Unit 1 Thought and Politics in the Islamic World

6.13.1998

SAKAI Keiko "The Mechanisms of Change from Party Dictatorship to Individual Dictatorship in Iraq: Influences on Processes of Policy Creation"

6.20.1998

TOMITA Kenji "Ijtihad by Jannati (I)"

6.30.1998

HAYDER Ibrahim Ali "Secularism in the Arab Countries"

7.10.1998

KOMATSU Hisao "Some Notes on National Delimitation in Central Asia"; John S. SCHOEBERLEIN-ENGEL "National Delimitation as a Historical Moment and a Conceptual Trajectory of Central Asian Identity"

7.11.1998

Mojtaba SADRIA "Thinking of Contemporary Iran"; TAKAHASHI Kazuo, "Iran and its Neighbors: The Gulf Situation"

7.18.1998

"Al-Afghani and Contemporary Islam"; NAKATA Kou "The Heritage of Modernization: Hasan Hanafi's Assessment of Afghani"; IIZUKA Masato "Afghani's Thought as Seen in the Journal 'Al-Urwah al-Wuthqｱ"

9.26.1998

"Islam and Feminism: The Issue and Its Construction"

OKA Mari "Islam and Feminism: Questions and Possibilities"; NAKANISHI Hisae "Is there an 'Islamic Feminism'?: Looking at Iran"; Elmostafa REZRAZI "The Gender Issue from an Islamic Point of Viewﾑthe Feminist Islamic Literature as an Emerging Area in Women Studies"; KAWAHASHI Noriko "Religion and Feminism: Following Buddhist Dialogues in Post-Patriarchal Family Systems"; OTSUKA Kazuo "Facing a Double Discrepancy: A Japanese Male Anthropologist Discusses Arab-Muslim Women"

9.27.1998

"Islamic Law and Nations"

KONO Daisuke "Theories on the Typification of Islamic Nations: The Relationship Between Islam and Nationality"; ISOGAI Kenichi "Early 17th-Century Central Asian Documents on the Revival of Wastelands"

10.3.1998

Nasrollah POURJAVADI, TEJIMA Isaya, TSURUOKA Yoshio "Mystical Visions of God in Three Abrahamic Religions"

10.5.1998

Nasrollah POURJAVADI "Metaphors of Secular Love in Persian Mystical Literature"

10.7.1998

Nasrollah POURJAVADI "The Sufism of Ahmad Ghazali"

10.13.1998

Nasrollah POURJAVADI "Sufism in Iran"

10.24.1998

"International Relations in Central Asia"

SHIMIZU Manabu "The Complication of International Relations and the Caspian Sea Question in Southern Eurasia"

10.24.1998

OISHI Takashi "Book Review: NAKAMURA Kojiro's Islam and the Modern World"

10.29.1998

Mahmoud UTHMAN "The Present State of the Kurdish Question and International Relations"

10.31.1998

"International Relations in Central Asia: Past and Present"

Opening Remarks: TAKESHITA Masataka

Part 1: International Relations in Eastern Turkistan

Chair: KOMATSU Hisao

SUGAWARA Jun "Musafirs in Yarkand: Reconsidering 'International Relations' in the Time of Disturbance (1857-77)"; KAWASHIMA Shin "Xinjiang's Diplomacy and the Central Government of the Republic of China, 1910s-20s"; Discussant: SHINMEN Yasushi

Part 2: International Relations in Modern and Contemporary Central Asia Chair: ISHIDA Atsushi

St姿hane A. DUDOIGNON "Intercommunal Relations Inside Western Central Asia Under Stalin Through the Uzbek Literature of the 1920s-30s"; Rafis ABAZOV "Post-Soviet Cooperation and Security Issues in Central Asia"; IWASAKI Ichiro "The Initial Phase of Transition of Russo-Central Asian Economic Relations: An Institutionalist Approach"; Discussants: UYAMA Tomohiko, TAKAHASHI Kazuo, SHIMIZU Manabu

11.7.1998

NAITO Yosuke "Mohammed Arkoun"; IKEUCHI Satoshi "Abid Jabiriﾓ

11.20-21.1998

International Symposium: "Al-Manar and the Manarists"

Welcome Speech: SATO Tsugitaka

Session 1: On Studying al-Manar Chair: NAKAMURA Kojiro

Opening Remarks: TAKESHITA Masataka; Keynote Speech: KOSUGI Yasushi "Perspectives on the Study of Modern Islam and al-Manar"

Session 2: Al-Manar and Its Leader Chair: HACHIOSHI Makoto

Youssef IBISH "Rida and His Time"; Discussant: KOSUGI Yasushi

Session 3: Al-Manar and Issues of Modern Islam (I)

Chair: NAKANISHI Hisae

KOSUGI Yasushi "Tafsir al-Manar and Modern Islam"; Discussant: Youssef IBISH

Session 4: Impact of al-Manar (I) Chair: KOMATSU Hisao

KASUYA Gen "Al-Manar and Islamic Reformism in Turkey: The Case of Mehmet Akif"; Discussant: St姿hane A. DUDOIGNON

Session 5: Al-Manar and Issues of Modern Islam (II)

Chair: SAKAI Keiko

IIZUKA Masato "Comparative Analysis of Islamic Legal Doctrines: Ali Abd al-Raziq and Rashid Rida"; Discussant: OISHI Takashi

Session 6: Impact of al-Manar (II) Chair: KIMURA Yoshihiro

David Dean COMMINS "Al-Manar and Islamic Reform in Syria"; Discussant: KAGAYA Kan

Session 7: Impact of al-Manar (III) Chair: TAKESHITA Masataka AZYUMARDI Azra "Al-Manar and Muhammadiyah in Indonesia"; Discussant: NAKAMURA Mitsuo

Session 8: Al-Manar in Perspective (General Discussion)

Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi

Discussants: USUKI Akira, KAGAYA Kan, TOMITA Kenji, NAITO Yosuke

11.28.1998

"Al-Afghani and Contemporary Islam"

MIKI Wataru "Continuity and Discontinuity: Considering One Aspect of Islamic Thought"; IKEUCHI Satoshi "The Genealogy of Political Islam: The Intervention of Salvatore"

12.12.1998

KURODA Takashi "Book Review: The Development of Modern Iran: The Revolution of Sattar Khan, the Hero, by HACHIOSHI Makoto"

2.1.1999

Ahmad ABDALLAH "The Youth in Contemporary Egypt: Socio-Economic and Political Problems, and the Future of the Country"

2.6.1999

USUKI Akira "Book Review: KOSUGI Yasushi's The Islamic World"

2.6.1999

ISHIDA Kunio "Israel and Peace in the Middle East: The Undercurrent of Religious Movements"

2.7.1999

TOMITA Kenji "Ijtihad by Jannati (II)"

3.10.1999

Amirsho MIRALIEV, Karamatullo OLIMOV, Khusrav NOZIRI, Ghozi SAYIDQIYOMIDDIN "Solutions for Peace in Tajikistan"

3.13.1999

Reinhard EISENER "Research on the Sovietization of Central Asia"