Presentations of the Conference Participants
(Further) Videos of Conference Presentations will be posted after
the International Conference
‘Female Visions:
The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism’,
16-18 October 2020
Presentations and Q&A
Christian Ströbele:
Conference introduction
Sara Kuehn:
Opening remarks
Dionigi Albera and Meliha Teparić:
Artwork Presentation. Video and Sound Installations
Amila Buturović:
Stillness in the Eye of the Storm: Mira Burke and the Performance of Spiritual Ecstasy
Michel Boivin:
Gender and Sufism: Hindu Sindhi Women and the Transmission of the Sufi Legacy in India
Mark Soileau:
Reflections from the Visual World of Zöhre Ana
Q&A
with Amila Buturović, Michel Boivin and Mark Soileau
Pnina Werbner:
Colours and Visions: A Hybrid of Sufi Mysticism and Science
Gianfranco Bria:
Ziyāra and Feminine Harīm in Post-Socialist Albania: Dervishe Hatixhe’s Grave in Tirana
Q&A
with Pnina Werbner and Gianfranco Bria
Yunus Hentschel:
The Female Caliphate: The Qur’ān, Female Voices and Gender Dynamics
Q&A
with Yunus Hentschel
Joseph Hill:
Wrapping Body, Voice, and Self: Female Chanters in the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Community in Senegal
Feyza Burak-Adli:
The Visionary Female Guarding of Turkish Cultural Heritage: The Turkish Rifai Shaykha Samiha Ayverdi
Q&A
with Joseph Hill and Feyza Burak-Adli
Sara Kuehn:
‘A Real-Life Jātaka Tale’: Seeking Inspiration from the Life of Pīrzade-Shahīda Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Meliha Teparić, Rosana Ratkovčić:
The Visual Culture of Sufi Mysticism in the Works of Female Artists
Q&A
with Sara Kuehn, Meliha Teparić, Rosana Ratkovčić
Dilek Güldütuna:
Womanhood as a Metaphysical Concept
Britta Frede:
Female Sufi Scholars in Mauritania: Visions of Pious Women
Silvia Bruzzi:
Holy Women in the Early Twentieth-Century Red Sea Region: Spatial Spheres, Travelling Images
Q&A
with Britta Frede and Silvia Bruzzi
Aliya Iqbal, Hasan Ali Khan:
A Matriarch Amongst Patriarchs: Female Leadership in a Non-Reformed Sufi Order in Contemporary Pakistan
Rafique Wassan:
Progressive-Pluralist Sufi Heritage, New Mediatization and Female Artists in Sindh, Pakistan
Q&A
with Aliya Iqbal, Hasan Ali Kha and Rafique Wassan
Pnina Werbner, Christian Ströbele, Erdal Toprakyaran:
Closing remarks
Presentation abstracts
Silvia Bruzzi
Presentation abstract
Britta Frede
Britta Frede: Presentation abstract
Sara Kuehn
Sara Kuehn: Presentation abstract
Rafique Wassan
Rafique Wassan: Presentation abstract
Feyza Burak-Adli
Feyza Burak-Adli: Presentation abstract
Dilek Güldütuna
Dilek Güldütuna: Presentation abstract
Annika Schmeding
Annika Schmeding: Presentation abstract
Pnina Werbner
Pnina Werbner: Presentation abstract
Amila Buturovic
Amila Buturovic: Presentation abstract
Hasan Ali Khan, Aliya Iqbal Naqvi
Hasan Ali Khan, Aliya Iqbal Naqvi: Presentation abstract
Meliha Teparić, Rosana Ratkovčić
Meliha Teparić and Rosana Ratkovčić: Presentation abstract