[INDOLOGY] South Asia and the Neighboring World in the Mughal Period - Marseille

[Fabrizio Speziale]

South Asia and the Neighboring World in the Mughal Period:

Intellectual and Material Exchanges

 

 

 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille

December 10th-11th 2025

 

 

Program and Panels

 

Wednesday December 10th

 

 

10.00-10.30: Introduction and coffee

 

Panel 1: India and the Islamicate world I, salle A

 

Chair: Alka Patel (Aix-Marseille University– Laboratoire d’Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée)

 

10.30: Christopher Bahl (Durham University), “Scholarly exiles in Mecca – approaching a political practice of the Mughal court”

 

11.15: Kaori Otsuya (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “Intellectual Exchanges between the Hijaz and South Asia: Repurposing al-Samhūdī’s (d. 911/1506) History of Medina by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlavī (d. 1052/1642)”

 

12.30: Lunch

 

Panel 1: India and the Islamicate world II, Salle Le Miroir

 

14.00: Farah Akhtar (University of Chicago), “From Herat to Delhi: Akbarian Metaphysics in the Writings and Praxis of Abdul Raḥmān Jāmī (d.1472) and Khwaja Khurd (b.1601)”

 

14.45: Nariman Aavani (Harvard University), “Mind, Knowledge, and Commentary Across Empires: Mīr Zāhid’s (d. 1689) Sharḥ al-Risālat al-Quṭbiyya in its Transregional Islamicate Context”

 

 

15.30: Coffee break

 

Panel 2: Material exchanges, Salle Le Miroir

 

Chair: Damien Carriere (Aix-Marseille University)

 

16.00: Sara Keller (University Erfurt), “Mughal stone inlays in architecture between circulation and affordance” 

 

16.45: Mahdieh Tavakol (Universität Hamburg), “Material Vehicles of Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Books from India to Safavid Iran through Endowment”

 

17.30: General discussion

 

 

 

Thursday December 11th

 

Panel 3: East Asian and oceanic trajectories, Salle Le Miroir

 

Chair: Éloi Fiquet (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

 

10.00: Dror Weil (University of Cambridge), “An Eastern Gaze: South Asia and the Making of an Islamic Archive in Premodern China”

 

10.45: Arash Khazeni (Pomona College), “‘On the Wonders of Islands and the Strangeness of Seas’: Persian Travel Writing and the Climes of the Indian Ocean in the Late Mughal Period”

 

11.30: Coffee break

 

12.00: Daniel Jacobius Morgan (Santa Clara University), “Oceangoing Miracles from Maghrib to Mughal India: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī’s Ḥizb al-baḥr in Eighteenth-Century Delhi”

 

12.45: Lunch

 

Panel 4: Indic learning across Muslim societies, Salle Le Miroir

 

Chair: Carmen Spiers (Aix-Marseille University)

 

14.00: Eva Orthmann (University of Gottingen), “Horse treatises from the Islamic World” 

 

14.45: Shankar Nair (University of Virginia), “The World within a Word: Global Intellectual Exchanges in the Mughal Yogavāsiṣṭha Translations”

 

15.30: Coffee break

16.00: Victor Baptiste (École Pratique des Hautes Études), “The Reception of an Indo-Persian Mas̲navī in Iran: Z̤ahīr Kirmānī’s Rewriting of Mihr-u Māh”

16.45: General discussion


Venue: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité, Marseille. Salle A is located on the second floor; the Salle Le Miroir is located on the ground floor.

Organizers: Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley), Naveen Kanalu (EHESS-CRH, Paris), Fabrizio Speziale (EHESS-CESAH, Marseille-Paris).

With the collaboration of: Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani (EHESS-CESAH) and Inayatullah Din (EHESS-CeRCLEs).

Supporting institutions: France-Berkeley Fund, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Berkeley), Centre de recherches historiques (Paris), Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes (Paris), Centre de recherche sur les circulations, les liens et les échanges (Marseille), Ville de Marseille, Musées de Marseille.






Fabrizio SpezialeDirecteur d’études - Professor
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Centre de la Vieille Charité

2, rue de la Charité

13002 Marseille

 

Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes

2, cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers cedex
 

CeRCLEs, Centre de recherche sur les circulations, les liens et les échanges

2, rue de la Charité

13002 Marseille

 

https://ehess.academia.edu/FabrizioSpeziale

 

 






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