Category: Seminar

Academic Year 2020 2nd KR Seminar “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” was held.

Date: December 20th, 2020, 14:00-17:00
Through online
Language: Japanese

Speakers and Titles:
NAKANISHI Tatsuya(Kyoto Univeristy)
“Some Theoretical Proposals about the Refinement of ‘Three-axis Framework of
Sufism’: From the Viewpoint of China”
TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)
“Three-dimention Theory of Sufism”

This seminar was co-hosted by:
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)
Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS: AKAHORI Masayuki, Sophia University)

Academic Year 2020 1st KR Seminar “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” was held.

Date: October 31st, 2020 13:00-16:00
Through online
Language: Japanese

Speakers and titles:
SAWAI Makoto (Tenri University) “Pursuit of Humanity in Research on Islamic Mysticism”
NINOMIYA Ayako (Aoyama Gakuin University) “Analysis of Tariqah with the Use of the Concept of Cultural Capital”
YASUDA Shin (Takasaki City University of Economics)“Consumed Saints: Think about Pilgrimage in Tourism”

This seminar was co-hosted by:
Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism-Tariqa-Saint Cults Complex (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS: TONAGA Yasushi, Kyoto University)
Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in Islam and Christianity (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS: AKAHORI Masayuki, Sophia University)
Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)

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) .