[Bilimsel Haber] Islam and Enlightenment (Melbourne, 25th - 26th September 2008)

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Workshop

Islam and Enlightenment

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.

Melbourne, 25th - 26th September 2008

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

* Samer Akkach, University of Adelaide
* Ian Coller, University of Melbourne
* Dana Sajdi, Boston College

THE BARBER OF DAMASCUS:

Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Levant

* Konstantinos Thanasakis, UCLA

THE WORLD TROUGH LINES:

Osman B. Abdülmennan’s Translation of Geographia Generalis

* Andrew Schulz, University of Oregon

ANTIGÜEDADES ÁRABES DE ESPANA:

Representing Spain’s Islamic Past in the Age of Enlightenment

* Fatma Tütüncü, Abant Izzet Baysal University

‘THOU SHALT (NOT) OPEN A DEAD BODY’:

Science, Medicine and Religion in the Making of Modern Ottoman/Turkish
Subjects

* Leticia Anderson, University of Sydney

CONSEQUENCES OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT:

Western Muslims in the modern era

* Thierry Rigogne, Fordham University

FROM TURKISH COFFEE TO PARISIAN CAFÉ:

The Oriental Origins of a French Institution

* Albrecht Hofheinz, University of Oslo

ILLUMINATION AND ENGLIGHTENMENT REVISITED, or:

Pietism and the Roots of Islamic Modernity

* Adrian Jones, La Trobe University

PRESENTING THE OTTOMANS TO ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE:

Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Lore of Decline and Law of War

* Saeed A. Khan, Wayne State University

THE IMPACT OF ROUSSEAU AND VOLTAIRE ON 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY MUSLIM
INTELLECTUALS

* Levent Kirval, Ghent University

ROUSSEAUIAN PARADOX OF TURKISH ENLIGHTENMENT:

For How Long Can You ‘Force People to be Free’ in a Muslim Setting?

For queries about attending this event, please contact:

Samer Akkach: samer.akkach at adelaide.edu.au

Ian Coller: icoller at unimelb.edu.au

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