Conferences
20 September 2014, Columbia University, New York, NY
43nd Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS), "The Concept of Authority in Muslim Societies: Political, Religious, Social and Literary"
We invite a diverse range of papers from professors and advanced Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences that address the following sub-themes:
- Concept of Authority in Qur’an and Sunnah
- Concept of Authority in Fiqh
- Authority and Authoritarianism
- Political Authority
- Authority in an Ideal Society
- Authority and Legitimacy
- Authority and Justice
- Case Studies: Political or Religious Authority in Muslim-Majority Societies
- Gendered Authority & Patriarchy
- Female Authority: Religious, Family and Social
- Ethnographies: Authority in Family, Village, or State Organizations
- Authority in Contemporary Novels and Poems
- New Forms of Authority in the 21st Century: Technological Age of the Internet
- Historical Studies of Authority in Muslim Dynasties: Umayyad/Abbasid/Safavid, etc
- Challenging Authority: Youth and Women’s Social Movements
- Muslim Minority Communities in Europe and North America
