Friday, November 20 / 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM Room 224 (2nd Floor)

Session 131
Islamic Political Thought, Sovereignty, and Alternative Modernities

Chair: Berfu Aygenc, New York University
Discussant: Bahar Tabakoglu, New York University

1. Against the “Triangle of Calamity”: Abul a’La Maududi and the Construction of an Islamic Alternative to Western ModernityWaqar Ahmad, Ph.D Student in University of Peshawar ; Danishwar Danishwar, Graduate Student Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology PeshawarPeshawar; Muhammad Riaz, University of Peshawar.

2. Sovereignty of the Ethical: Decentering Colonial Modernity and Islamic Reconfiguration of Order in South Asia.Nafis Haider, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

3. Politicizing Islamic Ontologies of Unity: Wahdat Ul-Wujud and Tawhid in Twentieth Century Muslim Political ThoughtSarah Merchant, UC Berkeley.

4. Fertility, the Demographic Revolution and Legal Consciousness in Comparative Perspective: Islamic, Hindu, Halakhic and Buddhist Normative OrdersViva Hammer, Australian National University.

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