2011 Conference: Workshop on language, Literacy and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies
MARCH 3, 2011 - 10:00AM TO MARCH 4, 2011 - 6:15PM
LOCATION: LANDAU ECONOMICS BUILDING, LUCAS CONFERENCE ROOM 579 SERRA MALL, STANFORD, CA 94305- 6072
The two-day workshop focuses on the processes underlying the social construction of authority in Islamic societies and the ways in which those processes have been affected by issues of language and the development of literacy since the seventeenth century. Presentations will explore these issues in the context of peripheries as well as the core regions. Workshop sessions are free and open to public.
CONTACT:
abbasiprogram [at] stanford.edu (abbasiprogram[at]stanford[dot]edu)
650-725-9098
Thursday March 3 10:00 AM – 12:40 PM – CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES FOR AUTHORITY
UC Davis
“Religiosity, Language Use and Political Expression: A Study on two Turkish Online Communities”
UC Riverside
Peter McMurray
“Listening to the Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Balkan Sufism”
Harvard University
Stéphane Lacroix
“Ulama, Intellectuals and the Struggle for Authority within Islamist Movements”
Sciences Po
Bernard Rougier
“Authority built on grammars of action: the particular case of the Arab Levant”
Collège de France/Sciences Po
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – LANGUAGE, LITERACY AND THE NATION
Michael Cooperson (Chair)
University of California , Los Angeles
Parna Sengupta
“Schooling Faith: Religious Pluralism in Twentieth Century Bengal”
Stanford University
Nabil Mouline
“The Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in contemporary Saudi Arabia”
Sciences Po/ Princeton University
Alexander Knysh
“Arabic as the Language of Resistance: The Caucasus Emirate”
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM – LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
Shleh Quinn (Chair)
University of California, Merced
Prashant Keshavmurthy
“Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzu and the Emergence of the Universal Human Subject in early Modern Persian Literary Theory”
McGill University
Melis Sulos
“The Rise and the Politicization of the Popular Theatre in the Late Ottoman World”
CUNY
Yaseen Noorani
“Literary Aestheticism and the Formation of the Notion of Islamic Civilization”
University of Arizona
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011 10:00 AM – 12:40 PM – THE ULEMA IN MODERN TIMES
Tugrul Keskin (Chair)
Portland State University
Mara Leichtman
“Arabic Literacy, Conversion to Shi’i Islam, and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Senegal”
Michigan State University
Zekeria Ahmed Salem
“From Slaves to Imams? Knowledge, Islamic Authority, and Social Change in Mauritania”
University of Florida
Thomas Pierret
“Tradition as an Asset: Informal Religious Teaching and the Cooptation of the ‘New Literate Elites’ by the Ulema in 20th Century Syria”
Princeton University
Laurence Louer
“Mohammed al-Shirazi and the Construction of Religious Authority”
CERI/Sciences Po/ CNRS
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF AUTHORITY
Mohammad Salama (Chair)
SFSU
Kristen Brustad
“Standard Language Ideology and the Construction of Modern Standard Arabic”
University of Texas, Austin
David Lelyveld
“Sir Syed’s Printing Press: Print, Literacy and Islam in Early Nineteenth Century India”
William paterson University
Brett Wilson
“Qur’an Translation in the Age of Nationalism”
Macalester College
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM – VISUALITY
Qamar Adamjee (Chair)
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Chanchal Dadlani
“The Visual, the Textual, and the Construction of Cultural Authority in the Late Mughal Empire”
Columbia University
Hamza Zeghlache
“Text, Space and Images: Written Representation of Islamic Architecture in Arabic Manuscript”
University of Setif
Elham Etemadi
“The Verbal Conditionality of Visual Literacy: Early Modern Persian Paintings”
University of Leuven