Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies, Stanford University, March 3-4, 2011

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Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of
Authority in Islamic Societies, Stanford University, March 3-4, 2011
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From: "Burcak Keskin Kozat" <burcak@stanford.edu>

THE ABBASI PROGRAM IN ISLAMIC STUDIES AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

presents in collaboration with

The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po (Paris, France)

Workshop on

Language, Literacy, and The Social Construction of Authority in Islamic
Societies

March 3-4, 2011, 10:00 am - 6:30 pm
Landau Economics Building, Lucas Conference Room
(579 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305)

FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC
Registration required:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/register.fb
For more information: http://ica.stanford.edu/node/2753

THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011

10:00 am - 12:40 pm - CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES FOR AUTHORITY

Ebru Erdem-Akçay, University of California, Riverside, "Religiosity,
Language Use and Political Expression: A Study on two Turkish Online
Communities"

Peter McMurray, Harvard University, "Listening to the Poetics and
Politics
of Contemporary Balkan Sufism"

Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po, "Ulama, Intellectuals and the Struggle
for
Authority within Islamist Movements"

Bernard Rougier, Collège de France/Sciences Po, "A Micro-sociological
Look
at the Struggle for Religious Authority in Tripoli, Lebanon"

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - LANGUAGE, LITERACY AND THE NATION

Parna Sengupta, Stanford University, "Schooling Faith: Religious
Pluralism
in Twentieth Century Bengal"

Nabil Mouline, Sciences Po/Princeton University, "The Sultan is the
Caliph
in His Territories: The Construction of Political Authority in lat
16th -
early 17th century Morocco"

Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Arabic as the
Language of Resistance: The Caucasus Emirate"

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm - LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE

Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, "Sirajuddin Ali Khan Arzu and
the Emergence of the Universal Human Subject in early Modern Persian
Literary Theory"

Melis Sülos, CUNY, "The Rise and the Politicization of the Popular
Theatre
in the Late Ottoman World"

Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona, "Literary Aestheticism and the
Formation of the Notion of Islamic Civilization"

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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011

10:00 am - 12:40 pm - THE ULEMA IN MODERN TIMES

Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University, "Arabic Literacy,
Conversion to
Shi'i Islam, and the Transformation of Religious Authority in Senegal"

Zekeria Ahmed Salem, University of Florida, "From Slaves to Imams?
Knowledge, Islamic Authority, and Social Change in Mauritania"

Thomas Pierret, Princeton University, "Tradition as an Asset: Informal
Religious Teaching and the Cooptation of the 'New Literate Elites' by
the
Ulema in 20th Century Syria"

Laurence Louër, CERI/Sciences Po/CNRS, "Mohammed al-Shirazi and the
Construction of Religious Authority"

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF AUTHORITY

Kristen Brustad, University of Texas, Austin, "Standard Language
Ideology
and the Construction of Modern Standard Arabic"

David Lelyveld, William Paterson University, "Sir Syed's Printing Press:
Print, Literacy and Islam in Early Nineteenth Century India"

Brett Wilson, Macalester College, "Qur'an Translation in the Age of
Nationalism"

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM – VISUALITY

Chanchal Dadlani, Columbia University, "The Visual, the Textual, and the
Construction of Cultural Authority in the Late Mughal Empire" (abstract)
(paper)

Hamza Zeghlache, University of Setif, "Text, Space and Images: Written
Representation of Islamic Architecture in Arabic Manuscript"

Elham Etemadi, University of Leuven, "The Verbal Conditionality of
Visual
Literacy: Early Modern Persian Paintings"

Contact: Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director

The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

Stanford University

Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies

<http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu> http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu
Email: abbasiprogram@stanford.edu

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