BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250731T203045EDT-06589nzNvw@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250801T003045Z DESCRIPTION:January 7\, 2021\, 1:30 PM EST (UTC -5).\n\nDr. Dyala Hamzah\, Université de Montréal\, will speak on:\n\n“(De)commissioning Ibn Khaldun? Sufis\, Statesmen and Publicists during the Long Nineteenth century”\n\nH osted on Zoom: Meeting ID: 89033587339\,\n Passcode: 1234\n\nThe Keenan Cha ir of Interfaith Studies and the James ϲ Professor of Islamic Philoso phy are collaborating in a reflection on religion\, Islam\, and cosmopolit anism associated with ϲ’s academic tradition of Islamic Studies\, and epitomized by scholars such as Wilfred Cantwell Smith\, Fazlur Rahman\, a nd Toshihiko Izutsu. In preparation for the Keenan Conference on World Rel igions and Globalization\, to be held in Montreal in Spring 2022\, we are hosting an online lecture series titled ReOrienting the Global Study of Re ligion: History\, Theory\, and Society.\n\nAbstract: The Ibn Khaldun of th e long 19th century is usually either conjured as a theoretical framework in order to make sense of the venture of Islamic reform or broken down to a cluster of atomized concepts which then one attempts to trace in the tho ught of said Islamic reformers. Both these readings partake in the uneasy assumption of a “European discovery” of Ibn Khaldun\, and both obfuscate t he fact that while the 14th century historian did not advocate reform\, re formists had no vested interest in the discipline of history.\n\nTaking a step back from the usual genealogies of Islamic reform\, this lecture expl ores the impact of such disjunctive readings on our reconstructions of ind ividual trajectories that made up this long 19th century. It posits that t he significance of their Khaldunian engagements by such Islamic entreprene urs as the mystic Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Sanusi (1787-1859)\, the statesman Khayreddine Pasha (1822-1890) and the publicist Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865 -1935) can only accrue if we problematize the extent to which Ibn Khaldun had become naturalized by the time of the Tanzimat and the Nahda\, within the so-called Ottoman center and its peripheries\, in sufi networks\, bure aucratic practice and the public sphere.\n\nDyala Hamzah is Associate Prof essor of Arab History\, Université de Montréal. She is the author of the f orthcoming Muhammad Rashid Rida ou le tournant salafiste (CNRS Éditions\, 2021) and editor of The Making of the Arab Intellectual (Routledge\, 2013) .\n DTSTART:20210107T063000Z DTEND:20210107T200000Z SUMMARY:ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion - Dyala Hamzah URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/reorienting-globa l-study-religion-dyala-hamzah-326766 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR