International Conference
"Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World"
7. -9. May 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main
Campus Westend, Casino 1.801
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Organizer:
Professor Susanne Schröter (Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", Institute of Anthropology)
The Conference:
In his last large collection of poems, which he entitled the “West-Eastern Divan”, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, after whom our university is named, wrote the following lines:
Wer sich selbst und andere kennt,
Wird auch hier erkennen:
Orient und Okzident
Sind nicht mehr zu trennen.
Those who know themselves and others
Will realize here, too,
That the Orient and the Occident
Have become inseparable.
As researchers who are part of the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, we regard Goethe’s approach as an incentive to look into our shared history and present, as well as into the development of normative orders in the Islamic world, in an interdisciplinary group of scholars – both Muslim and non-Muslim – from various countries of the Orient and Occident.
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Programme:
Friday, 7.05.2010
14.30 registration
15.30 welcome addresses
Panel I: Entangled histories. From Averroes to Sayyed Qutb
16.00 Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University)
“Persecution and norm. A comparative analysis between Averroes and Sayyed Qutb”
17.00 Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
“Averroes on the Relation among Reason and Religion ”
18.00 Mehmet Sait Reçber (Ankara University)
“The Epistemic Virtues of Islam and the Ideals of the Enlightenment”
Saturday, 8.05.2010
Panel II: Shaping Islam in the West
10.00 Dietrich Reetz (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)
“Adaptation or change: Making home for Muslims and Islam in Western Europe”
11.00 Peter Scholz (Free University of Berlin)
“Characteristics of the legal framework for a European Islam”
12.00 Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University of Berlin)
„Gendered Islam under State Surveillance“
Panel III: Feminist approaches and their legal and political consequences
15.00 Margot Badran (Georgetown University)
“Reformist women in early 20th century Egypt and lessons for the present”
16.00 Susanne Schröter (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
„Islamic feminism and transnational Muslim women’s movements“
17.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zürich)
“Islamic family law and international legal norms in the Arab world”
Sunday, 9.05.2010
Panel IV: Liberal Islam, fundamentalism and new orthodoxies
10.00 Farish A. Noor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
“In the path of the Perfect Muslim: Normalising the Prophetic Ideal Type in the discourse of the Tablighi Jama‘at in Southeast Asia”
11.00 Farid Esack (University of Johannesburg)
“Gender and fundamentalism in a season of AIDS”
12.00 Siti Musdah Mulia (Islamic University, Jakarta)
“Reform Islam in Indonesia”
