[Bilimsel Haber] Conf. Prog.: "The Turks and Islam, " 11-12 Sep 2010, Indiana Univ.

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From: Kemal Silay [ksilay at indiana.edu]


The Turks and Islam
An International Conference

September 11-12, 2010

Indiana University, Bloomington
Indiana Memorial Union

This multidisciplinary conference explores the various aspects of the 
Turkic-speaking peoples' interactions with Islam throughout the centuries.

Sponsored by the
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair; Office of the Vice President 
for International Affairs; Office of the Provost; Inner Asian and Uralic 
National Resource Center; Department of Central Eurasian Studies; and 
the Turkish Studies Program

Organizer:
Dr. Kemal Silay
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair Professor
Professor of Central Eurasian Studies
Indiana University–Bloomington
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PROGRAM:

September 11, 2010

8:00–8:45 AM - Registration and Continental Breakfast State Room East

8:45–9:00 AM - Opening Remarks by Dr. Kemal Silay State Room East

9:00–10:30 AM - Session 1 - Redbud
 From Tengri to Allah: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Kemal Silay

"Tengri, the Comitatus, and Islam"
Dr. Christopher I. Beckwith, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

"How Does One to Get to Heaven?: Reflections on Turkic Cultural 
Monuments in the 14th-15th Centuries"
Dr. Uli Schamiloglu, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison

"Turkic Identity in Central Asia in a Historical Perspective"
Dr. Ron Sela, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

"Mirrors for the Muslim Princes: A Study on the Kutadgu Bilig"
Solaiman Fazel, Ph.D. Student, Indiana University–Bloomington

9:00–10:30 AM - Session 2 - Hoosier
Turkish/Turkic Islam and Folklore
Chair: Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar

Dr. İlhan Başgöz, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington
"The Origin and Dissemination of the Miracles in the Menakıbnames of the 
Anatolian Sufis"

"Sadaqa Stones versus Computers: Privatization of Aid Relief, the 
Concept of Haqq (Hak), and Charitable Islam in Contemporary Turkey"
Dr. Damla Işık, Ph.D., Western Connecticut State University

"Inscribing Cultural Difference: Imperial Administrator-Ethnographers, 
Kazakh Marriage Practices, and the Construction of Legal Categories"
Kimberly Ann Powers, Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

"What Did They Believe in? Sohbetname as a Primary Text of the 
Bayramī-Melamīs"
F. Betul Yavuz, Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University

10:30 AM–12:00 PM - Session 3 - Redbud
Orthodox and Heterodox Discourses on/of Turkish Islam
Chair: Dr. Christopher Atwood

"Beyond Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: Ottoman Religious Discourses in 15th 
and 16th Centuries"
Dr. Himmet Taşkömür, Ph.D., Harvard University

"Islamic History from the Ottoman Perspective: Ottoman Historians' 
Commentary on the History of Early Islam in the 16th and 17th Centuries"
Vefa Erginbaş, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University

"The Ottoman Shari'a: Sunni Orthodoxy and its Unorthodox Application"
Dr. Erdem Çipa, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

"Rumi and Hanafi: The Ottoman Tabaqat Literature of the Hanafi School, 
16th–17th Centuries"
Guy Burak, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University

10:30 AM–12:00 PM - Session 4 - Hoosier
Artistic and Ritualistic Expressions of Turkish Islam
Chair: Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar

"Photography and Islamic Traditions in the Ottoman Era"
Dr. Birsel Matara, Ph.D., Cyprus International University

"The Turkic Role in the Formation of the Islamic Art of Maverannahr"
Dr. Elmira Gyul, Ph.D., Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent

"Folk Elements in Turkish Shrine Veneration and Mythical Representations 
of a Historical Person: Imam Birgivî"
Dr. H. Saim Parladır, Ph.D., Ege University, İzmir

"The Significance of Creedal Elements in the Teaching of Hacı Bektaş Veli"
Dr. Sıddık Korkmaz, Ph.D., Selçuk University, Konya

12:00–1:00 PM - Lunch Break - State Room East

1:00–2:30 PM - Session 5 - Redbud
The Genealogy of Islamism and Nationalism
Chair: Dr. Tuğrul Keskin

"Islam as Ethnic Category: The Roots of Turkish Nationalism"
Dr. Howard Eissenstat, Ph.D., St. Lawrence University

"Ottoman Islamists' Notions of Nationalism in the Late 19th and Early 
20th Centuries"
İhsan Çolak, Ph.D. Student, Indiana University–Bloomington

"The Relation Between Turkists and Islamists after the Second 
Constitution in the Ottoman Empire, 1909–1923"
Dr. A. Teyfur Erdoğdu, Ph.D., Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul

"Clash of the Self: Pro-Islamism as a Defensive Mechanism against 
Identity Confusion"
Veronika Tzankova, M.A. Candidate, Simon Fraser University

