Shii News – American Academy of Religion, 2016
Papers of potential interest to the list set for delivery at the annual American Acdemy of Religion meeting, 17 – 22 November, 2016, in San Antonia, Texas include:
A20-323
Islamic Mysticism Group
Theme: Devotion to the Family of the Prophet in Muslim
Hagiographical Traditions
Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Convention Center-210B (2nd Level – West)
Sophia Arjana, Boulder, CO, Presiding
Aun Ali, McGill University
Understanding the Maqtal of al Husayn as Devotional and Mystical
Literature
Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard University
Imamophilism and Timurid Pilgrimage Narratives
Afsar Mohammad, University of Texas
Fatima is Our Goddess: Devotion to ‘Ali and Fatima in Oral Poetry
Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University
The Day ‘Ali Reversed the Sun: Embodied Miracles and the Sanctity
of Place
Responding:
Ali S. Asani, Harvard University
A21-322 (#islamaar)
Study of Islam Section and Islamic Mysticism Group
Theme: The Occult Challenge to Islamic Mysticism
Monday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Convention Center-301A (3rd Level)
Torang Asadi, Duke University, Presiding
Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary
Magic and Apologetic Miracles in 11th Century Baghdad: Al-
Baqillānī’s Refutation of Magic and Its Broader Context
Patrick D’Silva, University of North Carolina
Do Sufi Occultists Dream of Electric Sheep? Magical Constructions of
Muslim Authenticity in a 19th CE Persian Manuscript
Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina
Islamic Philosophy as Occult Practice: The Case of Safavid Iran
On list
Hunter Bandy, Duke University
Imam ‘Ali as Master Magician: Occultism in the Twilight of the
Deccan Sultanates
Responding:
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University
- Azfar Moin, University of Texas
A22-119 (#islamaar)
Study of Islam Section
Theme: Questioning Categories
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-207B (2nd Level – West)
Elliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, University of Chicago
Paths to Eternal Felicity: Sufism and Rationalism in Fakhr al-Dīn
al-Rāzī
Amir Syed, University of Michigan
The Pen and the Unseen: Islamic Esoteric Sciences of Writing in the
Library of al-Hajj ‘Umar Tal
Reyhan Erdogdu Basaran, Rice University
The Sectarian Inquiry: The Position of Alevi Islam within the Sunni-
Shi’ite Split
Abby Kulisz, Indiana University
What Others Suffer, We Behold: Public Pain and Traumatization in
the Shi’ite Ashura Ritual
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory University
For the Love of Ahl-Bayt: Transcending Sunni-Shī’i Sectarian
Allegiance
The full programme is available at: https://papers.aarweb.org/program_book
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- November 15, 2016
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