9:00AM • Opening Address
David Powers, Cornell University,
“A Founder without Sons: The Making of the Last Prophet”
Comment by Yasir Kazi, Yale University
10:30-12:30PM • Panel I
Chair: Frank Griffel, Yale University
Richard Bulliet, Columbia University,
“The Rise of the Sufi Brotherhood as a Reform Movement”
Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina,
“Liberal Islam: The Reformation within the Reformation”
David Robinson, Michigan State University,
“Legitimating Islamic Revolution at the Frontiers of the Islamic World”
Discussant: Homayra Ziad, Yale University
Q&A Session following remarks
2:00-4:00PM • Panel II
Chair: Vivek Sharma, Yale University
Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University,
“Secularism’s Double Bind: Muslims, Islam and the State in South Asia”
Carrie Wickham, Emory University,
“Changing Stripes? The Causes and Dynamics of Islamist Auto-Reform”
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah,
“Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey:
Islamic Bourgeoisie and the AKP”
Discussant: Tarek Masoud, Yale University
Q&A Session following remarks
4:30PM • Keynote Address
Bruce Lawrence, Duke University,
“Muslim-Christian & Christian-Muslim:
The Challenge of Religious Minorities to Secular Polities in Africa & Asia”
with special reference to Egypt & Ethiopia, Indonesia & the Phillipines
Comment by Andrew March, Yale University
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