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DESCRIPTION:November 26\, 2020\, 1:30 PM EST (UTC -5).\n\nDr Florian Zemmin
 \, Leipzig University\, will speak on:\n\nThe Secular in Middle East and I
 slamicate History \n\nHosted on Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/s/83909416415
  Passcode 870227\n\nThe Keenan Chair of Interfaith Studies and the James M
 cGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy are collaborating in a reflection on
  religion\, Islam\, and cosmopolitanism associated with ���ϲ�����’s academic 
 tradition of Islamic Studies\, and epitomized by scholars such as Wilfred 
 Cantwell Smith\, Fazlur Rahman\, and Toshihiko Izutsu. In preparation for 
 the Keenan Conference on World Religions and Globalization\, to be held in
  Montreal in Spring 2022\, we are hosting an online lecture series titled 
 ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion: History\, Theory\, and Society.
 \n\nWhile the study of the Islamosphere has stimulated a critical reconcep
 tualization of the notion of religion\, we would like to extend this refle
 ction to how religious concepts have been embedded in broader views of his
 tory and society\, including the Western colonial construction of the “Mid
 dle East” as the cradle not just of Islam but of all Abrahamic religions. 
 Some of the lectures will contribute to such reflections also through the 
 foil of the interdisciplinary legacy of Ibn Khaldun\, a champion of non-We
 stern thought and precursor of social theory.\n\nThe second speaker in the
  series will be Florian Zemmin\, Leipzig University. The title of the lect
 ure\, which will be followed by a Q&A\, is The Secular in Middle East and 
 Islamicate History. The lecture is based on a chapter that Dr Zemmin is co
 ntributing to The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East in c
 ourse of publication (both online and in print) with Oxford University Pre
 ss\, edited by Armando Salvatore\, Sari Hanafi\, and Kieko Obuse. Sari Han
 afi will serve as a discussant of the lecture.\n\nAbstract: Islam is all t
 oo frequently regarded as the other of secular (Western) modernity. Someti
 mes this perception extends to Middle Eastern societies\, for which Islam 
 allegedly plays a constitutive role. However\, secularity\, the difference
  between religion and the secular\, has been shaping modern societies in t
 he Middle East too. Moreover\, recent scholarship has highlighted patterns
  of secularity both within modern Islamic thought and in Islamicate histor
 y.\n\nThe lecture first establishes the factual secularity of modern Middl
 e Eastern societies\, focusing on the relation between religion and politi
 cs. Moving from structures to ideas\, it then shows how modern Islamic tho
 ught conceptualized secularity. Examples from Islamicate history will make
  clear that secularity in the Middle East was not the exclusive product of
  colonial modernity\, but drew also on earlier distinctions between religi
 on and the secular.\n\nFlorian Zemmin is Senior Researcher at the Centre f
 or Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Multiple Secula
 rities - Beyond the West\, Beyond Modernities\,” Leipzig University. He is
  the author of Modernity in Islamic Tradition. The Concept of ‘Society’ in
  the Journal al-Manar (Cairo\, 1898–1940) (De Gruyter\, 2018) and co-edito
 r of Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles
  Taylor's Master Narrative (De Gruyter\, 2016) and Islam in der Moderne\, 
 Moderne im Islam. Eine Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze zum 65. Geburtstag
  (Brill\, 2018).\n
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SUMMARY:ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion
URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/reorienting-globa
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