Event
07 June 2018
Amos Bertolacci speaks about Avicenna’s Šifāʾ from Safavid Iran to the Mughal Empire
Conference on Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact: Intellectual and Religious Exchanges between Iran and India in Early Modern Period, Institute of Oriental and Islamic Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 7-8 June 2018, organized by R. Pourjavady and K. Rezania
Program
Thursday, 07 June 2018
09.45 - 10:00: Alexandra Cuffel (Bochum) and Reza Pourjavady (Bochum), Welcome Address & Introduction
10.00 - 12.00 Panel 1: Šīʿī Theology and Philosophy in Iran & India
Chair: Reza Pourjavady (Bochum)
Sajjad Rizvi (Exeter), Šīʿī Theology and Polemics between Iran and India: The Case of Sayyid Nurullāh Šūštarī
Asad Q. Ahmed (Berkeley, CA), Philosophical Commentaries and Mīr Dāmādʼs Legacy in India
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch
01:30 - 03:30 Panel 2: Philosophical Exchanges between Iran & India
Chair: Cornelia Schöck (Bochum)
Amos Bertolacci (Pisa), Avicenna’s Šifāʾ from Safavid Iran to the Mughal Empire: On Ms. Rampur Raza Library, 3476
Hassan Rezakhani (Berkeley, CA), The Liar Paradox: Some Safavid and Mughal Solutions
03:30 - 04:00 Coffee break
04:00 - 06:00 Panel 3: Intellectual Impacts of Christian Missionaries on Iran & India
Chair: Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum)
Haila Manteghi Amin (Münster), The Discussions on Jerónimo Javier's (1549–1617) Āʾīna-yi haqqnamā in the Safavid Persia
Reza Pourjavady (Bochum), ʿAbd al-Sattār Lāhūrī’s Samrat al-falāsafa and its Possible Impact on Later Safavid Doxographies
06:30 Dinner
Friday, 08 June 2018
10:00 - 12:00 Panel 4: Intellectual and Cultural Connections between Iran & India
Chair: Stefan Reichmuth (Bochum)
Shankar Nair (Charlottesville, VA), Bridging Empires at the Edge of Empires: Mīr Findiriskīʼs Philosophical Excursions
Colin Mitchell (Halifax), Patronage, Adab, and the Trans-Imperial: The Case of
Hvāndamīr
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch
01:00 - 03:00 Panel 5: Āzar Keyvānis as a Link between Iran & India
Chair: Jessie Pons (Bochum)
Takeshi Aoki (Hamamatsu), Āzar Keyvān School in Historical Context: Zoroastrianism, Sufism and Mughal India
Kianoosh Rezania (Bochum), Did Āzar Keyvānīs Know Zoroastrian Sources? Some Remarks to the Literary Sources of Āzar Keyvānīs
03:00 - 04:00 General Discussion
