A History of Difference: Piety and Space in Early Modern West Asia
WORKSHOP on 04 May 2017 ⌖ Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
with contribution from:
- Manan Ahmed
- Guy Burak
- Ananya Chakravarti
- Carl Ernst
- Supriya Gandhi
- Rozaliya Garipova
- Ahmed F Ibrahim
- Katharina Ivanyi
- Anubhuti Maurya
- Fatma Müge Göçek
- Aslı Niyazioğlu
- Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
- Audrey Truschke
- Taymiya R. Zaman
This conference brings together scholars working broadly in Ottoman and Mughal pasts to converse, consult, and present what ways of thinking and doing difference are recoverable to us. This workshop will take as its objective a grounded history of difference narrated in diverse textual and visual cultures. We aim to incorporate venues beyond the legal—histories, hagiographies, travel accounts, visual and material culture—into the discussions of the contemporary.
Funding & Support
- Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
- Middle East Institute
- Barnard College
- South Asia Institute
Program
Thursday, May 4th, 2017 | Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
Keynote conversation, 4:00 p.m.
Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan)
- Negotiating Difference from the Ottoman Empire to the Contemporary Era
Carl Ernst (William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Erasing Difference? Questions about Universalism and Toleration, from the Mughals to Today
Friday, May 5th, 2017 | Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
8:30 a.m. : Coffee & Introduction
9:00 - 10:10 a.m. : Panel I
- Guy Burak, New York University
- The adoption of an official madhhab and the Sunni-Shii divide
- Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University
- Difference that Mattered: Defining the Ghurid threat to North India
10:20 - 11:30 a.m. : Panel II
- Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary
- Rethinking Ottoman Tolerance: Ottoman Politics of Difference and the Kizilbash/Alevi Communities in Anatolia
- Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University
- Mapping ‘Gabriel’: space, identity and difference in the late sixteenth-century Indian Ocean
11:40 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. : Panel III
- Aslı Niyazioğlu, Koç University
- Looking at Early Modern Istanbul from its Outskirts: Gardens, Sufi Lodges, and the Imperial City
- Anubhuti Maurya, Delhi University
- As the King goes Marching: Royal Journeys as Spatial Practice in Kashmir
2:00 - 3:10 p.m. : Panel IV
- Rozaliya Garipova, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
- The hanafization of the Contemporary Russian Islam and Historical shari‘a
- Supriya Gandhi, Yale University
- Mughal Indology and the Making of Modern Hinduism
3:20 - 4:30 p.m. : Panel V
- Ahmed F Ibrahim, McGill University
- Islamic Law between the Nuclear Family and Child Rights
- Taymiya R. Zaman, University of San Francisco
- Cities, Time, and the Backward Glance
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. : Concluding Remarks
- by Katharina Ivanyi and Manan Ahmed, Columbia University
Contacts:
- Manan Ahmed for all matters.
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