Academic Year 2023 Sufism/Saint Veneration Research Convention was held as below.
Date: March 22nd-23rd, 2024
Venue: Toyo University Atami Training Center
Program
Day 1: 22nd (Fri.)
13:00-13:30 Opening, Self-introduction by participants
13:30-15:20 Presentation 1
TANAHASHI Yukari (Kyoto University)
“Social Reform by Sufis in the 15th-16th Century Morocco: Focusing on Tariqa Jazuliyah”
15:40-17:00 Presentation 2
MORIGUCHI Yohei (Kyoto University)
“Ilahabadi’s Understanding of Wahda al-Wujud in his al-Taswiya bayna al-Ifāda wa-l-Qabūl ”
17:00-19:00 Book Review Related to the Researches on the Tariqa Rifaiya
1. AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University)
Morgan Clarke, “Cough Sweets and Angels: The Ordinary Ethics of the Extraordinary in Sufi Practice in Lebanon.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 20 no. 3, pp. 407–425
2. TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)
Alexandre Popovic, «La Rifâ’iyya.» dans: Alexandre Popovic et Gilles Veinstein (dir), Les voies d’Allah: les ordres mystiques dans l’islam des origines à aujourd’hui. Paris: Fayard, 1996, pp. 492–496.
Day 2: 23rd (Sat.)
8:30-10:20 Presentation 3
AMO Kae (Kyoto University)
“Physicality and Politics of a Tariqa in Senegal: From the Religious Experiences of Members of the Murid and Tijani Orders”
11:00-11:30 Report of Field Research in Turkey and Balkans
SUZUKI Manami (Kyoto University)
“The Role of Music and its Structure in Social Activities of the Tariqas:
A Comparative Analysis of Bektashi (Albania), Halveti (Kosovo), and Rifâiyye (Turkey)”
11:30-12:00
Discussion about Future Research
Organizers:
AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University)
TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)
MISAWA Nobuo (Toyo University)
Kondo Fumiya (Sophia University)
SUZUKI Manami (Kyoto University)
TAKAHASHI Kei (Toyo University)
This convention was co-hosted with projects below.
ACRI (Asian Cultures Research Institute, Toyo University
KIAS (Center for Islamic Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Studies, Kyoto University)
SIAS (Institute of Islamic Ares Studies, Sophia University)
KR (Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University)
Research on Moderate Islam in the Non-Arab World: From the Cases of Indonesia, Pakistan and Turkey (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS 22H00034)
JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Comprehensive Study of Sufism: Through Metaphysics, Literature, Music and Rituals” [JP21KK0001]
Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS 19H00564)
International Collaborative Study on the Photographic Archives of the Greater Japan Muslim League (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS 19H04369).
Research on the Dynamics of the Reconstruction of Publicness in Contemporary Islam (Academic Research Promotion Fund by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan)
