2nd International Ibnkhaldun Symposium Program

IB KHALDU TODAY: PRECURSOR OR ALTERATIVE? The Second International Ibn Khaldun Symposium May 29-31, 2009

Organizer: International Ibn Khaldun Society Venue: Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul Partners and Sponsors: Istanbul Foundation for Research and Education (ISAR) Duke Islamic Studies Center (DISC), Duke University Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TĐKA) Sakarya University, Department of Sociology Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM) Municipality of Metropolitan Istanbul (ĐBB) Municipality of Üsküdar Municipality of Bayrampaşa Turkish Airlines Riva Foundation

Languages of the Symposium are Turkish and English. Simultaneous translation will be available.

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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM 29 May 2009 – Friday 14.00-14.30

Registration

14.30-15.15

Inaugurations Recep Şentürk, President of International Ibn Khaldun Society Akif Aydın, President of ISAM Mustafa Kara, Mayor of Üsküdar Đzzettin Küçük, Governor of Üsküdar

15.15-16.00

Keynote Speech The Significance of Ibn Khaldun: Methodology or Theory? Farid Alatas

16.00-16.15

Coffee Break

16.15-18.00 Session I: Ibn Khaldun on Society and Power Chair: Gökhan Çetinsaya The Socio-Historical Explanation Model by Ibn Khaldun: Limits and General Impacts

Abdesselam Cheddadi Conceptualization of the “Nature of Mulk” in the Context of Continuity and Change

Ömer Türker Ibn Khaldun's Socio-Philosophical Approach to the Rise of Scientific Traditions

Alparslan Açıkgenç Two Distinct Politics: Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli

Hızır Murat Köse 18.00-18.15

Coffee Break

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18.15-20.00 Session II: Ibn Khaldun’s Impact on Religious Thought Chair: Raşit Küçük Reason and Rationality Ibn Khaldun

Tahsin Görgün Ibn Khaldun’s Analysis on the Possibility and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge

Ekrem Demirli Ibn Khaldun and Tasawwuf (Sufism)

Hülya Küçük Social Transformation in Ibn Khaldun’s ‘Ilm al-‘Umran: The Role of Asabiyyah (Social Cohesion) Theory in the Muqaddimah

Mehmet Soyer

30 May 2009 – Saturday 09.00-10.45 Session III: Comparative Perspectives on the Khaldunian Thought Chair: Murteza Bedir Topicality in the Philosophical and Topical Thought of Ibn Khaldun and Simone Luzatto: A Comparative Perspective

Rosa Reicher ‘Umran Hadari, Islam Hadari and Tajdid Hadari: a Malaysian Perspective

Mohamad Hashim Kamali Ibn Khaldun and his Encounter with Pedro I of Castile

Ali Murat Yel The Asabiyya Theory as an Alternative to the Social Contract Discourse

M. Akif Kayapınar 10.45-11.00

Coffee Break

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11.00-13.00 Session IV: Ibn Khaldun’s Impact on the Ottoman Thought Chair: Erol Özvar Ottomans’ Interpretation of Ibn Khaldun: Translation of the Muqaddimah Yavuz Yıldırım The Social Perspective of Mustafa Nuri Paşa, an Ottoman Follower of Ibn Khaldun

Sami Şener The Legitimacy Problem of Ottoman Rule and the Search for Khaldunian Solutions

Hüseyin Yılmaz The Uses of a Classic: Ibn Khaldun’s ‘Contribution’ to Caliphate Debates in the Early 20th Century

urullah Ardıç

11.00-12.45 Session V: Modern Applications of Ibn Khaldun Parallel Session: Seminar Hall 112 Chair: uri Tınaz Ibn Khaldūn’s Concept of History of Fiqh and Its Impact on Historiography of Islamic Law within the Modern Era

ecmettin Kızılkaya The Realist Methodology of History by Ibn Khaldun and Arguments on the Protection of Power

Armağan Öztürk Ibn Khaldun and the Leftist Thought in Turkey

Yıldırım Erbaş

13.00-14.30: Lunch

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14.30- 16.15 Session VI: Ibn Khaldun and Comparative Studies Chair: Yasin Aktay Ibn Khaldun and Urban Planning

Zaid Ahmad A Comparison between Ibn Khaldun’s Concept of Religion and Modern Social Sciences through the Secularization Problem

Zerrin Kurtoğlu The Khaldunian and Confucian Cultures of Authority: Some Preliminary Analysis of Parallels and Divergences

Abdul Halim Abdul Karim Ibn Khaldun and the Contemporary Relation between Religion and the Human Sciences

Ali Hassan Zaidi

16.15-16.30

Coffee Break

16.30-18.15: Session VII: Applications of Ibn Khaldun’s Theory on Different Cultures Chair: Derin Terzioğlu Humanizing and Decolonizing Social Thought: Latin American Experience

Raquel Sosa Elizaga Ibn Khaldun as a Jurist (Faqih)

Vecdi Akyüz Ibn Khaldun’s Approach to History of Religions: the Application of the Concept of Asabiyyah to the Idea of Chosenness

Salime Leyla Gürkan Ibn Khaldun: Influence of Life and Ideas on CIS Countries

Sergey Kizima

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31 May 2009 – Sunday 09.30-11.15: Session VIII: Contemporary Approaches to Khaldunian Teaching Chair: Sabri Orman Ibn Khaldun and Marxism

