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SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar 2025
(February 20-21, 2025)

SIAS will hold 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), and Center for Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies. This seminar is not open to the public.

    【Date】 February 20(Thursday)-21(Friday), 2025
    【Venue】Toyo University Atami Training Center
    【Organizer】Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University, the Group of Society, Religions, and Laïcités of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (GSRL-CNRS), the Center for Islamic Area Studies of Kyoto University (KIAS), Center for Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies

【Program】

February 20, 2025

    Opening Remarks: AKAHORI Masayuki (Sophia University)
  1. TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University)
    (Title coming soon)
  2. Danielle ZWARTHOED (CNRS)
    “Loyalty and humility in the supplications of Mīram Sīāh Qazvīnī's Inshā' (end of 9th/15th century)”
  3. AMO Kae (Kyoto University) (Online Presentation)
    “Tarbiya as meditation process: an ethnographic study on the Sufism in Senegal”

February 21, 2025

  1. Alexandre PAPAS (CNRS-CETOBaC)
    “Two new genealogical documents on Sufi lineages in Ladakh”
  2. SUZUKI Manami (Kyoto University)
    “Musical structure of Dhikr in Cerrahi Order, Turkey: Melodies and rhythm patterns that lead to Fanā”
  3. Thierry ZARCONE (CNRS-GSRL)
    “Calligraphic and figurative representations of ‘Abd al-Qâdir al-Jîlânî and their devotional use”
  4. General Discussion
    Closing Remarks

*This seminar is achievements of “Study of Moderate Islam in Non-Arab Countries: The Cases of Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey” [JSPS KAKENHI JP22H00034] funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).

  • NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East Sophia University(2016-2021)
  • Sophia and Waseda Joint Research Project Histories and Current Situations of Interreliglous Relations in Asia and Africa
  • isramic area studies, sophia university(2006-2015)
  • Project SOIAS (2008-2012)
  • Jawi Study Group Archives

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