04-25-2005, 10:02 AM
Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World: Global Truths and Local Practices
Conference to examine Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World.
The conference will explore changing notions and actual practices of Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World (IOW) a culturally complex crucible that links southern and eastern Africa with the islands and lands along the rim of the Indian Ocean, to South Asia and beyond. Trade, migration, diaspora-formation, and globalization are among the social forces that have affected all Muslim and Hindu communities for well over a millennium, and that are accelerating in today's world; but exactly how have and do such forces influence the IOW? We anticipate that by bringing together international scholars whose research in a variety of academic fields examines such issues in different times and places within the IOW, we shall identify commonalities and differences between Islam and Hinduism as they have been and are lived "on the ground" and across the waters.
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Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World: Global Truths and Local Practices, Day One
Date: Friday, April 15, 2005
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095 US
9:30-12:00
· Using the Global to Create the LocalâMuslim
Discourses of Reform in Colonial Aden Scott Reese, Northern Arizona University
· Competing Claims to Orthodoxy: the Wahhâbiyya and
Mainstream Islam in Ethiopia Hussein Ahmed, Addis Ababa University
· The Transformation in the Transmission of Islamic
Knowledge: the Benadir Coast in the late 19th Century
Mohamed M. Kassim, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
· The Interface between âAbanganâ, traditional Islam
and âsantriâ, strict/orthodox Islam in Indonesia and East Africa: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis Abdin Chande, Adelphi University
1:30-4:00
· Refractions of Sufi Practices in the Indian Ocean World
Helene Basu, Institut für Ethnologie, Berlin
· The Southern Tier of the Daâwa? The Cape Muslim
Community and Missionary-based Sufi Expansion, c.1880-1948
Anne K. Bang, University of Bergen
· Between Mecca and Malabar: Pilgrimage in the Fashioning of Muslim and Hindu Identities in the Indian Ocean Region Juan Campo, UC Santa Barbara
· Crossing an Ocean of Belief: Hajj Oral History
Narratives from Southeast Asia Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
4:30 Evening Keynote
· Introduction by Geoffrey Garrett, UCLA International Institute Vice Provost; Chair
· Ocean of Wonders or Ocean of Secrets: Religious Difference as Understood in Indo-Persian Travel Texts, 1400-1700
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
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Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World: Global Truths and Local Practices, Day Two
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095 US
Conference to examine Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World.
9:00-12:30
· Geopolitics of âIndian Diasporaâ: Clash or Dialogue in the Indian Ocean World?
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University
· A Greater Hinduism for a Greater India? Some Reflections on the Hindu Faith in the Indian Ocean World
Vinay Lal, UCLA
· Identity and Difference in Ismaili Polemical Literature from Western India, c.1890-1930 Samira Sheikh, Institute of Ismaili Studies
· Devotional Diasporas, or, How East and West Meet in Mauritius
Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, UCLA
2:00-4:30
· Governing the faithful across the Western Indian
Ocean: the Formation of the Shiâa Ismaâili Muslim Community in East Africa, c. 1800-1925
Zulfikar Hirji, Institute of Ismaili Studies
· Negotiating Hinduism in East Africa, 1880-1960 Gijsbert Oonk, Erasmus University
· Cultures of Space and Cultures of Devotion: the Sathya Sai Baba Movement in East Africa Smriti Srinivas, UC Davis
· Christian Intolerance and/as Liberal Tolerance:
Defining âCustom,â âLegality,â and âMarriageâ in South Africa Radhika Mongia, UC Santa Cruz
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This conference is funded by the UCLA International Institute and the Burkle Center for International Relations through a Global Impact Research Initiative grant.
Cost: Free and open to the public; parking is available in lot 4 for $7.
For more information please contact
James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Tel: 310-825-3686
africa@...
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Burkle Center for
International Relations, Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA
International Institute
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http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/s...sp?eventid=2922
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/s...sp?eventid=2948'
Conference to examine Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World.
