“Reception of T. Izutsu’s Semantic Approach to the Qur’an in Turkish Academia, with Special References to the Notion of kufr” (Online presentation)
【トルコの学界における井筒のクルアーンに対する意味論的アプローチの受容─クフルの概念を中心に】
2. Kie Inoue (Meiji University)
【井上貴恵（明治大学）】
「井筒俊彦と酔語」
【Izutsu and Ecstatic Utterances—in Japanese】
3. Makoto Sawai (Tenri University)
【澤井真（天理大学）】
“From Islamic Philosophy to Oriental Philosophy: Izutsu as a scholar of Islam”
【イスラーム哲学から東洋哲学へ─イスラーム研究者としての井筒】
12:45-14:15
LUNCH／昼食
14:15-16:00
THE THIRD SESSION @Meeting Room 1
1. 小野純一（自治医科大学）
【Junichi Ono (Jichi Medical University)】
「意味の形而上学─言葉と心をめぐる井筒俊彦」
【Metaphysics of Meaning: Izutsu on Word and Mind—in Japanese】
2. Takaharu Oda (Trinity College, Dublin)
【小田崇晴（トリニティ・カレッジ・ダブリン）】
「井筒意識論と大森知覚論との間─バークリ関係論による調停」
【Between Izutsu’s Theory of Consciousness and Omori’s Theory of Perception: A Reconciliation through Berkeley’s Theory of Relations—in Japanese】
3. Masashi Yamakawa (Tenri University, Jichi Medical University)
【山川仁（天理大学・自治医科大学）】
“Lockean and Berkeleian Aspects of Connotative Meaning in Izutsu's Language and Magic”
【井筒俊彦『言語と呪術』における「内包的意味」のロック的・バークリ的な諸側面】
16:15-17:00
GENERAL DISCUSSION
December 18 (Sunday)【12月18日（日）】
JST (GMT +9:00)
TIME
CONTENTS
10:00-11:10
THE FOURTH SESSION @ Hall Auditorium
1. Nurullah Sat (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
【ヌルッラー・サット（アンカラ社会科学大学）】
“The Recognition of Toshihiko Izutsu in Turkish Academia”
【トルコにおける井筒俊彦の認識】
2. Juan José López (Tenri University)
【ファン・ホセ・ロペス（天理大学）】
“Philosophical Translation: A Perspective from Ortega’s Theory of Translation and Izutsu’s Philosophy of Language”
【哲学的翻訳─オルテガの翻訳理論と井筒の言語哲学からの視座】
11:25-13:10
THE FIFTH SESSION @ Hall Auditorium
1. 長岡徹郎（大阪公立大学）
【Tetsuro Nagaoka (Osaka Metropolitan University)】
「西田幾多郎から井筒俊彦にみる日本哲学における比較思想の展開」
【The Development of Comparative Philosophy in Japanese Philosophy from Kitaro Nishida to Toshihiko Izutsu —in Japanese】
2. 安藤礼二（多摩美術大学）
【Reiji Ando (Tama Art University)】
「井筒俊彦と空海」
【Toshihiko Izutsu and Kukai—in Japanese】
3. 西尾哲夫（国立民族学博物館）
【Tetsuo Nishio (National Museum of Ethnology)】
「『意味の深み』には何があるのか？―地球社会を共創する哲学としての井筒俊彦の可能性」
【Beyond Universal Humanities? Re-Evaluating Toshihiko Izutsu as a Potential Philosophy for Co-Creating Global Societies, Japanese】
13:10-14:30
LUNCH／昼食
14:30-16:10
PUBLIC LECTURE @ Hall Auditorium
【Open for general audience online】
Introduction (Moderator: Makoto Sawai) 10min
Armando Salvatore (McGill University)
【アルマンド・サルバトーレ（マギル大学）】
“Inter-Religious Cosmopolitanism Through East-West Engagement”（60min）
筑波大学名誉教授。専門は西アジア先史考古学。特に農耕社会の形成から都市の発達までを主要なテーマとし、イラン、シリア、イラクで発掘調査を行う。編著書に、The Neolithic Cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022), The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017), Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East (New York: Springer, 2016), A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016)などがある。
映画字幕：英語 English subtitles, 解説：日本語 Commentary in Japanese
【主催 Organization】
科研費基盤（A）「イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究」（代表：長澤栄治）Kakenhi (A)”Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Leader: Eiji NAGASAWA)
上智大学アジア文化研究所 Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
グローバル地中海地域研究アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所拠点では、パキスタンのペルシア語写本研究の第一人者である、アーリフ・ナウシャーヒー氏による講演会を開催します。ナウシャーヒー氏はペルシア語写本カタログやスーフィー聖者伝など80冊をこえる著書をこれまでに出版されており、代表的なものにCatalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the National Museum of Pakistan at Karachi (Islamabad, 1983)や、Aḥvāl o Sokhan-e Khwāja ‘Obeydollāh Aḥrār (Tehran, 2002)、Majāles-e Jahāngīrī (Tehran, 2006) , Fehrest-e Noskhehā-ye Khattī-e Pākestān (Tehran, 2017) などがあります。
“Fehrest-nevīsī-e noskhehā-ye khaṭṭī-e Fārsī dar Pākistān va tajrebāt-e man”（パキスタンにおけるペルシア語写本カタログ編纂: 私の経験）と題した今回の講演では、ご自身が精力的に取り組まれた、パキスタンの図書館に所蔵されているペルシア語写本のカタログ作成についてお話しいただく予定です。平日の開催ではありますが、皆さまのご参加をお待ちしております。
Book Talk and Discussion: Modern Japan, and the Middle East and Muslim World
Date:
10 December 2022 (Sat), 15:00-17:00 (IST)/18:30-20:30 (JST)
Organizer:
Japanese Studies India
Language:
English
Chair:
Gouranga C PRADHAN (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Speakers:
Noriko UNNO (Waseda University), Ryosuke ONO (Waseda University)
Introduction
Kenji KURODA (National Museum of Ethnology)
Ch. 2: The Discovery of Islam and the Middle East at the End of the Tokugawa Shogunate: Based on the Account of the First Japanese Embassy to Europe (1862) （原題：幕末日本のイスラーム発見―文久遣欧使節団の記述より― ）
Jin NODA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Ch. 4: Islamic Fraternity and Its Successor Journals: Focusing on the Role of Hasan Hatano（原題：プロパガンダ誌『イスラミック・フラタニティ』とその後継誌をめぐる日本側の事情―ハサン波多野の役割に焦点を当てて―）
Tariq SHEIKH (English and Foreign Languages University)
Ch. 7: The Aspiration of Muslim Intellectuals of South Asia towards Japanese Style Higher Education: The Establishment of Osmania University in the Princely State of Hyderabad（原題：南アジアのムスリム知識人の日本型高等教育へのあこがれ―ハイダラーバード藩王国のオスマニア大学の設立を巡って―）
Zahra MOHARRAMIPOUR (Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Ch. 8: Japanese Art Dealers and Exhibitions of Persian Art in the 1920s（原題：1920 年代日本の美術商とペルシア美術工芸品の展覧会）
Discussants:
Wai Yip HO (Madrid Institute for Advanced Study; Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
“Monābe‘-e ouliya’ dar sharḥ-e ḥāl, sokhanān o maqālāt-e Khwāja ‘Obeydollāh Aḥrār va tajrebāt-e man dar taṣḥīḥ-e jadīd-e Rashaḥāt-e ‘Ayn al-ḥayāt”（ホージャ・ウバイドゥッラー・アフラールの伝記、言葉、逸話についての一次資料と、『生命の泉からの滴り』の新しい校訂本に携わった経験）と題された今回のご講演では、ナクシュバンディー教団の伝記として名高い、アリー・ブン・フサイン・ワーイズ・カーシフィー（1532年没）の『生命の泉からの滴り』の、ナウシャーヒー氏の手による新しい校訂本編纂のご経験についてお話しいただく予定です。
日時:
2022年12月9日（金）, 15:00–18:00
場所:
京都大学人文科学研究所セミナー室1
講演者:
Arif Naushahi（ゴードン・カレッジ元教授）
講演題目:
“Monābe‘-e ouliya’ dar sharḥ-e ḥāl, sokhanān o maqālāt-e Khwāja ‘Obeydollāh Aḥrār va tajrebāt-e man dar taṣḥīḥ-e jadīd-e Rashaḥāt-e ‘Ayn al-ḥayāt”（ホージャ・ウバイドゥッラー・アフラールの伝記、言葉、逸話についての一次資料と、『生命の泉からの滴り』の新しい校訂本に携わった経験）
"Leave to Remain: Burning" と題した今回のトーク・イベントでは、クルバージ氏のアーティストとしてのキャリアや作品、アート・パフォーマンスについて語っていただくとともに、2011年3月にはじまり、現在進行形で続いているシリア内戦に対する氏の応答や、彼の祖国シリアやその文化遺産の受けた壊滅的な被害についても、お話いただく予定です。本イベントは、どなたでもご参加いただけます。みなさんのご来場・ご視聴をお待ちしています。
Issam Kourbaj (Syrian-born Cambridge-based visual artist), "Leave to Remain: Burning"
"Leave to Remain: Burning": A talk by Syrian-born Cambridge-based visual artist Issam Kourbaj on his journey as an artist, touching on his artwork and performances in collaboration with other creative science and humanity disciplines at the University of Cambridge. He will also be speaking about his response to the ongoing Syrian conflict and about the destruction of his homeland and cultural heritage since March 2011.
