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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:47:32 -0400
Subject: CONF.- The Roads of Pilgrimages between Central Asia and Hijaz, Tashkent, 3-4 Oct
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CONF.- The Roads of Pilgrimages between Central Asia & Hijaz, Tashkent, 3-4 Oct
Posted by: Alexandre Papas (alex.p--at--club-internet.fr)
The French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC),
in association with the Tashkent Islamic University, the Institute of
Oriental Studies Al-Biruni, the UNESCO and the CNRS,
is pleased to announce an international conference on:
The Roads of Pilgrimages (hajj, ziyarat) between Central Asia and Hijaz
October 3-4, 2007
Dedeman Hotel, Tashkent
Organized by Bakhtyar Babadjanov, Bayram Balci, Alexandre Papas &
Thierry Zarcone.
Conference Program:
October 3
Opening Session
Bahrom Abdukhalimov, State Advisor on Islamic Affairs
Soraya Karimova, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies
Anna Paolini, UNESCO Representative in Uzbekistan
Rovshan Abdullaev, Rector of the Tashkent Islamic University
Bayram Balci, Director of IFEAC
Chair: Thierry Zarcone
Hamid Algar (University of California, Berkeley)
Central Asian Naqshbandis at the Haramayn
Necdet Tosun (Osh State University-Marmara University, Istanbul)
Hajj (Pilgrimage) from the Sufi Point of View
Masami Hamada (Kyoto University)
Imaginary Invitation to the pilgrimage
Alexandre Papas (CNRS, Paris)
Pilgrimage Roads and Mystical Paths: The Travels of a Qalandar Sufi,
Muhammad Zalili, from Yarkand to Mecca (17-18th-Century)
Afternoon Session
Chair: Elizaveta Nekrassova
Minoru Sawada (Toyama University, Japan)
Pilgrimage to Sacred Places in Taklamakan Desert: Mausoleums of Imams
in Khotan Province
Nadirbek Abdulakhatov (Ferghana Regional Museum, Ferghana)
"Sacred" Objects in the Mazars of Ferghana: Between Fetishism and Islam
Sharifa Toshova (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent)
Haji of Central Asia: Itineraries and Impressions
Ashirbek Muminov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty)
Isnad, Silsila, 'An'ana in Central Asia: New Aspects Appearing after
Hajj and Ziyara
Thierry Zarcone (CNRS, Paris)
The Zawiya al-Uzbakiyya at Jerusalem, a Central Asian Resting-House on
the Hajj Road
October 4
Morning Session
Chair: Ahatjan Hasanov
Lola Dodkhudaeva (Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan)
Hajj in Political Legitimization of the Rulers of Imperial Herat
(Kurts, Timurids)
Thomas Welsford (Oxford University)
Piety, Refuge and Dynastic Change: the Re-Opening of Iran to Central
Asian Pilgrim Traffic, 1600-1650
Omonullo Buriev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent)
Description of the Pilgrimage in Muntahab at-Tavorih by Khakimkhon Tura
Alfina Sibgatullina (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Tatar Hajjname
Shovosil Ziyodov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent)
Hadjnomalar (Hajj Stories): Lithographies Available in Tashkent
Afternoon Session
Chair: Alexandre Papas
Naima Neflyasheva (Center for Civilization and Regional Studies at the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Hajj from Russian Empire as a Frontier Situation
Bakhtyar Babadjanov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent)
Ziyarat to Mazars as a Form of Islamic Practice in the Soviet Era
Stephane A. Dudoignon (CNRS, Paris)
Globalised Pilgrimage? Hajj in Post Soviet Central Asia: Individual
Narratives and Collective Practices
Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Al-Hajj and al-Ziyara in Making (Post-)Soviet Muslims: a Comparative
Study of the Cases of Daghestan and Uzbekistan
Abdulhakim Jozjoni (Islamic University, Tashkent)
The Question of Taliban and Ziyarat in Afghanistan
The conference is open to the public and free of charge.
Contacts: balci--at--ifeac.com.uz or administration--at--ifeac.com.uz
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