3. International Exchange

 

The project makes use of the Internet for the dissemination of information, and scholars and research organizations receive information via e-mail. We also maintain a website that is updated regularly with reports of our recent activities. Researchers who do not use e-mail are sent information by fax or post.

Please contact us at the address below if you are interested in receiving information by e-mail. Anyone who is interested in our research is welcome to become a member of our international mailing list. Please send your name, your affiliation with a university or institution, postal address, and area of interest or study to: i-inr@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp

On our new English website, which is maintained by the Project Management Unit, you will find reports of recent workshops and lectures, announcements of future conferences, links to other research organizations, as well as our newsletters and other publications. Previously the English website was scattered over seven sites, one for each of the units, but we have now consolidated it. Please take a look at our new website for the most up-to-date information on the activities of our project. The address is: http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IAS/

In addition, the following publications have been issued to publicize and to preserve research results. Please contact us if you are interested in receiving a copy of any of the following:

Annual Newsletter: Published in both Japanese and English and contains the research plans for each year

Working Paper Series: Published in Japanese and English in booklet form. Includes papers based on reports of research seminars

Data Book Series: Published in booklet form or as a CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical work and visual material

Proceedings Series: Reports of Symposia and Workshops

IAS Series: Published to preserve the results of the project and will be made available to the larger public

(Please refer also to the list of publications on pp. 45-46)

 

By making the information available in both Japanese and English, we hope to create an environment in which Japanese and foreign scholars will keep in close contact and exchange information. Please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail, fax, or post as we welcome any questions or suggestions you may have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Symposium "Beyond the Border: A New Framework for Understanding the Dynamism of Muslim Societies"

October 8, 9, 10, 1999 at the Kyoto International Conference Hall

 

This symposium will be held at the halfway point of the five-year Islamic Area Studies project. It provides scholars with an opportunity to reflect upon past accomplishments and to discuss the future of the project with new research themes and methods.

The symposium committee, headed by HANEDA Masashi, was formed in January 1998. After deciding upon the themes of the three sessions, they called for papers from Japan and overseas via the Internet. Over one hundred applicants sent in abstracts for consideration. Faced with the task of selecting a few from the many excellent papers, the committee decided to change the conference site to a larger hall and to conduct parallel sessions, thereby accommodating more speakers and members of the audience.

Along with the open call for papers, another notable characteristic of this conference was the request that all conference participants provide for their own travel to and from Kyoto, thereby calling for truly motivated scholars. In effect this request also made it necessary that the symposium committee plan a symposium interesting enough and worthwhile for overseas scholars to consider participating in. The large number of applicants from overseas hopefully indicate that our hard work has been recognized.

The theme of the symposium, "Beyond the Border," is symbolic of Muslim society itself. All participants at the symposium will certainly be able to discover new truths and to find clues for research in the presentations and the discussions. We hope to see as many scholars as possible at the symposium.

Below is the temporary program listing the speakers, their affiliated institutions, and respective paper titles.

 

Session 1 The Concept of Territory in Islamic Law and Thought

(October 8-9, Room 1)

Subsession 1: Dar al-Islam as an Ideology

Brannon WHEELER (University of Washington)

"The Islamic Utopia: From Dar al-Hijra to Dar al-Islam"

Michael LECKER (The Hebrew University)

"On the Burial of Martyrs"

Haideh GHOMI (The University of Tokyo)

"The Concept of Dar al-Islam in Sufism: Special Reference to Molana Jalal ed-Din Rumi"

Subsession 2: Conception of Territory in Islamic History

Elmostafa REZRAZI (Tohoku University)

"The Iqlim and Political Identities as Established in Islamic Tradition"

OKUDA Atsushi (Keio University)

"Two Realities in Dar al-Islam in Syria: The Reception as Ijtihad"

Subsession 3: From Dar al-Islam to the Modern Conception of Territory

Khalifa CHATER (The University of Tunis I)