Language:
English and Arabic
Date and Venue:
6:00 P.M.–7:30 P.M. [GMT+9], 30 November 2022, in person (@Room 304 of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534, JAPAN) and online Pre-registration (deadline: 23:59 [GMT+9], 27 November 2022) is required: https://forms.gle/CQvFoi8B183XuRmp7
Contact:
(Yui Kanda, Secretariat of the Global Mediterranean Project at ILCAA)
イスラーム信頼学 国際会議 “Translation and Transformation in Muslims’ Connectivity”のご案内
科学研究費学術変革領域研究（A） 「イスラーム的コネクティビティにみる信頼構築」（イスラーム信頼学）は、11月26日・27日、大阪大学・箕面キャンパスにおきましてイスラーム信頼学 国際会議 “Translation and Transformation in Muslims’ Connectivity”を開催いたします。
ハイブリッド方式（要事前登録）での開催となります。多くの皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。
Opening Address by Area Organizer for Islamic Trust Studies, Hidemitsu Kuroki (Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/ Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University)
Introduction
15:00–17:00
1st Session: Legal Pluralism and Islam in the History of Empires
Discussant: Gagandeep S. Sood (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Guy Burak (New York University, USA)
“Writing a Conceptual History of Early Ottoman Kanun (From Chinggis Khan to Bayezid II)”
Zhanar Jampeissova (Astana IT University, Kazakhstan)and Jin Noda (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
“Translated ‘Legal’ Code: Difference of Understanding the Law between Kazakh Nomads and Russian Colonial Officials”
Sunday, 27 November 10:00–17:00
10:00–12:00
2nd Session: Faith and Strategy: The Dynamics of Trust Building within Muslim Communities
Discussant: Marrie Lall (University College London, UK)
Faiza Muhammad Din (Humboldt University, Germany)
“Trust and Muslim Women’s Mobility”
Masako Kudo (Rikkyo University, Japan)
“Negotiating Identity among Muslim Women with Pakistani Fathers and Japanese Mothers: An Exploration of Connectivity, Gender, and Strategicity Perspectives”
Lunch Break
14:00–16:00
3rd Session: Right and Law in the Multi-Ethnic Societies
Discussant: Zaw Lynn Aung (Myanmar) and Gagandeep S. Sood
Kazuto Ikeda (Osaka University, Japan)
“Becoming Rohingya in Myanmar: Ethnic Politics in the U Nu Era 1948-1962”
Sayaka Takano (Chuo University, Japan)
“Legal Pluralism and Connectivity in Indonesia”
16:00–17:00
General Discussions
Concluding Remarks
Language: English
Venue: hybrid meeting onsite/ online
Lecture Room, 4th floor in Minoh Campus Building, Osaka University*/ online meeting via Zoom
Open to public/Admission free, Pre-registration is required.
*Please click here for directions to the venue.
(https://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/top)
Notes:
Pre-registration for onsite participation will be closed when reaches the maximum number of participants (currently 70).
In addition, the above provisions may change depending on the situation of Covid-19 and other infections.
We ask all onsite participants to wear face masks and to cooperate with the prevention measures such as hand sanitization.
Registration Deadline: Sunday, November 20 at 23:59 (JST)
Co-organizer:
Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin Noda (ILCAA); 20H05825)
Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), “Trust Building Through Thought and Strategy” (Principal Investigator: So Yamane (Osaka University); 20H05828)
Stéphane Lacroix氏講演会開催のお知らせ
（English explanation is in the latter half）
パリ政治学院からステファン・ラクロワ氏を招聘し、以下の通り講演会を広島大学で開催します。
ラクロワ氏は現代アラブ諸国におけるイスラーム主義を専門とする研究者で、著書『Awaking Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia』をはじめとする多数の研究成果を刊行されています。今回の講演会では、ラクロワ氏にご発表いただき、コメンテーターやフロアとのディスカッションを行ないます。
Zoom配信を併用したハイフレックス形式での開催を計画しています。皆様のご参加をお待ち申し上げます。
You are cordially invited to a Special Seminar entitled "Political Islam in Crisis? Islamist Movements in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring" by Dr. Stéphane Lacroix.
Date:
14:00-16:00 on November 26th, 2022
Venue:
M201 Room at Room at Higashi-Senda Innovative Research Center in Higashi Senda Campus, Hiroshima University
Zoom URL will be sent to online participants before the seminar.
*This seminar is organized by JSPS's Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B): “Politics and Religion in the Contemporary Middle East: A Case Study on the Muslim Brotherhood after 'Arab Spring'” (Project number: 19H04370) and Hiroshima Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (HAMEIS).
Faiza Muhammad Din (Post-doctoral researcher, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin)
ファイザ・ムハンマッディーン（フンボルト大学ベルリン アジア・アフリカ研究所PD研究員）
Abstract／要旨：
In most countries around the world literacy and employment rate amongst women has risen steadily in the last few decades, as it has amongst Muslim women too. Many amongst them are seeking simultaneously to learn about Islam, i.e., their obligations as Muslims and the rights that Islamic law has endowed them. Their engagement in economic activities implies mobility and the availability of surplus capital to spend on recreational activities. However, the question arises if and which recreational activities will be permissible and preferred by Muslim women. Therefore, many women have introduced tourism, hospitality, and event management initiatives that cater to educated urban Muslims' aesthetics. The travel bloggers from Indonesia who review female mosque areas, Instagrammers from the UK who normalize a niqabi lifestyle while capturing beautiful picnics, and Pakistani women who promote traveling into beautiful areas of Pakistan in female and family-friendly ways are a few prominent examples.
Speaker／講演者紹介：
Faiza is currently engaged as a post-doctoral researcher in the research project, Women's Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia: Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity (2020-3). The research focuses on the diverse ways in which Muslim women translate their religious knowledge into their professional lives. This presentation is based on the online research conducted in 2020-1 during the pandemic. Her research interests include gender and religion, language and gender, eco-theology, interreligious dialogue, religion and consumer identities, and South & Southeast Asian Islam.
