[Discussion] CONF.- Mazars in Ferghana and Xinjiang, Nov. 26-27, 2005, Tokyo

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From: Minoru Sawada <sawada@hmt.toyama-u.ac.jp>

CONF.- Mazars in Ferghana and Xinjiang, Nov. 26-27, 2005, Tokyo

Venue: Conference room, 4th floor OGURA Building, Suidobashi, Tokyo, Japan
Address: 1-11-14 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

Organized by:

Minoru Sawada
Yasushi Shinmen
Jun Sugawara
Yayoi Kawahara

Supported by:

Study on Islamic Sacred Places in Central Asia project, sponsored by The
Nara International Foundation -Commemorating the Silk Road Exposition.

Investigative Study regarding Transformations in Uighur Communities and Ethnic
Identities in Central Asia project, sponsored by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for
Scientific Research (research category "A")

Preservation, Compilation, and Annotation of Mazar Documents in Ferghana and
Xinjiang project, sponsored by the Toyota Foundation.

Online Resources for Inner Asian Studies (ORIAS) project, subproject of GICAS
(Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts), Research
Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, TUFS

Please note:

The conference is open to all interested; however, as capacity at the meeting
space is limited, organizers may not be able to accept all requests to
participate.

So please note that *advance registration is required to attend.* Please
send the following to: sawada@hmt.toyama-u.ac.jp

Name (given name/surname):
E-mail:
Institution:
Country:

Conference organizers are not able to cover travel, accommodation and other
expenses of participants, those willing to take part in this event are kindly
requested to find their own sources for funding their participation.

Registration fee: JPY 1,000 (Student, JPY 500)

Questions? Feel free to contact Minoru Sawada at: sawada@hmt.toyama-u.ac.jp

Conference Program:

1st Day (26th of November)

PM 13:00-18:00

Session 1 (Chair: Yasushi Tonaga, Kyoto University, Japan)

Minoru Sawada (Toyama University, Japan)
Towards Classification of Mazars in Ferghana Valley

Ashirbek Muminov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Minstry of Education and
Science, Kazakhstan)
Historical and Theological Interpretations of Sacred Places in Ferghana Valley

Tea break

Nadirbek Abdulahatov (Ferghana Regional Museum, Uzbekistan)
Farg'ona vodiysida Hazrat Ali ('Ali ibn Abi Talib) kul'ti (in Uzbek language)
(Cult of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib in Fergana Valley)

Rahile Dawut (Xinjiang University, China)
Mazar Worship among the Uyghur Women

Reception 18:30 - 20:30 at Italian Restaurant "Favore"

2nd Day (27th of November)

AM 9:30-12:30

Session 2 (Hisao Komatsu, Tokyo University, Japan)

Edmund Waite (London University, UK)
>From Holy Man to National Villain: Popular Historical Narratives about Apaq
Khoja in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province China

Alexandre Papas (EHESS, France)
Promoting Saints and Mazars: The religious policy of Afaq Khwaja in 17th-Century
Tarim Basin

Tea break

Sergei Abashin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Mazary Boboi-ob i Suleiman-tog: sravnitelnyi analiz (in Russian)
(Mazars of Bobo-ob and Suleiman-tog: Comparative Analysis)

Thierry Zarcone (CNRS, France)
Atypical Mausoleum: the case of the Solomon Throne (Kirghizistan): itinerary -
pilgrimage, qadamgah and demons-cult

Lunch break

PM 13:30-18:00

Session 3: (Chair: Hiroshi Umemura, Chuo University, Japan)

Jianxin Wang (Zhongshan University, China)
Cultural Connotation of Saint Mausoleums in the Turpan Basin: An Anthropological
Approach to Uyghur Islam and Folk Beliefs

Jun Sugawara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Mausoleums and the Historical Sources in East Xinjiang

Tea break

Yayoi Kawahara (JSPS Research Fellow, Japan)
Tazkira of Qutayba ibn Muslim and his Mazar in Ferghana Valley

Yasushi Shinmen (Chuo University, Japan)
Buzurg Khan Tora and his Mazar at Katta Kenagas Village in Ferghana Valley

Tea break

General Discussion (Chair: Masami Hamada, Kyoto University, Japan)

Discussants:

Hodong Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Tetsuya Otoshi (Kyushu University, Japan)
Setsuko Yoshida (Shikokugakuin University, Japan)




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