ILCAA Joint Research Project

Transition and Interaction among Modern Muslim Intellectuals (jrp000263)

Keywords

• Islam
• Intellectual
• Modernity
• Nationalism

Areas

• Central Asia
• East Asia
• North Africa
• South Asia

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2020–March, 2023

From case studies based in North Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, and South Asia, this project plans to examine the modern transition of Muslim intellectuals, with a particular focus on their interaction networks. Many studies on Muslim intellectuals have tended to portray them as the successors of traditional Islamic knowledge and have had a central focus on the official positions of the Ulema or the masters of the Sufi order and the associated networks, sect linkages, schools, political movements, and kinships. While encompassing knowledge from these previous studies, this study also focuses on the political and social dynamics such as nationalism to illustrate the modernity and diversity of Muslim intellectuals in modern Muslim societies.

Members

Coordinator

• Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Masato IIZUKA
• Satoshi OGURA

Joint Researchers

• Hatsuki AISHIMA
• Ko IWAKURA
• Amane KOBAYASHI
• Hiroki OKAZAKI
• Shoko WATANABE
• Seika WAZAKI
• So YAMANE
• Takayuki YOKOTA

Outputs

Meetings

The 6th meeting [open] ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 25 Sep 2022 13:00–14:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-resistration is needed. For registration, please contact:
  kaken.takao[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to @)

• 1. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  “Introduction”

  2. Takayuki YOKOTA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

  “The Contemporary Aspects of Hasan al-Banna in the Muslim Brotherhood: the Ideological Legitimacy under the Struggle Within”

  3. All participants

  General comment

  4. Members

  Metting about the publishment

The 5th meeting [open] ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 19 Feb 2022 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-resistration is needed. For registration, please contact:
  kaken.takao[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to @)

• 1. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  Introduction

  2. Hiroki OKAZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, PD Research Fellow, JSPS, Chiba Unviersity)

  “The Coexistence of Theology and Sociology in Islamic Reformist Thought”

  3. Seika WAZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chubu University)

  “Contemporary Islamic thought in Uzbekistan: Open Letter by Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf”

  4. All participants

  General comment

The 4th meeting [open] ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 2 Oct 2021 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-resistration is needed. For registration, please contact:
  kaken.takao[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to @)

• 1. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  Introduction

  2. Ko IWAKURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “The Definition and Role of Public Muslim Intellectuals in Modern Azerbaijan: From the Point of View Caucasus Muslim Board”

  3. So YAMANE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “The Taliban and Trends of Islamic Thought in South Asia”

  4. All members

  General comment by all participants

The 3rd meeting [open] ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 7 Aug 2021 13:00–15:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-resistration is needed. For registration, please contact:
  kaken.takao[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to @)

• 1. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Junior Fellow, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  Introduction

  2. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Junior Fellow, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  “Questioning “Islamic/Muslim Intellectuals””

  3. Shoko WATANABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia)

  “Ulama Faced with the Modern State: The Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama as a Case Study”

  4. All members

  General comment

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 30 Jan 2021 13:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Presentation 1: Amane KOBAYASHI(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan)

  “Islamic intellectuals and politics of modern Libya: impacts of the 2011 civil war”

  2. Presentation 2: Hatsuki AISHIMA(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)

  “Muslim Intellectuals and Mass Mediated Islam in Contemporary Egypt”(tentative title)

  3. All members

  Comment and general discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 10 Oct 2020 10:30–12:30
• Venue: Online meeting

• 1. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  Introduction

  2. Kenichiro TAKAO (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow, Middle East Institute of Japan)

  “Syria”

  3. Ko IWAKURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Azerbaijan”

  4. Seika WAZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chubu University)

  “Uzbekisan”

  5. Shoko WATANABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)

  “Maghreb”

  6. All members

  General comment

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