Sufi Manuscript Cultures II

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Nafi Baba Tasavvuf, Tarih ve Kültürel Miras Araştırma Merkezi

5-6 June 2023

In collaboration with Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies, University of St Andrews and the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, with financial support from the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Abstracts

Programme

Monday 5 June

9.15-9.30am Welcome and introduction

9.30-11.00       Panel 1. Medieval Sufi Manuscript Cultures (Chair: Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi)

Konrad Hirschler (Hamburg), Preserving manuscripts and transmitting knowledge in Sufi convents, c. 12th – 14th centuries

Andrew Peacock (St Andrews), The Sufi manuscript culture of medieval Ahlat

 

11.00-11.30 Break

 

11.30-13.00     Panel 2. Sufi Manuscripts and Medieval Central Asia (Chair: Philip Bockholt, Muenster)

Marc Czarnuszewicz (ANAMED/St Andrews), When a āʾifa fails: The collapse of the Ḥāṭimīyān of Khurasan and the Mongol conquest

Florian Schwarz (Vienna), Before the classic silsila: Ijāzāt in an early 14th-century manuscript from Samarkand

 

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30     Panel 3. Manuscripts as Evidence for Intellectual History (Chair: Oya Pancaroğlu, Boğaziçi)

Richard Todd (Birmingham), Was Orhan Gazi a sponsor of philosophical Sufism? What manuscript sources can tell us about the early Ottoman patronage of Ibn Arabi’s school

Samet Budak (Michigan), Husayn al-Akhlati: An elusive Sufi, his interregional network, and the manuscripts of his understudied works

15.30-16.00 Break

 

16.00-17.30   Panel 4. Sufi Scriptoria (Chair: Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Boğaziçi)

 

Ertuğrul Ökten (İstanbul Medeniyet University), Following the traces of the written word in the Naqshbandiyya

Ilse Sturkenboom (Munich), The kumral (brownish) style of painting as an indication for Sufi manuscript production

 

Tuesday 6 June

9.00-11. 00 Panel 5. Ottoman Sufi Manuscripts I (Chair: Akif Yerlioğlu, Boğaziçi)

Zeynep Oktay (Boğaziçi), The Bektashization of Yunus Emre’s poetic tradition: What the earliest manuscripts tell us

Ines Asceric-Todd (Edinburgh), Ottoman futuwwa manuscripts and their transmission from Anatolia to the Balkans and beyond: texts and contexts

Tobias Sick (Muenster), Exploring the role of translations within Sufi manuscript culture: The Pandnāma-yi ʿAṭṭār and its translations as a case in point

11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-13.00 Panel 6. Ottoman Sufi Manuscripts II (Chair: Zeynep Oktay, Boğaziçi)

Derin Terzioğlu (Boğaziçi) and Ensar Karagöz (Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu), A Sufi reader at work: Personal notes of Niyazi-i Mısri (d. 1694) in the margins of Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi’s (d. 1240) ‘Anqa Mughrib and al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

Alexandre Papas (CNRS-EPHE, Paris), A seventeenth-century Ottoman Sufi addendum (zeyl) and the world around it

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel 7. Sufi Mecmu‘as (Chair: Tülay Gençtürk-Demircioğlu, Boğaziçi)

Betul Yavuz (Seoul National University), Between tracts, letters, and poetry: Tracing the Bayrami-Melami community in seventeenth-century Istanbul through mecmu‘as

Elif Sezer-Aydınlı (Freie Universität, Berlin), Cönks as repositories of Sufi memory

15.30-16.00 Break

16.00-16.15 Closing remarks