Events

CNRS-SIAS/KIAS/KR Joint Seminar AY2024
（February 20-21, 2025, Held in hybrid format.）

SIAS held a international joint seminar with the Center for Islamic Area Studies of Kyoto University (KIAS), the Group of Society, Religions, and Laïcités of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (GSRL-CNRS), the Center for Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies of Kyoto University and the Global Mediterranean at the Asian Cultures Research Institute (ACRI) of Toyo University. This seminar was held in a hybrid face-to-face/online format.

February 20, 2025

Opening Remarks: AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University)

1. TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)
   “Wahda al-Wujud between Hama Ust and Tanzih”
2. Danielle ZWARTHOED (CNRS-CETOBaC)
   “Loyalty and Humility in the Supplications of Mīram Sīāh Qazvīnī's Inshā' (End of 9th/15th Century)”
3. TAKEDA Tomoka (Sophia University)
   “The Relationship between Religious Communities and Political Parties in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel”
4. HIGASHI Yuta (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
   “Marriage and Identity in Early Statehood Israel: The Indian Jews' Struggle for Recognition Under the Religious Marriage System”
5. AMO Kae (Kyoto University)
   “Tarbiya as Meditation Process: An Ethnographic Study on the Sufism in Senegal”

February 21, 2025

6. Alexandre PAPAS (CNRS-CETOBaC)
   “Two New Genealogical Documents on Sufi Lineages in Ladakh”
7. SUZUKI Manami (Kyoto University)
   “Musical Structure of Dhikr in Cerrahi Order, Turkey: Melodies and Rhythm Patterns that Lead to Fanā”
8. Thierry ZARCONE (CNRS-GSRL)
   “Calligraphic and Figurative Representations of ‘Abd al-Qâdir al-Jîlânî and their Devotional Use”

General Discussion
Closing Remarks: MISAWA Nobuo