.00

Lunch break

15.15

Section 3: THE REGIONAL FOCUS (1)
Chair: DAN M. VARISCO

 

ABDUL WALI AHMED AL KHULAYDI (Taizz, Yemen)
The main vegetation types and the important values of plants in the Jabal Bura' protected area

15.55

MIKHAIL RODIONOV (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Honey, coffee and tea in the ritual and healing practices of Hadramawt

16.35

Tea and coffee break

16.55

AMIN AL HAKIMI (Sana'a, Yemen)
Traditional farmers' knowledge of plant uses as the key point for preservation of biodiversity in the high mountain areas of Yemen

17.35

MIRANDA MORRIS (St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
Aloes and frankincense: Changing attitudes and uses in Southern Arabia (mainland Yemen, Soqotra and Dhufar)

19.30

Dinner

Saturday, 26 September 2009

09.00

Section 3: THE REGIONAL FOCUS (2)
Chair: ANNE REGOURD

 

ESTER MUCHAWSKY-SCHNAPPER (Jerusalem, Israel)
Healing through medicinal plants: Old Yemenite therapeutic traditions applied in Jerusalem of today

09.40

Section 4: THE LITERARY AND TEXTUAL APPROACH
Chair: HANNE SCHÖNIG

 

MOHAMMED MARAQTEN (Mainz, Germany)
Healthcare and healing methods in pre-Islamic Yemen

10.20

PETRA G. SCHMIDL (Bonn, Germany)
Magic and medicine in a 13th-century treatise on the science of the stars: The Kitab al-Tabsira of the Rasulid Sultan al-Ashraf 'Umar

11.00

Tea and coffee break

11.20

Section 5: IN THE FOCUS OF SCIENCE
Chair: INGRID HEHMEYER

 

ULRIKE LINDEQUIST (Greifswald, Germany)
The potential of Yemeni medicinal plants from a pharmaceutical point of view

12.00

MOHAMMED AL-DUAIS (Jena, Germany)
The miraculous plant "Halka" (Cyphostemma digitatum) – from grandmother's kitchen in Yemen's south-western highlands to modern medicinal and culinary applications

12.30

JACQUES FLEURENTIN (Metz, France)
From traditional medicinal plants of Yemen to therapeutic herbal drugs: The valorisation of natural resources, an applied ethnopharmacological programme

13.10

Lunch at the institute

13.40

Section 6: CONCLUSION AND GENERAL DISCUSSION
Chair: INGRID HEHMEYER

 

WADE E. PICKREN (Toronto, Canada)
Crossing borders: Knowledge and practice in transitional spaces

 

General discussion