The Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS), Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University (SIAS) and Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) held the SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar 2023 “SUFISM AND SAINT VENERATION PAST AND PRESENT”.
Date: September 1, 2023, 9:30-16:30
Venue: Collège de France – Centre d’études ottomanes Salle Claude Lévi-Strauss, 52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris
Program:
9:30-9:45 Alexandre PAPAS (CNRS-EPHE) & Thierry ZARCONE (CNRS-GSRL): Introduction
9:45-10:15 HARA Rikuo (Kyoto University): “Traditionalist Ways of Dhikr: The Case of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīya”
10:15-10:30 Rachida CHIH (CNRS-CETOBaC): Chair, Q&A
10:30-11:00 KONDO Fumiya (Sophia University): “From Festivals to Anniversaries: Recent Reconstructions of Mawlid’s Space in Egypt”
11:00-11:15 Rachida CHIH: Chair, Q&A
11:15-11:30: Break
11:30-12:00 UCHIYAMA Chie (Sophia University): “Destructuring the Discours of ‘Islam noir’ Persisting in Senegalese Islamic Education”
12:00-12:15 Thierry ZARCONE: Chair, Q&A
12:15-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Clara GAUTIER (Université Paris 1 Sorbonne): “Burns and scars: representations of Bektashi self-mutilations in illustrated manuscripts and in various ‘Collection of Ottoman Costumes’ (15th-18th centuries)”
14:15-14:30 AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University): Chair, Q&A
14:30-15:00 Makbule Nur AYAN (CNRS-CETOBaC): “Khoja Ahmad Yasavi in Turkey’s political discourse between 1998 and 2022”
15:00-15:15 TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University): Chair, Q&A
15:15-15:30: Break
15:30-16:00 MARUYAMA Daisuke (National Defense Academy of Japan): “Who are Ahl al-Dhikr?: Political Appropriation of Sufism and Saint in Contemporary Sudan”
16:00-16:15 Alexandre PAPAS: Chair, Q&A
16:15-16:30 AKAHORI Masayuki & TONAGA Yasushi: Conclusion
Convenors:
Akahori M., Tonaga Y., C. Gautier, Kondo F., A. Papas, Suzuki M., Th. Zarcone
Sponsors:
Institute for Islamic Area Studies (SIAS)
Center for Islamic Studies-Graduate School of Asian and African Studies (KIAS)
Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies (KR)
Groupe Société, Religion et Laïcité, UMR8582 – CNRS (GSRL)
Islam médiéval, UMR8167 – CNRS (Orient et Méditerranée)
Centre d’études ottomanes, Collège de France (CEO)
