September 11 - 13, 2009
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Will Glover, University of Michigan
Introductory Remarks
Francis Robinson, University of London
Keynote Address: Strategies of Authority in Muslim South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Panel I: Islamic Revival in British India
Qasim Zaman, Princeton University
Socio-Economic Justice in Deobandi Thought and Action
Usha Sanyal, Queen’s University of Charlotte
The Sunni Bihishti Zewar—A Barelwi/Ahl-e Sunnat Guide for Women
Fareeha Khan, Willamette University
Interrogating "Reform" and the Concept of "Rights" in Contemporary Western and Islamic Discourses
Akbar Zaidi, Independent Scholar, Karachi, Pakistan
Writing Partial Truths: Orality, Print, Myth and Identities
Panel II: Narrating Lives
David Lelyveld, William Paterson University
Young Man Syed: The Early Life of Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Khalid Masud, Council of Islamic Ideology, Islamabad
Sayyid Sulayman Nadwi's (d. 1953) Yad-i Raftagan: Narrating Belief, Memory and Visions of the Future
Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Making the Sudanese Mahdi "Arab"
Panel III: Making Muslim Space
Faisal Devji, Oxford University
The End of Muslim Universality
Azfar Moin, University of Michigan
Painted Rituals: Space and Symbol in Jahangiri Art
