[INDOLOGY] Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies - Lecture by Dr. Jean Arzoumanov (University of Chicago)

[Ana Bajzelj]

Apologies for cross-posting.



Dear Colleagues,



We are happy to invite you to the next lecture in our “Emerging Scholars in
Jain Studies” virtual series co-organized by the Departments of Religious
Studies at UC Davis and UC Riverside. The lecture will be delivered by *Dr.
Jean **Arzoumanov* on *Friday,* *May 31, 2024*, *9:00-10:20am PDT*. You
will find more information about the lecture and the speaker below.



Register for the event here:



https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocuGtrDIsGd3LUSqXViAxw4PtUcG19iL7



Please note that you will need to sign into your Zoom account before
entering the Zoom room.



Best wishes,



Ana Bajzelj and Lynna Dhanani





*Nonviolence, Magic and Snake Charming: Ambiguous Jains in Indo-Persian
Sources*



>From the late 16th century to the early 19th century, Jain monks are a
recurring subject in various Indo-Persian historiographical and
ethnographical writings. Persophone writers generally noted the
significance of nonviolence among Jain monks and laity. They highlighted
their concern with protecting all forms of life and described the various
practices following this imperative. In the meantime, Jains were disparaged
as repellent atheists and were sometimes associated with dark magical
practices, including, in one instance, snake charming. This lecture will
survey the known Persian sources and analyze the contradictory perceptions
of Jain communities.



*Dr. Jean Arzoumanov* is the Ludo and Rosane Rocher Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations at the
University of Chicago. As a historian of early modern and modern Persianate
intellectual history in South Asia, Jean works on textual encounters
between Islamicate and Indic cultures. In 2021, he obtained his PhD in
South Asian Studies from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 with a
dissertation on the representation of Indian sects and ascetics in
Indo-Persian literature between the Mughal and colonial periods (16th-19th
centuries). Building on this research for a forthcoming book, he studies
the involvement of non-Muslim literati in Persian literary production, and
more particularly in the development of Hindu devotional literature in
Persian. In a forthcoming article, he analyzes in depth the only two known
Persian translations of Jain texts, dating from 1796. His other areas of
interest include the history of astral sciences in early modern South Asia,
and he has published several articles on the astronomical and astrological
works of Mullā Farīd and Mullā Ṭayyib, two brothers active in the early
17th century.
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