Princeton University

9:30 am-9:50 am                     Welcome and Introductions – Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Princeton University), Symposium Chair

 

9:50 am-10:15 am                   Opening Address – Devin DeWeese (Indiana University), Symposium Co-Chair

 

Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University): “Genre, Narratives, Texts, and Manuscripts:  A Heuristic for the Study of Central Asian Sufi Hagiography”

 

 Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey): “The Biographical Tradition of Muḥammad Bashārā: Islamic Hagiography in Tajikistan”

 

 Maria E. Subtelny (University of Toronto): “The Oeuvre of Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī as a Source for the Study of Sufism in Early 16th-Century Central Asia”

 

            Discussant:  Jawid Mojaddedi (Rutgers University)

12:30 pm-2:00 pm                  Lunch Break - Bernstein Gallery

Kawahara Yayoi (University of Tokyo): “Walī-khān’s jihād in Marghilan: A Consideration on a Makhdūmzāda Family in the Khanate of Khoqand”

 

Eren Tasar (Washington University in St. Louis ): “ Sufism on the Soviet Stage: Holy People and Places in Central Asia’s Socio-political Landscape after World War II”

 

Ashirbek Muminov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan): “Sufi       Groups in Contemporary Kazakhstan: Competition and Connections with Kazakh Islamic Society”

 

Discussant:  Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University)

4:00 pm-4:30 pm                    Coffee Break – Bernstein Gallery

 

4:30 pm-5:00 pm                    First Day Concluding Remarks and General Discussion

Symposium Moderator, Jo-Ann Gross

 

 

Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “The Sufi and the City: Sufi Communities in 17^th-Century Bukhara According to the Thamarāt al-mashāyikh”

 

Allen Frank (Takoma Park, Maryland) “The Tārīkh-i Barangawī as a Source on Sufi Shaykhs in the Emirate of Bukhara, 1850-1905”

 

Sugawara Jun (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): “Mazārs and Waqf Domains in Kāshghar: A Preliminary Approach to their Dimensions and Distribution in the Early 20^th Century”

 

Robert McChesney (New York University): “Keeping it in the Family: Sufi Shrines, Dynastic Families, and the State in Early Modern Central Asia and Afghanistan”

 

Discussant: Dina Le Gall (Lehman College, City University of New York)

12:00 pm-12:15 pm    Second Day Concluding Remarks

                                    Moderator, Jo-Ann Gross

 

12:15 pm-12:45 pm  Concluding Remarks and General Discussion

Michael Cook (Princeton University)

 

            12:45 pm-2:00 pm     Lunch for Speakers/Participants – Bernstein Gallery

Sponsored by the Department and Program of Near Eastern Studies and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
 

 

8:30 AM Breakfast and coffee

 

9:00-9:15 AM Welcome and introduction by Bernard Haykel

 

9:15-11:00 AM -- Panel 1: The Ottomans in Yemen

·       M. Sükrü Hanioglu, Princeton University, “A Contract or Treaty: The Da`an Agreement of 1911”

·       Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser University, "'We know nothing about Yemen!' Ottoman Governance in Southwest Arabia, the Politics of Knowledge Production, and the Zaydi Imams, 1891-1919"

 

11:00-11:30 AM Coffee Break

 

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM -- Panel 2: On History and Memory

·       Gabriele Vom Bruck, SOAS, University of London, “Out of the Shadows of History: Fragments of a 1948 Memoir”

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Yusuf Hamid al-Din, Independent scholar, “Yemen: Moments in Time Through the Lens of a Camera – 1908 to 1948”

 

1:00-2:00 PM – Lunch Break

 

2:00-3:30 PM -- Panel 3: On Law and Power

·       John Willis, University of Colorado, “The Salafi Imamate: Imam Yahya and Project of Islamic Unity”

·       Brinkley Messick, Columbia University, "Post-Ottoman Shari`a Courts"

 

3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break

 

4:00-5:30 PM -- Panel 4: On Dhimmis and the Imamate

·       Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, The Open University Israel, "The Kabbala Dispute, the Ottomans and Imam Yahya after 1911"

·       Bernard Haykel, Princeton University, “The Bicycle and the Imam”

 

5:30-6:00 PM -- Roundtable Discussion