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August 25-26, 2017, Central European University, Budapest

 

 

August 24, 2017

 

Participants arriving through the day to the Raoul Wallenberg Guest House

 

19:00                 Informal gathering for drinks and dinner (location TBA)

 

August 25, 2017

 

CEU, Nador utca 11, Room # 004

 

9:00-9:30       Coffee and Breakfast

 

9:30-9:45        Introductory Remarks

 

9:45-11:00               Panel 1: Ottoman Reception of Pre-Ottoman Theological Trends

 

Commentator: Sait Özervarlı (Yıldız Technical University)

 

Sara Nur Yıldız (Koç University ANAMED)

Creed and Kalam: the Ottoman Reception of Intellectual Trends Emerging from the Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid World

 

Nabil al-Tikriti (University of Mary Washington)

Every Soul Tastes Death: Şehzade Korkud’s 1508 Da‘wat al-nafs al-ṭāliḥa and the Politics of Piety

 

11:00-11:15   Coffee break

 

11:15-12:30                  Panel 2: Ottoman Reception of Pre-Ottoman Legal Discourse

 

                                                        Commentator: Guy Burak (Bobst Library, NYU)  

 

Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University)

Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-shar‘iyya and the Early Modern Ottomans

 

Yavuz Aykan (Boğaziçi University)

A legal concept in motion:  The archeology of the concept of “the spreader of corruption” from the Qarakhanid to the early modern Ottoman jurisprudence

 

12:45-14:15   Lunch and Coffee

 

14:30-16:00                  Panel 3:  Formation of an Ottoman Confessional Canon?

 

Commentator: Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan)

 

Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

State and Religion, "Sunnitization” and “Confessionalism" in Süleyman's Time (based on İlmihal literature)

 

Ahmet Kaylı (Sabancı University/ Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi)

Dissemination of the Religious Works of Birgivi Mehmed Efendi (d.981/1573) in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Centuries: A Study in Reception

 

Baki Tezcan (University of California, Davis)

The Canon of a Populist Reformation: The Treatises of Birgivi, Rumi, and Kadızade

 

16:00-16:15   Coffee Break

 

16:15-17:45                 Panel 4: Articulating and Enforcing Confessional Boundaries

 

Commentator: Tijana Krstić (CEU)

 

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (College of William and Mary)

Rethinking Kızılbaş Persecutions through the Lens of Sunni Confessionalization

 

Devin J. Stewart (Emory University)

Mirza Makhdum: A High-Level Safavid Defector to the Ottomans

 

Ferenc Csirkés (Sabancı University)

How to Convert a Crimean Khan to Shiism? A Theological Treatise in Turkic from Safavid Iran

 

19:00  Dinner

 

 

August 26, 2017

 

CEU, Nador utca 15, # 101 (Quantum Room)

 

9:00—9:30     Breakfast and Coffee

 

9:30-10:45              Panel 5: Mosques and Tekkes as Sites of Sunnitization

 

Commentator: Gülrü Necipoğlu (Harvard University)

 

Grigor Boykov (Center for Regional Studies and Analyses; University of Sofia)

Encouraging Sunnitization in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli: Halveti-turned Dervish Convents in Thrace

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Ünver Rüstem (Johns Hopkins University)

The Performance of Piety in the Post-Classical Sultanic Mosque

 

10:45-11:00   Coffe Break

 

11:00-12:15       Panel 6: Preaching and Teaching to Worship Like You Mean It   

 

Commentator: Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi University)

 

Aslıhan Gürbüzel (McGill University)

The Preacher’s Multiple Publics: Intermediation as a Useful Framework for Understanding the Historical Role of Preachers

 

Guy Burak (Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University)

"Do Not Recite without Understanding the Meaning:" Prayers, Commentaries and Supplicants in the Ottoman Empire

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12:30-14:00  Lunch and Coffee

 

14:00-15:15    Panel 7: Mahalles as Contexts of Religious and Social Disciplining

 

Commentator: Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University)

 

Evren H. Sunnetcioğlu (CEU)

Negotiating Sunni Islam in Ottoman Neighborhoods: Imams and Their Communities in Light of 16th- and 17th-Century Ottoman Fetvas

 

Rossitsa Gradeva (American University of Bulgaria)

The mahalle as a battleground: Muslims versus non-Muslims in defence of ‘their’ territory

 

15:15-15:30   Coffee Break

 

15:30-17:00  Panel 8: Negotiating Conceptual Space for the Confessional Other

 

Commentator: Devin Stewart (Emory University)

 

Nir Shafir (University of California, San Diego)

Reading Heresy and Heresiographies in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire

 

Vefa Erginbaş (Providence College)

Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic history: Approaches towards Yazid b. Muawiyah in the Ottoman historical writing before 1650

 

Selim Güngörürler (Bogaziçi University/OTTOCONFESSION)

Safavid requests of Ottoman permission for donations to Islamic Holy Sites in Iraq and Hijaz, 1696-1706

 

17:00-18:00  Conclusions

 

19:00  Dinner