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Dear all, You are cordially invited to the first SIAS/KIAS - CNRS Joint Seminar,
"Narrating the Narratives of Sufis."


[Date and Venue]
Date: November 3, 2012, Saturday
Venue: Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Research Building No. 2, Kyoto University

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For further details, please find the program attached below.

If you can join us, please send us an e-mail
inq-kias@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp



Prospectus:
JRSS (The Joint Research on Sufism and Saint Veneration) based on SIAS
(Center for Islamic Studies, Sophia University, Japan) and KIAS (Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) and GSRL (Groupe Societes, Religions, Laicites), CNRS (France) have agreed to hold annual joint seminars from 2012 on. This is the first seminar.
This seminar deals with the topic of “narrating the narratives of Sufis.” We would like to investigate how to narrate (or write) what Sufis (or saints, shaykhs) narrate(d) or write/wrote. Both of how we narrate and they narrate(d) are to be examined in this seminar.

Organizers:
AKAHORI Masayuki (SIAS), TONAGA Yasushi (KIAS), TAKAHASHI Kei (SIAS), IMAMATSU Yasushi (KIAS)

Secretary:
ISHIDA Yuri (KIAS)

Speakers and Titles:
14:00-14:15
Opening Session

14:15-15:15
SAITO Tsuyoshi (Kobe University)
“Narrating the Life of a Man Known as Shaykh: Narratives on al-Hajj‘Ali al-Darqawi by Mukhtar al-Susi and Others”
Discussant: KISAICHI Masatoshi (SIAS)

15:15-16:15
Thierry ZARCONE (CNRS)
“Western VisualRepresentations of Sufism and Dervishes from the 14th century to early 20th Century”
Discussant: IMAMATSU Yasushi (KIAS)

16:15-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-17:30
TOGAWA Masahiko (Hiroshima University)
“Local Society and Participant Observation: The Mausoleum of Fakir Lalon Shah in contemporary Bangladesh”
Discussant: NINOMIYA Ayako (KIAS)

17:30-18:30
Pierre-Jean LUIZARD (CNRS)
“A Secularized Hagiography of a Muslim Saint: (Batal al-Islam), Hero of Islam, or How Political Commitment Leads to Sainthood for an Iraqi Shia Religious Leader”
Discussant: YASUDA Shin (KIAS)

18:30-18:45
Closing Session


Co-hosted by
SIAS (Center for Islamic Studies, Sophia University, Japan)
KIAS (Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
Studies on the Dynamics of the Religious Complex of Sufism and Saint Veneration in the Modern Era (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS)
General Research on the Publication and Transmission of Islamic Books in the South Asian Languages (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS)