Workshop

Joint Internatinal Workshop of SIAS, KRCSS, KIAS, CNRS and Collège de France
Sufism and Saint Veneration: Past and Present
Friday September 1, 2023

The Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University held an in-person Workshop with the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Groupe Société, Religion et Laïcité and Islam médiéval, and Collège de France Centre d’études ottomanes in English.

[Date & Time] September 1, 2023 (Fri.)　9：30-16：30

[Place] Centre d’études ottomanes Salle Claude Lévi-Strauss, Collège de France (Paris, France)

[Language] English

[Program]

9:30-9:45 Opening Remarks: Alexandre PAPAS (CNRS-EPHE) and Thierry ZARCONE (CNRS-GSRL)

Chair: Rachida CHIH (CNRS-CETOBaC)

9:45-10:30 HARA Rikuo (Kyoto University)
“Traditionalist Ways of Dhikr: The Case of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīya"

10:30-11:15 KONDO Fumiya (Sophia University)
"From Festivals to Anniversaries: Recent Reconstructions of Mawlid's Space in Egypt"

Break

Chair: Thierry ZARCONE

11:30-12:15 UCHIYAMA Chie (Sophia University)
"Destructuring the Discours of 'Islam noir' Persisting in Senegalese Islamic Education"

Lunch

Chair: AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University)

13.45-14.30 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)"

Chair: TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)

14.30-15.15 Makbule Nur AYAN (CNRS-CETOBaC)
"Khoja Ahmad Yasavi in Turkey's political discourse between 1991 and 2021"

Break

Chair: Alexandre PAPAS

15.30-16.15 MARUYAMA Daisuke (National Defense Academy of Japan)
"Politicizing the Concept of Dhikr in Contemporary Sudan: The Independence of Sufism, Dhikr, and Nafs in Political Discourses"

16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks: AKAHORI Masayuki and TONAGA Yasushi