"Dar al-Islam, le r伺屍entiel g始屍ique et ses mutations"

Tetz ROOKE (Uppsala University)

"Borders in Modern Arab Historiography: The Case of Syria"

Iik Arifin MANSURNOOR (University of Brunei)

"The Impact of Expansion and Contraction in the Malay Islamic Traditional Polity on Contemporary Thought and Administration"

Subsession 4: Muslims in the Face of Dar al-Harb

OHTA Keiko (Hokkaido University)

"Migration and Islamization in the Early Islamic Period: A Case from the Arabo-Byzantine Border Area"

NAKAMURA Taeko (Ochanomizu University)

"Territorial Disputes Between Syrian Cities and the Early Crusaders: The Struggle for Economic and Political Dominance"

St姿hane A. DUDOIGNON (The University of Tokyo)

"Territories, Migrations and Communal Identities in Russian and Soviet Dar al-Harb (Early 18th-Late 20th Centuries)"

Hamidullah BOLTABOEV (Andizhan State University)

"Dynamism of the Notion of Dar al-Islam in Central Asia"

Subsession 5: Inner Structure of the Islamic Polity

YANAGIHASHI Hiroyuki (The University of Tokyo)

"Solidarity in an Islamic Society: Asaba, Family, and the State"

Eugenia KERMELI-UNAL (Bilkent University)

"Ebu's Su'ud's Effort to Consolidate Shariah with the Ottoman Kanun on Land and Its Impact on Crete"

Akel Ismail KAHERA (The University of Texas at Austin)

"Reversible Space and Linear Time: The Adjudication of a Land-Use Dispute in Medieval Fas"

 

Session 2 The Influence of Human Mobility (October 8-9, Room 2)

 

Subsession 1: Human Mobility in History, Part One

MORIMOTO Kazuo (The University of Tokyo)

"Diffusion of the Naqibship of the Talibids: A Study on the Early Dispersal of Sayyids"

Yaacov LEV (Bar Ilan University)

"Turks and Bedouins in Fatimid Syria and Palestine, 10th-11th Centuries"

Taef Kamal EL-AZHARI (University of Helwan)

"Human Mobility During the Crusades, As Seen in the Writing of Ibn al-Athir 555-630 A.H./1160-1233 A.D."

Subsession 2: Human Mobility in History, Part Two

Ibrahim JADLA (The University of Tunis I)

"Blacks in Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in the Middle Ages"

KUROKI Hidemitsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

"The Mobility of Non-Muslims in Mid-Nineteenth Century Aleppo"

Meruert ABUSEITOVA (The Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty)

"The Travel of Islam from Central Asia into Kazakhstan (16th-17th Centuries)"

Subsession 3: Human Mobility and Information

Stefka PARVEVA (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

"Human Mobility and Transmission of Information in the Ottoman Empire (17th-18th Centuries)"

Lilia LABIDI (The University of Tunis I)

"Dynamics of Change in the Medical Sector in the Contemporary Arab World"

Makhsuma NIYAZOVA (Bukhara State Museum)

"Kubachi Silversmiths in Bukhara"

ASAMI Yasushi, Ayゥe Sema KUBAT, Ismail ロSTEK (The University of Tokyo, Istanbul Technical University, The University of Tokyo)

"Characterization of the Street Networks in the Turkish-Islamic Urban Form"

Subsession 4: Human Mobility and Ethnicity

TERAJIMA Kenji (Chiba University)

"Human Mobility and Ethnic Affiliation: A Bulgarian Case Study"

John SCHOEBERLEIN (Harvard University)

"Islam on the Hoof: The Nomadic Margin of the Islamic World in Central Asia"

Subsession 5: Human Mobility Beyond the Borders Established by Powers

OISHI Takashi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

"Friction and Rivalry over the Pious Mobility: British Colonial Management of the Hajj and the Reaction of Indian Muslims"