Registration／参加方法：
以下の登録フォームよりお申込みください。（対面参加は11月20日まで、オンライン参加は22日までにお申し込みください）
Please register through the link below by Nov 20 (onsite) and by No 22
(online)
Please register here: https://forms.gle/uUSyXCayE4fAdoQr6
Organizer／主催：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A): Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion／基盤研究(A) イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究（代表：長沢栄治、20H00085）
Co-organizer／共催：
Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization (Trust Building Through Thought and Strategy)／学術変革領域研究(A) 思想と戦略が織りなす信頼構築（代表：山根聡、20H05828）
映画字幕：日本語 Japanese subtitles, 解説：日本語 Commentary in Japanese
【主催 Organization】
上智大学アジア文化研究所 Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
科研費基盤（A）「イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究」（代表：長澤栄治）Kakenhi (A)”Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Leader: Eiji NAGASAWA)
【共催】
上智大学イスラーム地域研究所 Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University
オンラインミートアップシリーズCoffee Time Series第11回「アカデミック・ハラスメントの予防と対応」
11月9日（水）日本時間18時から、歴史家ワークショップ主催のオンラインミートアップシリーズCoffee Time Seriesの第11回を開催します。
本シリーズでは、気軽に研究の楽しさや研究にまつわる悩みを共有し助け合える場を作ろうと、国内外の修士・博士課程に在籍する10名の大学院生、ポスドクが中心となって運営を行なっています。一連のイベントを通して、孤独に研究する大学院生や研究者が分断を横断して集まることができ、またアカデミア内外の区別を越えて人間的なつながりを構築することができればと願っています。
北仲先生のトーク後は、Coffee Time Series運営メンバーと希望される参加者の皆さんで「当事者ミーティング」を行います。「当事者ミーティング」は、2020年6月に開催した「セルフケア・ピアサポートワークショップ」やのCoffee Time Series第4回・第9回で紹介・実践したもので、近い立場にある当事者間での問題解決や、各自が実現したいことの手がかりとなる「次の一歩」を見つけるための対話型ワークショップです。私たちは日々の研究に取り組む中で、今回のテーマであるアカデミック・ハラスメントに限らず、研究、調査の進め方やモチベーションの維持、研究とアルバイト、仕事、家事、育児、介護とのバランスなど、さまざまな悩みに直面しています。「当事者ミーティング」を通して、問題や望みを分かち合い、その解決、実現に向けて一緒に考えることのできる場を作りたいと考えています。
※Coffee Time Seriesでは参加者全員が安心してオープンに悩みや考えを共有できる場づくりを目指しています。そのため、原則的にZoom上でビデオをオンにしてのご参加をお願いしております。前半部の北仲先生のトークとディスカッションのみ、顔出しをせず匿名での参加も可能です。なお、当日は北仲先生のトークの録画を行います。それ以外の録画および写真撮影などは行いません。
Tobunken Seminar
Anjuman, Jami‘at, or Association: What Sayyid Organizations Tell Us about the Associational Life of Muslim Caste Groups
Dear colleagues,
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Tobunken) will host a lecture by Dr. Julien Levesque (University of Zurich) on “Anjuman, Jami‘at, or Association” on November 11 (Fri). Those who are interested in participating in the event are cordially invited to register in advance by November 6 (details below).
Lecture Title:
Anjuman, Jami‘at, or Association: What Sayyid Organizations Tell Us about the Associational Life of Muslim Caste Groups
Speaker:
Julien Levesque (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich; https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/en/indologie/personen/wissangestellte/levesque.html)
Date and Time:
November 11 (Fri), 2022, at 15:30–17:00
Venue:
Online via Zoom, with a limited capacity for in-person participation by invitation.
Lecture Abstract:
In the early decades of the twentieth century in colonial India, the development of education, the expansion of electoral politics, and the decennial censuses led many communities (or “caste groups”) to organize collectively to foster internal solidarity and assert themselves in the public sphere. Muslims also participated in this new associationism and, among them, Sayyids—a privileged status group that claims descent from Prophet Muhammad—also formed their organizations. This presentation delineates three “associational models” that Muslim caste groups can draw upon—the anjuman, the jami‘at, and the association. To bring out the differences in these ideal types, I compare the foundation and evolution of three Sayyid organizations in South Asia (Pakistan, North India, and South India). The comparison has two principal aims: bringing out implicit notions of social and religious distinction among Sayyids; and drawing broader conclusions about associational models for Muslims. Thus, by examining Sayyids organizations, I hope to contribute more broadly to a better understanding of the associational life of caste among South Asian Muslims.
How to Participate:
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/eMfWqPRcmw1U4cfH9 by November 6, at 24:00 JST. Explanation about how the seminar will be held and how one can request an invitation for in-person participation is given in the form.
Contact Person:
Kazuo Morimoto (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
This event is co-sponsored by the JSPS Kakenhi Project “Muslim Discourses Surrounding the Prophet Muhammad’s Kinfolk” (19H01317), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and Kazuhiro Arai Laboratory, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University.
Instead of the Anglo-Ottoman Treaty of 1838 (Balta Limanı Anlaşması) and the Tanzimat Edict of 1839, this paper dates Ottoman liberalization to the Auspicious Event (Vak'a-i Hayriyye) of 1826, demonstrating the extent to which the Auspicious Event marked the end of guild privileges, which had been widespread since the eighteenth century and beyond. To this end, focusing on urban Istanbul, the paper first examines relations between the artisans and their armed defenders, the janissaries, before the Auspicious Event. It then turns to the post-1826 period to examine what happened to the artisans when they lost their 'janissary guards'.
Caste and Islam in South Asia: A Genealogy of Contemporary Debates
Dear colleagues,
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Tobunken) will host a lecture by Dr. Julien Levesque (University of Zurich) on “Caste and Islam in South Asia: A Genealogy of Contemporary Debates” on November 5 (Sat). Those who are interested in participating in the event are cordially invited to register in advance by October 31 (details below).
Lecture Title:
Caste and Islam in South Asia: A Genealogy of Contemporary Debates
Online via Zoom, with a limited capacity for in-person participation by invitation.
Lecture Abstract:
In recent years, scholars of South Asian Islam and Indian Muslims themselves have paid renewed attention to caste. This renewed interest is largely the result of the emergence of a critique internal to Muslim politics, carried by activists from marginalized caste-groups who challenge the leadership of the dominant groups. This presentation aims to throw light on the contemporary debates on Muslim caste in India, by providing a genealogy of the categories in use. In order to show where contemporary debates come from, I will highlight three historical moments in the scholarship on Muslim caste. First, I will first show that colonial scholars and administrators tended to understand the phenomenon of Muslim caste as the product of a history of conquest and miscegenation. This conception presided over the Ashraf-Ajlaf dichotomy that still informs contemporary debates. Second, I will turn to the socio-anthropological debates of the second half of the twentieth century on whether a caste system existed among Muslims. I suggest that the Hindu-centric understanding of caste hindered scholarship on Muslim caste. Third, I will explore how new legal conceptions of caste among Indian Muslims became a steppingstone for political mobilization since the 1990s. This mobilization, in turn, led to new scholarship that seeks to move beyond the conceptual limitations of previous research on Muslim caste. Finally, I will return to the present-day period and discuss the emancipatory potential of ongoing political strategies to woo Muslims from marginalized caste-groups.
How to Participate:
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/CzCJNGWdZAgg1bez8 by October 31, at 24:00 JST. Explanation about how the seminar will be held and how one can request an invitation for in-person participation is given in the form.
