[Bilimsel Haber] International Workshop: Central Asia in the World of Islam

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Moshe Gammer <moshega at post.tau.ac.il>



CENTRAL ASIA IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM
International Workshop, 29 – 30 May 2011

All sessions will take place in Room 496, Gilman Building, on the main 
campus of Tel Aviv University.
The sessions are open to the public.



Sunday, 29 May 2011

Opening: 9:30 – 10:00
Welcome: Eyal Zisser, Dean, Faculty of Humanities; Uzi Rabi, Chair, 
Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History
Opening Remarks: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv University)

Session One: 10:00 – 11:00
Chair: Ron Sela (Indiana University)

Michael O’Neal (Tel Aviv University)
The “Strong Barrier of Islam” and a “Second Alexander”: The Evolution of 
Ghurid Kingship under Sultan Mu`izz al-Din

Beatrice Manz (Tufts University)
The Oxus as Connector and Boundary from the Mongol to the Timurid Period

Session Two: 11:30 – 13:00
Chair: Michal Biran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey)
The Shrine of Muḥammad Bashārā in Penjikent: Sacred Space, History and 
Hagiography in Tajikistan.

Liu Yingsheng (Nanjing University)
The Pilgrim Roads through Central Asia followed by Chinese Muslims -- 
according to Xiyu Tudi Renwulue

Ron Sela (Indiana University)
Timur's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Session Three: 15:30 – 17:00
Chair: Moshe Gammer (Tel Aviv University)

Alexander Morrison (University of Liverpool)
The Conquest of Kokand and Bukhara in Russian Sources and Islamic 
Historiography, 1853-1868

Zeev Levin (Tel Aviv University)
Attitudes towards Dhimmi Populations and the Russian Colonization of 
Turkestan

Monday, 30 May 2011

Session Four: 09:30 – 11:00
Chair: Zeev Levin (Tel Aviv University)

Kamoludin Abdullaev (Tajikistan)
Exiles of Bolshevism: Hijrat in Early Soviet Central Asia

Yaacov Ro’i (Tel Aviv University)
The Hajj in the Soviet Period

Alon Weiner (Tel Aviv University)
Islam and National Identity in Central Asia during the Soviet Period

Session Five: 11:30 – 13:00
Chair: John Schoeberlein (Harvard University)

Brenda Shafer (University of Haifa)
The Autocratic Peace of Central Asia

Avinoam Idan (University of Haifa)
Geographic Location and Foreign Policy: The Case of Central Asia.

Session Six: 15:30 – 17:00
Chair: Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv University)

Stephen Blank (US Army War College)
Central Asia between Turkey and Iran

Alexander Murinson (Haifa)
Has the Light Failed: Fethullah Gülen’s Networks in Central Asia

Keynote Lecture: 17:30 – 1830:
Chair: Yaacov Ro’i (Tel Aviv University)

John Schoeberlein (Harvard University)
Post-Soviet Islam in Central Asia: Is Central Asia Different or has it 
thoroughly Re-joined the Wider Islamic World?


Organizing Committee: Michal Biran, Moshe Gammer (Chair), Baatir 
Khasanov (Secretary), Zeev Levin, Yaacov Ro’i, Ron Sela


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Prof. Moshe Gammer
Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History
Tel Aviv University
69978 Tel Aviv, Israel