Am 18. Februar 2025 findet der Goethe-Universtität das Symposium  “Encounters and Exchanges. The Utrecht project ‘Beyond Sharia’ meets research on Iran/Islam” statt. Es wird durch Catherina Wenzel, Professorin für Religionswissenschaft und PI beim Forschungsverbund “Dynamiken des Religiösen” mitorganisiert.

9:15
Welcome! Short presentation of the main projects’ ideas
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab – Catherina Wenzel)

10:00-11:15
Zhinia Noorian
Persian ghazal: Jahān-Malik Khātūn’s Transgressive Path to Female Agency

Benno Herr
The “Derwish of the Christians” and the Sufis – Central Asian Sufism translated to British Evangelicals

11:25-12:55
Arash Ghajarjazi
Memories of Unbelief: Remediating Khayyām and Secularism in 20th Century Iran

Sabine Ahmadzai
Conversion of Shiite Muslims to Evangelical Christianity in German-Iranian Communities – An Analysis of Recent Biographical Narratives

12:55-13:55 LUNCH

14:00-15:15
Leila Rahimi Bahmany
Conferring Authority through Hagiography: The Case of Kaygusuz Abdal and the Appropriation of Narrative Strategies

Moritz Maurer
Encountering the ‘Avesta’ in Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature

15:25-16:40

Fatemeh Naghshvarian
Antinomian Tropes in Feyżī’s Nal-u Daman

Nadine Löhr
Teaching, Learning, and Writing in a Multi-Religious Setting: Reconstructing the Library of Marāgha

16:40-17:15 COFFEE/ TEE/ Poster presentation

17:25-18:40
Maarten Holtzapffel
Of Love and Tolerance: Rūmī’s Story of Moses and the Shepherd

Fatemeh Afrasen
Echoes of Socio-cultural Coexistence: Armenians and the Shi’ite Majority in 19^th Century Tabriz

Poster presentations:

Alexandra Nieweg
Literary Qalandars: Metaphor and Reality in the Poetry of Ḥakīm Sanāʾī (d. 1131)

Amin Ghodratzadeh
The Ilāhī-nāma and the Madman

Mahdi Vaziniafzal
Mehraban Trade House; A Example of the economic prosperity of Yazd Zoroastrians during the Qajar period