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
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 ṭāʾifa 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