Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Classical Islamic Thought
Our third LIVIT conference will take place, 3th-4th September 2012 at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. We can now publish paper titles and (to date) confirmed attendees (in no particular order):
Devin Stewart (Emory University): "The Scholar-Martyrs of Twelver Shiism and Shiite Identity"
István Vásáry (Eötvös Loránd University): "Yasa and sharī ‘a: Islamic Attitudes toward the Mongol Law in the Turco-Mongolian World (from the Golden Horde to Timur's Time)".
Timothy May (North Georgia College and State University): “The Mongols as the Scourge of God in the Islamic World”
Colin Imber (University of Manchester): “Warrant for genocide? Ottoman propaganda against the Qizilbash”
Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University Bloomington): “Justified Violence in the Fiqh al-Jihad of Ibn Taymiyya”
Ferenc Csirkes (University of Chicago): “Messianic Language and Epic Warfare in Safavid Turkish and Persian Poetry: Shah Ismail, Sadiqi Kitabdar, Jununi of Ardabil”
Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge): "Coercion and caprice: Violence, Public Humiliation and legitimation in the medieval Islamic west."
Michal Biran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Violence and non-violence in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)."
Leonard Lewisohn (University of Exeter): “The More a Fool, the More a Knave: Rumi's Critique of Muslim Martyrdom Theology in the Mathnawi”
Emma Loosley (University of Manchester): “The Violent Death of a Peaceful Man: Al-Hallaj and the Imagery of Martyrdom” Exploring C15th-C17th representations of the death of Al-Hallaj as a case study of Islamic martyrdom imagery”
Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto): "Siyasat: Conceptions of Government and Discretionary Punishment in Medieval Persian Ethico-historical Works."
Deborah Tor (University of Notre Dame): "Futuwwa: Chivalric Violence in Classical Islam"
Evgenia Kermeli (Bilkent University): "Violence and its legitimization in the Early Ottoman Society"
With additional contributions from Richard Bulliet, Edmund Herzig, Franklin Lewis, Beatrice Manz and Sajjad Rizvi.
Others may be added in due course, and a full programme will be published in June 2012. For those wishing to attend, the various costs (registration, meals, accommodation) will be posted here in due course, though you can register an interest by emailing the LIVIT Researdch Administrator, Ms Jane Clark: jane.clark@exeter.ac.uk
