Programme(as of 20 April 2017)

Workshop on
Muslim Secularities:
Explorations into Concepts of Distinction and Practices of Differentiation
18–20 June 2017, Leipzig University
Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies (Kolleg-Forschergruppe, KFG)
„Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities“

Sunday, 18 June 2017
6 p.m. 									Public Keynote by Bryan Turner (City University of New York)One or many modernities? Towards a Macro Sociology ofSecularization

7:30 p.m. 		

Reception / Meet & Greet

8:30 p.m.		

Small Buffet for Speakers, Participants and the KFG’s scholars

Monday, 19 June 20179 – 9:45 a.m.

10 – 11:30 a.m.

Introduction I: Multiple Secularities and Islam

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr & Markus Dressler(KFG “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig)

Paper Discussions
Heidemarie Winkel (Bielefeld University)
Equality Principles as Concepts of Distinction: Islamic Feminism between
Religious and Secular Gender Knowledge
Sana Chavoshian (KFG “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig)
Feminist Historiography and Multiple Differentiations: Women’s Agency
in Early 20th Century Iran

11:50 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Paper Discussions

˓Florian Zemmin (University of Bern)
Rafiqal-Azm: Validating the Secular from within an Islamic Discourse
Daniel Kinitz (KFG “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig)
Secularity without Religion? Abd al-Wahhāb al-Missīrī’s Critique of aSecular Modernity

1:20 – 2:20 p.m.

Lunch Break1/3

2:20 – 3:50 p.m.

Paper Discussions
Samuli Schielke (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin)
Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy against the Noble Qur’an? The Power of
God and the Heresy of the Secular in Egypt
Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics and Political Science)‘Islamic Civilisation’ as an Aspect of Secularisation: Late Ottoman andTurkish Republican Islamic Thought.

4:10 – 5:40 p.m.

Paper Discussions
Francesco Piraino (Scuola Normale Superiore Firenze-Pisa)
Contemporary Transnational Sufi Orders in Multiple Societies and Secularities
Martin Ramstedt (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Positioning Religion: Islam and Its Other in Post-New Order Indonesia

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Public Keynote by Neguin YavariPolitics Made in the Medieval Islamic World(Central European University, Budapest)
Small reception / Meet & Greet

Tuesday, 20 June 20179 – 9:45 a.m.

Introduction II: Secularity and Islam in Historical Perspective

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Paper Discussions

Armando Salvatore (KFG “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig)

Tilman Hannemann (University of Bremen)
Religious and Secular Notions of Legal Authority and Public Space inNorth African Customary Law
Elliot Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Muslim Ethno-Religious Identity Reformulation in Modern(izing) China

11:50 a.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Paper Discussions
Brannon Ingram (Northwestern University)
A ‘Modern’ Madrasa: Deoband and the Colonial Secular
Geetanjali Srikantan (Tilburg Law School)
Interrogating Legal Consciousness as a Mode of Secularity in Anglo-Muhammadan Law2/3

1:20 – 2:20 p.m.

Lunch Break

2:20 – 3:50 p.m.

Paper Discussions
Aylin Koçunyan (Bilgi University Istanbul)
Legalising the Boundaries between the Religious and the Secular:
The Case of Ottoman Armenians (1863-1923)
Hakan Karpuzcu (Princeton University)
Making of Islamic Family Law and Secularism in the Late OttomanEmpire

3:50 – 4:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Closing Discussion

7:00 p.m. 			

Joint Dinner

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