Muslim Voices: Traditions and Contexts | A Conference in Honor of Barbara Daly Metcalf

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

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

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"

Faisal Devji, Oxford University

The End of Muslim Universality

Azfar Moin, University of Michigan

Painted Rituals: Space and Symbol in Jahangiri Art