26 Jul 2022
- 29 Jul 2022

Muslim imaginaries beyond mediation

Islam, the divine, and radical hope/transformation.”

  • Fabio Vicini (University of Verona) & Lili Di Puppo (University of Helsinki), Divine presence, Islam and the anthropology of religion: New horizons of knowing and being
  • Stefan Williamson Fa (Lund University), Lovers of the Family of the Prophet: Towards a Relational Anthropology of Islam
  • Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt University Berlin), “Waking from slumber”: of Sufi aspirants beginning to perceive another reality
  • Feyza Burak-Adli (Northwestern University), Sufi Ethics, Neoliberal Aesthetics, and Gendered Religious Authority in Turkey: The Case of Shaykha Cemalnur Sargut
  • Mehmet Kurt (LSE), Allah, Bread, Freedom: Prayer as Protest, Mosques as Sites of Resistance and Radical Transformation
  • Kim Shively (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), Death in a Foreign Land: Exile and Islamic Sacred Time
  • Müge Akpinar (FU Berlin), Therapeutic Fasting: Experiencing the Ontological Truth, Engaging in the Divine Time, and Embodying the Hope of Reviving the Sunnah
  • Safwan Amir (Ahmedabad University), From Method To Concept: Vestigiality as an intercessor in the Anthropology of Islam
  • Muhammad Osama Imran (University of Minnesota), Breaths of Intimacy: Haunted Subjectivities and Free Submission in the Sufi Practice of Zikr
  • Bruno Bartel (Federal University of Piauí – UFPI), “Mystical learnings”: self and reflexivity in contemporary Moroccan Sufism