[Discussion] "Majalis ul-ushaq"

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From: Jamal Elias <jjelias@amherst.edu
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_js=1.4&is_ssl=1&cmps_to=jjelias@amherst.edu>>

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Majalis ul-ushaq: Portrait, Poetry and Biography in the Iranian World

Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002

October 15th 2004, 1:00 to 5 pm, Chapin Hall, Room 101


* Session I: 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm

"Admonishing Words and Exemplary Bodies: Toward a 'Fair and Balanced'
Approach to the History of Sufism," Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College

"On Seeing: Relationships of Resemblance in Pre-modern Islamic
Thought," Jamal J. Elias, Amherst College

"Divine Devotion and Filial Failure: The Pattern of Ignoring Parental
Concerns in Some Sufi Hagiographies," Farooq Hamid, Whittier College

* Session II: 2:45 pm to 4 pm:

"Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval
Sufi Communities: The Khalvati-`Ishqi-Shattari Continuum,"
Devin Deweese, Indiana University

"Portraiture and Biography: Sufi Images in Sixteenth Century
Manuscripts," E. Sara Wolper, University of New Hampshire

"Defining Kingship and Authority in Early Safavid Painting: Lessons
from the 1604 Shahnama of Firdawsi," Kishwar Rizvi, Barnard College

Discussion: 410 pm to 5 pm:
Discussion led by Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

Reception: 5 pm

Paid for by the Willis Wood Fund and Hamilton Fund at Amherst College

For further information, please contact
Ms. Diane Dix <dldix@amherst.edu
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413-542-2181 or
Jamal Elias <jjelias@amherst.edu
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413-542-2285.