Selahaddin Halilov How to Read Ibn Khaldun Today? Reading Ibn Khaldun as a Nationalist Symbol

Allen Fromherz Reading Ibn Khaldun in the Age of Multiculturalism

Muqtedar Khan Teaching Arab Literature to Romanian Students: Emic and Etic in the Light of Ibn Khaldun’s Concept of Zhawq

Irina Vainovski-Mihai

11.15-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30-13.15: Session IX: Ibn Khaldun as an Alternative Chair: Farid Alatas Rethinking Medjugorje: A Khaldunian Approach to Marian Apparition

Jim Spickard The Significance of Ibn Khaldun in the Construction of a Wholistic Turkish Identity in the Turkic World

Abulfez Suleymanov A Theory for the Formation of Large Agrarian Empires

Peter Turchin Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of Civilization and Society

Recep Şentürk

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11.30-13.15: Session X: Reading Ibn Khaldun Today Parallel Session: Seminer Hall 112 Chair: Semih Ceyhan Towards the Theoretical House of the Global Village: The World of Đlm-i Umran

Cemile Barışan Reconfiguration of the Term Asabiyah as a Constructive Force behind Society

Melis Süloş Ibn Khaldun and Intellectual Dependency

Mehmet Fatih Arslan Ibn Khaldun and a Modern Approach to the Philosophy of State

Oğuz Özcan

13.15-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.30 Keynote Speech Applying Ibn Khaldun to History and Contemporary Society: Definitions and Cases from Marshall Hodgson to Olivier Roy

Bruce Lawrence

15.30-16.30 Closing Remarks and Suggestions Recep Şentürk, Peter Turchin, Farid Alatas, Abdesselam Cheddadi, Alparslan Açıkgenç, Bruce Lawrence

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PARTICIPAT LIST – KATILIMCILAR LĐSTESĐ Abdul Halim ABDUL KARIM, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Dr. Alparslan AÇIKGENÇ, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Zaid AHMAD, University of Putra, Malaysia Prof. Dr. Yasin AKTAY, Selçuk University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Turkey Prof. Dr. Vecdi AKYÜZ, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Farid ALATAS, National University of Singapore, Singapore Dr. Nurullah ARDIÇ, Istanbul Şehir University, Istanbul, Turkey Mehmet Fatih ARSLAN, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Mehmet Akif AYDIN, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey Cemile BARIŞAN, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Murtaza BEDĐR, Sakarya University, Department of Islamic Law, Turkey Prof. Dr. Abdesselam CHEDDADI, University of Rabat V, Rabat, Morocco Dr. Semih CEYHAN, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Đstanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Gökhan ÇETĐNSAYA, Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Ekrem DEMĐRLĐ, Istanbul University, Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Raquel Sosa ELĐZAGA, National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Yıldırım ERBAŞ, Fatih University, Dept. of Public Administration, Istanbul, Turkey As. Prof. Allen FROMHERZ, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Prof. Dr. Tahsin Görgün, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey Dr. Salime Leyla GÜRKAN, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Selahaddin HALĐLOV, University of Azerbaidschan, Baku, Azerbaidschan Prof. Dr. Mohamad Hashim KAMALI, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Akif KAYAPINAR, SUNY Binghamton Univ., New York, USA Dr. Muqtedar KHAN, University of Delaware, Newark, USA Necmettin KIZILKAYA, Selcuk University, Faculty of Theology, Konya – Columbia University, New York, USA As. Prof. Sergey A. KIZIMA, Academy of Public Administration, Minsk, Belarus As. Prof. Hızır Murat KÖSE, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Zerrin KURTOĞLU, Ege University, Faculty of Letters, Izmir, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Hülya KÜÇÜK, Selçuk University, Faculty of Theology, Konya, Turkey Prof. Dr. Raşit KÜÇÜK, Marmara University, Faculty of Theology, Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Bruce LAWRENCE, Duke University, North Carolina, USA Zarina NALLA, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, Malaysia Prof. Dr. Sabri ORMAN, Istanul Ticaret University, Faculty of Trade Sciences, Turkey Oğuz ÖZCAN, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey Armağan ÖZTÜRK, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Erol ÖZVAR, Marmara University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey Rosa Reicher, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Mehmed SOYER, University of North Texas, Dept. of Sociology, USA Prof. Dr. Jim SPICKARD, University of Redlands, Redlands, USA Dr. Abulfez SULEYMANOV, National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaidschan Melis SÜLOŞ, Bogazici University, Dept. of History, Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Sami ŞENER, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey Prof. Dr. Recep ŞENTÜRK, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey Assoc. Prof. Derin TERZĐOĞLU, Boğaziçi University, Department of History, Istanbul, Turkey Dr. Nuri Tınaz, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey Prof. Dr. Peter TURCHIN, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA Dr. Ömer TÜRKER, Center for Islamic Studies (ISAM), Istanbul, Turkey Irina VAINOVSKI-MIHAI, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest, Romania As. Prof. Ali Murat YEL, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey As. Prof. Yavuz YILDIRIM, Istanbul University, Faculty of Theology, Turkey As. Prof. Hüseyin YILMAZ, Stanford University, Stanford, USA As. Prof. Ali Hassan ZAIDI, Wilfried Laurier University, Ontario, Canada

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