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SUMMARY:Workshop | Constructions of Devotion across Islamic Lands
DTSTART:20131009T123000Z
DTEND:20131011T110000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Workshop folder\nStudies on devotion and religious life in the
  Islamic world have traditionally been based on the oposition between scho
 lars ('ulama') and Sufis\, or mystics\, especially at historical moments w
 hen these latter were able to monopolize the religious popular sphere\, wr
 esting it from the hands of scholars whose primary concerns were the estab
 lishment of orthodoxy and orthopraxis. Indeed\, Islamic juridical texts cl
 early show how the ulama' tried to forbid certain sufi practices because t
 hey were divergent from the norms they themselves sanctioned as "orthodox 
 devotion." The study of this opposition has been very fruitful for interna
 tional discussions on law and Sufism and on ascetism and its control by ru
 lers in Islamic societies. The operation of all of these various entities\
 , however\, in the history of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492)\, 
 in the Iberian Peninsula\, has yet to awaken the serious interest of schol
 arship: Granada is always marginal to these discussions\, whether they inv
 olve the Maghreb or the larger Islamic world. Recent studies have shown th
 at\, during the 12th and 13th centuries\, the Almohads promoted a true rev
 olution in terms of religious life in Western Islam\, but the influence th
 at this revolution might have had on later periods is still unknown. It se
 ems that there was a new upturn of sufism in Nasrid Granada and a strong r
 enewal of the Maliki school of law. Placing these phenomena in a wider\, M
 editerranean context\, may help scholars to understand whether they were p
 roduced as a reaction against the Almohad movement or\, on the contrary\, 
 as the result of an organic and gradual evolution based on their doctrines
 .\nWe are interested not only in the essential facts of religious behaviou
 r\, but also\, and more specifically\, in how political and dynastic power
 s\, scholars and Sufis endeavoured to contruct an ideal of religiosity and
  devotion through images\, both poetic and otherwise. Therefore\, in addit
 ion to legal and doctrinal treatises\, works on asceticism and prayer manu
 als\, we will study the representation of religion in artistic works and a
 rchitecture. In fact\, we believe that both types of evidence will help in
  achieving a better understanding of the religious phenomenon in Medieval 
 Islam. Even if artistic representations in religious contexts in Islam do 
 not habitually produce icons and images of living beings\, we contend that
  concepts such as purity\, closeness to God\, heaven\, destiny\, love\, et
 c.\, are produced and represented both in texts and artifacts.
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