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SUMMARY:Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch\, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. \n  \nOctober 30\, 2015:\n9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction\n10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)\, “Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār” (via Skype)\n11:00- 11:50 Adam Sabra (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\, “The Cosmic State: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Political Theology”\n12:00 – 12:50 Richard J. McGregor (Vanderbilt University)\, “Sufi Apocalypse and the Limits of Language”\n1:00 – 2:00 Lunch\n2:00 – 2:50 Manuela Ceballos (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville)\, “Speaking for Others: Sufism and the Politics of Representation in Early Modern Morocco”\n3:00 – 3:50 Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)\, “The Mystic and Lettrist ‘Abd al-rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454) and the Origins of Ottoman Historical Consciousness”\n4:00 – 4:50 İlker Evrim Binbaş (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\, “The Problem of Sovereignty in the Fifteenth Century Islamic World: The View from Ethics”\n7:00 Dinner for presenters and invited guests \n  \nOctober 31\, 2015:\n10:00 – 10:50 Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)\, “Starlord\, Letterlord: Astrology and Lettrism in the Construction of Post-Mongol Persianate Imperial Ideologies”\n11:00 – 11:50 A. Azfar Moin (University of Texas\, Austin)\, “Saint Shrines as Objects of Imperial Veneration and Desecration in the Post-Mongol Empires”\n12:00 – 1:00 Lunch\n1:00 – 1:50 Daniel Sheffield (University of Washington)\, “Political Theurgy: Stars and Sovereignty in the Safavid-Mughal World”\n2:00 – 2:50 Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan)\, “Sovereignty and Amity: Masculinity at the Safavi Court in Isfahan”\n3:00 – 4:00 Concluding discussion \n  \nSponsors:\nKing Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies\nCenter for Middle Eastern Studies\nCollege of Letters and Sciences\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUCSB Department of History
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/political-theologies-of-medieval-and-early-modern-islam-a-workshop/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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