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Islam, South Asia and Germany in Global Intellectual History- Lecturer
- Dr. Razak Khan
- Details
- Seminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 5, Sprache Englisch, Fragen und Diskussionen auch auf Deutsch.
Time and place: single appointment on 28.6.2019, single appointment on 29.6.2019 10:00 - 17:00, room tbd; single appointment on 30.6.2019 10:00 - 12:00, room tbd; comments on time and place: Raum 3.113, Nägelsbachstr. 25, Erlangen
- Contents
- This seminar explores the challenges and possibilities of writing entangled Indo- German intellectual histories. Moving beyond the emphasis on Indology and Sanskrit and instead developing a dialogic comparative perspective, the course will examine hitherto ignored legacy of the Indo–German connections especially forged by Muslims in South Asia and Germany. It does so by focusing on key concepts that were re-constituted in the entangled Indo–German intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This brings into light new perspectives on connected histories of languages (Persian, Urdu, Hindi and German), transcultural actors (students, religious leaders and artists) and concepts (education, culture, and minority) that connect histories and trajectories of India and Germany. The seminar with its emphasis on modern Indian history, politics and culture will also take into account issues concerning comparative religious studies especially Islamic studies and intellectual exchange in literary and aesthetic fields. It will appeal to students interested in comparative intellectual and conceptual histories and religious studies. The workshop requirement includes regular attendance and active participation in reading and presenting compulsory texts for class discussions.
- Recommended literature
- Day 1
1.Introduction to the Seminar. International, Entangled, Comparative or Global Intellectual Histories?
Andrew Sartori and Samuel Moyn, eds. Global Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, pp.3-29.
Kris Manjapra, "Transnational Approaches to Global History: A View from the Study of German-Indian Entanglement", German History, 2014, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 274-293.
2. Race and History: Aryan Brother, Semitic Other?
Sussane Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Race, Religion, and Scholarship. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 102-156.
Thomas Trautman, Aryans and British India. University of California Press,1997. 190-215.
3. Persian and Vernacular Languages in German Intellectual Thought and Practice
Margrit Pernau, ed. The Delhi College: Traditional elites, the colonial state, and education before 1857. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.105-124.
Annemarie Schimmel, German Contributions to the Study of Pakistani Linguistics. Hamburg: German-Pakistan Forum.1981.
4. South Asian Islam in Germany, German Islam?
Gerdien Jonker "The Dynamics of Adaptive Globalization. Muslim Missionaries in Weimar Berlin", Entangled Religions 1, 2014, pp.115-158.
Ursula Wokoeck. The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800-1945.London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 164-184.Day 2
5. Cultural Translations: German Bildung, Indian Talim
Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs & Kate Rouse Maniere, eds. Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post) Colonial Education. Berghahn Books, 2014, pp.123-139.
Krishna Kumar and Joachim Oesterheld eds, Education and Social Change in South Asia. Orient Longman,2006, 197-217.
6. Minority Citizenship and National Culture
Aamir R. Mufti. Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp.129- 176.
Markus Daechsel, The Politics of Self-Expression: The Urdu middleclass milieu in mid-20th century India and Pakistan .London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 60-92.
7. Divided Nations, Connected Pasts.
Faisal Devji. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 13-48.
Javed Majeed, Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism. London, New York and Delhi: Routledge, 2008, pp. 58-89.
8. Marxism and Progressive Aesthetics
Khizar Humayun Ansari, The Emergence of Socialist Thought Among North Indian Muslims (1917-1947).Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp.199-240.
Vausdha Dalmia. Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.234-275. Day 3. Lecture
Razak Khan. Mystical Pasts: Iqbal, Scholem in Global Intellectual History
- ECTS information:
- Credits: 5
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: persönlich beim Dozenten
- Department: Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE)
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