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Workshop : Shiʻi Sufism in Modern Times
University of Edinburgh
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies 19 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
UK
Room G2, 19 George Square
20 October 2012
Convenors : Denis Hermann (CNRS, Paris) and Andrew Newman (University of Edinburgh)
With the generous support of:
Mondes iranien et indien, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7528
The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (University of Edinburgh)
Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM)
Institut Français de Recherche en Iran-IFRI
The Institute for Isma`īlī Studies (London)
Programme
9.00-9.30:
Welcome/Coffee
9.30-10.20: Andrew Newman (University of Edinburgh): The Safawids, the Shiʻa and the Sufis: The anti-Sufi Polemic and the ‘Recovery’ of the Twelver aḥadīth in the 11th/17th Century
10.20-11.10: Mathieu Terrier (Ph.D Candidate, EPHE, Paris): L’apologie des premiers maîtres soufis dans un ouvrage shî‘ite de la dernière période safavide : le Mahbûb al-qulûb de Qutb al-Dîn Ashkevarî (Apology of the firsts Sufi Masters in a Shi’i Treatise of the last Safavid Period ; the Mahbûb al-qulûb of Qutb al-Dîn Ashkevarî)
11.10-11.25: Coffee break
11.25-12.15: Fabrizio Speziale (New Sorbonne University – Paris III/CNRS, Mondes iranien et indien, Paris): The Ni‘matullāhī Renewal in Early Modern Deccan
12.15-13.05: Michel Boivin (CNRS, CEIAS, Paris): Soufism and Shiism in Sindh: A litterary and ethnographic approach
13.05-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.20: Matthijs van den Bos (Birkbeck, University of London): Contested Friend. Soltan‘alishah, the Valayat-name and Shiite Sufi authority
15.20-16.10: Alessandro Cancian (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London): Categories Reconsidered: the Principles of Qur’ānic exegesis in Sulṭānʻalīshāh’s Shīʻi-Sufi commentary
16.10-16.30: Coffee break
16.30-17.20: Denis Hermann (CNRS, Mondes Iranien et indien, Paris): Some Remarks on Shi‘i Sufism in Modern Times: Communities, Rituals and Identities
17.20-18.10: Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow): Hidden Khomeini: Mysticism and Poetry
18.10-18.30: Concluding remarks
For more information on the workshop see: http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article449
Attendance free but limited seating. To attend RSVP: anewman@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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