[Andalusi Studies] CFP: CFP: Pre-modern comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic world(s)- July 2021

[Hany Rashwan]

Call for papers

Pre-modern comparative literary practice in the multilingual Islamic
world(s)

https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-multilingual-islamic-worlds

The virtual conference is co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of
Pennsylvania), David Larsen (New York University), and Hany Rashwan
(University of Birmingham), and hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism
and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), University of Oxford, 23-24 July
2021.

The premodern Islamic world was multilingual and multicultural, and by
necessity was continually engaged in comparative critical practices.
Mapping the interconnected trajectories of these practices, everywhere they
arose between Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and other language traditions
of Asia and Africa, is the aim of this conference. We invite scholars to
employ methodologies based on direct engagement with primary sources that
negotiate the multilingual Islamic world(s) in ways that are overlooked or
misunderstood by Comparative Literature.

For most of Islamic intellectual history, the literary analysis of
discourse has been carried out in the domain of*balāghah*, and its Arabic
terms—e.g.,*sariqah*(theft, but also intertextuality),*muʿāraḍah*(rivalry,
but also parody),*muṭābaqah*(correspondence, but also antithesis),
*muwāzanah*(collation, but also comparison) etc.—signify concepts and
categories that are different from those of Western criticism. Likewise,
the traditions of grammar, lexicography, poetic meter, Quranic exegesis,
hadith criticism, jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, and mysticism
developed their own Arabophone conceptual resources, which were applied
throughout the Islamic world. We invite participants to investigate the
ramifications of such terms, and the consequences of their application
across the multilingual Arabic world, fruitful and otherwise. Participants
are invited to extend Islamicate poetics beyond Islamic traditions, and
contemplate how contemporary critical theory might be enriched by
comparative methods of the Islamic world. To bridge the frontier dividing
modern literary theory from Islamic Studies is another aim of this
conference. We mean to challenge the Eurocentrism of modern Comparative
Literature as we invite dialogue across the disciplines of comparative
rhetoric, poetics, philosophy, and Islamic Studies.

*Topics*

Translation and non-translation in the Islamic world

Translinguistic adaptations of genre and form

Multilingual scholars and scholarly practice

Nationalism and polyglossia

Minorities, shibboleths, and Arabolects

Multilingual lexicology and exegesis

Catachresis and Creative Misreadings

Textual practices, media, and reception

***Abstract Guidelines***

Abstracts (max. 400 words) should be sent in a word document, along with a
short biography that contains academic affiliations and publications.
Please use the IJMES transliteration system. The deadline for all
submissions is *November 17**th**, 2020*. Please send the abstract to the
conference’s email:

premulticomparison at gmail.com

Notification of abstract acceptance is issued by December* 25**th**, 2020*
*.*

Talks will be allotted 20 minutes for the presentation with 10 minutes for
questions and answers on Zoom.

The proceeding will be co-edited by the organizers and published in early
2022 with Oxford University Press.

All our best wishes to you,

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Best wishes,

Dr Hany Rashwan

Research Fellow at GlobalLIT Project

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/rashwan-hany.aspx

School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in  Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)

Languages & Cultures Faculty

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
SOAS, University of London, is a world-leading higher education institution
specializing in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It has a
unique focus combining both disciplinary and regional expertise with
language scholarship. Founded in 1916, with its first students enrolled in
1917, the School will be celebrating its Centenary in 2016-17.
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