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SAFAVIDS BEFORE EMPIRE: TWO 15TH-CENTURY ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVES | International Journal of Middle East Studies | Cambridge Core

SAFAVIDS BEFORE EMPIRE: TWO 15TH-CENTURY ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVES – Volume 49 Issue 2 – Thomas A. Carlson

SÉMINAIRE ‘Culture matérielle et pratiques dévotionnelles dans les sociétés chiites’
Séance Bohra du 1er juin 2017, 9h-12
Olly Akkerman, Freie Universität Berlin
‘Bohra Manuscript Culture, Archive and Secrecy: a Social Codicological Ethnography’
The Alawi Bohras, a small but vibrant Muslim Shia community in India that is almost entirely closed to outsiders, hold a secret Arabic manuscript culture, which is enshrined and preserved in royal archives. Having had unique access to one of these archives, my presentation unravels the as yet unstudied physical and social aspects of the Alawi Bohra philological tradition. Through the lens of what I call social codicology, i.e. the conducting of philological fieldwork and participant observation in the community in Baroda, Gujarat, I intend to discuss the social role of this archive as a repository of secret texts, and further examine the social lives of its manuscripts.

Denis Gay, Université de Lausanne
« Le renforcement de la frontière ethnique de la diaspora bohra à Madagascar »
Les Bohra dawoodi constitue l’une des cinq communautés originaires du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde installées à Madagascar. Fondée sur des théories l’ethnicité, cette communication montre que d’une part les catégories de l’identité et de l’altérité utilisées par les Bohra de Madagascar sont d’une grande diversité et que la limite entre Bohra et les autres dans la société malgache est renforcée par des changements religieux et des activités commerciales. Alors que des auteurs soulignent la cohésion des Bohra (Blank 2001, Salvadori 1989), cette communication met en évidence de manière complémentaire d’une part une tension entre l’unité et la diversité culturelle et, d’autre part la consolidation de la frontière ethnique.

Lieu :
Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
UMR8564 – CNRS / EHESS
salle A06_51 (6e étage) 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris.

Organisateurs :
Zahir Bhalloo (CEIAS), Michel Boivin (CNRS), Anabelle Collinet (Musée du Louvre), Sepideh Parsapajouh (CNRS)

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State Repression and Religious Conflict: The Perils of the State Clampdown on the Shi’a Minority in Nigeria

In Nigeria, there is an increasing population of the followers of Shi’a Islam, which is largely promoted by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) led by Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. Given its anti-state ideology and anarchical conducts, there have been a series of clashes between the Shi’a group and the Nigerian state.

Shia Course

Shi’ism is considered as the second largest denomination of Islam, and more than 40% of the world’s Shi’ites live in Iran. The main topic of this program is to focus upon Twelver Shi’ism; however, participants in this course will also learn about other main branches of Shi’ism.

Registration now open for Shi’i Conference

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