Contact Person:
Kazuo Morimoto (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
* The announcement of a second lecture on November 10 (Thu) or 11 (Fri) will be released shortly.
This event is co-sponsored by the JSPS Kakenhi Project “Muslim Discourses Surrounding the Prophet Muhammad’s Kinfolk” (19H01317), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and Kazuhiro Arai Laboratory, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University.
Tracing Emotions in the Ottoman Archives: What it meant and how it felt like to be an Ottoman subject in the early modern era?
司会：
秋葉淳（東京大学東洋文化研究所）
要旨：
The field of “history of emotions” represents fundamentally a new direction in the discipline of history which informs every historical inquiry. It offers a new way to understand the past by exploring the effect and dimension of emotions on behavior, culture, institutions, rituals and others demanding a fresh look at our familiar sources of Ottoman history. This paper starts with a brief discussion on the state-of-the-art of the field of history of emotions worldwide. It then proceeds to emotions in Ottoman history and discusses how to trace emotions in the archival material. It asks the question of what it meant and how it felt to be an Ottoman subject in the early modern era on two grounds which were interdependent and intertwined with one another. On political grounds, it explores emotions of compassion and love and discuss how emotions relate to political concept of protection. On societal grounds, it explores the community-building processes in residential quarters and guilds and argues that a shared concept of gratitude functioned as a tool for drawing boundaries of their communities.
東京大学名誉教授・日本学士院会員。専門は近世フランス史・地中海商業史。著書にToilerie et commerce du Levant au XVIIIe siècle. D’Alep à Marseille (Paris: Éditions du CNRS, 1987)、『海港と文明――近世フランスの港町』（山川出版社、2002年）、『商人と更紗――近世フランス=レヴァント貿易史研究』（東京大学出版会、2007年）、『マルセイユの都市空間――幻想と実存のあいだで』（刀水書房、2017年）などがある。
Strong Asymmetries in Social Relations Compared: The Mamluk Sultanate, Medieval Japan and Beyond
October 15–16, 2022, Tokyo
Organizers:
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library)
Venue:
The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
PROGRAM
October 15th, Sat.
13:00–13:15
Opening Address
13:15–15:00
Session 1 Lord-Followers Relation
Kazuki Takahashi (Meiji University), Warriors and Military Government in Medieval Japan
Tomohiro Nishita (The University of Tokyo), The Lord-Follower Relationship of Warriors in Early Medieval Japan
Florian Saalfeld (University of Bonn), A Somehow mamlūk-ish Society? Or: Writing (about) Power! Interaction, Dependency and Loyalty among the Muslim Ruling Elites of the Early Delhi Sultanate
15:15–17:45
Session 2 Family and Other Ties
Yasufumi Horikawa (The University of Tokyo), The Nanbokuchō War and Loyalty in an Age of War: The Struggle and Failure of Kyūshū Deputy Imagawa Ryōshun, 1370–95
Stephan Conermann (University of Bonn), Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517)
Nobutaka Nakamachi (Konan University), Political Structure and Marriage Policy in the Bahri Mamluk Period
Ahmad Alghizawat (University of Bonn), Literacy in the Black Desert: Preliminary Remarks on the Arabic Epigraphic Habit in Harrah during the Middle Ages
October 16th, Sun.
10:00–12:00
Session 3 Slavery and Dependency
Abdelkader Al Ghouz (University of Bonn), Stereotyping Slaves as Evidence: al-Amshāṭī’s (d. 1496) Work The Correct Account of Choosing Slaves as a Case Study
Daisuke Igarashi (Waseda University), Freed slaves and their Descendants in Mamluk Waqf Documents
Anna Kollatz (University of Bonn), How Far Can We Trace Them? (Inter-)dependeny in Mamluk Biographical Dictionaries and Beyond
Lunch
13:00–15:30
Session 4 Landholding and Local Society
Bethany J. Walker (University of Bonn), Were Peasants “Tied to the Land”?: The Roles of Migration in Making and Breaking Asymmetrical Dependencies in Medieval Syria
Takao Ito (Kobe University), Amirs and Iqṭāʿ Holdings in Late 9th-/15th-Century Egypt
Hiraku Kaneko (University of Tokyo), The Military and Political Power of the Clansmen (Ujibito) of Kamigamo Shrine
Detlev Taranczewski (University of Bonn), Upstream, Downstream, and Water Rights: How Topographic Conditions Predetermine Power Imbalances in Pre-modern Japan
Prof. Richard Piran McClary (Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art & Architecture, Department of History of Art, University of York),
演題：
New Approaches to the Study of Lajvardina Tiles: Reconstructing a Dispersed Inscription Frieze
Abstract:
Combining the study of the removal of Ilkhanid tiles from Iran in the nineteenth century CE, and analysis of the methods of architectural tile production in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE, this lecture presents a case study of a single lajvardina tile frieze that has never been examined before. By analyzing a group of unpublished complete and fragmentary tiles, from museums across Europe and North America, a methodological framework for the reassessment and deeper understanding of a far wider range of dispersed Islamic tile revetments can emerge. This talk has the wider aim of shifting the discourse about tiles from the study of individual objects to viewing them as part of a larger dispersed composition, and with it posing questions concerning provenance, display, ethics and repatriation.
R. Tottoli's lecture on the Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe (Oct 4)
The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019-25)
Dear colleagues,
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Tobunken) will host a lecture by Professor Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples “L’Orientale”) on “The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019-25).” Those who are interested in participating in the event are cordially invited to register in advance by September 27 (details below).
Lecture Title:
The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019-25)
Speaker:
Roberto Tottoli (Rector, University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
The EuQu project is an ERC-Synergy project financed by the European Commission 10 mil. Euro and based in Madrid, Nantes, Copenhagen and Naples. It includes four principal investigators and more than 30 PhD students and post-doc researchers carrying out research on the circulation, use and functions of the Qur’an and its significance in medieval and modern-age European history from 1150 ca to 1850 ca. The lecture will describe the approach and results of the project in the middle of it and will focus on a specific case-study, that is the history of the printing of the Qur’an in Europe and its relevance in relation to the history of printing in Muslim countries and to the printing of the other religious holy texts.
How to Participate:
Please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/HP5khPfXp4uYuVzh7 by September 27, at 17:00 JST. A detailed explanation about how the seminar will be held is given in the form.
Contact Person:
Kazuo Morimoto (morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
About the EuQu Project:
EuQu - The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 (ERC-Synergy Project 2019-2025) Short description (more data and imaged for publicity can be found in https: //euqu.eu/): EuQu is an ambitious six year research project (2019-2025) studying the ways in which the Islamic Holy Book is embedded in the intellectual, religious and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Our research studies how the Qur’an has been translated, interpreted, adapted and used by Christians, European Jews, freethinkers, atheists and European Muslims in order to understand how the Holy Book has influenced both culture and religion in Europe.
京都大学人文科学研究所教授。専門は中央アジア古代・中世史。近著に『イスラームの東・中華の西――七〜八世紀の中央アジアを巡って』（臨川書店, 2022年），The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022) (共編著), "The legend of Xinnie in the seventh and eighth centuries" (Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia, Barkhuis, 2020), 「イスラームとインドのフロンティア」(『1187年――巨大信仰圏の出現』山川出版社, 2019年)などがある。
Farrah Sheikh, Assistant Professor at Keimyung University and Research Associate at SOAS Centre of Islamic Studies, where she also earned my PhD. she works on Muslim Minority issues connected to identity, belonging, multiculturalism through a gender-race framework with ethnographic field locations in South Korea & England. She is also deeply engaged in public outreach work in both locations offering community teaching and workshops.
