Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. IISS Lecture. The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾān into Ibn al-ʿArabī (November 9, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100915 100915-21800503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

What is the importance of metaphysics in building the foundations for "sacred" creativity in Islam? Given the centrality of the light of the Prophet and his primordial reality, can one say that Islam has its own Muhammadology?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:42:43 -0400 2022-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2022-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Ali Hussein, Professor of Arabic at the University of Michigan
IISS Book Workshop. God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (December 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101487 101487-21801435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Up to the twentieth century, Islamic charitable endowments provided the material foundation of the Muslim world. In Lebanon, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the imposition of French colonial rule, many of these endowments reverted to private property circulating in the marketplace. In contemporary Beirut, however, charitable endowments have resurfaced as mosques, Islamic centers, and nonprofit organizations. A historical anthropology in dialogue with Islamic law, God's Property demonstrates how these endowments have been drawn into secular logics—no longer the property of God but of the Muslim community—and shaped by the modern state and modern understandings of charity and property. Although these transformations have produced new kinds of loyalties and new ways of being in society, Moumtaz’s ethnography reveals the furtive persistence of endowment practices that perpetuate older ways of thinking of one’s self and one’s responsibilities toward family and state.

Attendees are encouraged to read the introduction prior to the event. Limited copies of the book are available on the 5th floor of Weiser Hall, suite 500. An open-access ebook is also available here: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.100/.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:57:10 -0500 2022-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar IISS Book Workshop. God's Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. What is the Relation between the Sufi Khanaqah and Development in India? (April 18, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107035 107035-21815177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

How do religious institutions affect long-run development? Most studies examining this relationship study its impact on human capital formation. I instead argue that decentralized religious institutions led to long-run development by anchoring market participation, political competition, and public goods provision at the micro-level. The legacy of the past millennium’s religious institutions permeates villages today. I provide empirical evidence from the Indian subcontinent, where the Sufi Khanaqah evolved from the 13th century onwards. I construct a novel dataset of Khanaqah locations for all villages of India. The dataset is integrated with census-level data for the years 1991, 2001, and 2011, road upgradation data for 2000-2015, and pooled assembly election results for 1974-2018. Development is indicated by economic activity measured with night-light, health measured by nutritional status, literacy rate, consumption per capita, and poverty rate. I find that the presence of Khanaqah is empirically associated with higher long-run development at the village-level.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:26:22 -0400 2023-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar, April 13