The 2001-2002 Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago

SAWYER SEMINAR ON ISLAM

COLLOQUIUM


RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATIONS FROM MEDIEVAL TO EARLY MODERN


FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2002

PROGRAM:

09:00-09:30 Breakfast

09:30-09:45 Opening Remarks
Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)

09:45-10:45 William Chittick (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Reflections on Shams-i Tabrizi

11:00-12:00 Devin DeWeese (University of Indiana)
Modes of Legitimation, Succession, and the Transmission of Authority in Sufi Communities
of Central Asia, 13th-16th Centuries

12:00-01:00 Lunch Break

01:00-02:00 Michael Chamberlain (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Warlord Politics and Urban Institutions in the High Medieval Middle East

02:15-03:15 Nenad Filipovic (Princeton University)
The Khuruj of Black Man. The Character of the Movement of Jovan Nenada
in the Southern Hungary and the Consequences of the Battle of Mohacs in 1526

03:30-05:30 Discussion
Discussants:
Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)
Shahzad Bashir (Carleton College)
Ahmet Karamustafa (Washington University-St. Louis)
Adnan Husain (New York University)

Location
The Franke Institute for the Humanitites
Seminar Room JRL S-118
(1100 E. 57th St.)

Sponsored by
the A.W. Mellon Foundation
and
the Franke Institute for the Humanities of the University of Chicago

For questions and more information, please contact
Fehrullah Terkan at (f-terkan@uchicago.edu) or call (773) 834-4813.
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