The workshop “European Islam between Religious Traditions and Secular Formations” was held in Slubice (Poland) from 7-10 February. It was jointly organized by ISIM, Casa Arabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies, Kompetenzzentrum Orient-Okzident Marinz, and Europa -Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder

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European Islam Between Religious Traditions and SecularFormationsCaeiro, A.; Jouilli, J.CitationCaeiro, A., & Jouilli, J. (2008). European Islam Between Religious Traditions and SecularFormations. Isim Review, 21(1), 57-57. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/17215 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown)License: Leiden University Non-exclusive licenseDownloadedfrom: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/17215 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable).I S I M  R E V I E W  2 1  /  S P R I N G  2 0 0 8  5 7ISIM/WorkshopNOW AVAILABLE!Encyclopaedia of Islam THREEEdited by Marc Gaborieau, Gudrun Krämer, John Nawas and Everett RowsonThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles re ecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE  2007-1• June 2007• ISBN 978 90 04 15017 1• Paperback (x, 198 pp.)• List price  EUR 109.- / US$ 153.-• Price for subscribers to the series EUR 99.- / US$ 139.-BRILLP.O. Box 90002300 PA LeidenThe Netherlandssales@brill.nlBRILL153 Milk St., 6th FloorBoston, MA 02109 USAsales@brillusa.comwww.brill.nlA D V E R T I S E M E N TEuropean Islam Between Religious Traditions and Secular FormationsA L E X A N D R E  C A E I R O  &  J E A N E T T E  J O U I L L IThe workshop “European Islam between Religious Traditions and Secu-lar Formations” was held in Slubice (Poland) from 7-10 February. It was jointly organized by ISIM, Casa Arabe and its International Institute of Arab and Muslim World Studies, Kompetenzzentrum Orient-Okzident Marinz, and Europa -Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. The workshop was a collaborative achievement between thirty participating scholars (see the full list at www.isim.nl under Events). The convenors—Alexandre Caeiro (ISIM), Jeanette S. