Date: 27 March 2017 Time: 12:00 PM Finishes: 29 March 2017 Time: 6:30 PM Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Djam Lecture Theatre /Senate House Lecture Theatre Type of Event: Conference Recent decades have seen increasing global connectedness and… Read More ›
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Ethnographies of Islam in China
27-29 March 2017 SOAS, University of London CALL FOR PAPERS Recent decades have seen increasing global connectedness and rapid changes in Islamic belief and practice in China, across a sphere characterised by great diversity in histories of transmission, socio-economic… Read More ›
Music of the Ordam Shrine Festival
Music of the Ordam Shrine Festival Professor Rahile Dawut (Xinjiang University) Aynur Kadir (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Rahile Dawut has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork around the Xinjiang for over 20 years, and is the world’s leading expert on Uyghur shrine… Read More ›
Ethnographies of Islam in China
Ethnographies of Islam in China An International Conference 27-29 March 2017 SOAS, University of London Themes: The Islamic resurgence in China Circulation, authority and authenticity Fieldwork methodologies and ethics The call for papers will be released in September…. Read More ›
Archaeology of Sound
Ha Guangtian (SOAS, University of London) According to one theory, the sharp division between Classical Arabic and varieties of colloquial Arabic, rather than being exemplary of what has been called “diglossia” in socio-linguistics, was in fact the consequence of Islam’s… Read More ›
Islamic Soundscapes of Khotan
Mu Qian (Research Student, Department of Music, SOAS, University of London) Khotan is situated on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. It is an area still dominated by Uyghurs. According to the national census in 2010, Uyghurs account for… Read More ›
Reciting Hikmat in Uyghur Villages: the circulation of texts and performance
Rachel Harris Audio 1. Khetme ritual, southern Xinjiang, 2012 A khetme ritual conducted by a group of pious village women led by a qushnach: a village ritual specialist who deal with funerals and sickness. The bulk of this khetme ritual is… Read More ›
The Silent Loud: Voice, Faith, and the Practice of Listening in China’s Jahriyya Sufism
Guangtian Ha (SOAS, University of London) (Please do not cite or circulate without the author’s permission) Though many Jahriyya Sufis in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region would hesitate to designate their daily recitation as a form of musical performance, they… Read More ›
Islam by Smartphone: the changing sounds of Uyghur religiosity
Rachel Harris (SOAS, University of London) Aziz Isa (Independent scholar) Over the past few years, localised violent incidents have become commonplace right across Xinjiang. State media blames the ongoing violence on the spread of Islamic jihadi ideals via the Internet… Read More ›
The Public Soundscape of China’s “Little Mecca”
Wei Yukun and Xiao Mei Linxia, which lies in the central part of Gansu Province in China, is a city filled with all kinds of sounds. While some are typical of Chinese towns, others are unique to this place. As… Read More ›