Category: Seminar

Academic Year 2019 3rd KR Seminar “Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge from Arabia to Northwest China: Ma Laichi Abu al-Futuh al-Sini and his Huasi Menhuan Sufi Order” was held.

Date & Tme: 25th September, 2019, 15:00 -17:00
Venue: Institute for Research in Humanities, the Main Building (1F Seminar Room), Research Bldg. No. 4, Kyoto University

Speaker and Title: Dr. Florian SOBIEROJ (Institut für Orientalistik, Indogermanistik, Ur- und Frühgeschichtlicher Archäologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) “Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge from Arabia to Northwest China: Ma Laichi Abu al-Futuh al-Sini and his Huasi Menhuan Sufi Order”
Language: English

This seminar was held under the auspices of

・Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）
・Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
・Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)
・Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University （SIAS）
・Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University);
・Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University); Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.

Academic Year 2019 2nd KR Seminar “Sufism, Tariqa and Saint Veneration in Senegal” was held.

Date: July 28, 2019 (Sun.) 14:00-18:00Venue: Room No. 2-603, 6th Floor, Building No.2, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University
Language: Japanese

Program
WATANABE Tomoki (ASAFAS, Kyoto University) and SUENO Takanori (ASAFAS, Kyoto University) “An Overview of Sufism, Tariqah and Saint Veneration in Senegal”

WATANABE Tomoki “The Inference Process about ‘Donation (addiya)’ by the Believers of the Murid Order: Focusing on the Mendicant and the Place of Preaching”

SUENO Takanori “Ibn Aziba’s Understanding of the Philosophy of Unity of Being: Focusing on the word ‘Kabuda'”

 

This seminar was held in cooperation with
Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Kyoto University
Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Sophia University
Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism.Tariqa.Saint Cults Complex (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS)
Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS)
Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University

Academic Year 2019 1st KR Seminar “Inquiry into the Theorization of Saint Veneration in Islam and Christianity” was held.
Date & Time: July 7, 2019 (Sun.) 13:30-17:30
Venue: Room No. 2-603, 6th Floor, Building No.2, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University
Language: Japanese

Program:
AKAHORI Masayuki (SIAS, Sophia University) “Explanation of the aim of the meeting”

KISAICHI Masatoshi (Juntendo University) “Diversity and Development of the Concept of Islamic Saints: From the Context of the History of Maglib”

AKAHORI Masayuki (SIAS, Sophia University) “Attention and Prospects of the Study on Veneration of Saints in Islam”

KOMAKI Sachiyo (Takasaki City University of Economics) “Toward the theorization of the Study on Veneration of Holy Relics in Islam”

FUJIWARA Kuniko (Koshien University) “The Range of the Study on Veneration of Saints in Catholicism”

This seminar was held in cooperation with

Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Kyoto University
Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Sophia University
Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism.Tariqa.Saint Cults Complex (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS)
Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS)
Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University

[Date and Venue]

Date: 15:00-18:00 on 13th March, 2019

Speaker: Carl ERNST（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）,

Title: “Poetry, scripted meditation, and creation narrative : Sufi additions to the yoga practices in The Ocean of Life.”

Speaker: Fabrizio SPEZIALE（the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Center for South Asian Studies, Paris）

Title: “Yogis, Persianate alchemy and medicine in South Asia”

Speaker: Somdev VASUDEVA (Kyoto University)

Title: “Systems of Wheels (cakra), Lotuses (padma) and Circles (maṇḍalas) in Esoteric Śaiva and Śākta Yoga”

Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Meeting Room (AA447)

Language: English

This seminar was held under the auspices of

Middle East and Islamic Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (MEIS)；Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University (KR) ; Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS) ; National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East at Kyoto University ； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University(SIAS）； National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East at Sophia University ; Center for South Asian Studies, Kyoto University(KINDAS) ; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University).

Date: 16:00-18:00 on 11th December, 2018

Speaker and Title: Shahzad BASHIR (Brown University, USA) “Journeys among the Living Dead of Tabriz: A Sufi Shrine Guide from the Sixteenth Century”

Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Lecture Room (AA401)

Language: English

This seminar is held under the auspices of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties” (JSPS, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)；Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）; Middle East and Islamic Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (MEIS)；Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University （SIAS）； Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University); and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University) .

Date: 15:00-17:00 on 6th December, 2018

Speaker: Nile GREEN (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)

Title: “From Sufi Establishment to Salafi Reform: Reflections on Writing a History of Sufism”

Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Lecture Room (AA401)

Language: English

This seminar was held under the auspices of Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）; Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University （SIAS）；Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University); and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University).

Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University co-hosted Academic Year 2018 2nd KR Seminar with Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS Program“Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism-Tariqa-Saint Cults Complex”.

Date: May 15, Tuesday
Venue: Lecture Room no. 1 (AA401), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No. 2, Kyoto University
Language: English
Speakers and Titles: Prof. Sajjad Rizvi（University of Exeter）
“The Mysticism Debate in Modern Iran: Sufism, Irfan and the Shii Seminary”

Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University co-hosted Academic Year 2018 1st KR Seminar with Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS), Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS Program“Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism-Tariqa-Saint Cults Complex” and Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS Program “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Relics in the Mediterranean World”.

Date: 15 April, Sun., 2:00-6:00 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Room no. 1 (AA401), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No. 2, Kyoto University
Language: English

Speakers and Titles:
Prof. Ahmed Zildzic (Sarajevo University)
“Ottoman Historiography in Persian with a Focus on Bahjatu-t-tevarih by Shukrullah”
Prof. Roberto Tottoli (Universita degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
“Europe and Islam: The Arabic Text of Qur’an in History and Polemics in the 16th and 17th Century”