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Oxford Centre for Global History: 'Christian and Muslim Saints: Roles and Functions Compared' Workshop
This one-day workshop will compare the role and function of saints in Christianity and Islam, and explore the very different realities that could lie behind the concept of a ‘saint’. It will explore the similarities and differences within sainthood as it developed in different parts of the Islamic and Christian worlds. This will include such issues as: relations with political power; the use of relics; the emergence of specific types of cult; the function of shrines and pilgrimage thereto; the place of intercession by saints; and their role as exemplars.
Speakers:
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford), ‘The early development of Christian sainthood’
Simon Yarrow (Birmingham), ‘The Cult of Saints in Latin Christendom: New Developments, c.800-1500’
Monica White (Nottingham), ‘Models of Sainthood and Veneration in the Eastern Christian World, 900-1200’
Roderick Grierson (Rumi Institute), ‘Friends of God’: Turkish Sufism and the Conversion of Anatolia’
Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas), ‘Saint Shrines as Objects of Imperial Veneration and Desecration in the Post-Mongol Empires’
Sarah Ansari (RHUL), ‘‘A way of life rather than an ideology?’: Sufi saints and the politics of identity in Sindh’
Moin Nizami (OXCIS), ‘The Sufi-‘Alim Nexus: Muslim Mystic Trends in 18-19th c. Northern India’
Miranda Williams (Oxford), ‘Christian and Muslim shared shrines in the Manar al-Athar photo-archive’
Closing remarks: Francis Robinson (RHUL)
Date:
12 November 2015, 9:00
Venue:
Ertegun House, 37a St Giles OX1 3LH
Speakers:
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford),
Simon Yarrow (Birmingham),
Monica White (Nottingham),
Roderick Grierson (Rumi Institute),
Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas),
Sarah Ansari (RHUL),
Moin Nizami (OXCIS),
Miranda Williams (Oxford),
Francis Robinson (RHUL)
Organisers:
John Darwin (Oxford),
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
global@history.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
http://global.history.ox.ac.uk/
Booking email:
global@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
