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SUMMARY:Co-Sponsored Conference: Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics
DESCRIPTION:The 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference and award ceremony honoring Professor Richard Eaton (University of Arizona). \nView conference information and register \nThe 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award presentation and conference will take place on Thursday\, November 5\, 2026\, at UCLA. The award will be presented to Professor Richard Eaton of the University of Arizona\, in recognition of his contributions to the field of Islamic Studies. The conference is part of a tradition established by CNES first director\, Gustave E. von Grunebaum\, to encourage research in the field of Islamic studies and to honor outstanding scholars in the field\, beginning with the scholar for whom the award is named. \nThe 2026 conference focuses on the topic of Sufis in premodern Persianate society and politics\, addressing the following questions: By what processes did Sufis (or Sufi institutions) act as cultural mediators\, or contribute to the Islamization of non-Muslim societies? What factors shaped Sufis’ various relationships with regional economies? What stances did Sufis take vis-à-vis political power; under what circumstances did they take these stances; and with what consequences? How did the various positions above change over time; and what factors or forces might explain those changes? Finally\, to enrich our understanding both of Islamic history and of social history\, how might case studies of individual Sufis or Sufi orders be placed into a larger comparative analysis? \nConference organizers: Nile Green (UCLA History) and Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA History). \nConference presenters: \n\nSaid Amir Arjomand (Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus\, State University of New York)\nKameliya Atanasova (Independent Scholar)\nShahzad Bashir (Dean\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations\, Aga Khan University)\nDevin DeWeese (Professor Emeritus\, Indiana University at Bloomington)\nCarl Ernst (William R. Kenan Jr.\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\nPeyvand Firouzeh (Assistant Professor\, University of Cambridge)\nCarlos Grenier (Associate Professor\, Florida International University)\nJo-Ann Gross (Professor Emerita\, The College of New Jersey)\nAyesha Irani (Associate Professor\, University of Massachusetts Boston)\nAhmet T. Karamustafa (Professor and Chair\, University of Maryland)\nBruce Lawrence (Marcus Family Humanities Professor Emeritus\, Duke University)\nShankar Nair (Associate Professor\, University of Virginia)\n\nConference program will be shared soon. \nThe conference is organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and is co-sponsored by the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History\, the UCLA Islamic Studies Program\, and the UCLA Iranian Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsored-conference-sufis-in-premodern-persianate-societies-and-politics/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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