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Sunnī-Shīʿī Interaction in the Early Period – The Transition of the Chains of Ahl al-Sunna to the Shīʿa – | Kuzudişli | Ilahiyat Studies: A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies

Séminaire ‘Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien’

Séance du 10 mars 2016, 17h-19h

Farès Gillon, doctorant à l’EPHE (Vème section)

« Des marges du chiisme au pouvoir califal : le parcours de l’ismaélisme d’après un recueil de traités fâtimide, le “Livre du Dévoilement” (Kitâb al-Kashf) »

Au Xème siècle, l’accès au pouvoir d’une dynastie de vizirs chiites à Bagdad, les Bouyyides, s’accompagna d’une codification du corpus textuel duodécimain et d’une marginalisation des traditions et doctrines jugées “irrationnelles”, celle des groupes que les hérésiologues nommèrent les “ghulât”, “extrémistes” ou “exagérateurs” chiites. Un phénomène comparable eut lieu dans l’ismaélisme avec l’arrivée au pouvoir des Fâtimides. Passant du statut de mouvement clandestin à celui de doctrine officielle, l’ismaélisme se trouva face à la nécessité d’ajuster sa théologie.

Le Kitâb al-Kashf, témoin clé de cette période charnière de l’ismaélisme, est une compilation de six traités réunis au début de l’époque fâtimide. Certains, manifestement pré-fâtimides, furent alors adaptés aux nouvelles exigences théologiques. Essentiellement consacré à des exégèses coraniques, l’ouvrage se situe à la croisée de plusieurs influences, puisque, outre les thèmes classiques du chiisme ancien, on y perçoit aussi les intuitions fondamentales et constantes de l’ismaélisme, ainsi que la trace édulcorée d’influences “ghulât” et proto-nusayrites, cette édulcoration étant elle-même une trace des remaniements fâtimides.”

] Helia Tavakoli, doctorante à l’Université de Franche-Comté

« 1771 et au-delà : un tournant dans la réception de la langue et de la littérature persane en France ? »

La connaissance du monde persan, en France, débute au XVIIIe siècle avec la découverte aussi bien de sa littérature que de son histoire. Vers la fin du siècle, elle évolua de la « persanerie » de Montesquieu vers la vraie discipline reconnue, le « persanisme ». Dans le sillage du Britannique William Jones, qui venait de réaliser A Grammar of the Persain Language, Anquetil-Duperron achève, en 1771, sa traduction du livre sacré du zoroastrisme, Zend-Avesta. Si le premier ouvrage suscite l’intérêt pour une langue et une littérature encore méconnue en Europe, le second lève le voile sur une histoire et une religion encore ignorées en France. Le conflit scientifique de Jones et d’Anquetil-Duperron suscita des critiques et des recherches controversées en France et révéla l’engouement pour les études persanes en France au cours du XIXe siècle.

Cette communication entend donc démontrer et décrire comment la science européenne découvrit la langue et les textes de l’antique religion de l’Iran à travers l’Avesta. Après avoir introduit l’influence de la publication de L’Histoire de la Grammaire Persane de Jones nous reviendrons notamment sur l’influence de ces deux œuvres sur les études du XIXe siècle.

Lieu : Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3, centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, salle 410 (4e étage), 75005, Paris.

Organisateurs :

Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS).

Libro “The Spanish Monarchy and Safavid Persia in the Early Modern Period”

International Conference

A Peace for a Prince: The Reception of a Safavid Child Hostage at the Ottoman Court ” Brill Online

iReMMO – Institut de Recherche et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen Orient

Sindawi, K.,(2015). “ A Lost Shīʿite Sect: The Faṭḥiyya: Name, Origins, Doctrine” , al-Karmil: Studies in Language and  Literature. 34, 57- 107. (Arabic).  

