Workshop on
Language, Literacy, and The Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies
March 3-4, 2011, 10:00 am - 6:30 pm
Landau Economics Building, Lucas Conference Room
(579 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)
FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC
Registration required: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/register.fb
For more information: http://ica.stanford.edu/node/2753
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011
10:00 am - 12:40 pm - CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES FOR AUTHORITY
Ebru Erdem-Akçay, University of California, Riverside, “Religiosity, Language Use and Political Expression: A Study on two Turkish Online Communities”
Peter McMurray, Harvard University, “Listening to the Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Balkan Sufism"
Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po, “Ulama, Intellectuals and the Struggle for Authority within Islamist Movements”
Bernard Rougier, Collège de France/Sciences Po, “A Micro-sociological Look at the Struggle for Religious Authority in Tripoli, Lebanon”
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - LANGUAGE, LITERACY AND THE NATION
Parna Sengupta, Stanford University, “Schooling Faith: Religious Pluralism in Twentieth Century Bengal”
Nabil Mouline, Sciences Po/Princeton University, “The Sultan is the Caliph in His Territories: The Construction of Political Authority in lat 16th - early 17th century Morocco”
Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Arabic as the Language of Resistance: The Caucasus Emirate”
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm - LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, “Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzu and the Emergence of the Universal Human Subject in early Modern Persian Literary Theory”
Melis Sülos, CUNY, “The Rise and the Politicization of the Popular Theatre in the Late Ottoman World”
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona, “Literary Aestheticism and the Formation of the Notion of Islamic Civilization”
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
10:00 am - 12:40 pm - THE ULEMA IN MODERN TIMES
Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University, “Arabic Literacy, Conversion to Shi'i Islam, and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Senegal”
Zekeria Ahmed Salem, University of Florida, “From Slaves to Imams? Knowledge, Islamic Authority, and Social Change in Mauritania”
Thomas Pierret, Princeton University, “Tradition as an Asset: Informal Religious Teaching and the Cooptation of the 'New Literate Elites' by the Ulema in 20th Century Syria”
Laurence Louër, CERI/Sciences Po/CNRS, “Mohammed al-Shirazi and the Construction of Religious Authority”
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF AUTHORITY
Kristen Brustad, University of Texas, Austin, “Standard Language Ideology and the Construction of Modern Standard Arabic”
David Lelyveld, William Paterson University, “Sir Syed's Printing Press: Print, Literacy and Islam in Early Nineteenth Century India”
Brett Wilson, Macalester College, “Qur'an Translation in the Age of Nationalism”
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM – VISUALITY
Chanchal Dadlani, Columbia University, “The Visual, the Textual, and the Construction of Cultural Authority in the Late Mughal Empire” (abstract) (paper)
Hamza Zeghlache, University of Setif, “Text, Space and Images: Written Representation of Islamic Architecture in Arabic Manuscript”
Elham Etemadi, University of Leuven, “The Verbal Conditionality of Visual Literacy: Early Modern Persian Paintings"
Contact: Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Stanford University
Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies
http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu
Email: abbasiprogram@stanford.edu
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