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The 3rd Research Meeting on Coexistence in the Islamic World was held

Date: August 25th (Tue.), 2020 13:00-17:00
Through online
Language: Japanese

Speakers and titles:
TONAGA Yasushi(Kyoto University) “Challenge of Indonesian Sufism Seeking Coexistencial Society”
ARAI Kazuhiro(Keio University) “‘Kafir’ and ‘Nation’: Arguments over Coexistence between Religions in Indonesia”
NAKANISHI Tatsuya(Kyoto University) “Rethinking Islamic‘Chinalization’”
WAZAKI Seika(Chubu University)“Sufism in Central Asia:Challenge to Coexistence in Jafr Ritual”

This meeting was sponsored by:
JFE 21st Century Foundation
The Mitsubishi Foundation
co-hosted by:
Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）
Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Kyoto University
Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)
Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism-Tariqa-Saint Cults Complex (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS: TONAGA Yasushi, Kyoto University)

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The 2nd Research Meeting on Coexistence in the Islamic World was held

Date: July 12th (Sun.), 2020 13:00-15:00
Through online
Language: Japanese

Speakers and titles:
OKAI Hirofumi (Kyoai Gakuen University)
“Activities of Islamic Groups and “Multicultural Co-existence” Featuring Social Support by Religious Sectors”
NEJIMA Susumu (Toyo University)
“Co-existence in Modern Japan -From the Point of View of Agricultural Support in Fukushima, Universities and Mosques Intercommunion-”

This meeting was sponsored by:
JFE 21st Century Foundation
The Mitsubishi Foundation
co-hosted by:
Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）
Center for “NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East” at Kyoto University
Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University);

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KIAS-KR Workshop: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the East and the West

Day and time: October 28 (Mon), 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

Speakers and Titles:
TONAGA Yasushi  (Kyoto University) “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan”

Ondrej BERANEK (Czech Academy of Sciences) “Middle Eastern Studies in the Czech Republic”

Language: English

Organizers: Center for Islamic Area Studies Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

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Academic Year 2019 3rd KR Seminar was held

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.

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Academic Year 2019 2nd KR Seminar was held

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

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Academic Year 2019 1st KR Seminar was held

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

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March 13, Academic Year 2018 5th KR Seminar was held

[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).

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The International symposium on the 2nd Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI) was held

Date : 9:00-18:25, on 23 Decemeber 2018

Venue : Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Campus, Kyoto University

Language: English

Program :

10:00-12:00 　SESSION 1 “HISTORY AND PROSPECTUS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES”

TAKAYAMA Hiroshi (Tokyo University) “Mediterranean Studies in Japan and My Research Focus”

 

CHOI Choon-Sik (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Discourses on Mediterranean Studies in Korea”

Elena AVRAMIDOU (Peking University) “From the Mediterranean to Asia: Cultural Interaction and Buddhist Iconography”

Gen “Toby” LIANG (The Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica) “Migrations and Transmissions: Mediterranean Studies and East Asia”

 

12:00-12:30 “CORE TIME OF THE POSTER SESSION”

TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University) “The Choice of Languages in the Ottoman Sufism”

FUJII Chiaki (Kyoto University) “Positive Aspects of the Existence of Spirits: Case Studies on the East African Coast”

MATSUDA Kazunori (Kyoto University) “Comparison of the Sources of Urdu Fatwa Collections from the First Half of the 20th Century”

ISHIKAWA Kido (Kyoto University) “Persian Literature and ʿAṭṭār”

YAMAZAKI Satoru “An Esoteric Sect or the Twelvers?: A Question of Identity of Contemporary ‘Alawīs”

MADONO Kotoko (Kyoto University) “The Expanded Circle of Modern Sufis in Turkey”

SUENO Takanori (Kyoto University) “The Meaning of Studying Akbarian Tradition in North and West Africa”

MIZUNO Yuji (Kyoto University) “The Making of “Conservative Turn” in Contemporary Muslim Indonesia: An Institutional Perspective”

TANAHASHI Yukari (Kyoto University) “Muḥammad Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and his Works”

 

14:00-16:00 SIMULTANEOUS SESSION 2 “DEEP INSIGHT AND SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD”

OTSUKI Yasuhiro (Hitotsubashi University) “Civil Donations and Christian Philanthropy in the Later Roman Empire: Some Analysis of Justinian Edicts on Donations to the Ecclesiastical Institutions”

KOJIMA Yoshie (Waseda University) “Representations of Sin and Penance in the Romanesque Cathedrals of Italy”

MOZAFARI Mohammad Hassan (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Exchange of Mystical Thoughts between Persian and Andalusian Scholars”

14:00-16:00 SIMULTANEOUS SESSION 3 “FRICTION AND PEACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD”

Byoung Joo HAH (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Conceptualizing Arab Identity in Area Studies Frame”

Mona Farouk Mohamed AHMED (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Concepts of Conquest and Occupation: Different Views on Muslim Rule in the Iberian Peninsula”

TOBA Misuzu (Kwansei Gakuin University) “The War of Memories and Pieds-Noirs Diversity: French Cartoonist Jacques Ferrandez

and His Pluralist Vision”

AOYAGI Etsuko (Tsukuba University) “The Coexistence of Islam with Western Europe”

 

16:15-18:15 SESSION 4 “AREA INFORMATICS AND AREA STUDIES”

YAKOU Hisashi (Hokkaido University) “Mediterranean Landscape Reconsidered”

KISHI Toshihiko (Kyoto University) “East Asian Visual Studies in Creating a Digital Database”

YANAGISAWA Masayuki (Kyoto University) “Text Analysis and Visualization of Field Notes Data”

Sang Ho MOON (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Research Trend Analysis of Area Studies based on Keywords”

 

* This conference was financially supported by The Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research in Kyoto University (C-PIER), and organized under the auspices of the following institutions:

・Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI)

・Center for Islamic Area Studies in Kyoto University (KIAS)

・National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East

・Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies (Kyoto University)
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Academic Year 2018 4th KR Seminar was held

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) .

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Academic Year 2018 3rd KR Seminar was held

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).