MESA’s 50th Anniversary Meeting in Boston will be held November 17-20 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel.
Ismaili Thought Through the Medieval and Modern Periods: Gender, Exegesis and Metaphysics
1:45 – 3:30 PM Friday November 18
Organizer: Khalil Andani
- Khalil Andani, Harvard
- The monorealism of Aga Khan III: echoes of Ismāʿīlī neoplatonism and Akbarī ontology
- Shahrad Shahvand, Harvard
- Ismailism under the influence of Ibn ʿArabī: some metaphysical views of Āqā Khān Maḥallātī (d. 1881)
- Paul Anderson, Harvard
- Projections: gendering the spiritual in Ismāʿīlī cosmology
- Aaron Viengkhou, Harvard
- The true path (satpanth): narrative hermeneutics (taʾwīl) in the Ismāʿīlī Gināns
Nasir-i Khusraw and His Associations: Shifting Biographies and Affiliations in the Appropriations of the Persian Poet, Philosopher and Fatimid Da`i (Summoner)
2 – 3:45 PM Saturday November 19
Organizer: Shiraz Hajiani
- Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev University
- A tale of two masters: the uses and reuses of discipleship narratives in the legendary biographies of Nasir-i Khusraw
- Shiraz Hajiani, University of Chicago
- Second fiddle: an examination of the constructions of master and protégé relationship between Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and its later inversions in the legitimations of authority in Nizari Ismailism
- Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev, Institute of Ismaili Studies
- The place and significance of Nasir-i Khusraw in Badakhshan
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