1:00–2:30 PM - Session 6 - Hoosier
On the Ottomans and Islam
Chair: Dr. Erdem Çıpa

"Ottomanizing the Past: Reading Buildings for Cultural Hybridity in 
14th-Century Bithynia"
Dr. Suna Çağaptay, Ph.D., Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

"Bayramî-Melâmîs: A Deviant Order or Advocates of Early Ottoman 
Modernization?"
Dr. B. Deniz Çalış, Ph.D., Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

"The Place of Ottoman Empire in the Niches of the Bengal Muslim Society"
Dr. Kazi Sufior Rahaman, Ph.D., University of Calcutta, Kolkata

"The Turk's Head: European Constructions of the Ottoman Turk as 
Imaginary Monster"
Sophia Rose Shafi, Ph.D. Student, University of Denver

2:30–4:00 PM - Session 7 - Redbud
Turkish Modernity and Nationalism's Predicament with Islam
Chair: Dr. İlhan Başgöz

"Atsız and Islam, or Why Did Secular Turkish Nationalism Fail?"
Dr. İlker Aytürk, Ph.D., Bilkent University, Ankara

"The Rousseauian Paradox of Turkish Enlightenment"
Dr. Levent Kirval, Ph.D., Istanbul Technical University

"Building a Nation-State on Borders of Faith: Turkish National Anthem"
Dr. Günil Ayaydın Cebe, Ph.D., Bilkent University, Ankara

"The New Face(s) of Turkey: Islamic Intellectuals"
Dr. Ensar Nişancı, Ph.D., Haliç University, Istanbul

2:30–4:00 PM - Session 8 - Hoosier
Alevi–Bektaşi Studies
Chair: Dr. Erdem Çıpa

"Revisiting the Köprülü Paradigm: The Genealogy of ‘Heterodox' Islam in 
Anatolia"
Dr. Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Ph.D., Cornell University

"Debating Hacı Bektaş: Orthodox or Heterodox, Orthoprax or Heteroprax"
Dr. Mark Soileau, Ph.D., Albion College

"Commemoration among the Turkish Alevis"
Sultan Yetgin, Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University–Bloomington

"In the Name of the Shah: Aspects of the Qizilbash Rebellions in 
16th-Century Ottoman Anatolia"
Dr. Rıza Yıldırım, Ph.D., TOBB University of Economics and Technology, 
Ankara

4:30–5:30 PM - Keynote Address by Dr. Ahmet Karamustafa,
Professor of History and Religious Studies, Washington University in St. 
Louis:
"Sofu, Derviş, Dede: Sufis and Popular Islam in Medieval Anatolia"

6:30–9:00 PM - Reception and Dinner - Performance: "Anatolian Folk Music"
by the "East-West Music Group" - Federal Room

September 12, 2010

9:00–10:30 AM - Session 1 - Redbud
Islam the Religion, Islam the Ideology: The Turkish Case
Chair: Dr. Jamsheed Choksy

"Contemporary Turkish Islam: Muslim Entrepreneurs and the Muslimist Ethic"
Neslihan Çevik, Ph.D. Candidate, Arizona State University

"Laicism and the Issue of the Veil: On the February 28, 1997 Declaration 
of the Turkish Army"
Zehra Yilmaz, Ph.D. Candidate, Georgetown University

"Transforming Society with Islamist Tales: Huzur Sokağı as a Street 
Leading to the ‘Right Way'"
Dr. Leyla Burcu Dündar, Ph.D., Bilkent University, Ankara

"Islamist Imaginations of Turkey's Ottoman Past: Counter-Revolution 
through Culture and Politics"
Dr. Kemal Silay, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

9:00–10:30 AM - Session 2 - Hoosier
Turkish Islam and Modernity
Chair: Dr. Tuğrul Keskin

"Islam at the Edge: Tradition, Modernity, and the Umma in Turkish Cyprus"
Dr. Jerome David Bowers, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University

"On the Creation of ‘Islamofobia' in Europe: Carte Di Costantinopla, 
Relación De Sucesos, and Other Genres"
Dr. Özlem Kumrular, Ph.D., Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

"Islam and Secularism in Turkey, and Turkey–EU Relations"
Dr. Ali Resul Usul, Ph.D., Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul

"The Transition Process from Muslims of Cyprus to Turkish-Cypriots and 
the Role of Islam, 1878–1931"
Dr. Eleni Bouleti, Ph.D., University of Cyprus

10:30 AM–12:00 PM - Session 3 - Redbud
Turkish Islam, Culture, and Politics
Chair: Dr. Gardner Bovingdon

"Turkish Islamist Intellectuals' Views of Art and Aesthetics"
Dr. Celia Kerslake, Ph.D., University of Oxford

"Between the Islamic Religion and the Turkish Culture: The Role of DITIB 
in Germany"
Aysun Yaşar, Ph.D. Student, University of Bamberg

