Conference 2019
Papers
Kamaluddin Ahmed, Oxford University “The Mukhtaṣar (Compendium) in Islamic Scholarship”
Meghaa Ballakrishnen, Johns Hopkins University “Nasreen Mohamedi’s Sources: Islamic Metaphysics and Avant-Garde Abstraction”
Katherine Bruhn, University of California, Berkeley “Expressing Minangkabau Piety: Forms of Islam and the work of Handiwirman Saputra”
Emily Drumsta, Brown University “Mahfouz’s Sufi Noir: Mysticism and Literary Form in Egypt Around 1960”
Seema Golestaneh, Cornell University “The Shape of Texts to Come: Shifting Archival and Publishing Practices of a Shi’i Sufi Order in Iran”
Allison Kanner-Botan, University of Chicago “Mas̱navī Elaborations: The Fictionalization of Laylī o Majnūn”
Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Bucknell University “The Ghazal as Islam’s Garment: Poetic Form Between Imitation and Inimitability”
Ahoo Najafian, Carleton College ““It was Tomorrow:” On Postmodern Ghazal”
Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali, University of Bonn “Thinking Through Bricolage(s): Problematizing ‘Islamic Architecture’ in the Littorals of South India”
Teren Sevea, University of Pennsylvania “Shamans, Saivas and Sufis?: Tiger Forms of ‘Ali in the Malay world”
William Sherman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “The Imitable Qu'ran”
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College, "Forming (divine) remembrance: coffee cups and the making of Muslim memory"