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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


Enki Baptiste

Postdoctorant en histoire médiévale et en islamologie (Université Lumière Lyon 2 - CIHAM UMR 5648), chercheur associé au CEFREPA USR 3141

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