Invitation for 11th IARC Webinar by the HSS department by James D. Frankel, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Invitation for 11th IARC Webinar by the HSS department by James D. Frankel, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
International Academia and Research Committee (IARC) Webinar Series
(Webinar No.11)
Title: Origins and Trajectories of Islam in China
Speaker: James D. Frankel, Ph.D., Director, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Date: Tuesday 30 November, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM
Link for joining: https://meet.google.com/brs-mofp-rqa
Welcome: Prof. Devika (Professor & HoD, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Vote of thanks: Dr. Veena Ramachandran (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social
Sciences).
Profile of the Speaker:
Dr. James D. Frankel earned his degrees in East Asian Studies (B.A.) and Religion (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.) from Columbia University. His expertise is in the history of Islam in China. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and his scholarly interests in the comparative history of ideas, and religious and cultural synthesis, are highlighted in his first book, Rectifying God’s Name: Liu Zhi’s Translation of Monotheism and Islamic Ritual Law in Neo-Confucian China (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011) and Islam in China (I.B. Tauris, 2021). He has lived in China and has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe and America, where his research has included work with scholars and religious leaders of Muslim communities. Dr. Frankel is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture.
Abstract:
There are approximately 25 million Muslims living in the People’s Republic of China, a legacy of over 1,200 years of Islamic presence in China. We will examine this rich and dynamic history from the Tang dynasty (618–907) to the present day. Muslims in China are an internally diverse population, easily overlooked as a small segment of the 1.8 billion global Muslim population and 1.5 billion inhabitants of China today. Muslim communities in China have undergone tremendous change, touched by the forces of Chinese history, the development of Islamic traditions outside China, and geopolitics. Given the paradoxical situation of China’s Muslims – living as both insiders and outsiders to Chinese society – we will investigate dynamics of compatibility and difference and the connections and ruptures between Chinese and Islamic civilizations.
Contact: veena.r@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in
Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
International Academia and Research Committee (IARC) Webinar Series
(Webinar No.11)
Title: Origins and Trajectories of Islam in China
Speaker: James D. Frankel, Ph.D., Director, Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Date: Tuesday 30 November, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM
Link for joining: https://meet.google.com/brs-mofp-rqa
Welcome: Prof. Devika (Professor & HoD, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Vote of thanks: Dr. Veena Ramachandran (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social
Sciences).
Profile of the Speaker:
Dr. James D. Frankel earned his degrees in East Asian Studies (B.A.) and Religion (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.) from Columbia University. His expertise is in the history of Islam in China. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and his scholarly interests in the comparative history of ideas, and religious and cultural synthesis, are highlighted in his first book, Rectifying God’s Name: Liu Zhi’s Translation of Monotheism and Islamic Ritual Law in Neo-Confucian China (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011) and Islam in China (I.B. Tauris, 2021). He has lived in China and has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe and America, where his research has included work with scholars and religious leaders of Muslim communities. Dr. Frankel is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture.
Abstract:
There are approximately 25 million Muslims living in the People’s Republic of China, a legacy of over 1,200 years of Islamic presence in China. We will examine this rich and dynamic history from the Tang dynasty (618–907) to the present day. Muslims in China are an internally diverse population, easily overlooked as a small segment of the 1.8 billion global Muslim population and 1.5 billion inhabitants of China today. Muslim communities in China have undergone tremendous change, touched by the forces of Chinese history, the development of Islamic traditions outside China, and geopolitics. Given the paradoxical situation of China’s Muslims – living as both insiders and outsiders to Chinese society – we will investigate dynamics of compatibility and difference and the connections and ruptures between Chinese and Islamic civilizations.
Contact: veena.r@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in