“The 3rd Young Researchers’ Indo-Persian Workshop”

2025.04.21

Date / Time	Sat 31 May 2025 10:00–17:30 / Sun 1 Jun 2025 10:00–18:50
Venue	Room 303 (ILCAA) + Online meeting
Admission	Free * Pre-registration required for online participation 　→　Day 1　Day 2
Language	English
Organizers	NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS); École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); South Asian Studies Center, TUFS
Contact	ogura [at] aa.tufs.ac.jp　　(Please change [at] to @.)

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▼ Day 1 (May 31^st)

▼ Day 2 (June 1^st)

Session 3: Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Courts and Services (Chair: Ayako Ninomiya)
10:00–10:30:	Mehdi Sham Roshan (Université de Lausanne) “The Emergence of Medieval Indo-Persian Literature: A Study of Amir Khusraw’s Dibācha-i Divān-i Ghurrat al-Kāmāl”
10:30–11:00:	Emma Kalb (Universität Bonn) “Representing Concubinage in the Mughal World”
11:00–11:30:	Kirti Kanojia (University of Delhi) “Shahjahan and The Emergence of a Messianic King: Reassessing Narrative Strategies in Indo-Persian Histories”
11:30–11:45:	Coffee Break
11:45–12:15:	Pooja Hazra (University of California, Davis) “At the Interstices of Empires: Naukri or Service Culture in Early-Modern South Asia”
12:15–12:45:	General Discussion
12:45–14:00:	Lunch Break
Session 4: Modern (Chair: Masato Toriya)
14:00–14:30:	Riccardo Bonotto (EHESS-CESAH) “The Yunani Hakim tradition in early modern Afghanistan”
14:30–15:00:	Ryusei Homma (JSPS-ILCAA) “The Heritage of Perso-Islamic Culture in British India: Mehr ‘Alī Shāh’s Philosophical Elaboration of Sufi Thought”
15:00–15:30:	Faheemudin (University of Delhi) “Echoes of Indo-Persian Legacy: Shibli Nu‘mani and the Articulation of Urdu Literature in the Colonial Era”
15:30–15:45:	Coffee Break
Session 5: Arts (Chair: Yui Kanda)
15:45–16:15:	Ayesha Sheth (Ahmedabad University) “The World of ‘Rāgamālā’: Jain Musicologists on the Indo-Persian Stage”
16:15–16:45:	Haruo Inoue (Kyoto University) “The Culture of Visualizing Sound in an 18th-Century North Indian Music Theory Text”
16:45–17:15:	Amanda Caterina Leong (The Courtauld Institute of Art) “Recovering Female Javanmardi (Young-Manliness) from the Victoria and Albert Museum Mughal Collection”
17:15–17:45:	Hasan Nisar (Yale University) “The Zulf of the Beloved: Idealized Beauty and Mughal Imitative Practices in Portraiture during the Early Seventeenth Century”
17:45–18:20:	General Discussion
18:20–18:30:	Closing Address
18:30–18:50:	Tabla Performance by Haruo Inoue

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10:00–10:10:	Opening Speech by Victor Baptiste, Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani, and Satoshi Ogura
10:10–10:25:	Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA) “Keynote Address”
Session 1: Encounters (Chair: Fabrizio Speziale)
10:30–11:00:	Jean Arzoumanov (University of Chicago) “Sanskrit catarchic astrology in North-Indian Persian astrological manuscripts”
11:00–11:30:	Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani (EHESS-CESAH) “A Jain Ritual at the Mughal Court”
11:30–11:45:	Coffee Break
11:45–12:15:	Muhammad Rehmatullah (Jamia Millia Islamia) “Confluence of Faiths and Languages: Understanding the Pranami Literary Tradition of 17th Century Indo-Persian World”
12:15–12:45:	Yohei Moriguchi (Kyoto University) “The Development of the Theory of Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Oneness of Being) in Mughal India: Ontological Analysis of Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī’s Persian Commentary on Ibn ‘Arabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam (the Bezels of Wisdom)”
12:45–13:15:	General Discussion
13:15–14:45:	Lunch Break
Session 2: Translation (Chair: Satoshi Ogura)
14:45–15:15:	Fabio Pagliani (EHESS-CESAH) “From David to Rāma”
15:15–15:45:	Fatemeh Naghshvarian (Utrecht University) “Antinomian Traits in Feyżī’s Nal-u Daman”
15:45–16:00:	Coffee Break
16:00–16:30:	Victor Baptiste (EPHE) “Persian Poetry in Disguise: Madhumālatī’s Intertext”
16:30–17:00:	Nagwant Singh (University of Delhi) “Knowledge Transmission through the Brajbhasha Poetry in a Multilingual Space: Intertextuality, Translations, and Commentaries in the Mughal Age”
17:00–17:30:	General Discussion
18:30:	Gala Dinner

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