3rd Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Student Conference on Islamic Studies

Translating Islam

April 14-15, 2006

Conference Schedule

Friday April 14, 2006

9:15-9:45 Breakfast

9:45-10:00 Welcome and Introduction – Brett Wilson, Duke University

10:00-11:15 “Translations and Transitions in Muslim Thought” Ebrahim Moosa-- Duke University

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-1:30 Panel 1: Translating Modernity - Chair: Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University

“ Turkish Modernism in the 1930s: Translation of French Laicité into Turkish Laiklik ”
Ertan Aydin— Çankaya University

“Reason within the Bounds of Mere Language: Sir Ahmed Khan translates the Enlightenment”
Bart Scott— Duke University

“God's Custom Concerning the Rise and Fall of Nations: The Tafsir al-Manar on Q 8:53 and Q 13:11 ”
Katharina Ivanyi— New York University

1:30-3:00 Lunch (1.5 hour)

3:00-5:00 Panel 2: Islam in a New World Idiom - Chair: Juliane Hammer, Elon University

“People of the Book: Muslim Slaves in America and Their Documents”
Wesley Joyner— University of South Carolina

“Marketing Islam in America : Ahmedi Da'wah and African-American Musims”
Brannon Ingram— University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill

“Islamic Teacher or Ecstatic Poet: Negotiating the Exclusive Identities of Rumi in America ”
Matthew Hotham— Syracuse University

Saturday April 15, 2006

9.30 Breakfast

10.00-12.00 Panel 3: Questions of Language: Textuality, Circulation and Hegemony - Chair: Firat Oruç, Duke University

“Cultivating a New Islamic Literacy: The Language of the Popular Religious Press in Present Day Uzbekistan ”
Rachel Harrell-Bilici-- University of Michigan

“The English Language and Islam: Genealogy of an Encounter”
Mucahit Bilici— University of Michigan

“Enlightenment Orientalism Translated: George Sale and the English Translation of the Qur'an”
Martin Nguyen— Harvard University

12.00-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.30 Panel 4: Transreligion and the Local: The Case of South Asia - Chair: David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University

“Tajdid-i Tasawwuf-o Suluk: South Asian Ulamas' Attempts at Translating and Situating Sufism in an Orthodox Theological Framework”
Ali Altaf Mian— University of Louisville

“Heretical Monarchs and Reincarnated Messiahs: Interpreting Islamic Orthodoxy in Mughal India ”
A. Azfar Moin— University of Michigan

“Reifying Religion while Lost in Translation: Mirza Mazhar Jan-i Janan (d.1781) on the Hindus”
Sherali Tareen— Duke University

3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks

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