The following program is subject to change, and should be verified by the printed program distributed by the AAR.
That program will contain the room assignments.
Study of Islam Section
Saturday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Theme: Producing the Sacred: Architecture and Rhetoric from
Jerusalem to China
Linda G. Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Khutba and the Transmission of Culture in Medieval al-Andalus
and the Maghreb
Walid Saleh, Middlebury College
The Transformation of Medieval Qur'an Exegesis
Margaret A. Leeming, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Structure of Sacrality in the Arabic Literary Imagination:
Djughrafiya and Fada'il as Prosaic Maps of Medieval Baghdad and
Jerusalem
Yuan-Lin Tsai, Nanhua University
The Origin and Development of the Chinese Muslim Madrasa in
Ming-Qing Era
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A271 Special Topics Forum
Theme: The Teaching and Study of Religion post
September 11, 2001
Saturday, November 17, 2001
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
ADM-Grand Ballroom II
Brief remarks will be made by:
Catherine L. Albanese, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rebecca S. Chopp, Yale University
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University
Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
Lawrence Sullivan, Harvard University
Discussion with audience to follow.
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Study of Islam Section
Saturday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Arthur F. Buehler, Louisiana State University, Presiding
Theme: The Quest for Spiritual Authority in Islam
Hugh Talat Halman, University of Arkansas
Vesting Authority: How Initiations with Khidr and Uways Impact
the Authority of the Murshid
Scott A. Kugle, Swarthmore College
Master Without a Master? Ahmad Zarru¯q and Spiritual Authority
in Early-Modern North Africa
Laury Silvers-Alario, State University of New York, Stony Brook
A Reassessment of Fritz Meier's Definition of the Teaching
Relationship in Early Sufism
Frederick S. Colby, Duke University
Cloaked in Spiritual Authority: Sufis, Non-Sufis, and the
Investiture of the Khirqa
Robert Rozehnal, Duke University
Like a Corpse in the Hands of a Washerman: The Adab of
Master-Disciple Relations among the Chishti-Sabiri Sufis of
Pakistan
Responding:
Qamar-ul Huda, Boston College
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Study of Islam Section
Sunday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Presiding
Theme: Signifying Women: Representation, Dress, and Islamic Law
Kecia Ali, Duke University
Women, Gender, and Islamic Law: Teaching about Classical
Doctrine, Court Practice, and Contemporary Legal Reform
Hollie Kopp, Colorado State University
Dress and Diversity: Muslim Women's Dress Choice in an Immigrant
Context
Mehnaz Afridi, National University
Perceptions of Muslim Women: Stereotypes, Myths, and the
Imagination
Lynda Clarke, Concordia University
Recent Debates over Child Custody in the Islamic Republic of Iran
and the Struggle for Women's Rights
Business Meeting
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College and Jonathan E. Brockopp, Bard
College, Presiding
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A272 Special Topics Forum
Theme: September 11, 2001 and Islam
Sunday, November 18, 2001
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
ADM-Grand Ballroom II
Brief remarks will be made by:
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College
Bruce Lawrence, Duke University
Discussion with audience to follow.
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North American Religions Section and Study of Islam
Section
Sunday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Gisela Webb, Seton Hall University, Presiding
Theme: Islamic Mysticism in North America
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University
The Bridge of Faith: Ethics in Isma'ili Spirituality
Alan Godlas, University of Georgia
Sufi Orders on the World Wide Web: Interconnected or
Isolationist?
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University Chicago
Literary Productions of American Sufi Movements
David Damrel, Arizona State University
Apocalyptic Themes in New World Islamic Mysticism
Responding:
Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Please join us for iftar immediately following this session.
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Study of Islam Section
Monday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding
Theme: "Travelling Home": Wilfred Cantwell Smith and
the Study of Religion
Panelists:
Frederick M. Denny, University of Colorado at Boulder
William A. Graham, Harvard University
Amir Hussain, California State University, Northridge
Diana L. Eck, Harvard University
Tamara Sonn, College of William and Mary
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Religion in South Asia Section
Monday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College, Presiding
Theme: Accounting for Islam in Hindu Experience
James W. Laine, Macalester College
Hinduism Textbooks and the Silencing of Islam
Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University
The Muslim Other of Digital Dharma
Peter Gottschalk, Southwestern University and Mathew N. Schmalz,
College of the Holy Cross
Hinduism and Islam in the Virtual Village
Responding:
Linda Hess, Stanford University
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Study of Islam Section
Monday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Gordon D. Newby, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Negotiating Cultural Identities in Text, Sites, and Media
Juan E. Campo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Virtual Pilgrimage? The Hajj in the Modern Media
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Yale University
Regarding the Islamic Polemic behind the De Rationibus Fidei of
Saint Thomas
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Georgia State University
Postmodernity, Postmodernism, and Islam
Ruth Mas, University of Toronto
Rediscovering Islam in a Diasporic World: Islam as Master
Narrative in the Philosophical Discourse of Mohammed Arkoun,
Fethi Benslama, and Abdelkebir Khatibi
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Study of Islam Section
Tuesday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
Zeki Saritoprak, Georgetown University, Presiding
Theme: Modes of Knowledge in Sufi Literature
Jack Renard, Saint Louis University
Experiential Knowledge of God in Classical Sufi Manuals
Omid Safi, Colgate University
God-Knowledge from the Heart: Modes of Sufi Knowledge according
to Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani
Michael Sells, Haverford College
Love as Knowledge in the Mystical Thought of Ibn `Arabi
Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington University
Experiential Knowledge according to Aziz-i Nasafi
Responding:
Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
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While the following papers are not part of the panels
organized by the study of Islam section, their topic no doubt
will be of interest to many Islamicists:
A135 Abstract
NEW PROGRAM UNIT
Anthropology of Religion Consultation
Sunday, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Dress and Adornment: Marking Identity and Building
Religious Worlds
Edward E. Curtis, Trinity University
Marking the Black Body in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam
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A151 Abstract
Men's Studies in Religion Group
Sunday, 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Theme: The Policing of Women in Male Scriptures
Farid Esack, Auburn Theological Seminary
Islam and the Construction of Male Desire
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Religion, Culture, and Communication Consultation
Monday, 9:00 am-11:30 am
Theme I: Marketing Religion: Historical Approaches
Theme II: Religions of the Word in the Age of the Image
Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University
Is It Always "The Media's" Fault? - Islam,
Protestantism, and Media (Mis-)Representations
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