Intellectual Relations and the Renewal of Religious Thought in Iran and Muslim India During the Modern Period
Conference - Programme
30 June - 2 July 2007
Conference hall of the Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 6 Arakliyan Alley, Neufl-le-Chateau St., Tehran, Iran
This conference aims to explore the intellectual relations existing between Iran and India during the Modern Period.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
| 09:00-09:30 | Opening at IRIP: Opening Speech by Christian Bromberger (IFRI Director) and Gholam Reza A'awani (IRIP Director) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:00-11:30 | SESSION I: Circulation of Scholars between Iran and India during the Safavid-Mughal's Age (I) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Jahangir and his 'brother' Shah 'Abbas: Political competition and circulation between Mughal India and Safavid Iran Corinne Lefèvre-Agrati (CNRS, Paris) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Two Persian-language travelogues of Mughal India Richard C. Foltz (Concordia University, Montreal) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45-13:15 | SESSION II: Circulation of Scholars between Iran and India during the Safavid-Mughal's Age (II) |
| 11:45-12:15 | The Intellectual activities of some Iranian Nimatullahi Pirs in India during the Safavid era Gholam Reza Aavani (IRIP, Tehran) |
| 12:15-12:45 | The return of the Nimatullahis from India to Iran during the end of the Zand era Shahram Pazouki (IRIP, Tehran) |
| 12:45-13:15 | Discussion |
| 13:15-15:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00-16:30 | SESSION III: The Iranian and Shiite Legacy in the Deccan |
| 15:00-15:30 | Influence of Rowzeh-Khwani on the development of Nahwa Andrea D'Souza (Henry Martin Institute, Hyderabad) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Karbala in the Indo-Persian Imaginaire: The Marriage of Qasem and Fatimah Kubra in Mir 'Alam's Dah Majlis Karen G. Ruffle (University of Miami) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Discussion |
Sunday, July 1, 2007
| 9:30-11:00 | SESSION IV: Philosophical and Scientific Studies during the Modern Age (I) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Influence and Disciples of Molla Sadra Shirazi in India during the Mughal Period Ibrahim Dinani (IRIP, Tehran) |
| 10:00-10:30 | The Indian students of Hadi Sabzevari in Iran during the Qajar epoch Mehdi Mohaghegh (University of Tehran) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Discussion |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:45 | SESSION V: Philosophical and Scientific Studies during the Modern Age (II) |
| 11:15-11:45 | The Mathematical Sciences in Safavid Iran: Questions and Perspectives Sonja Brentjes (Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London) |
| 11:45-12:15 | The Persian Translations of Indian sources on Natural and Life Sciences in Muslim India Fabrizio Speziale (IFRI, Tehran) |
| 12:15-12:45 | Discussion |
| 12:45-15:00 | Lunch Break |
| 15:00-16:30 | SESSION VI: The Muslim Scholars and the Indian Knowledge: the Translation and Discussion of Indian Sources |
| 15:00-15:30 | A Persian commentary to the Upanishads: Dara Shikoh's Sirr-i akbar Svevo D'Onofrio (University of Bologna, Bologna) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Hinduism and the Indian commentaries of Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy Muhammad Karimi Zanjani Asl (Independent Scholar, Tehran) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Discussion |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Monday, July 2, 2007
| 10:00-12:15 | SESSION VII: The Iranian and Indian Mystic Elites |
| 10:00-10:30 | Jamali Dihlawi's Masnawi on Sufi Terminology Nasrollah Pourjavady (University of Tehran, Tehran) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Revivification of Chishti Tariqa in the Eighteenth-Century-Punjab: The Convergence of Paths and Meeting of Two Sufi Masters - Khwaja Fakhr ud-Din Aurangabadi and Nur Muhammad Maharavi: Some Reflections Sajida S. Alvi (Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal) |
| 11:00-11:30 | The Place of the Qawa'im al-anwar of Raz-i Shirazi (d. 1869) in the Persian Sufi Tradition Leonard Lewisohn (University of Exeter, Exeter) |
| 11:30-12:15 | Discussion |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-16:15 | SESSION VIII: The Religious Milieu in front of the Western Impact |
| 14:00-14:30 | The juristic thought of Mirza Muhammad al-Akhbari Robert Gleave (The University of Exeter, Exeter) |
| 14:30-15:00 | The consequences of European pressure on Shiite thought in the Qajar period: The anti-occidental aspects of Muhammad Karim Khan's work Denis Hermann (IFRI, Tehran) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Discussion |
| 15:30-16:00 | Conclusion |