Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting 2004
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA

November 20 - 23, 2004

 

Pakistan related panels

Sunni/Sufi/Shi'i (NP39)

Chair: ErikS. Ohlander, University of Michigan

David Pinault, Santa Clara University
Pluralism, Communal Identity and the Uses of Moghul History: Contemporary Pakistani Views of Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb
Shafique N. Virani, Harvard University
Uneasy Bedfellows: Sufism and Ismailism in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
Imperial Rhetoric: The Public Voice of a Medieval Shiite Dynasty
Rachel T. Howes, Cal State Northridge
The Political Strategies of Shi`is in Eleventh Century Iranian Courts

"I Can't Move–I Must Already Be Moving": Maps, Everyday Life, and the Drawings and Un-drawings of a "Muslim World" (P105)
Organized by Richard Baxstrom, Naveeda Khan, and Sylvain Perdigon

Chair: Steven C. Caton, Harvard University
Discussant: Stefania Pandolfo, University of California, Berkeley

Richard Baxstrom, Johns Hopkins University
A Web of Worlds to Get Lost In: Local Cartographies of the State and the Spiritual in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University
Roads to Death: Braving Bustrips on the Motorway in Lahore, Pakistan
Sylvain Perdigon, Johns Hopkins University
Maps of Despair and Desire: Palestinian Refugees at Checkpoints in Beirut, Lebanon
Anila Daulatzai, Johns Hopkins University
Mapping Refugees: Technologies and Terminologies of Expulsion at the Border of Afghanistan and Pakistan

Sufism: Love and Sects (NP38)

Chair: Qamar-ul Huda, Boston College

Talia Gangoo, Washington University
Portraits of the Self: Rumi and Iqbal's Notions of Self-Hood
Cyrus Zargar, University of California, Berkeley
Volitional Death and an Existence More Real: Theoretical Suggestions in Kubra's "Aqrab al-Turuq ila Allah"
Joseph Lumbard, American University in Cairo
The Development of Love in Early Sufism
Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University
Muhammad or Abu Yazid? Rumi's Contribution to the Prophethood-Sainthood Debate

Islam and the State (NP14)

Chair: Miriam Lowi, The College of New Jersey

Julie E. Taylor, Princeton  University
The Price of Islamicization: What Egypt Can Learn from Pakistan
Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa
Islam and Professional Associations in Jordan
Tamer Balci, Claremont Graduate University
Origins of the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis
Berna Turam, Hampshire College
Transitions in Turkey and Iran: Affinities and Dissent between Islam and State