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<P>Workshop</P>
<P>Islam and Enlightenment</P>
<P>A two-day workshop organised jointly by the Centre for Asian and Middle
Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), The University of Adelaide, and the School of
Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne.</P>
<P>Melbourne, 25th - 26th September 2008</P>
<P>Traditional scholarship mapped the Enlightenment as a uniquely European
experience, but recent scholarship has revealed the eighteenth century as a
period of axial change across the world. The relativisation of cultural systems,
the unseating of religious certainty, the development of civic publics, and the
rapid advance of technological innovation marked the leading European societies
of this period. But these developments unfolded within, and were in many ways
dependent upon a context of global trade and exchange. Expanding interest in
non-European ideas, religions and techniques, the increase in mobility, and
ultimately the colonization of societies outside Europe, brought ever greater
contact. Nowhere was this more evident than in relation to the Muslim world
which overlapped with Europe at its borders and in many areas into which
Europeans were moving. The great empires of Islam dominated much of the world at
the beginning of the century, and Europeans often built upon long-established
Muslim trading networks. Workshop Presenters</P>
<P>* Samer Akkach, University of Adelaide<BR>* Ian Coller, University of
Melbourne<BR>* Dana Sajdi, Boston College</P>
<P>THE BARBER OF DAMASCUS:</P>
<P>Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Levant</P>
<P>* Konstantinos Thanasakis, UCLA</P>
<P>THE WORLD TROUGH LINES:</P>
<P>Osman B. Abdülmennan’s Translation of Geographia Generalis</P>
<P>* Andrew Schulz, University of Oregon</P>
<P>ANTIGÜEDADES ÁRABES DE ESPANA:</P>
<P>Representing Spain’s Islamic Past in the Age of Enlightenment</P>
<P>* Fatma Tütüncü, Abant Izzet Baysal University</P>
<P>‘THOU SHALT (NOT) OPEN A DEAD BODY’:</P>
<P>Science, Medicine and Religion in the Making of Modern Ottoman/Turkish
Subjects</P>
<P>* Leticia Anderson, University of Sydney</P>
<P>CONSEQUENCES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT:</P>
<P>Western Muslims in the modern era</P>
<P>* Thierry Rigogne, Fordham University</P>
<P>FROM TURKISH COFFEE TO PARISIAN CAFÉ:</P>
<P>The Oriental Origins of a French Institution</P>
<P>* Albrecht Hofheinz, University of Oslo</P>
<P>ILLUMINATION AND ENGLIGHTENMENT REVISITED, or:</P>
<P>Pietism and the Roots of Islamic Modernity</P>
<P>* Adrian Jones, La Trobe University</P>
<P>PRESENTING THE OTTOMANS TO ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE:</P>
<P>Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Lore of Decline and Law of War</P>
<P>* Saeed A. Khan, Wayne State University</P>
<P>THE IMPACT OF ROUSSEAU AND VOLTAIRE ON 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY MUSLIM
INTELLECTUALS</P>
<P>* Levent Kirval, Ghent University</P>
<P>ROUSSEAUIAN PARADOX OF TURKISH ENLIGHTENMENT:</P>
<P>For How Long Can You ‘Force People to be Free’ in a Muslim Setting?</P>
<P>For queries about attending this event, please contact:</P>
<P>Samer Akkach: samer.akkach@adelaide.edu.au</P>
<P>Ian Coller: icoller@unimelb.edu.au</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>