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Graduate Student Colloquium on Middle 3:00PM- 3:15PM GRADUATE STUDENT BREAK 3:15PM-5:00PM COLLOQUIUM ON MIDDLE PANEL IV – ISLAMIC THOUGHT: DIVERSITY, ENCOUNTERS, EASTERN & ISLAMIC AND ENGAGEMENT Chair and Discussant: Sumaiya Hamdani, George Mason University STUDIES Yasin Ramazan Başaran, Indiana University Bloomington Farabi on Religion: Certainty, Realization, and Community HISTORY, MEMORY, IDENTITY Rosabel Ansari, Georgetown University A History of “Wujūd” in Islamic Metaphysics: From Farabi to CO-ORGANIZED BY Ibn Arabi DIYANET ISLAMIC RESEARCH Abdul Rahman Latif, Harvard Divinity School On the Asl of Specious Arguments: Muslim Responses to INSTITUTE & ALI VURAL AK CENTER Evolution Pouyan Shahidi Marnani, Indiana University Bloomington FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC STUDIES AT GMU In Search for Zarqālī’s Arabic, Constructional Literature on His Universal Instruments: A Proposal APRIL 8-9, 2017 Ida Nitter, University of Pennsylvania LANHAM, MARYLAND Fictional Writing as Western Resistance: How Two Nahda Writers Challenged Western Orientalist Depictions of the Arab “Other” 5:00PM-5:15PM PROGRAM SCHEDULE BREAK SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017 5:15PM-6:45PM CULTURAL CENTER AUDITORIUM PANEL V – ISLAM IN AMERICAS: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 8:30AM-9:00AM Chair and Discussant: Ahmet Selim Tekelioğlu, OPENING REMARKS Diyanet Islamic Research Institute Yaşar Çolak, Diyanet Center of America Youssef J. Carter, UC Berkeley Sami Erdem, George Mason University & Marmara University From Slave to Abdullahi: Black Muslim Pedagogy, History, and Hüseyin Yılmaz, George Mason University Reversive Memory Fatima Siwaju, Princeton University 9:00AM-10:30AM Many Ways of Belonging: Muharram Observances Among PANEL I – POLITICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: ENCOUNTERS WITH Trinidadian Shī’a TRADITION AND MODERNITY Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, Howard University Chair and Discussant: Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason The Making of American Islam: Imam WD Mohammed, Islamic University Revivalism, and the Pathway Against Violence Serhan Tanrıverdi, Loyola University Chicago Saquib Ali Usman, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor The Emergence of Western Muslim Intellectuals: American Chronotopes of the Qur’an The Construction of Muslim Modernities in the West 6:45PM-7:00PM Sumaya Almajdoub, The George Washington University BREAK Transitional Justice in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities Ahmet Şefik Hatipoğlu, Indiana University 7:00PM KEYNOTE LECTURE Religious Education Policy in Turkey: A State-in-Society Ahmet T. Karamustafa, University of Maryland, College Park Approach Vernacular Islam: Historical Perspectives on Muslim Identity Kristen Gianaris, The Graduate Institute, Geneva The Language of the People: Spaces in Words SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017 10:30AM-10:45AM CULTURAL CENTER AUDITORIUM BREAK 9:00AM-10:45AM PANEL VI – HISTORY AND MEMORY: NARRATIVES OF CULTURAL 10:45AM-12:30PM CONSTRUCTION PANEL II– ISLAMIC LAW AND INSTITUTIONS: RESPONSES Chair and Discussant: Himmet Taşkömür, Harvard University IN CHANGING CONTEXTS Tuğrul Kurt, Frankfurt Goethe University & Marmara University Chair and Discussant: Zainab Alwani, Howard University The Hanifs (Theosebes) as a Common Link between Judaism, Hatice Kübra Kahya, Harvard University & Istanbul University Christianity, and Islam in its Historical and Quranic Context The Question of Substitution (Istibdal) in Ottoman Pious Ashutosh Kumar, McGill University Endowments Ancestral Memory and Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire Wasim Shiliwala, Princeton University Hüseyin Ongan Arslan, Indiana University Prisoners of Their Devoted Audiences: The Precarious Early Sources on Hacı Bektaş and his Connection with Ahmet Yesevi Authority of the Modern Mufti Ahmed Tahir Nur, Yale University Ayşegül Şimşek, Columbia University & Marmara University Knowledge, Virtue, and Perfection: Understanding Tashkubrīzādah Islamic Law of Rebellion: Early Hanafi Approach Ahmed Efendi (1495-1561) Tesneem Alkiek, Georgetown University Gürzat Kami, İstanbul Şehir University Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule Reasons for Writing a Biographical Dictionary in the Sixteenth-Century Ferhan Güloğlu, The George Washington University Ottoman Empire: Ali ibn Bali and His Work Fasting and Pregnant: An Ethnographic Account of Pregnant 10:45AM-11:00AM Muslim Women from Religious, Scientific, and Governance BREAK Perspectives 11:00AM-12:45PM PANEL VII – MUSLIM MINORITIES: THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF 12:30PM-1:30PM COEXISTENCE BREAK Chair and Discussant: Ermin Sinanovic, International Institute of 1:30PM-3:00PM Islamic Thought PANEL III – POLITICS AND IDENTITY: EXPRESSION, Margarita Rosa, Princeton University PARTICIPATION, AND TRANSFORMATION Malê Revolt in Bahia: Embodied Piety for Enslaved West African Chair and Discussant: Heba el-Shazli, George Mason University Muslims in 1835 Brazil Ayşe Zeynep Nayır, School of Oriental and African Studies Shanoaha Kay Smith, Georgetown University DIYANETINSTITUTE.ORG Women, Islam, and Civil Society in Anatolia Japan’s Islam Policy in China during the Early Twentieth Century FACEBOOK.COM/ Faisal Hamid, Johns Hopkins University DIYANETINSTITUTE Ayşenur Sönmez Kara, George Mason University The Divided Muslim Vote in Uttar Pradesh TWITTER.COM/ Welcoming Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Role of Religious DIYANETINST Discourse in the Case of Diyanet Dilyara Agisheva, Georgetown University Aamir Bashir, University of Chicago Russians in Crimea: Some Aspects of the Legal Transformation in Forging a Group Identity Among Contemporary Pakistani Islamic Crimea Under the Russian Rule Post-1783 Annexation Deobandīs: The Role of the Akabir (Elders) Cuma Özkan, University of Iowa Contesting Sinicization: Chinese Muslims’ Intellectual Productions as a VENUE: Yusuf Akbulut, Istanbul Şehir University DIYANET CENTER OF AMERICA Way of Preserving their Cultural and Religious Identities 9610 GOOD LUCK ROAD Reading Official Ideology Through Curriculum: Egyptian High LANHAM MD, 20706 School History Books (1981-2011) 12:45PM-1:15PM CLOSING ROUNDTABLE.
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