Abstract

This study aims to present an extinct Shīʿite group, called the Faṭḥiyya. It emerged after the year 148/765. Its adherents called for giving the post of imam to ʿAbdullāh al-Afṭaḥ after the death of the latter’s father, the sixth imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, because he was the imam’s eldest son and had participated in the affairs of the imamate, in light of the constant supervision by the Abbasid rulers of the imam Mūsā al-Kāẓim. The study addresses the source of the name of the sect, the factors that led to its emergence, the political circumstances that helped it evolve, its most prominent personalities, its most important doctrinal principles and ideas, the places to which it spread and where it possessed influence. It also discusses the views towards it of the imams Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and Mūsā al-Kāẓim and the dispute among Shiite scholars whether or not one should accept traditions in whose chain of transmission members of the Faṭḥiyya sect appeared. It turns out in fact that according to some Shiite scholars there are some transmitters among the Faṭḥiyya who are trustworthy in their transmissions despite the unacceptability of their doctrinal positions.

The study also discusses the “second Faṭḥiyya” which, according to al-Majlisī, is a continuation of the first and appeared after the death of the tenth imam ʿAlī al-Hādī in the year 260/874. That movement called for passing on ʿAlī al-Hādī’s position to his son Jaʿfar rather than to al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī.

Proposition de Conférence/ Conference Proposal

Inaugural Khōjā Studies Conference, Autumn 2016

Call for Papers

Venue: Paris at Le Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS)

Date: 1-2 November 2016

Theme: Religious identities in the construction of communal Khōjā historical memory

Agenda: A two-day conference with a public keynote bringing together interdisciplinary Anglophone and Francophone scholars in the humanities, generally defined, to present and discuss the development of Khōjā identity over the past three centuries among transnational communities in South Asia, East Africa, Western Europe, and North America. The output of the conference will be an edited volume published by École Française d’Extrême-Orient.

Theme: This conference is intended as an inaugural conference in the collaboration among FIU in Miami and CNRS- CEIAS in Paris. Its focus is to develop a rigorous transdisciplinary international programme of research on the history of the Khoja peoples through recherche scientifique on manuscripts, printed texts, oral traditions, and material culture. The preservation of multilingual materials in Sindhi, Kacchī, and Gujarati are important links that bridge the premodern- modern divide of Khōjā historiography. Coordinating ways to preserve these materials and make them available for academic research is a priority that necessitates international coordination and cooperation. This gathering will explore religious and social transformations that occurred as a result of migration and cosmopolitanism. It seeks to be inclusive of various modern academic interpretations of Khōjā identity and history in conversation with one another on the frames used in the interpretation of primary texts. Moreover, the Khōjā cannot be understood in isolation therefore research on related communities, such as the Lōhāṇā and Bohra, are particularly welcome as this helps to better contextualize what is sometimes a more insular Khōjā self-articulation of identity narratives.

Some of the questions posed by this conference include: What makes a religious text uniquely ‘Khōjā’ and how does has that identity evolved diachronically in various spacial contexts? How can the ginan (jñānō) corpus be categorized to reflect its interpolation over time, script changes, and space. How did the extinction of the Khōjā Sindhi script create a discontinuity that aided the development of modern Khōjā creedal Islamic identities? How does the tension between and ethnic Indic and Near Eastern Islamic identities manifest itself in the preservation of Khōjā heritage? How is communal religious authority constructed and contested transnationally?

Deadline: Call for papers due by 1 May 2016 to be submitted at- http://www.khojastudies.org/

Funding for participant attendance is available.

Call for Papers:
‘The Status of Non-Muslims in Sharīʿa’
The 4th AMI Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop
June 2-3rd 2016

Al-Mahdi Institute
60 Weoley Park Road
Birmingham B29 6RB
UK
www.almahdi.edu

The 4th annual fiqhī workshop at Al-Mahdi Institute aims to facilitate scholarship directly addressing questions relating to the topic of “the status of non-Muslims in Sharī ͑a”. We especially encourage, and invite, paper proposals engaging with the methodological questions involved in justifications for both traditional and alternative perspectives on fiqhī̄ (juristic) readings of matters related to the status of non-Muslims in Islam.

