“Scattered” and “organized”: sense-making strategies of Islamic culture

International conference organized by the Institute of Philosophy (Department of Islamic philosophy) and Foundation for Islamic culture research

Scheduled for 26-27 September 2013

Venue: Room 524 (5th floor), Institute of Philosophy, Volkhonka 14, Moscow 119991

Idea

Idea of the conference is to explore different fields of Islamic culture and Islamic thought, such as fiqh, doctrine, philosophy, philology, Qur’ānic sciences, history, music, fine arts, etc., in order to answer the question: is there any commonality between them in gathering “scattered” units and “organizing” them into a sort of unity? Many madhhabs, but one sharī‘a; scattered bayts gathered into a ghazal; strewn sounds organized into a laḥn; ’āyāt gathered into sūra, and suwar organized as Qur’ānic text; atomic things and unity of being. Those are but a few examples of translating the theme of the conference into reality of Islamic culture. Ẓāhir-bāṭin, ’aṣl-far‘, tashbīh-tanzīh, tafrī‘, ishtiqāq and other categories are used by Islamic thinkers to express correlation between unity and multiplicity. Do they express Islamic view of unity-multiplicity problem? What is the approach to this problem specific, and at the same time distinctive, for Islamic thinkers?

Programme (download as PDF)

26 September

10.00-10.30	Opening remarks and greetings
10.30-11.00	Maytham al‑Janabi (Russia)	The philosophy of the Islamic Cultural Spirit
11.00-11.30	Ilshat Nasyrov (Russia)	Tanzīh-tashbīh as a master paradigm for Islamic cultural universe (as exemplified by the Qur’an and Sunna)
11.30-12.00	coffee break
12.00-12.30	Shirwandi Kharandi (Iran)	Tashbih and tanzīh according to Ibn ‘Arabī
12.30-13.00	Rudolf Sukiyaynen (Russia)	Basic rules of fiqh as a generalization of ahkām and the criterion of preference
13.00-14.30	lunch
14.30-15.00	Natalya Prigarina (Russia)	The insightful reader as a navigator through the space of meaning of Urdu and Persian literature
15.00-15.30	Natalya Chalisova (Russia)	Concept of ‘scattered’ (parīšān) in Persian Poetic imagery: a harmony disturbed or a unity lost?
15.30-16.00	Gultekin Shamilli (Russia)	From Boethius to Safi al-Din al-Urmawi: two paradigms of the relation between the “part” and the “whole” in the organization of basic sound structure
16.00-16.30	coffee break
16.30-17.00	Vasily Kuznetsov (Russia)	Early Arab-Muslim historiography and the Judeo-Christian historical tradition
17.00-17.30	Dmitry Mikulsky (Russia)	Оn the question of the structure of a biography in the biographical collection by al-Shatti “A‘yan Dimashq”
17.30-18.00	discussion

27 September

10.00-10.30	Khosrowpanah, Abdolhusayn (Iran)	The apparent (ẓāhir) and the hidden (bāṭin) of the Qur’an in the context of Islamic culture
10.30-11.00	Shahram Pazouki (Iran)	Mystical interpretation of the Qur’an: a journey from the apparent to the hidden
11.00-11.30	Dmitry Frolov (Russia)	Spoken word and written text: Qur’anic composition reconsidered
11.30-12.00	coffee break
12.00-12.30	Nur Kirabayev (Russia)	Understanding classical Islamic philosophy: some considerations
12.30-13.00	Ruzana Pskhu (Russia)	Study of Niffari’s works and probable methods of their interpretation
13.00-14.30	lunch
14.30-15.00	Andrey Smirnov (Russia)	Substance-based and process-based logics: two solutions for Divine attributes enigma proposed by al‑Kirmānī and Ibn ‘Arabī
15.00-15.30	Yanis Esots (Latvia)	Revisiting al-Qunawi’s Miftāh al-Ghayb: Being and Knowledge as Gathered and Dispersed
15.30-16.00	Vladimir Drozdov (Russia)	Teaching on shāhid in midieval Sufi sources
16.00-16.30	coffee break
16.30-17.00	Andrey Lukashev (Russia)	Unity and multiplicity, part and whole: organized being in Gulshan-i raz by Mahmud Shabistari
17.00-17.30	Yulia Fedorova (Russia)	Si murgh and Simurgh: relation between complex unity and simple unity in Mantiq al‑tayr by Farid al‑Din ‘Attar
17.30-18.00	Mykhaylo M. Yakubovych (Ukraine)	“Gathering the Knowledge” in Post-Classical Islamic Philosophy: a Reconstruction of the Logic-and-Meaning Paradigm

Russian-Persian simultaneous translation will be operating at the conference.

Conference page: /ishraqconf2.htm (English), https://iphras.ru/ishraqconf2.htm (Russian).

فلسفة المعنى في الثقافة الإسلامية :
اختلاف الأماني ووحدة المعاني في الثقافة الإسلامية

ندوة علمية فلسفية

المنثور والمنظوم (للشعر)

المنتثر والمنتظم (في التاريخ والوعي)

الجمع والفرق (للتصوف)

الكثرة والوحدة (الكلام والفلسفة)

الوحدة والاختلاف (الثقافة والعقيدة)

تعقد الندوة العلمية الفلسفية بتاريخ 26 -27 سبتمبر (أيلول) عام 2013 في (معهد الفلسفة) التابع لأكاديمية العلوم الروسية (روسيا الاتحادية – موسكو). وتهدف الندوة إلى دراسة الجوانب المتعلقة بإشكالية المعنى ومدارجها في نظم العلاقة الفعلية بين الكثرة والوحدة في مختلف ميادين الفكر العربي الإسلامي، وبالأخص في أهم فنونه واختصاصاته النظرية والعلمية الكبرى مثل الفقه والكلام والفلسفة والتصوف، إضافة إلى علوم القرآن واللغة والتأريخ والأدب والشعر والفن والموسيقى.

كما تسعى الندوة العلمية لتحليل ودراسة مختلف القضايا المتعلقة بخصوصية المفاهيم والمقولات المستخدمة في الفكر الإسلامي (الاصل والفرع والظاهر والباطن والتنزيه والتشبيه والتفريع والاشتقاق وما الى ذلك) وأثرها بالنسبة لانتظام التنوع والاختلاف والكثرة في وحدة الثقافة ومعانيها الباطنية، أي كل ما يهدف في نهاية المطاف إلى إبراز النسبة الحية بين الكثرة والوحدة في كافة مجالات الثقافة الإسلامية.