集中講義：
ヘブライ語聖書研究
(The Hebrew Bible: Topics in Modern Research)
ナフタリ・シュムエル・メシェル博士/エルサレム・ヘブライ大学
(Dr. Naphtali Shmuel Meshel/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
東京大学先端科学技術研究センター グローバルセキュリティ・宗教部門（池内研究室）は、このたび、エルサレム・ヘブライ大学聖書学科・比較宗教学科のナフタリ・シュムエル・メシェル上級講師をお招きして、集中講義「ヘブライ語聖書研究」(The Hebrew Bible: Topics in Modern Research)を開催いたします。本集中講義は、グローバルセキュリティ・宗教分野が研究事業として推進する「ユダヤ学ならびに一神教比較学のための教育研究プログラム」の嚆矢として、三回にわたり開催されます。先行研究の蓄積や最新研究の展開を踏まえながら、ヘブライ語聖書研究における重要論点を、網羅的かつコンパクトな形で、日本の聖書学者・ユダヤ学者・宗教学者などを中心に、広範な知識人層に紹介することを狙いとします。講義では、背景としての古代中東の意義と重要性に着目しつつ、律法/預言書/諸書の内容と主な特徴、イスラエル民族史との絡み合い、古代ヘブライ人の宗教思想、聖書の形成史/解釈史といった様々な角度から、ヘブライ語聖書を繙き、共に考察していきます。
Intensive Introductory Course
The Hebrew Bible: Topics in Modern Research
Lecturer: Dr. Naphtali Shmuel Meshel
Course Description
This course is intended for Japanese academic audiences interested in the religions of the ancient Israelites, Judaism, and comparative religion. It aims to introduce attendees to the Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament") in its ancient Near Eastern setting. Key concepts often associated with the Hebrew Bible, such as God, sin, history and redemption will be examined through a careful reading of a selection of Biblical texts. Particular attention will be paid to questions of authorship—possible dating, social settings, and original audiences; and to transformations that the texts underwent through a continuous process of transmission and interpretation.
NOTE: The course is an introductory-intermediate course; no previous knowledge of the subject is expected or assumed.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this intensive course, participants should
Be able to offer a clear account of the general contents of the books of the Hebrew Bible
Be acquainted with the ways in which the Biblical texts were formed and transmitted
Have a clear understanding of the main historical processes that shaped the Israelite communities in the first millennium B.C.
E.
Be familiar with key concepts reflected in the books of the Hebrew Bible
Books
The primary text used in the course is the Hebrew Bible (in English translation) according to the following two editions:
*NOAB The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version With The Apocrypha (Fully Revised Fourth Edition; ed. Michael D. Coogan; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
*JSB The Jewish Study Bible (ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Students may consult one of the Japanese translations.
[Course Schedule]
Day One: The Pentateuch (Sun. Sep 19, 2022)
(1) Myth and Narrative (10:30-12:00)
Genesis 1–4
Bernard M. Levinson, “The Seductions of the Garden and the Genesis of Hemeneutics as Critique” in “The Right Chorale”: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011) 40–47.
Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’ Scar,” translated by W.R. Trask, in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature(Princeton: University Press, 2003) 3–23.
(2) Law (13:00-14:30)
Exodus 21–23, Deuteronomy 15
Moshe Greenberg, “Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law,” in: Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought(Philadelphia: JPS, 1995) 25–41.
Moshe Weinfeld, from: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic Law(Oxford: Clarendon, 1972).
(3) The Documentary Hypothesis(15:00-16:30)
Genesis 6–9
Richard Elliott Friedman, “Torah” inThe Anchor Bible Dictionary (sections B., “Literary History” and C., “Views of Authorship”) 608–619.
James Kugel, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now(New York: Free Press, 2007) 261–279, 286–295.
Day Two: Priests, Judges, Kings and Prophets (Mon. Sep. 20, 2022)
(4) Priests: The Systems of Sacrifice and Purity (10:30-12:00)
Leviticus 1–4; 11–12
Jacob Milgrom, “The Priestly ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’,” RB 83 (1976) 390–99.
Mary Douglas, “The Abominations of Leviticus,” Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge, 22002) 41–57.
(5) Historiography (13:00-14:30)
2 Kings 22–23:30, 2 Chronicles 34–35
SaraJaphet, from: The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought(Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2014).
Leo Strauss, “Persecution and the Art of Writing” in: Persecution and the Art of Writing (Chicago: University Press, 1952) 22–37.
(6) Prophecy: The Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets (15:00-16:30)
Isaiah 6; Ezekiel 1–4; 17–20
Baruch J. Schwartz, “Repentance and Determinism in Ezekiel,” Proceedings of the Eleventh Congress in Jewish Studies(Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994) 123–130.
Frank Kermode, “Hoti’s Business: Why are Narratives Obscure,” in: The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative(Harvard: University Press, 1979) 23–47.
Day Three:Poetry, Wisdom, and Tales(Tue. Sep. 21, 2022)
(7) Psalms and Song of Songs (10:30-12:00)
Psalm 82; Song of Songs
James Kugel,from:The Idea of Biblical Poetry
Jan Assmann, from: The Price of Monotheism (Stanford: University Press, 2010).
Ilana Pardes, Song of Song: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books; Princeton: University Press, 2019).
(8) Wisdom Literature (13:00-14:30)
Ecclesiastes; selection from Proverbs, Job
Marvin V. Fox, “Frame-Narrative and Composition in the Book of Kohelet,” Hebrew Union College Annual48 (1977) 83–106.
Scott B. Noegel, from: “Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Ancient Near East Monographs, 26; SBL: Atlanta, 2021).
(9) Scribes, Apocalypses and the “Canonization” of the Hebrew Bible (15:00-16:30)
Michael Fishbane, “Inner-Biblical Exegesis”, in M. Sæbø (ed.) Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996) 1.33–48.
Marc Zvi Brettler, “The Canonization of the Bible”, in The Jewish Study Bible(ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 2072–2077.
Lecturer's Short Bio
Dr. Naphtali Meshel joined the Department of Bible and the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2016. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts, and on its early interpreters. Within the broader study of religion, he has a particular interest in Sanskrit literature. His first book, The Grammar of Sacrifice, examines the ancient intuition that sacrificial rituals, like languages, are governed by “grammars.” His research interests include ancient models for the “science of ritual”; systems of pollution and purification; and mechanisms of double entendrein Wisdom Literature. He previously taught at the Moscow State University for the Humanities and at Princeton University.
セミナー「Covid-19 in Egypt: Public Health and Government Responses/エジプトにおける新型コロナの流行—公衆衛生と政府の対応」
9月8日(金)の午後に「Covid-19 in Egypt: Public Health and Government Responses/エジプトにおける新型コロナの流行—公衆衛生と政府の対応」と題しまして、セミナーを開催いたします。
Public health became a commonly espoused agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic among global, regional, and national actors in the Middle East. Capacity development, good governance, and public health discourses do highlight the glaring inequalities of healthcare provision within and across Arab states in a global capitalist system. In Egypt, government responses were centred on an urgently and hastily adopted public health agenda. The government coordinated its infectious disease control policy with intergovernmental organizations such as the WHO and UNICEF. From infectious disease guidelines to vaccines, the existence of the Egyptian state’s anti-coronavirus national strategy is indebted to external sources of authority, know-how, and resources.
Speaker／講演者紹介：
Mohammed Moussa is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Mohammed completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter. His publications include a monograph on the political thought of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (2015) and articles in Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research and Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies.