"Islam and Democracy in Turkey: The Question of Compatibility of 
Islamism and Liberal Democracy"
Hüseyin Alptekin and Hyobin Lee, Ph.D. Students, University of Texas at 
Austin

"Islam and Religious Education in Turkey"
Dr. Giuli Alasania, Ph.D., Tbilisi State University and Dr. Nani 
Gelovani, Ph.D., Tbilisi State University

10:30 AM–12:00 PM - Session 4 - Hoosier
Turkish Islamic Manifestations in Language and Literature
Chair: Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar

"Anonymity and Identity: Romancing the Female Role in Ottoman 'Joseph 
and Zulaykha' Mesnevīs"
Dr. Züleyha Çolak, Ph.D., Columbia University

"Tracing the Influence of Islam on Turkish Culture Through Formulaic 
Language"
Dr. Hürriyet Gökdayı, Ph.D., Mersin University

"Theophanic Locutions in the Turkish Idiom: The Divan Poetry of Shah 
Isma ʿil Safevi (d. 1424)"
Dr. Amelia Gallagher, Ph.D., Niagara University

"An Analysis of the Legendary Figure Sarı Saltuk in Evliya Çelebi's and 
Ibn Battuta's Travel Accounts"
Zeynep Elbasan, Ph.D. Student, Indiana University–Bloomington

12:00–1:00 PM - Lunch Break - Coronation Room

1:00–2:30 PM - Session 5 - Redbud
Between Traditionalism and Modernity
Chair: Dr. Tuğrul Keskin

"The Turks and Islamic Law (960–1923)"
Dr. Ahmed Akgündüz, Ph.D., Islamic University Rotterdam

"Islam and Modernity in Turkey"
Dr. Tamar Alpenidze, Ph.D., New York University

"The Anatolian Practice of Islam"
Dr. Fatih Mehmet Sayın, Ph.D., International Black Sea University, 
Tbilisi, Georgia

"Together but Separated: Stereotypes as Demarcation Line between Alevis 
and Sunnis in Bulgaria"
Nuray Ekici, M.A., Independent Researcher, Bulgaria

1:00–2:30 PM - Session 6 Hoosier
Central Eurasian Turkic Islam
Chair: Dr. Ron Sela

"A Baptized Sufi on the Volga: Egor Fedorov (Also Known As 'Abdul 'Alim 
Sämighulov) and the Making of New Muslim Communities in the Russian Empire"
Dr. Agnes Kefeli, Ph.D., Arizona State University

"Pillars of the Sovereigns: Shaykh-intimates among the Timurids"
Dr. Musa Şamil Yüksel, Ph.D., Ege University, İzmir

"The Asar of Rizaeddin ibn Fahreddin: A Turkic Bio-Bibliography from the 
Islamic Northern Tier of Central Eurasia"
Dr. Edward J. Lazzerini, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

"Islam, Economic Policy, and Social Change in Turkic Central Asia"
Saodat Kasimova, Ph.D. Student, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague

2:30–3:30 PM - Session 7 - Redbud
Islam in Azerbaijan: Culture and Politics
Chair: Dr. Christopher I. Beckwith

"The Role of Southern Azerbaijani Intellectuals in the Development and 
Formation of the Iranian Islamic Culture and Society"
Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington

"Islam and Music in Azerbaijan: From Antiquity to Modernity"
Dr. Aida Huseynova, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington, and Baku 
Music Academy, Azerbaijan

"Islam as Sustenance in National Consciousness in Azerbaijan under the 
Communist Regime"
Dr. Bahram Hasanov, Ph.D., East-West Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan

"Safavid Turks and Shi'a Islam in the Eastern Islamic Hemishphere"
Hadi Sultan-Qurrai, Ph.D., University of Washington–Seattle

2:30–4:00 PM - Session 8 - Hoosier
Islam in the Soviet Union and in Central Asia
Chair: Dr. Edward Lazzerini

"Post-Soviet Islam in the Turkic World"
Defne Jones, Ph.D. Student, Indiana University–Bloomington

"Islam in Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Period"
Dr. Phool Badan, Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

"Debates on the Divine Attributes (Sifat) in the 19th-Century Russian 
Empire"
Dr. Nathan Spannaus, Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University

"Parallel Worlds: Male and Female Islam in the Central Asian Republics"
Dr. Noor O'Neill Borbieva, Ph.D., Indiana University–Purdue University 
Fort Wayne

4:00–5:00 PM Session 9 - Redbud
Turkic Islam in China
Chair: Dr. Christopher Atwood

"Uyghur Religious and Secular Education and Its Interaction with Islam"
Dr. Mettursun Beydulla, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The Turkic Factor in Chinese Islam: Rethinking Islam in China"
Dr. Haiyun Ma, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"The Policies Governing Islamic Belief and Practice in Xinjiang"
Dr. Gardner Bovingdon, Ph.D., Indiana University–Bloomington