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Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies TÜRK KADINLARI KÜLTÜR DERNEĞİ 1966 1st International Symposium of Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University 20-21 MAY 2017 Islamic Studies and Closing Conference the Study of Sufism of the Project in Academia: The Bridge of Two Easts: Rethinking Education Programme Methodologies for Sufi Culture 1st International Symposium of MAY20-21, 2017 Kenan Rifai Center Kyoto University for Sufi Studies JAPAN The First International Symposium of Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University: Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies Including The Closing Conference of the Project The Bridge of Two Easts: Education Programme for Sufi Culture Content of the Symposium How is Islamic studies configured as an academic field in different countries? Focusing on Sufi studies, presentations may explore the institutional and intellectual history of Islamic studies in the US, China, Japan, and Turkey. Questions addressed may include topics like the relationship of the study of Islam to academic disciplines, Orientalism, the state (Ministry of higher education etc.), and religious identity. The field of Sufism may be explored as an academic subject area, which does not simply replicate its sources, but analyzes the phenomenon in terms of categories derived from the humanities and social sciences. The aim of the conference is to explore the implications of connecting academic work on Sufism in Islamic studies of different countries. How may scholars and centers from these countries assist each other, particularly during times of crisis? What sorts of programs should be planned for the future? How the scholars rethink methodologies? 2 Islamic Studies and Closing Conference the Study of Sufism of the Project the in Academia: Bridge of Two Easts: Rethinking Education Programme Methodologies for Sufi Culture PARTICIPANTS AKAHORI Masayuki MURATA Sachiko Sophia University, JAPAN Stony Brook University, USA ARAI Kazuhiro NAKANISHI Tatsuya Keio University, JAPAN Kyoto University, JAPAN AYDIN, Cemil NINOMIYA Ayako University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN CHITTICK, William OGURA Satoshi Stony Brook University, USA Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JAPAN cooke, miriam ÖZEL, Ahmet Murat Duke University, USA Yalova University, TURKEY ERHAN, Elif SAFI, Omid Üsküdar University, TURKEY Duke University, USA ERNST, Carl W. SARGUT, Cemâlnur University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA TURKEY GÜNER ZÜLFİKAR, Cangüzel SAWAI Makoto Üsküdar University, TURKEY Kyoto University, JAPAN HAMMER, Juliane TAKAHASHI Kei University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Sophia University, JAPAN INOUE Kie TAKAO Ken’ichiro The University of Tokyo, JAPAN Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JAPAN KILIÇ, Mahmud Erol TONAGA Yasushi Üsküdar University, TURKEY Kyoto University, JAPAN KÜÇÜK, Osman Nuri TU Weiming Üsküdar University, TURKEY Peking University, CHINA LAWRENCE, Bruce WAZAKI Seika Duke University, USA Chubu University, JAPAN MADONO Kotoko YAMAMOTO Qayyim Naoki Kyoto University, JAPAN Kyoto University, JAPAN MARUYAMA Daisuke YAMANE So National Defense Academy of Japan, JAPAN Osaka University, JAPAN MATSUDA Kazunori YASUDA Shin Kyoto University, JAPAN Teikyo University, JAPAN MORIMOTO Kazuo YENİTERZİ, Emine The University of Tokyo, JAPAN Üsküdar University, TURKEY MORRIS, James Boston College, USA 3 1st International Symposium of MAY20-21, 2017 Kenan Rifai Center Kyoto University for Sufi Studies JAPAN ORGANIZERS Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism–Tariqa–Saint Cults Complex (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS) Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Relics in the Mediterranean World (Grant-in- Aid for Scientific Research (B), JSPS) Institute for Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul The Bridge of Two Easts: Educational Programme for Sufi Culture, the Granted Project of Turkish Republic Prime Ministry, Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities Kerim Education, Culture, and Health Foundation, Istanbul TÜRKKAD Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Istanbul Branch SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 1. TONAGA Yasushi, JAPAN 2. AKAHORI Masayuki, JAPAN 3. KOSUGI Yasushi, JAPAN 4. Mahmud Erol KILIÇ, TURKEY 5. William CHITTICK, USA 6. MURATA Sachiko, USA 7. TU Weiming, CHINA 8. Carl W. ERNST, USA 9. Osman Nuri KÜÇÜK, TURKEY 10. Ahmet Murat ÖZEL, TURKEY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE TONAGA Yasushi FUJII Chiaki FUTATSUYAMA Tatsuro NAGAOKA Shinsuke Yumi DONNY-CLARK Belgin Batum Elif Erhan Cangüzel Güner Zülfikar Hülya Deliktaş 4 Islamic Studies and Closing Conference the Study of Sufism of the Project the in Academia: Bridge of