In recent years one of the major aspects of Sharī ͑a, or more precisely “fiqh”, that has been subject of much debate and discussion pertains to the status of non-Muslims within Sharī ͑a. Apparent tensions have arisen in the understanding and practice of fiqh in the context of challenges from international law, extremist trans-national and terrorist organisations, domestic legal frameworks and the private practice of Muslims living in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. From private issues related to permissibility of marriage with non-Muslims or eating non-Muslim prepared food, to societal or state imposed regulations pertaining to transactions, capital punishments, compensations, and political rights and duties, we find that the legal edicts of mainstream Muslim jurists demonstrate widespread distinctions/discriminations between Muslims and Non-Muslims. The impact of such distinctions/discriminations not only affects non-Muslims residing in pre-dominantly Muslim societies but also affect Muslims who reside in minority contexts.

The workshop seeks to explore fiqhī or juristic justifications and challenges to such positions and emerging alternatives. As in previous gatherings such fiqhī debate will be situated alongside contributions dealing with broader theological, legal, historical, anthropological and sociological approaches that can enrich a multidisciplinary understanding of contemporary visions for the status of non-Muslims in Sharīʿa.

Proposals for a single presenter should include the following:

➢ Contact information, and a brief bio of presenter(s),
➢ Tentative title(s), 

➢ Abstract(s) (300- 500 word).

The deadline for submission of proposals is 8th April 2016. Successful applicants will be notified by 15th April 2016.

Accepted applicants from within the E.U. will be supported for their travel and hospitality during the workshop, with a further limited number of travel bursaries available for those applying from outside the E.U.

Proposals and queries should be sent by e-mail to: Dr Hashim Bata (hashim@almahdi.edu)

Muhammad Qazi Vafa Karminagi. Tuhfat al-Khani or Tarikh-i Rahim Khani. ed Mansur Sefatgol. Fuchu: ILCAA. 2015.
525+6p. ISBN 978-4-86337-201-6
Critical edition of an important early Manghit chronicle from 18th century Central Asia.

Nobuaki Kondo ed. Mapping Safavid Iran. Fuchu ILCAA. 2015. 246p. ISBN 978-4-86337-211-5
The book aims to locate the Safavid state in broader contexts of time and space. It contains nine papers by Rula Abisaab, Nobuaki Kondo, Rudi Matthee, Yukako Goto, Akhiko Yamaguchi, Giorgio Rota, Sholeh Quinn, Sebouh Aslanian, and Katsuhiko Abe.

Those who need copies should contact for inquiry:
e-mail: publ@aa.tufs.ac.jp
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/publications/inquiry

Contents of Mapping Safavid Iran
Preface
Nobuaki Kondo 1
From Textual Evidence to Ijtihād:
The Twelver Shiʿa Juristic Tradition, 10th–16th Century
Rula Jurdi Abisaab 7
The Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzim Shrine and its Vaqf under the Safavids
Nobuaki Kondo 41
The Safavid King Who Was Crowned Twice:
The Enthronement of Safi Mirza as Shah Safi II in 1077/1666, and as Shah
Sulayman in 1078/1668
Rudi Matthee 67
Development of Transport and Growth of Cultural Homogenization in the later
Safavid Period
Yukako Goto 99
The Safavid Legacy as Viewed from the Periphery:
The Formation of Iran and the Political Integration of a Kurdish Emirate
Yamaguchi Akihiko 127
Aq Qoyunlu and Safavid European Diplomacy:
Strategy, Millenarism, Wishful Thinking
Giorgio Rota 155
A Historian on the Move:
An Early Modern Persian Chronicler under the Safavids and the Mughals
Sholeh A. Quinn 171
Julfan Merchants and European East India Companies:
Overland Trade, Protection Costs, and the Limits of Collective Self-Representation
in Early Modern Safavid Iran
Sebouh David Aslanian 189
Silk for the Court: Safavid Silk Textiles in Japanese Collections
Katsuhiko Abe 223
Index 243