Organizer／主催：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A): Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion/ 基盤研究(A)
イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究（代表：長沢栄治、20H00085）
Co-organizer／共催：
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists: Research on 'Exclusion' and Intellectuals in Modern and Contemporary Islam/ 若手研究 近現代イスラームにおける「排除」と知識人に関する研究（代表：後藤絵美、18K18292）
ベイルート会議 The global and regional impacts of the Ukraine War
People, ideas and technology seem to circulate with increasing speed and across longer distances in the twenty-first century. Although globalization is often cited in attempts to make intelligible the sense of ever-closer proximity between different cultures and societies, this account reflects a Eurocentric model of diffusion from a Western core to non-Western peripheries. This workshop seeks to decentre this tunnel vision prevalent in much of contemporary social theory that ignores the role of agency and change in the Muslim world. A global social theory that draws upon the insights of Jack Goody, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and James Blaut can reveal the interconnections within the Muslim world and with other regions in the travel of people, ideas and practices.
Speaker/講演者紹介：
Mohammed Moussa is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Mohammed completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter. His publications include a monograph on the political thought of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (2015) and articles in Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research and Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies.
Organizer/主催：
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists: Research on 'exclusion' and intellectuals in modern and contemporary Islam/ 若手研究 近現代イスラームにおける「排除」と知識人に関する研究（代表: 後藤絵美、18K18292）
Co-organizer/共催：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A): Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion/基盤研究(A)
イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究（代表: 長沢栄治、20H00085）
This presentation will examine how the Ottoman Empire’s discursive constitutional efforts influenced the Malaysian state of Johor, Meiji Japan and Qing China's attempts for their own indigenous constitutions. By examining these constitutional processes, inspecting the various moving Asian elites and monarchs - who travelled to each other’s nations, as well as surveying the multiple legal terminologies that were applied, one can deduce that there was space for modern Asian constitutions that needn’t be “Western”. These sovereign states were negotiating with the intervening of colonial law but at the same time consolidating their existence globally and locally through the framework of their own traditions. This included the role of the various Asian religions/traditions such as Islam, State-Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism in international law-making. For the Asian states mentioned, it is worth asking how they viewed the Ottomans. Did they see them as European, an alternative or alien? And how did they witness Ottoman constitutional efforts as a lesson for their own attempts towards constitutionalism? As a result, this presentation will ask how informative was “Ottoman modernity” and the Ottoman constitution as a possible alternative to the Western European models.
「中央ユーラシアのオアシス都市と草原都市」
【講師紹介】
（公財）東洋文庫監事、大阪大学名誉教授。専門は仏教・マニ教時代の中央ユーラシア東部の歴史と古ウイグル文献学。専門書に『東西ウイグルと中央ユーラシア』（名古屋大学出版会、2015年）、Corpus of the Old Uighur Letters from the Eastern Silk Road (Berliner Turfantexte 46, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019) などがあり、概説書に『シルクロードと唐帝国』（講談社学術文庫、2016年）、『シルクロード世界史』（講談社選書メチエ、2020年）がある。
国際研究集会：The Indian Ocean, 1600-1800: Exploring the Frontier of Maritime History in Japan (Part Ⅱ) 17-18世紀のインド洋 —日本をめぐる海域史研究の広がりのために—（パートⅡ）のお知らせ
東京大学ヒューマニティーズセンター（HMC）でございます。本センターの国際研究集会「The Indian Ocean, 1600-1800: Exploring the Frontier of Maritime History in Japan (Part Ⅱ) 17-18世紀のインド洋 —日本をめぐる海域史研究の広がりのために—（パートⅡ）のご案内をいたします。
映画字幕：日本語 Japanese subtitles, 解説：日本語 Commentary in Japanese
【主催 Organization】
上智大学アジア文化研究所 Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
上智大学イスラーム研究センター Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University
科研費基盤（A）「イスラーム・ジェンダー学と現代的課題に関する応用的・実践的研究」（代表：長澤栄治）Kakenhi (A)”Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Leader: Eiji NAGASAWA)
上智大学アジア文化研究所は、下記の要領で6月19日に現代クルド・ナショナリズムに関するオンライン・セミナーを開催します。
The Sophia University Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies (IAAMES) will hold an online seminar on contemporary Kurdish nationalism on Jun 19th as follows.
＊6月16日(木)までに、下記のフォームから参加登録をお願いいたします。
Registration for this lecture is open until June 16th, 2022. The Zoom login details will be sent through email to those who register.
Dr. Mostafa Khalili (日本学術振興会特別研究員JSPS Overseas Research Fellow、上智大学アジア文化研究所客員研究員Visiting Researcher of the IAAMES)
【題目 Title】
"Beyond Centre-Periphery Approach: Inter-minority Tensions and Development of Contested Categories of Kurdish Mobilisation in Iran"
【要旨 Abstract】
Kurdish history in the last several decades represents their proclivity towards ethnic mobilisation. The identity politics that shape the incentive behind the mobilisation of different Kurdish subgroups are usually complex and occasionally serve contradictory political ambitions. To unfold such complexities, as this research suggests, shifting the lens of analysis from a common centre-periphery (state vs. Kurdish nationalist) approach to comprehending the identity politics in the local context is helpful. This research takes an interest in the ethnographic study of the social processes that shape the dynamics of Kurdish mobilisation in multi-ethnic Urmia city in northwest Iran, where Kurmanji-speaking Kurds live together with Azerbaijani Turks, and in close proximity to Sorani-speaking Kurds of Iran in neighbouring areas. It is argued that for the subjects of this study, the strategies for political mobilisation in the local field of Urmia often contradict each other, varying from denial of the Kurdish nation at the inter-ethnic level to dividing it at the intra-ethnic level and romanticising it at the transnational level. The broader contribution of this research is to elucidate that the contradictory ethnic mobilisation incentives could coexist independently from pursuing an exclusive political end when they all are characterised by an emancipatory force—a politico-symbolic struggle over power and prestige.
【コメンテーター Commentator】
酒井啓子SAKAI Keiko（千葉大学法政経学部教授Professor at the Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics, Chiba University）
【言語 Language】
英語English
【主催 Organization】
上智大学アジア文化研究所 The Sophia University Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies
学術変革領域(A) イスラーム信頼学 計画研究B01 イスラーム共同体の理念と国家体系 (代表：近藤信彰）
MEXT Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization”(Islamic Trust Studies)BO1 The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State System (Leader: Nobuaki Kondo)
科研費基盤研究(B)「危機下における少数派・弱者の生存戦略：イスラーム圏の通史的・地域横断的研究」（代表：高橋英海）
Connecting East Asia to Europe via the Caspian Sea, Caucasus and Russia: Iran`s plan to open a new Silk Road during the Safavid era (17th century)
発表者：
マンスール・セファトゴル（東京大学東洋文化研究所・特任教授 / テヘラ ン大学教授）
Speaker：
Mansur SEFATGOL (Visiting Professor, IASA, UTokyo / Professor, The University of Tehran)
日時：
2022年6月16日（木）14時～16時
Date and Time:
June 16, 2022 (Thu.), 2:00-4:00 PM (JST)
会場：
オンライン（Zoomミーティング）
Venue:
Online via Zoom
要旨：
Abstract：
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Iran/Persia started an important plan to open new routes for trade with Europe and East Asia. In the 17th century, these efforts reached to its zenith. Thus, in order to facilitate trade and access, Iran launched a major program that included a number of important sectors, such as construction and securing Iran's internal roads and ports, retaking islands and coasts in the Persian Gulf from the Portuguese, efforts to establish naval fleets in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, promoting trade through the Volga to Northern Europe, as well as access through the Caucasus to the Black Sea, and establishing a naval base on the Black Sea coast, establishing links with East Asian governments including Thailand/Siam to access China's ports and commercial market, and effort to access the Japanese ports. The aim of this plan was to link East Asia to Europe through the way that can be called the Southern-Northern Silk Road. Although the beginning of the plan was successful, it seems to have faced problems during the 17th century. Iran's domestic issues and external issues such as the obstacles and sabotage of Russia, European companies, and the Ottomans were serious obstacles to the implementation of this program. The present study tries to investigate this program with an emphasis on the source materials issue.
