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CONF./CFP- Language, Literacy & Authority in Islamic Societies, 
Stanford, 3/11

Posted by: Burcak Keskin Kozat <burcak at stanford.edu>



Call for Papers: Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social
Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies

Stanford University, March 3-4, 2011
(Abstract Submission Deadline: 09/01/2010)

The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University invites
submission of paper abstracts for a workshop on Language, Literacy,
and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies. The
workshop will take place on March 3-4 2011 in Stanford (California,
USA) and is a joint project of the Abbasi Program and the Middle East
–Mediterrranean Studies Program at Sciences Po in Paris. Travel and
lodging arrangements for the workshop participants will be provided.

The workshop will focus on the processes underlying the social
construction of authority in Islamic societies and the way those
processes have been affected by issues of language and the development
of literacy from 17th century and onwards in the context of
peripheries as well as the core regions (specifically, West Africa,
the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East).
Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  - issues concerning print, manuscript and oral tradition
  - rise of new media (such as internet) and language
  - the ulama's retention of authority through reassertion or, in some
    cases, reinvention of their relationships to classical discourses
  - the emergence of new spheres of religious authority beyond the
    ulama, and how this is related to evolutions in language and literacy
  - the production of Modern Standard Arabic out of classical literary
    Arabic and its relationship to rise in literacy and consequent
    devolution of religious authority
  - the politics of languages of education in West Africa, between
    Arabic and vernaculars
  - the fate of Arabic as a the universal Islamic language more
    generally across various regions
  - the rise of English, French, and Russian as authoritative languages
    of Muslim discourse in colonial and post-colonial settings
  - the development of Urdu as the lingua franca of Muslim
    communication in India and its relationship to reformist madrasas in
    north India
  - relationships between nationalisms, languages, and universal versus
    local religious communities

Please submit a brief abstract (not to exceed 300 words) by September
1st 2010 via the online secure form available at
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/socconst.fb . The
abstract should specify the proposed paper topic, major argument(s) of
the paper and the methodology used. Participants will be notified by
September 30th 2010. Complete papers are to be submitted by January 14th 
2011.

A copy of this CfP is available online at
http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu/CfP0311.pdf . For questions, please
contact Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat at burcak at stanford.edu

Contact:

Dr. Burcak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies
Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies
Stanford University
Email: burcak at stanford.edu
Website: http://islamicstudies.stanford.edu



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