Events
- 2022.6.4The Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University, in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies and the Research Project on Islam and Gender [JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP20H00085], will hold a screening of the Algerian film "Papicha" with a special commentary on June 20 (in Japanese).
- 2022.5.25Online version of Stragegies of Feeding States: Rethinking of Experiences in Post-war Japan, India, and Egypt (SIAS Lectures 8), was published(in Japanese).
- 2022.5.8Sophia University's Institute of Islamic Area Studies, in collaboration with the Institute of Global Concern, will hold "Understanding Kurdish Music: 'Voices' Resounding Across the Amphitheatre (Film Screening, Concert, and Conversation)." Part of the program has been changed (in Japanese)
- 2022.5.3SIAS will support "Islamic Week," a student project organized by SSIC (Sophia Student Integration Commons), starting with an "Iftar Party" on April 25, with a variety of events planned.
- 2022.4.24Sophia University's Institute of Islamic Area Studies, in collaboration with the Institute of Global Concern, will host the one in a series of "Voices from the 'KURDs,''" a concert of traditional Kurdish music and a film screening, on May 22 (in Japanese)
- 2022.4.16The Institute's "Objectives, Activities, and History" and a list of the Institute's members are now available. (April 16, 2022)
- 2022.4.8Redelivery of all the online lectures of four (+one) lectures entitled "Sufism Today: Understanding Different Aspects of Mysticism" is now available until Tuesday, May 10, 2012 (in Japanese)
- The Institute of Islamic Area Studies was established as a research unit of the Permanent Research Division of the Sophia University Research Organization
- The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, Comparative Study of Southeast Asian Kitabs (7): Islamic Books and Learning in Thailand, and Anthropology of Saint Veneration in Islam and Christianity (SIAS Working Paper 40, 42,and SIAS Lecture 7) were published on March 23, 2022 (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 (in Japanese)
- Redelivery of all the online lectures of four (+one) lectures entitled "Sufism Today: Understanding Different Aspects of Mysticism" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021 (from Friday, April 8 to Tuesday, May 10, 2021) (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar on March 18, 2021 as an online meeting.
- Thinking Through Asymmetries of Power in Global Knowledge Regimes: Examples From Japan and the Muslim World, Muslims in the Globalizing World: Some Reflections on Japan, and Historical Developments and Contemporary Situations of Travel and Tourism in the Middle East (SIAS Working Paper Series 37, 38,and 39) were published on March 17, 2022 (in Japanese).
- Stragegies of Feeding States: Rethinking of Experiences in Post-war Japan, India, and Egypt (SIAS Lectures 8), was published on February 25, 2022 (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Friday, January 21, 2022 (in Japanese)
- Open seminar for Socio-Ecomony Research Group on Sunday, January 13, 2022 as an online meeting (in Japanese) .
- All research centers of the NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East will jointly hold an online symposium entitled "Five Perspectives to Understand the Modern Middle East" on Saturday, Decmber 4, 2021 (in Japanese)
- The Center for Islamic Studies (SIAS) at Sophia University and the Center for Islamic Area Studies (KIAS) at Kyoto University are NOW delivering four (+one) lectures entitled "Sufism Today: Understanding Different Aspects of Mysticism" online as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021 (from Friday, November 12 to Monday, December 20, 2021) (in Japanese)
- Film Screening and Lecture "House in the Fields" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021, November 21, 2021. Please read through this link.
- Online Lecture of the SIAS "State Strategies to Satisfy One's Appetite: Cases of Postwar Japan, India, and Egypt" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021, November 20, 2021 (in Japanese).
- Open access repositories of SIAS Working Paper Series 35 was reliesed on Tuesday, August 3, 2021..
- Open seminar for Socio-Ecomony Research Group on Sunday, September 26, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese) .
- Online distribution of the ethnographic film, Guli Armug'on, produced by Prof. WAZAKI Seika and others, from Friday, July 30 to Monday, August 16, 2021.
- Open seminar for Socio-Ecomony Research Group and Political Sociology Research Group on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Reaearch Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Saturday, May 22, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese).
- Open access repositories of SIAS Working Paper Series 32, 33, 34, SIAS Lectures 4, 5, 6 were reliesed on May 19, 2021.
- The article about our Center appears in The Nikkei (in Japanese) on April 14, 2021. Please read through this link.
- Comparative Study of Southeast Asian Kitabs (6): Paradise and Hell (SIAS Working Paper Series 34) was published on March 22, 2021.
- Religious Minorities Living in the Middle East: Their Lives and Fistivities (SIAS Lectures 5) and Muslims in Diaspora: Living and Interacting as a Minority (SIAS Lectures 6), were published on March 8, 2021 (in Japanese).
- Islamic Learning of al-Azhar from the End of 19th Century to the Beginning of 20th Century: Annotated Translation of ‘L’enseignement, la doctrine et la vie dans les universités musulmanes d’Égypte’ by Pierre Arminjon (SIAS Working Paper Series 35) was published on March 8, 2021.
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar on February 19, 2021 as an online meeting.
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar on February 5. 2021 as an online meeting.
- Open seminar of the SIAS and the IAAMES (Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies) on the Modern History of Pilgrimage to Mecca, inviting Dr. Sylvia Chiffoleau (CNRS） as a lecturer (Friday, February 26, 2021).
- Redelivery of all the online lectures of "Four (+One) Lectures on Anthropology of Saint Veneration in Islam and Christianity" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2020 (from Monday, February 1 to Sunday, February 21, 2021) (in Japanese).
- Open seminar of the SIAS and the IAAMES (Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies) on the Modern History of Pilgrimage to Mecca, inviting Dr. Sylvia Chiffoleau (CNRS） as a lecturer (Friday, February 26, 2021).
- Redelivery of all the online lectures of "Four (+One) Lectures on Anthropology of Saint Veneration in Islam and Christianity" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2020 (from Monday, February 1 to Sunday, February 21, 2021) (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Monday, January 18, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese).
- Anthropology and History Research Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Monday, January, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese).
