October 21-22, 2011
Woodrow Wilson School - Robertson Hall, Bowl One
Supported by a generous grant from the family of
Leon B. Poullada
Sponsored by the Department & Program in
Near Eastern Studies
Day One (Friday, October 21):
9:00 am Light Breakfast Buffet - Bernstein Gallery
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
Session I (10:15 am-12:15 pm): Sources and Interpretative Strategies
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 Mu ḥammad 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
Session II (2:00 pm-4:00 pm): Sufi Communities and Sources: Realignments from the Russian to the Post-Soviet Period
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
Day Two (Saturday, October 22):
9:00 am Light Breakfast Buffet - Bernstein Gallery
Session III (9:30 am-12:00 pm): Sufi Communities: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “The Sufi and the City: Sufi Communities in 17th-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 20th 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
End of Symposium.
