Workshop: Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th-15th c.), Università di Napoli L’Orientale, 27-28 fév. 2025
The project Faire société: modèles normatifs et hétéronomie dans les islams minoritaires headed by Cyrille Aillet (Université Lumière Lyon 2, CIHAM) and funded by the French Institute of Islamology (2023-2026) is organizing together with the Università di Napoli L’Orientale the workshop entitled Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th-15th Centuries) to be held on February 27 and 28, 2025 at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale. This workshop seeks to energize new research perspectives on sectarian Islam (Shīʿism and Ibāḍism) from the formative period of Islam to the 15th century.
Organizers
Enki Baptiste, postdoc in Medieval History and Islamology (project Faire société dans les islams minoritaires), Université Lumière Lyon 2, CIHAM; associated researcher at CEFREPA.
Athina Pfeiffer, PhD student in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.
Clément Salah, PhD candidate in Medieval History, Sorbonne University (UMR 8167) and University of Lausanne (IHAR).
Contact: projetfairesociete@gmail.com
Program
Day 1 – Thursday, February 27
9:30 Welcome coffee
Introduction
10:00–10:15
Enki Baptiste (Lyon 2 University), Athina Pfeiffer (Princeton University), Clément Salah (Sorbonne University; University of Lausanne), Introduction.
10:15–10:45
Najam I. Haider (Barnard College; Columbia University), Keynote.
Coffee break (15 minutes)
Panel 1. Spatialization and temporality of prayer
Chair: Najam Haider
11:00–11:45
Aila Santi (Leiden University), “Reclaiming Conflicted Spaces in Early Imāmī Shīʿism: the Great Mosques of Medina and Kūfa (2nd/8th–4th/10th centuries ca.).”
Discussant: Fathi Jarray
11:45–12:30
Fathi Jarray (University of Tunis), “Moments of Prayers and Direction of qibla on Islamic Sundials (mizwala-s).”
Discussant: Aila Santi
Lunch time (one hour and half)
Panel 2. Powers and prayer (II)
Chair: Clément Salah
14:45–15:30
Mateusz Wilk (University of Warsaw), “Policing Prayer, Loathing Innovation: A Tradition on ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd.”
Discussant: Maribel Fierro
Coffee break (15 minutes)
15:45–16:30
Maribel Fierro (CSIS), “The Almohad Prayer: Imposition and Contestation.”
Discussant: Mateusz Wilk
16:30–17:00. Debate and conclusion
Day 2 – Friday, February 28
Panel 3. The social role of the imam
Chair: Athina Pfeiffer
10:00–10:45
Zahra Azhar (Leiden University), “Strategic Participation in Major Prayers: Shīʿa Imams’ Soft Resistance and Identity Formation (658-818).”
Discussant: Salah Bahmani
10:45–11:30
Adam Ramadhan (Leiden University), “Asking the Imām about the imām: Prayer Leadership in the Early Imāmī Community.”
Discussant: Zahra Azhar
Coffee break (15 minutes)
11:45–12:30
Salah Bahmani (EPHE), “The Ibadis and the Friday Prayer: History of a Controversial Rite.”
Discussant: Adam Ramadhan
Lunch time (one hour and half)
Panel 4. Powers and prayer (II)
Chair: Enki Baptiste
14:00–14:45
Hasan Al-Khoee (Institute of Ismaili Studies), “Silencing the Audience: Centralisation, Ritualisation and the Contestation of the Friday khuṭba in Kūfa and Baṣra (1st-2nd/7th-8th centuries).”
Discussant: Vanessa Van Renterghem
14:45–15:30
Nassima Neggaz (New College of Florida), “The Barāthā Mosque of Baghdad: Prayer, Contestation, and Violence (941-1058 CE).”
Discussant: Hassan Al-Khoee
Coffee break (15 minutes)
15:45–16:30
Vanessa Van Rentherghem (INaLCO) “Fighting over the minbar. Prayer Conflicts and Community Building in a Fragmented Context. (Baghdad, 11th-12th centuries).”
Discussant: Nassima Neggaz
16:30–17:00. Debate and conclusion
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Enki Baptiste (3 février 2025). Workshop: Policing the Prayer in Sectarian Islam: Spaces, Temporalities, Coercion (7th-15th c.), Università di Napoli L’Orientale, 27-28 fév. 2025. Diwan. Consulté le 16 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/138b2