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"BUSINESS NETWORKS WITHIN THE MAGHREB JEWS BASED ON THE CLASSICAL GENIZA"
Abstract
During the Middle Ages, Egypt was the center of a large and established community of Jews who originated from the Maghreb- the countries North African that are west of Egypt and parts of Muslim Spain. Besides taking part in the life of the Egyptian Jewish community, this group maintained a distinct Maghrebi self-identity, and its members had extensive family ties. The westernized Maghrebi Jews operated within an organized and extensive trade network, with Egypt at its center and operated from India in the east to Spain and Morocco in the west. At the end of the 19th century, a massive treasure of Jewish religious writing and other documents was found in the Ben Ezra Synagogue. This trove became known as the Cairo Genizah and includes many documents connected to the Maghrib trade network centered in Egypt. These include business correspondence, contracts, inventory lists and more. The Geniza also contains the archives of the ‘Awkal family. This family migrated first from Persia to Morocco and then to Fustat in Egypt, where it became one of the largest Jewish business dynasties of the period. Among the documents in the family archive was a letter sent by a merchant named Samhun b Daud al-Siqilli, who resided in Qayrawan. Samhun was an agent or partner of sorts to Yosef b ‘Awkal, who was in Egypt. The letter describes a number of business transactions that the two men were involved in, as well as conflicts and disputes they were embroiled in. This letter stands at the heart of this research project. In recent decades, the documents of the Cairo Geniza have contributed to immeasurably historical research. One of the main areas of research focuses on the commercial activity of the Middle Ages as illuminated by the Geniza documents. This research thesis joins this corpus of research and seeks to shed light on trade in the period from the aspect of business networking.
早稲田大学卒業、英国エセックス大学にて法学修士号授受。アムネスティ・インターナショナル国際事務局（ロンドン）やいくつもの国際機関で勤務後、2009年から2014年まで国連人権高等弁務官事務所パレスチナ副代表としてエルサレム駐在。ビジネスと人権、パレスチナ問題、ムスリム差別とイスラマフォビア、難民の権利など活動分野は多岐に渡る。著書に「パレスチナ人は苦しみ続ける：なぜ国連は解決できないのか」（現代人文社）、「Civil and Political Rights in Japan: a Tribute to Sur Nigel Rodley」（編、米Routledge）など。
Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
“Modernity in Maritime Territoriality: Introduction”
“Emergence of British Lake as Consequence of Anti-Slave Trade Patrol in the 19th Century Western Indian Ocean”
1720-1730
Q&A
1730-1750
Ichiro Ozawa (Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
“Respect for “Territorial Authorities”: Logics of the British Anti-Arms Traffic Activities in the Persian Gulf”
1750-1800
Q&A
1800-1820
Mónica Ginés-Blasi (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
“Using Territoriality to Divert Human Trade: Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba via the Spanish Philippines”
I am Kenji Kuroda, Project Assistant Professor at the Center for Modern Middle East Studies of the National Museum of Ethnology.
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a special research workshop on March 7 with simultaneous interpretation in Japanese/ English.
If you are interested in attending, please see the details below and register by March 6.
We look forward to your participation.
[Program]
Date and Time: 17:00~19:00 (maybe extended up to 1930) (GMT+9), 7 March, 2022
Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
“Modernity in Maritime Territoriality: Introduction”
“Emergence of British Lake as Consequence of Anti-Slave Trade Patrol in the 19th Century Western Indian Ocean”
1720-1730
Q&A
1730-1750
Ichiro Ozawa (Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
“Respect for “Territorial Authorities”: Logics of the British Anti-Arms Traffic Activities in the Persian Gulf”
1750-1800
Q&A
1800-1820
Mónica Ginés-Blasi (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
“Using Territoriality to Divert Human Trade: Chinese Indentured Migration to Cuba via the Spanish Philippines”
1820-1830
Q&A
1830-1900
General Discussion
Organizer:
Minpaku Special Research Project "Global Area Studies: Toward a New Epistemology for Mapping the Globalizing World" (Project leader: Tetsuo NISHIO)
Joint-organizer:
NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East
In August 2021, as the Taliban set out to establish a new regime, some people went out to the streets to hold demonstrations. One of the groups raised banners that read, "Afghan women exist (zanān-i afghān vojūd dārand)".
In Japan, Afghan women still have the image of being "covered." However, Mohtarama, a brilliant film directed by Malek Shafi'i and Diana Saqeb, tells us that these women have fought for decades to build a better society by developing their ideas, discussing issues with others, and taking to the streets to raise their voices.
At Herat in 2010, Kabul in 2009, and Mazare Sharif in 2011, women—an owner of burqa shop, protest attendees, and women who were forced to marry at the age of 12—expressed their views on what is like to be a woman in their society. In this workshop, we would like to take a closer look at the situation to which women have been relegated in Afghanistan and the feminism that has been developing amid this environment, both in terms of the difficulties faced by people and the hopes they hold in their hearts.
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Principal Investigator: Keiko SAKAI (Chiba University) Project Number: 21H04387)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “JSPS Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji NAGASAWA (ILCAA Research Fellow) Project Number: 20H00085)
Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS), Ritsumeikan University
Interreligious Learning: An Art, not Just a Science
Learning interreligiously in the 21st century is an exciting though complex project. Crossing over from the familiar ground of one language, culture and religion to another language, culture and religion requires great learning, patience, and humility, and a precise grasp of necessary details. However, the disciplinary rigor must open into an empathetic and even aesthetic appreciation of the newly encountered ideas and images, philosophies and poetry, arts and ethical practices. This requires then the ability to learn to be at home in a new intellectual and spiritual space. One has to learn to see the new context as do its inhabitants and insiders, even while keeping a scholar’s critical distance. If faith is involved, then this empathetic learning creates further interesting challenges for one’s home community, since one’s awareness has expanded beyond most believers’ expectations. Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, will illustrate these and related points with reference to his study of Hindu traditions over more than four decades, even as he has adhered to his own Catholic Christian faith intellectual, spiritually and in practice.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in 2005, where he is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology. After earning his doctorate in South Asian languages and civilizations (University of Chicago, 1984), he taught at Boston College for 21 years before coming to Harvard. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard.
His primary areas of Indological scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India. He is also a leading figure globally in the developing field of comparative theology, a discipline distinguished by attentiveness to the dynamics of theological learning deepened through the study of traditions other than one’s own. He has also written on the Jesuit missionary tradition, particularly in India, on the early Jesuit pan-Asian discourse on reincarnation, and on the dynamics of dialogue and interreligious learning in the contemporary world.
Clooney is the author of numerous articles and books, including Thinking Ritually: Retrieving the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini (Vienna, 1990), Theology after Vedanta: An Experiment in Comparative Theology (State University of New York Press, 1993), Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God (Georgetown University Press, 2008), The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Shrivaisnava Hindus (Peeters Publishing, 2008), Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence (Stanford University Press, 2013).
Recent books include Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How It Matters (University of Virgina Press, 2019) and Western Jesuit Scholars in India: Tracing Their Paths, Reassessing Their Goals (Brill, 2020). His translation of the Hindu theologian Ramanuja’s Manual of Daily Worship(Nityagrantham) appeared in the International Journal of Hindu Studies in 2020. He is currently beginning to write a memoir tentatively entitled, Priest and Scholar, Catholic and Hindu: A Love Story.
In July 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has served as a Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. His most recent honorary doctorate was awarded in November 2019 by Regis College, University of Toronto. He is currently President-Elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and will be President during 2022-23.
