Beyond the Border:

A New Framework for Understanding the Dynamism of Muslim Societies

(Kyoto, Japan, October 8-10, 1999) 

Schedule

Session 1: The Concept of Territory in Islamic Law and Thought
Session 2: The Influence of Human Mobility
Session 3: A City of Interactions: Jerusalem

October 8, 1999 (Fri)

Room B1

Room B2

8:30

Registration

9:00

9:30

Opening Ceremony

9:30

Session 1-1: Dar al-Islam as an Ideology

Chair: TAKESHITA Masataka

10:00

Brannon WHEELER

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

10:30

Michael LECKER

On the Burial of Martyrs

11:00

Haideh GHOMI

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

11:30

Discussion

12:00

Lunch

12:00

Session 1-2: Conception of Territory in Islamic History

Session 2-1: Human Mobility in History, Part One

Chair: IIZUKA Masato

Chair: KISAICHI Masatoshi

13:30

Elmostafa REZRAZI

MORIMOTO Kazuo

13:30

The Iqlim and Political Identities As Established in Islamic Tradition

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

14:00

YANAGIHASHI Hiroyuki

Yaacov LEV

14:00

Solidarity in an Islamic Society: 'Asaba, Family, and the Community

Turks in the Political and Military Life of Eleventh-Century Egypt and Syria

14:30

OKUDA Atsushi

Taef Kamal EL-AZHARI

14:30

Two Dimensions of the Reception of Western Modern Legal System in the Territory of Islam :A Case Study of Syria

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

15:00

Discussion

Discussion

15:00

15:30

Coffee Break

15:30

Session 1-3: From Dar al-Islam to the Modern Conception of Territory

Session 2-2: Human Mobility in History, Part Two

Chair: ARAI Masami

Chair: KATO Hiroshi

16:00

Tetz ROOKE

Ibrahim JADLA

16:00

Colonial Borders Versus Natural Frontiers: History Writing in Syria After the First World War

Al Sudan (Blacks) in Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in the Middle Ages

16:30

Iik Arifin MANSURNOOR

KUROKI Hidemitsu

16:30

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

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

17:00

Eugenia KERMELI-UNAL

Meruert ABUSEITOVA

17:00

Custom Versus Theory: Ebu's Suud's Effort to Consolidate Shariah with the Ottoman Kanun on Land and Its Impact on Crete

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

17:30

Discussion

Discussion

17:30

 18:00

Reception in the "Swan" Banquet Hall

 18:00

October 9, 1999 (Sat)

Room B1

Room B2

Session 1-4: Muslims in the Face of Dar al-Harb

Chair: NISHIO Tetsuo

9:00

OHTA Keiko

Session 2-3: Human Mobility and Information

Migration and Islamization in the Early Islamic Period: The Arab-Byzantine Border Area

Chair: EGAWA Hikari

9:30

NAKAMURA Taeko

Stefka PARVEVA

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

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

10:00

Hamidullah BOLTABOEV

Lilia LABIDI

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

Dynamics of Change in the Medical Sector in the Islamic World

10:30

Stephane DUDOIGNON

Makhsuma NIYAZOVA

Beyond the Northern Border: An Appeal for a Global History of the Siberian Muslimhood

Kubachi Silversmiths in Bukhara

11:00

Discussion

ASAMI Yasushi, Ayse Sema KUBAT, Ismail ISTEK

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

11:30

Discussion

12:00

Lunch

12:00

Session 2-4: Human Mobility and Political Process

Chair: SAKAI Keiko

13:30

Mohammed BOUDOUDOU

"Great Transformation" of Maghreb Societies and the Constitution of International Maghreb Migratory Processes

14:00

KURITA Yoshiko

The Sudanese Diaspora in Politics: Felix Dar Fur, Duse Muhammad Ali, and Ali Abd al-Latif

14:30

Nilufer NARLI

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

15:00

Discussion

15:30

Coffee Break

Session 2-5: Human Mobility Beyond the Borders Established by Powers

Chair: OTSUKA Kazuo

16:00

OISHI Takashi

Friction and Rivalry Over the Pious Mobility: British Colonial Management of the Hajj and Its Reaction Among Indian Muslims, 1870 to 1920

16:30

John SCHOEBERLEIN

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

17:00

Alain ROUSSILLON

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

17:30

Dale EICKELMAN

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

18:00

Discussion (until 18:30)

October 10, 1999 (Sun)

Room B1

Session 3-1: Co-existence and Disputes

Chair: KITAZAWA Yoshiyuki

9:30

Yasir SULEIMAN

Sociolinguistic Reflexes of Political Conflict: The Case of Jerusalem

10:00

Michael DUMPER

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

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

FUJITA Susumu

Conflict and Ties in Jerusalem, A City of Many Peoples

11:30

USUKI Akira

Jerusalem in the Mind of the Japanese

12:00

Discussion

12:30

Lunch

Session 3-2: The Middle East Peace Process and Jerusalem

Chair: KIMURA Shuzo

14:00

Geries KHOURY

One City, Two Peoples, and Three Religions

14:30

Ann LESCH

"My" Jerusalem or "Our" Jerusalem: Can Alternative Futures Be Envisioned?

15:00

IKEDA Akifumi

Changes in Jerusalem Since the 1960s

15:30

TATEYAMA Ryoji

Ideas and Options for Addressing the Question of Jerusalem

16:00

Discussion

16:30

Coffee Break

17:00

General Discussion

18:00