Two Easts: Rethinking Education Programme Methodologies for Sufi Culture PROGRAM 20 MAY, 1st Day 10:30-11:00 10:00 - 10:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH I: OPENING SESSION: (15 min. each) KOSUGI Yasushi TONAGA Yasushi Former Dean of ASAFAS and Director of the Center for Hadhari Islamic Civilizational Studies at Kyoto University AKAHORI Masayuki TONAGA Yasushi Director of the Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, 11:00-11:40 Kyoto University KEYNOTE SPEECH II: (20 min. each) [Documentary: The Bridge of Two Easts] TU Weiming Cemâlnur SARGUT Founder of Kerim Foundation, Advisor to Üsküdar Mahmud Erol KILIÇ University Chancellor and Director of TÜRKKAD İstanbul Branch 11: 40 -13:00 Mehmet KÖSE LUNCH at the Meeting Place President of Turkish Republic Prime Ministry the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities A. Bülent MERİÇ Turkish Ambassador 5 1st International Symposium of MAY20-21, 2017 Kenan Rifai Center Kyoto University for Sufi Studies JAPAN 13:00-14:35 14:45-16:20 SESSION 1: SESSION 2: 1. Carl ERNST [chair] 1. Omid SAFI [chair] “Orientalist Legacies and the Academic “Mawlana, Mevlana, Rumi” Construction of Sufism” 2. TAKAO Ken’ichiro 2. MURATA Sachiko “Sufism under Syrian Ba‘th: Ahmad Kuftaru “Sufism in Chinese” and His Tariqah” 3. Osman Nuri KÜÇÜK 3. Bruce LAWRENCE “The Epistemological Problem of the “Is adab axial or incremental to madhhab-i Contemporary Islamic Thought: Losing ʻishq (Sufism)?” Hikma (Wisdom)” 4. William CHITTICK 4. TONAGA Yasushi “Moses in the Religion of Love” “General Tendency of Islamic and Sufi Studies in Japan” Q&A (15 min) Q&A (15min.) 16:20-16:30 TEA BREAK (10 min.) 14:35-14:45 TEA BREAK (10 min.) 6 Islamic Studies and Closing Conference the Study of Sufism of the Project the in Academia: Bridge of Two Easts: Rethinking Education Programme Methodologies for Sufi Culture 16:30-18:15 21 May, 2nd day Closing Conference of the Project of 9:00-10:35 “The Bridge of Two Easts: SESSION 3: Education Program for Sufi Culture” 1. NAKANISHI Tatsuya Cangüzel GÜNER ZÜLFIKAR [chair] “Ma Dexin and Ibn ‘Arabī’s Theories (20min.) Regarding the Afterlife: A Chinese “Searching New Horizons in Methodology Expression of Sufism during the 19th of Sufi Studies” Century” Participants of the Program (15 min. each): 2. Ahmet Murat ÖZEL 1. MADONO Kotoko “Reading the History of Sufism from 2. YAMAMOTO Qayyim Naoki the View of the Classification of ʻIlms 3. INOUE Kie [Science]” 4. SAWAI Makoto 5. MATSUDA Kazunori 3. Juliane HAMMER “Studying American Sufism: A Reflection on Boundaries, Authenticity, and Politics” 19:30-21:00 Welcome Dinner at the Meeting Place 4. James MORRIS [chair] “Teaching “Sufi” Studies in Undergraduate Settings: Religious Studies and the Liberal Arts” Q&A (15min.) 10:35-10:45 TEA BREAK (10 min.) 7 1st International Symposium of MAY20-21, 2017 Kenan Rifai Center Kyoto University for Sufi Studies JAPAN 10:45-12:20 13:40-15:15 SESSION 4: SESSION 5: 1. MORIMOTO Kazuo [chair] 1. MARUYAMA Daisuke “Sayyido-Sharifology Twelve Years Later” “Mystic, Miracle, and Mediation: The Interpretation of the Relation between Allah 2. TAKAHASHI Kei and People in Contemporary Sudanese Sufi “The Institutional Origin of the Ulama- Tariqas” Sufi Dichotomy in Modern Egypt” 2. YASUDA Shin 3. NINOMIYA Ayako “Islamic Hospitality in Adab Literature “Concepts of affiliation and membership (temporary)” of Tariqa: Medieval India’s case” 3. ARAI Kazuhiro [chair] 4. OGURA Satoshi “Saint Veneration in Indonesia and the “Indic Deities translated by means of Emergence of Hadrami Sada: Shaping the oneness of existence: in the case of Historical Perception by Using the Current Muḥammad Šāhābādī’s Persian translation Situation?” of the Rājataraṅgiṇīs” 4. WAZAKI Seika Q&A (15min.) “Searching for “our Islam”: Sufism, tarīqa and the government policies towards Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia” 12:20-13:40 Lunch at the Meeting Place Q&A (15 min) 15:15-15:25 TEA BREAK (10 min.) 8 Islamic Studies and Closing Conference the Study of Sufism of the Project the in Academia: Bridge of Two Easts: Rethinking Education Programme Methodologies for Sufi Culture 15:25-17:00 17:15-18:00 SESSION 6: CONCLUDING SESSION: 1. miriam cooke Cemâlnur SARGUT [chair] “Framing the Lives of Female Sufi Saints” TONAGA Yasushi 2. YAMANE So “Dual Trends of Sufi Poetry in South Asia” AKAHORI Masayuki 3. Emine YENITERZI William CHITTICK “Significance of Literature in Sufi Education” Carl ERNST 4. Cemil AYDIN [chair] “Islamic Studies, Geopolitics, and Racialization Mahmud Erol KILIÇ of Muslims: Lessons from the 20th Century” Q&A (15min.) 17:00-17:15 TEA BREAK (10 min.) 9 1st International Symposium of MAY20-21, 2017 Kenan Rifai Center Kyoto University for Sufi Studies JAPAN RESUMES AKAHORI Masayuki (Professor, Director of the Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia
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