2023 Workshop
Workshop 2, Provins, June 12–15, 2023
Minuscule Lives?
Muslim Saints’ Vitae in the (Post-) Communist World, from Deviation to Reconciliation
Venue: Hotel ‘Aux Vieux Remparts’ – 3, rue Couverte – F-77160 Provins – Room 01 (First Basement)
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Programme
Monday, June 12, 2023 |
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| 13.00-14.15 | Lunch | |
| 14.30-14.45 | Welcome Address Speech by Stéphane DUDOIGNON (Project Management) & Marie-Paule HILLE (Project Coordination) |
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| 14.45-16.30 | Participants’ Introduction and Introductory Discussion (on the project’s blog and its ‘Life Stories’ rubric; the first volume’s publication; the exhibition projects; the first pull-out projects) |
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| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17.30–18.30 | Leisure Time: Provins visit tour (the city’s undergrounds) | |
| 19.00-21.00 | Dinner | |
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 |
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| 7.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 1: Politics of Sainthood |
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| 9.30-10.00 | Timothy Grose (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, MN) |
The ‘Good’ Muslims of Xinjiang: Celebrating Sainthood during Religious Sinicisation |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ilnur Minnullin (Shihab a-Din Marjani Institute of History, Kazan) |
A Holy Counterrevolution? Muslim Sainthood Viewed by the State Organs of the Tatar ASSR in the 1920s–30s |
| 10.30-11.00 | Nakanishi Tatsuya (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University) |
Becoming a Muslim Saint under Mao: Ma Zhenwu (d. 1961) in an Arabic-Language Hagiography |
| 11.00-11.45 | General Discussion on Session 1 introduced by Eric Schluessel | |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | |
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Session 2: Salafis, Saints and Politics |
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| 14.30-15.00 | Lina Tsrimova (CERCEC, Paris) |
Shaykh Gaziyev: A Chechen ‘Authority’ between Organised Crime and Sanctification, since 1954 |
| 15.00-15.30 | Leila Chérif-Chebbi (independent scholar) |
A Martyr for the Tablighi Jama‘at? Some Paradoxes of Muslim Sainthood in Communist China |
| 15:30-16.00 | Kristina Kovalskaya (GSRL, Paris) |
Digital Hagiographies: The Case of Daghestani Jihadists |
| 16.00-16.30 | General Discussion Sessions 2 introduced by Stéphane Dudoignon | |
| 16.30 | Tea Time | |
| 17.15 | Visit of the Tour Cesar | |
| Leisure Time | ||
| 19.30-21.30 |
Dinner |
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 |
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| 7.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 3: Sainthood, High Culture and State Building |
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| 9.30-10.00 | Stéphane A. Dudoignon (CNRS/GSRL, Paris) | Forgetting Saghuni, and Remembering Him: Dissent, State-Building and Transmission of High Knowledge, East and West of the Tian Shan |
| 10.00-10.30 | Sultonbek Aksakolov
(University of Central Asia, Khorog) |
Okhun Bandishoh Sumonzoda (1883–1984): Elements for the Life Story of an Ismaili Shia Man of God from Soviet Badakhshan |
| 10.30-11.00 | Aaron Glasserman (Princeton University) |
Venerating the Iconoclast: Contested Narratives of Master She Yunshan in 20th Century China |
| 11.00.11.30 | General Discussion on session 3 introduced by Flora J. Roberts | |
| 11h45-12.45 | Lunch | |
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Session 4: Genealogies in Contest |
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| 13.00-13.30 | Allen J. Frank (independent scholar) |
Muhammad-Hanafiyya ibn ‘Ali as Saint and Ancestor in Qazaqstan |
| 13.30-14.00 | Tommaso Previato (Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology) |
Rebranding and Contesting Walāya: A Reassessment of Jahriyya Sainthood in Light of the Anti-Sufi Tendencies of the Post-Maoist Religious Revival |
| 14.00-14.30 | Rezeda Safiullina-Ibragimova & Leila Almazova (Kazan Federal University) |
Muslim Hagiography in the Volga Region: Between Theology and the Humanities |
| 14.30-15.00 | General Discussion on Session 4 introduced by Sugawara Jun | |
| 15.30-17.30 | Visit of the mediaeval city of Provins: A City with Two Faces between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist |
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| 19.30-21.30 | Dinner | |
Thursday, June 15, 2023 |
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| 7.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 5: Miracles in Context |
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| 9.00-9.30 | Nathalie Clayer (CNRS & EHESS/CETOBAC) |
The Shaping of Sanctity in Post-Communist Albania: Dede Ahmet in Hagiography |
| 9.30-10.00 | Marie-Paule Hille (EHESS/CCJ) |
The Status of Miracles in a Process of Hagiographic Writing in the Early 1950s in Gansu, China: A Typology of Saintly Figures |
| 10.00-10.30 | Pascale Bugnon (University of Geneva) |
From Miracle to ‘Tradition’: Reflecting on the ‘Wind-Swaying Stone’ Legend in Quanzhou (Fujian, China) |
| 10.30.11.00 | General Discussion introduced by Zora Kostadinova | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | |
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Session 6: Sanctifying Territories |
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| 11.30-12.00 | Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt University, Berlin) |
A New Saint for Bashkiria? Chukuri as the Representative of a Regional Sufi Muslim Culture |
| 12.00-12.30 | Ulan Bigozhin (Nazarbayev University, Astana) |
The Qazaq Hagiographies of Abd Zhalil Bab or Khorasan Ata |
| 12.30-13.00 | General Discussion on session 6 introduced by Allen J. Frank | |
| 13.00-14.15 | Lunch | |
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Session 7: Post-Communist Charismas |
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| 14.30-15.00 | Gianfranco Bria (University of Rome La Sapienza) |
The Making of Hagiography in Post-Communist Albania: Dervish Luzha’s Multiple Sainthood |
| 15.00-15.30 | Saida Sirazhudinova (INALCO, Paris) |
Muslim Saints and Ziyarat in the Northeast Caucasus: Gender Aspects |
| 15.30-16.00 | Thierry Zarcone (CNRS/GSRL, Paris) |
The Sufi Shaykh Qurban ‘Ali Ahmad in the First Decade of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1991-2000): An Inquiry about Charisma and Sainthood |
| 16.00-16.30 | General Discussion on session 7 introduced by Timothy Grose | |
| 16.30 | Tea Time | |
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Departure to Paris, or hotel change for the participants who spend the night of June 15 in Provins |
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OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Red Gold (June 19, 2023). 2023 Workshop. RedGold. Retrieved September 8, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/te64
