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:35985@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260429T183000 DTSTAMP:20260304T024503Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/after-rumi-book-talk-by-jamal-j-eli as/ SUMMARY:After Rumi: Book Talk by Jamal J. Elias DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamal J. Elias discusses his latest b ook\, After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World\, with Ahmet T. Karamustafa .\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania\nAfte r Rumi: Book Talk by Jamal J. Elias\nJamal J. Elias\n\nWalter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities\, University of Pennsylvania\n\nAhmet T. Kara mustafa\n\nProfessor and Chair\, Department of History\, University of Mar yland\; author of God's Unruly Friends and Sufism: The Formative Period \n\nPresented in collaboration with Penn's Middle East Center\n\nAfter Rum i: 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 lite rary legacy. In this book talk\, the author will briefly introduce importa nt aspects of Rumi's impact on Sufism\, language and society in Turkey and beyond. The talk will be followed by a discussion with Ahmet T. Karamusta fa\, one of the world's foremost experts on the history of medieval Sufism .\n\nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/after-rumi \n\n––––––––––––––––––––––– ––––––\n\nJamal J. Elias specializes in Islamic thought\, lit erary and visual culture as well as history in Western and South Asia. His current research focuses on processes and understandings of religious com munity formation from the medieval to the modern world\, as demonstrated i n historical and literary writing as well as in visual and material cultur e. His most recent book\, After Rumi: Language\, Kinship and the Making o f a Religious Community\, was published by Harvard University Press in 202 5. A book edited by him entitled What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?  is forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press. He is the author of  Alef is for Allah: Childhood\, Emotion and Visual Culture in Islamic Soc ieties (2018)\; Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art\, Perception and Practice in Islam (2012)\; On Wings of Diesel: Trucks\, Identity and Culture in Pakistan (2011)\; This is Islam: From Muhammad and the Community of Beli evers to Islam in the Global Community (2011)\; Islam (1999)\; The Thr one Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of ‘Ala’ ad-dawla as-Simnani  (1995)\; the coauthor of Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Ar abic Literary Tradition (2001)\; the editor and translator of Death Befo re Dying: Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu (1998)\; the editor of Key Themes fo r the Study of Islam (2010)\; the coeditor of Light Upon Light: A Festsc hrift presented to Gerhard Böwering by His Students (2019)\; and the aut hor of numerous articles. His writings have been translated into at least nine languages. Dr. Elias is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humaniti es\, Professor of Religious Studies\, and the Director of the Penn Forum f or Global Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He was direct or of Penn's Wolf Humanities Center from 2021–2025.\n\nAhmet T. Karamust afa is Professor of History at the University of Maryland\, 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 a nd method in the study of religion. He is the author of God’s Unruly Fr iends (University of Utah Press\, 1994)\, a book on ascetic movements in medieval Islam\, and Vahidi’s Menakıb-ı Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i Can  (The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard Un iversity\, 1993)\, a study of a sixteenth-century mystical text in Ottoman Turkish. He also served as an editor for\, and wrote several articles in\ , Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (Univ ersity of Chicago Press\, 1992). More recently\, he completed a comprehens ive historical overview of early Islamic mysticism titled Sufism: The For mative Period (published simultaneously by Edinburgh University Press &am p\; University of California Press\, 2007). Currently\, he is at work on a sequel volume titled The Flowering of Sufism as well as another book pr oject\, Vernacular Islam: Everyday Muslim Religious Life in Medieval Turk ey. Karamustafa has held several administrative positions\, including a fi ve-year term as director of the Religious Studies Program at Washington Un iversity in St. Louis. He was the co-chair of the Study of Islam Section a t 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 n ote any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/03/image-31-1.webp CATEGORIES:Community,culture LOCATION:William hall humanities conference room\, 255 South 36th Street S uite 623 \, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States GEO:39.950933;-75.194828 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=255 South 36th Street Suit e 623 \, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=William hall humanities conference room: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