He is a Roman Catholic priest and has been a member of the Society of Jesus for 50 years. He serves regularly in a Catholic parish on weekends. From 2007 to 2016 he blogged regularly in the “In All Things” section of America magazine online; his current blog is The Inner Edge, where he recently completed a series of 62 online homilies written during the year of church closures during the pandemic.
Four Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible:
Introduction to "The Hebrew Bible: Topics in Modern Research"
These two meetings are aimed at exploring the four primary perspectives that will be employed during the lecture series "The Hebrew Bible: Topics in Modern Research," which is planned to be held at the RCAST of the University of Tokyo during the coming summer/autumn of 2022.
1. "Pre-history", whereby the reader is interested primarily in the traditions that the original audiences of the text are presumed to have been known, and to which the Biblical text responds.
2. "Reading between the seams", whereby the reader aims to identify, analyze and understand the smaller units that comprise the text in its present form, and the process of their interweaving into a single text.
3. "Center and Periphery", whereby the reader aims to identify a Biblical text as central or peripheral within the ancient Israelite cultures (and specific schools of thought) that produced it.
4. "Post-history," whereby the reader alternately "tries on spectacles" worn by the early Jewish (and Christian) readers of the Hebrew Bible, and then removes them.
The first meeting will demonstrate, very briefly, each of these reading techniques; the second meeting will apply them to a selected text.
Dr. Naphtali Mesheljoined the Department of Bible and the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2016. His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible in its ancient Near Eastern contexts, and on its early interpreters. Within the broader study of religion, he has a particular interest in Sanskrit literature. His first book, “The Grammar of Sacrifice”, examines the ancient intuition that sacrificial rituals, like languages, are governed by “grammars.” His research interests include ancient models for the “science of ritual”; systems of pollution and purification; and mechanisms of double entendre in Wisdom Literature. He previously taught at the Moscow State University for the Humanities and at Princeton University. He is currently Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion.
I am Kenji Kuroda, Project Assistant Professor at the Center for Modern Middle East Studies of the National Museum of Ethnology.
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a special research workshop on February 25 with simultaneous interpretation in English.
If you are interested in attending, please see the details below and register by February 24.
We look forward to your participation.
Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies and Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University invite Heba El-Laithy (Cairo University), and hold a research seminar on poverty and inequality in Egypt.
Heba El-Laithy is an expert in statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. Her field of study is poverty and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East region, using the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey (HIECS).
In this seminar, she will talk about the trends in poverty and inequality in Egypt, using the recent HIECS, conducted in October 2019 - March 2020, just before the Covid-19 outbreak. The HIECS (Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey) is the survey conducted periodically by CAPMAS (Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics) to identify changes in consumption patterns and measure the poverty rate. She will also talk about the state of household employment and consumption prior to the pandemic.
Heba El-Laithy has conducted many researches on poverty and inequality in Egypt and Middle East. Her recent publications include`:
Measuring Happiness Among Egyptian Youth”, (2020) in World Economics Vol. 21 No. 2, pages 299- 322, April-June 2020,(Jointly with Dina Armanious and Hadeer Farag).
El-Laithy, Heba, and Dina Armanious. 2019. “Middle Class in Egypt: Size, Trends and Profile.” Chapter 2 in Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt, Background Papers, World Bank. 2019. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Multidimensional Deprivation in Egypt (2021) in World Economics Vol. 22 • No. 1 • January–March 2021,(Jointly with Noha Omar)
Mobility in Income Poverty Between 2010 and 2015 in Egypt, (2019) in World Economics • Vol. 20 • No. 1 • January–April 2019 (Jointly with Dina Armanious).
Determinants and Measures of Inequality , (2015) in Economic and Social Development of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries, by Ayadi, R., Dabrowski, Marek, De Wulf, Luc (Eds.), published by Springer
Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Finance on Rural Inequality: Evidence from Egypt, (2017) in World Economics • Vol. 18 • No. 1 • January–April 2017 (Jointly with Ahmed Rostom and Lamia Donia).
Estimation of Poverty in Greater Cairo: Case Study of Three ‘Unplanned’ Areas, 2013, African Development Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2013, 173–188. (jointly with Erina Iwasaki).
Financing Options and Challenges to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Egypt , 2013, in Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East , by Rob Vos and Marco V. Sánchez, (eds), ( the chapter was coauthored Jointly with Motaz Khorshid, Ahmed Kamaly and Sohair Abou El-Enein).
Equality of Opportunity for Children , in Egypt, 2000–2009, 2012,(2014) Policy Research Working Paper number 6159, World Bank.(Jointly with Carlos E. Vélez and Sherine Al-Shawarby).
Final Meeting for the Comparative Study of Donation (Endowment) at the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) in Tokyo
12 - 13 February 2022
Strategy of Donation (Endowment):
Its Purposes and Social Benefits in a Comparative Perspective
Donation of properties has been prevalent in all regions throughout human history, but the fundamental question of why one performs the paradoxical act of donation, giving one’s own property to a third party, is unclear.
To answer this question, at the final meeting we will present and discuss a common topic, “Purposes and Social Benefit of Donation (Endowment),” from a comparative perspective.
First Day (February 12, Saturday)
Session 1 Japan 18:00-20:30, Singapore/Malaysia 17:00-19:30, Germany/France 10:00-12:30
Donation Strategy: Regional and Cultural Variety
Zachary Chitwood （University of Mainz）, Sovereign Patronage and Annuity Endowments in the Byzantine World
Sanjukta Datta (Ashoka University), Maintaining the Bridge of Merit: Kingship and the Perpetuation of Land Endowments in Premodern India
Ignacio Sánchez (University of Warwick), Everlasting or Conditional Charity? Uses and Purposes of Movable Waqfs in Pre-Modern Islam
Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Shi'ite Waqfs in Early Modern Iran: An Islamic Variant?
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Session 2 Japan 21:30-23:30, Singapore/Malaysia 20:30-22:30, Germany/France 13:30-15:30
Purposes and Social Benefits of Donation: Comparative Perspectives Toru Miura (Toyo Bunko), Comparative Perspectives on Donation and Endowment by Japanese Research Team Mio Kishimoto (Toyo Bunko), What is the “Self”?: The Elastic Ego and Charity Movements in Early Modern China
Second Day (February 13, Sunday)
Session 3 Japan 18:00-20:00, Singapore/ Malaysia 17:00-19:00, Germany/France 10:00-12:00 Changing Strategies of Donation in Modern and Contemporary Times
Tillmann Lohse (Humbolte University in Berlin), A Proposal for a Universal Taxonomy of Foundations Randi Deguilhem (Aix-Marseille University), Institutionalizing Personal Network Strategies via Choice of Waqf Beneficiaries: Examples from the Ottoman World
Ichiko Shiga (Ibaraki Christian University), Donations and Rewards in the Fundraising System of Chinese Charitable Organizations: A Case of Chaozhonese Shantang
Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin (Global University of Islamic Finance), Sadaqah and Waqf and their Social Impact ( A Case of Rida’ al Walidain Organization/Sudan)
Session 4 Japan 20:00-21:00, Singapore/ Malaysia 19:00-20:00, Germany/France 12:00-13:00
イスラーム教徒の同性愛者たちをテーマにしたドキュメンタリー映画『A Jihad for Love』（米2008年）のオンライン上映会を開催します。本人もゲイ・ムスリムであるパーヴェズ・シャルマ監督も登壇します。ムスリム社会におけるLGBTという問題を切り口に、聖典の解釈をめぐる議論や、性的少数者の権利など、現代的な諸問題を考えるきっかけになれば幸いです。多くの方々のご参加をお待ちしております。