The conference will explore changing notions and actual practices of Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World (IOW) a culturally complex crucible that links southern and eastern Africa with the islands and lands along the rim of the Indian Ocean, to South Asia and beyond. Trade, migration, diaspora-formation, and globalization are among the social forces that have affected all Muslim and Hindu communities for well over a millennium, and that are accelerating in today's world; but exactly how have and do such forces influence the IOW? We anticipate that by bringing together international scholars whose research in a variety of academic fields examines such issues in different times and places within the IOW, we shall identify commonalities and differences between Islam and Hinduism as they have been and are lived "on the ground" and across the waters.
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Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World: Global Truths and Local Practices, Day One
Date: Friday, April 15, 2005
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095 US
9:30-12:00
· Using the Global to Create the LocalâMuslim
Discourses of Reform in Colonial Aden Scott Reese, Northern Arizona University
· Competing Claims to Orthodoxy: the Wahhâbiyya and
Mainstream Islam in Ethiopia Hussein Ahmed, Addis Ababa University
· The Transformation in the Transmission of Islamic
Knowledge: the Benadir Coast in the late 19th Century
Mohamed M. Kassim, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
· The Interface between âAbanganâ, traditional Islam
and âsantriâ, strict/orthodox Islam in Indonesia and East Africa: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis Abdin Chande, Adelphi University
1:30-4:00
· Refractions of Sufi Practices in the Indian Ocean World
Helene Basu, Institut für Ethnologie, Berlin
· The Southern Tier of the Daâwa? The Cape Muslim
Community and Missionary-based Sufi Expansion, c.1880-1948
Anne K. Bang, University of Bergen
· Between Mecca and Malabar: Pilgrimage in the Fashioning of Muslim and Hindu Identities in the Indian Ocean Region Juan Campo, UC Santa Barbara
· Crossing an Ocean of Belief: Hajj Oral History
Narratives from Southeast Asia Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
4:30 Evening Keynote
· Introduction by Geoffrey Garrett, UCLA International Institute Vice Provost; Chair
· Ocean of Wonders or Ocean of Secrets: Religious Difference as Understood in Indo-Persian Travel Texts, 1400-1700
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
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Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World: Global Truths and Local Practices, Day Two
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2005
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095 US
Conference to examine Islam and Hinduism in the Indian Ocean World.
9:00-12:30
· Geopolitics of âIndian Diasporaâ: Clash or Dialogue in the Indian Ocean World?
Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University
· A Greater Hinduism for a Greater India? Some Reflections on the Hindu Faith in the Indian Ocean World
Vinay Lal, UCLA
· Identity and Difference in Ismaili Polemical Literature from Western India, c.1890-1930 Samira Sheikh, Institute of Ismaili Studies
· Devotional Diasporas, or, How East and West Meet in Mauritius
Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, UCLA
2:00-4:30
· Governing the faithful across the Western Indian
Ocean: the Formation of the Shiâa Ismaâili Muslim Community in East Africa, c. 1800-1925
Zulfikar Hirji, Institute of Ismaili Studies
· Negotiating Hinduism in East Africa, 1880-1960 Gijsbert Oonk, Erasmus University
· Cultures of Space and Cultures of Devotion: the Sathya Sai Baba Movement in East Africa Smriti Srinivas, UC Davis
· Christian Intolerance and/as Liberal Tolerance:
Defining âCustom,â âLegality,â and âMarriageâ in South Africa Radhika Mongia, UC Santa Cruz
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This conference is funded by the UCLA International Institute and the Burkle Center for International Relations through a Global Impact Research Initiative grant.
Cost: Free and open to the public; parking is available in lot 4 for $7.
For more information please contact
James S. Coleman African Studies Center
Tel: 310-825-3686
africa@...
www.international.ucla.edu/africa
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Burkle Center for
International Relations, Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA
International Institute
----------------------------------
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/s...sp?eventid=2922
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/s...sp?eventid=2948'