Alain ROUSSILLON (Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain)

"Remaining Oneself Beyond the Borders: Identity and Travel in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Division of the World"

Dale EICKELMAN (Dartmouth College)

"Blurred Boundaries: Travel, New Media and the Emerging Public Sphere in Contemporary Muslim Societies"

Subsession 6: Human Mobility and Political Process

Mohammed BOUDOUDOU (Tohoku University)

"Great Transformation of North African Societies in the 19th-20th Centuries and the Constitution of International Maghrebian Migratory Processes"

KURITA Yoshiko (Chiba University)

"The Significance of Emigration ('Hijra') in Modern Sudanese History"

Nilufer NARLI (Marmara University)

"Urbanisation, Structural Changes and the Rise of Political Islam in Turkey"

 

Session 3 A City of Interactions: Jerusalem (October 10, Room 1)

 

Subsession 1: Co-existence and Disputes

Amnon COHEN (The Hebrew University)

"The Jewish Community of Ottoman Jerusalem: Was It Really Segregated?"

Yasir SULEIMAN (The University of Edinburgh)

"Words Apart: Street and Shop Signs in Jerusalem"

Michael DUMPER (The University of Exeter)

"Muslim Institutions and the Political Process: The Palestinian Waqf and the Struggle over Jerusalem, 1967-1997"

FUJITA Susumu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

"Conflict and Ties in Jerusalem, A City of Many Peoples"

USUKI Akira (National Museum of Ethnology)

"Jerusalem in the Mind of the Japanese"

Subsession 2: The Middle East Peace Process and Jerusalem

Geries KHOURY (Al-Liqa' Center)

"A Possibility of Coexistence Among the Three Faiths in Jerusalem"

Ann LESCH (Villanova University)

"The Jerusalem Question in the Middle East Peace Process and the International Politics"

IKEDA Akifumi (Toyo Eiwa Women's University)

"Changes in Jerusalem Since the 1960s"

TATEYAMA Ryoji (The National Defense Academy)

メIdeas and Options for Co-existence Between the Two Nations in Jerusalemモ

 

 

 

 

"Islam and Politics in Russia and Central Asia

(Early 17th - Late 20th Centuries)"

October 13-14, 1999 at the Maison franco-japonaise

 

Unit 1, with the support of the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of France in Japan, is organizing an international conference on the theme "Islam and Politics in Russia and Central Asia (Early 17th - Late 20th Centuries)."

For more information, please contact:

KOMATSU Hisao: komatsu@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp

St姿hane A. DUDOIGNON: dudoignon@aol.com

 

October 13, 1999

Panel I Community Building in the Russian Dar al-Harb

9.00 Allen FRANK (Language Research Center, Maryland)

"Inner Asian Muslims and Corporate Affiliation: Religious Adaptation to Russian Rule, 1600-1900"

10.00 Christian NOACK (Universit閣 zu K嗟n)

"Russian Politics and Its Impact on the Formation of a Muslim Identity in the Volga-Urals"

11.00 R確il KHAYRUTDINOV (Tatarstan Respublikase F穫n較 Akademijase, Kazan)

"The Tatar Municipality of Kazan (1781-1855) and the System of National Self-Administration in Autocratic Russia"

12.00 St姿hane A. DUDOIGNON (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)

"Status, Strategy, and Discourse of the Muslim 'Clergy' under a Christian Law: Polemics on the Collection of the Zak液 in Late Imperial Russia"

Panel II Towards a Restoration of the Dar al-Islam? State Building in 20th-

Century Muslim Central Asia

14.00 UYAMA Tomohiko (Hokkaido University, Sapporo)

"Two Attempts at Building a Qazaq State: The Revolt of 1916 and the Alash Movement"

15.00 Saidakbar A'ZAMXOJAEV (Dunya Iqtisodi va Diplomatya Universiteti, Tashkent)

"Sh柮-yi 'Ulam: Foundation and Socio-Political Activity"

