Shii News – AAR programme items
The American Academy of Religion held its annual meeting in
Atlanta, GA
, from
November 21-24, 2015
Papers of potential interest to the list include:
Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary
Is Ghulat Religion Islamic Gnosticism? The Shi’ite “Extremists” of
Early Islamic Iraq
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
Every Place is Karbala: Muslim Reflections on Cosmopolitanism,
Modernity, and Imperialism
Markus Dressler, G.ttingen University
Comparing Marginalized Alid Traditions from the Balkans to
Western Iran: Toward a New Research Agenda
Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
Sensate Devotion: Invoking the ‘Alam in Qutb Shahi Somatic Shi’ism
Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard University
Prohibitions and Proper Etiquette: Regulating Ziyārat in the
Timurid Period
Nebil Husayn, Princeton University
When Ali Was without Equal: Tafdil Ali in Proto-Sunni Thought
Contemporary Islam Group
Theme: Forgetting the Indic for the “Islamic”: Exploring the
Development of Khōjā Caste Memory
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott-International 2 (International Level)
Nargis Virani, New York, NY, Presiding
Iqbal Akhtar, University of Edinburgh
The Chronicle of Light: Khōjā Cosmology in the Periphery of Indic
Islam
Karim Gillani, University of Alberta
The Contestation of Indic Khoja Oral Literature (Ginans) as “Islamic”
Responding:
Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory Univesity
Everyday Peacebuilding and Sunni-Shī’i Coexistence in Indonesia
The full AAR programme is available at:
https://papers.aarweb.org/AAR_Sessions.pdf
- December 14, 2015
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