23 Jul 2024
- 26 Jul 2024

Contemplation and surrender as forms of undoing and knowing in an uncertain world

Barcelona

Panel

  • Christian Suhr (Aarhus University), Allowing the heart to open: A presentation of three examples by Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist practitioners
  • Zora Kostadinova (University College London), “Surrendering to the states of the heart”: Sufi ritual and embodying divine love among Naqshbandi Muslims in Sarajevo
  • Lili Di Puppo (University of Helsinki), Knowledge through surrender in uncertain times: Embracing Muslim modes of knowing as methodology
  • Nasima Selim (University of Bayreuth), Un/Doing the breathing heart with “controlled equivocation”: Mis/Understanding secular suffering, Sufi healing, and anti-Muslim racism in Germany
  • Lisa Franke (Ghent University), Organic Islam: Surrender and contemplation in the context of social transformation in Egypt
  • Federico Sammarone (University of Milan-Bicocca), The effort of surrender: Control, anxiety, and acceptance in the experience of adolescent North African Muslim migrants in Milan
  • Fabio Vicini (University of Verona), Contemplating God in contemporary Turkey: Ontology, Islam, transcendence