16.00 SHINMEN Yasushi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

"Eastern Turkestan Republic (1933-1934) in Historical Perspective"

 

October 14, 1998

Panel III The Role of the Religious ('ulam) and the Literati (udab)

10.00 KOMATSU Hisao (Islamic Area Studies, The University of Tokyo)

"Reconsideration of the Andijan Uprising in 1898"

11.00 Naim KARIMOV (O'zbekiston Respublikasining Fanlar Akademiyasi,

Tashkent)

"Islam and Politics in the Uzbek Literature of the 20th Century"

12.00 Thierry ZARCONE (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) "The Sufi Networks in Southern Xinjiang during the Republican Regime (1911-1949)"

Panel IV Islam and Political Mobilization, from Tajikistan to the Suburbs of

Moscow

14.00 Parviz MULLOJONOV (Tajik Center for Citizenship Education)

"The Role of the Muslim 'Clergy' in Tajikistan Since the Collapse of the Soviet Union"

15.00 Irina KOSTYUKOVA (Institut Vostokovedenija, Moscow)

"Islam in Qyrghyzstan: Its Distinctive Roles and Signification for the Individuals, the Society, and the State. A Surmountable Precipice?"

16.00 R廓yq MHMMTSHIN (Tatarstan Respublikase F穫n較 Akademijase, Kazan)

"Official and Non-Official Islam in Tatarstan, in the 1990s"

17.00 Alexei MALASHENKO (Carnegie Endowment / Institut Vostokovedenija, Moscow)

"The Muslim Community of the Russian Society: Politics and Ideology"

18.00 General Discussion and Conclusion

Chair: KOMATSU Hisao (Islamic Area Studies, The University of Tokyo)

 

 

The XIXth International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo

Specialized Theme Session: Muslim Societies Over the Centuries

Beginning of August 2000 in Oslo, Norway

 

The IAS project is currently engaged in multidisciplinary research on Muslim societies in both Islamic and non-Islamic worlds, reflecting the fact that areas with close ties to Islam now encompass the world. Research activities in the project focus on methods that emphasize comparative and historical analysis. The session, "Muslim Societies Over the Centuries," has been organized in order to analyze the formation and development of Muslim societies in the world.

The session will take up Muslim societies in Egypt, North Africa, South Asia, and Europe from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries. Examples from the Mamluk rule will shed light on the characteristics of symbiosis and conflict relationships between Muslims and Dhimmis in Egypt, and at the same time, the Sanusi movement in nineteenth-century North Africa will give us a clue to understanding the effect of the Sufi movement on the awakening of Arabs in that region. Central Asia under the rule of Russia and China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the issues of Muslim-Hindu relationships in modern South Asia, also warrant closer inspection. In Europe, immigrants from Muslim countries have raised a new issue of symbiosis and conflict in European societies.

The proceedings will be published under the title Muslim Societies Over the Centuries: Symbiosis and Conflicts in Comparative Aspects. The organizer, discussants, and participants in the session are as follows:

Organizer: SATO Tsugitaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Discussants: Abdel-Karim RAFEQ (Damascus University, Syria)

(One other discussant to be decided)

Participants:

KOMATSU Hisao (The University of Tokyo, Japan; Muslims in

Modern Central Asia)

NAITO Masanori (Hitotsubashi University, Japan; Muslim Issues in

Europe)

Felice DASSETTO (Universit Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;

Muslim Immigrants in Europe)

Qasim Abduh QASIM (Zaqaziq University, Egypt; Dhimmis in

Mamluk Egypt)

Knut VIKOR (Bergen University, Norway; Nineteenth-Century North

Africa)

Mushirul HASAN (Delhi University, India; Muslims in Modern Indian

History)

Michael FRIEDRICH (Universit閣 Bamberg, Germany; Central Asian

Studies)

Paper titles will be announced in late 1999.