BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:36011@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T183000 DTSTAMP:20260311T012105Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/after-rumi-book-talk-by-jamal-j-eli as-2/ SUMMARY:After Rumi: Book Talk by Jamal J. Elias DESCRIPTION:Jamal J. Elias discusses his latest book\, After Rumi: The Mevl evis and Their World\, with Ahmet T. Karamustafa.\n\nWolf Humanities Cente r • University of Pennsylvania\n\n \;\n\nAfter Rumi: Book Talk by Ja mal J. Elias\nJamal J. Elias\n\nWalter H. Annenberg Professor in the Human ities\, University of Pennsylvania\n\nAhmet T. Karamustafa\n\nProfessor an d Chair\, Department of History\, University of Maryland\; author of God's Unruly Friends and Sufism: The Formative Period\n\nPresented in collabora tion with Penn's Middle East Center\n\nAfter Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Elias is the first major book since the mid-20th century to focus on Rumi's religious\, social and literary legacy. In this book t alk\, the author will briefly introduce important aspects of Rumi's impact on Sufism\, language and society in Turkey and beyond. The talk will be f ollowed by a discussion with Ahmet T. Karamustafa\, one of the world's for emost experts on the history of medieval Sufism.\n\nMore information: http s://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/after-rumi\n\n–––––––– –––––––––––––––––––––\n\nJamal J . Elias specializes in Islamic thought\, literary and visual culture as we ll as history in Western and South Asia. His current research focuses on p rocesses and understandings of religious community formation from the medi eval to the modern world\, as demonstrated in historical and literary writ ing as well as in visual and material culture. His most recent book\, Afte r Rumi: Language\, Kinship and the Making of a Religious Community\, was p ublished by Harvard University Press in 2025. A book edited by him entitle d What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic? is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. He is the author of Alef is for Allah: Childhood\, Em otion and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (2018)\; Aisha's Cushion: Re ligious Art\, Perception and Practice in Islam (2012)\; On Wings of Diesel : Trucks\, Identity and Culture in Pakistan (2011)\; This is Islam: From M uhammad and the Community of Believers to Islam in the Global Community (2 011)\; Islam (1999)\; The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of ‘Ala’ ad-dawla as-Simnani (1995)\; the coauthor of Interpreting the Se lf: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (2001)\; the editor and translator of Death Before Dying: Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu (1998)\; the editor of Key Themes for the Study of Islam (2010)\; the coeditor of Light Upon Light: A Festschrift presented to Gerhard Böwering by His Students (2019)\; and the author of numerous articles. His writings have been trans lated into at least nine languages. Dr. Elias is Walter H. Annenberg Profe ssor in the Humanities\, Professor of Religious Studies\, and the Director of the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsyl vania. He was director of Penn's Wolf Humanities Center from 2021–2025.\ n\nAhmet T. Karamustafa is Professor of History at the University of Maryl and\, College Park. His expertise is in social and intellectual history of medieval and early modern Islam in the Middle East and Southwest Asia as well as in theory and method in the study of religion. He is the author of God’s Unruly Friends (University of Utah Press\, 1994)\, a book on asce tic movements in medieval Islam\, and Vahidi’s Menakıb-ı Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i Can (The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizatio ns\, Harvard University\, 1993)\, a study of a sixteenth-century mystical text in Ottoman Turkish. He also served as an editor for\, and wrote sever al articles in\, Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian So cieties (University of Chicago Press\, 1992). More recently\, he completed a comprehensive historical overview of early Islamic mysticism titled Suf ism: The Formative Period (published simultaneously by Edinburgh Universit y Press &\; University of California Press\, 2007). Currently\, he is a t work on a sequel volume titled The Flowering of Sufism as well as anothe r book project\, Vernacular Islam: Everyday Muslim Religious Life in Medie val Turkey. Karamustafa has held several administrative positions\, includ ing a five-year term as director of the Religious Studies Program at Washi ngton University in St. Louis. He was the co-chair of the Study of Islam S ection at the American Academy of Religion between 2008 and 2011.\n\n– –––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.\n\nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/03/image-34.webp LOCATION:Williams Hall Humanities Conference Room (623)\, 255 South 36th St reet\, Suite 623 Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States GEO:39.950933;-75.194828 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=255 South 36th Street\, Sui te 623 Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITL E=Williams Hall Humanities Conference Room (623):geo:39.950933,-75.194828 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR