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SUMMARY:After Rumi
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by\nWolf Humanities Center\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n
 After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Elias is the first m
 ajor book since the mid-20th century to focus on Rumi’s religious\, soci
 al and literary legacy. In this book talk\, the author will briefly introd
 uce important 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. Karamustafa\, one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of 
 medieval Sufism.\n\n\n\nJamal J. Elias specializes in Islamic thought\, l
 iterary and visual culture as well as history in Western and South Asia. H
 is current research focuses on processes and understandings of religious c
 ommunity formation from the medieval to the modern world\, as demonstrated
  in historical and literary writing as well as in visual and material cult
 ure. His most recent book\, After Rumi: Language\, Kinship and the Making
  of a Religious Community\, was published by Harvard University Press in 2
 025. A book edited by him entitled What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic?
 was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in February 2026. He is 
 the author of Alef is for Allah: Childhood\, Emotion and Visual Culture i
 n Islamic Societies (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 Commun
 ity of Believers to Islam in the Global Community (2011)\; Islam (1999)
 \; The Throne Carrier of God: The Life and Thought of ‘Ala’ ad-dawla 
 as-Simnani (1995)\; the coauthor of Interpreting the Self: 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)\; a
 nd the author of numerous articles. His writings have been translated into
  at least nine languages. Dr. Elias is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in th
 e Humanities\, Professor of Religious Studies\, and the Director of the Pe
 nn Forum for Global Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He 
 was director of Penn's Wolf Humanities Center from 2021–2025.\n\n\n\nAhm
 et T. Karamustafa is Professor &amp\; Chair of the Department of History 
 at the University of Maryland\, College Park. His expertise is in the soci
 al and intellectual history of medieval Sufism and Islamic piety. He is th
 e author of three books: Vahidi’s Menakıb-ı Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i
  Can (1993)\, a study of a sixteenth-century mystical text in Ottoman Tur
 kish\; God’s Unruly Friends (1994)\, a monograph on dervish movements 
 in medieval Islam\; and Sufism: The Formative Period (2007)\, a comprehe
 nsive historical overview of early Islamic mysticism. He also served as an
  editor for\, and wrote several articles in\, Cartography in the Traditio
 nal Islamic and South Asian Societies (1992)\, and co-edited Mystical La
 ndscapes in Medieval Persian Literature (2025). Currently\, he is at work
  on a book project tentatively titled The Age of Hızır: Islam in the Mi
 rror of Early Turkish Literature.\n\n\nRegistration Required. \n\n\n\n\n\
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CATEGORIES:Community,culture,Discussion
LOCATION:Williams Hall Humanities Conference Room (623)\, 255 South 36th St
 reet\, Suite 623 Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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