First Announcement Letter

The Second International Conference

“The World of Islam: History, Society, Culture”

October, 2010, Moscow

 

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and the Mardjani Foundation for Research and Cultural Programs are organizing the Second International Conference “The World of Islam: History, Society, Culture”.

The conference is planned to be held in October, 2010, exact dates will be confirmed later. The First Conference of these series held in Moscow by the Mardjani Foundation in co-operation with the Russian State University for the Humanities in December 2007, brought together over 100 scholars from leading Russian and foreign academic center and universities.

The First Conference was billed as a general discussion on historical issues and contemporary social, political and cultural development of Islam and Muslim world from a wide interdisciplinary perspective, methodological and organizational issues of Islamic studies as a complex of disciplines studying Islam in globalizing world. It was Initially decided to extend the discipline range of the Conference through involvement in its work lots of specialists in different branches of Islamic studies: historians, ethnologists, linguists, philologists, philosophers, political scientists, social anthropologists and other specialists in related fields who are interested in this agenda.

The main objectives of the Second Conference are the elaboration of scientific and cultural dialogue among the researchers of related sciences of Oriental and Islamic studies, the communication between Russian and foreign researchers, the search of open area for discussion of fundamental research problems, opinion exchanges and, as a result, to establish a professional communication network between islamicists from Russia and abroad.

The immediate objective of the Second Conference is to discuss the following issues:

  • Source study, historiography, intellectual and political history of Islamic world
  • Islam and linguistic and philological problems of Muslim countries (The Middle East and Eurasian Turkic philology)
  • The Heritage of classical Islamic thought (fiqh, kalam, falsafa, tasawwuf)
  • Islam in Russia and in the former USSR countries
  • Problems of the modern Islamic world
  • Islam and the Muslims in contemporary western societies
  • Islam in the Art and the Art of Islam
  • Muslim societies from an anthropological perspective
  • Recent ideological trends in Islam

The suggestions for any other discussions corresponding to the subject of the Conference are eagerly expected.

The working languages are Russian, English and Arabic.

Applications’deadlines:

The organizing committee of the Conference would be glad to consider any panel proposals wich will be received before February, 1, 2010. The information to be submitted alongside with the proposal (500 words maximum), includes the panel convenor’s full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, as well names, institutional affiliations, and e-mail addresses of not less than two other possible participants of the panel. The proposals about the participants of the sections are mostly welcome.

The organizing committee will have annаounced the results of panelf applications’ consideration by March, 15, 2010.

The notice for presentation applications will be published in March, 2009.

Paper proposals should be sent before June, 15, 2010 not to the Oranizing Committee, but directly to the panel convenors who are to inform participants whether they are accepted by July 1, 2010. This application consists of an abstract (up to 300 words in one of the working languages), name(s) of a presenter, academic degree and institutional affiliation, e-mail and postal address. The authors whose proposals will be accepted should submit the full papers to panel moderator by August,15, 2010. By the time the Conference starts these texts will have been released in the Internet and printed as a volume.

Please, send the materials to: conference@mardjani.ru

There are several proposals for panelsf and round tables topics by now:

Islam in the Russian Empire: documents and institutions (moderators: Prof. Dmitri Yu. Arapov, Moscow Lomonosov University, and Dr. Vladimir O. Bobrovnikov, Institute of Oriental Studies and Mardjani Foundation, Russia)

Mysticism in the  Muslim World: theory and practice (moderator: Dr. Pavel V. Basharin, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow and Mardjani Foundation)

Islamic economics in the modern world (moderator: Dr. Renat I. Bekkin, Mardjani Foundation and MGIMO-University of International Relations, Russia)

Transformational processes in Muslim communities: social, political and sociocultural aspects (moderator: Galina A. Khizrieva, Institute of Cultural Studies, Russia)