The Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster is holding a Workshop on ‘Caliphs, Sultans, Presidents: Rulers between Religion and Realpolitik throughout Islamic History‘ from 21-22 July 2016. Registration is open until 14 July 2016.
© Exzellenzcluster “Religion und Politik”
Programme:
Thursday, 21.07.2016
13:00-13:10 Welcome
13:10-13:30 Introduction (Almut Höfert, Münster/Zürich)
Panel: The Early Caliphates
13:30-14:15 Courtly Ceremonial and the Crisis of Early Islamic Kingship (Ian D. Morris, Madrid/Amsterdam)
14:15-15:00 Publishing Justifications of State Policy. the Fatimid Kitāb al-majālis wa-l-musāyarāt as Official Response to Internal Controversy and External Propaganda (Hasan al-Khoee, London)
15:00-15:30 Break
Panel: Muslim rule in Syria
15:30-16:15 Founders and Beneficiaries of the First madrasas in Damascus. Clues to the Religious Policies of the Seljūqs and Būrids (late 11th-mid-12th centuries) (Paula Manstetten, London)
16:15-17:00 al-Malik al-ˁĀdil? Justice between šarīˁa and maṣlaḥa as Defining Concept of Nūr ad-Dīn’s Rule (Nadeem Khan, Münster)
17:00-18:15 Break
Public Keynote
18:15-19:45 Commanded to Speak by God and His Prophet. Religious Authority in Medieval Islam (Jonathan Berkey, Davidson)
Friday, 22.07.2016
Panel: The Mamlūk Period
09:00-09:45 When Political Pragmatism Meets Religious Normativity. Ibn Taymīya’s Approach towards the Question of Caliphate ir Kingship as a Case Study (Abdelkader Al-Ghouz, Bonn)
09:45-10.30 The Universal Logics of Politics. Conceptualizing Effective Rule in the Mamlūk Period (Stephan Tölke, Münster)
10:30-10:45 Break
Panel: Safavids and Ottomans
10:45-11:30 Shah Ismāʿīl’s Conquest of Khurāsān in 916/1510 and its Religio-Political Impact (Philip Bockholt, Berlin)
11:30-12:15 Imperial Forges of Piety, Religion, Society and Politics Revisited, from Süleyman’s Magnificence to the End of the Ayān Age (Nikola Pantic, Budapest)
12:15-13:30 Lunch break
Panel: Modern Statehood and Islam
13:30-14:15 Lovers of Constitutionalism. Sufi Approval of the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 (Cüneyd Yildirim, Münster)
14:15-15:00 The Modern State in Islamic Thought. Islamism, Post-Islamism and the Challenge of Modernity (Nicholas Gjorvad, Berlin)
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 Closing Discussion (Jonathan Berkey, Davidson)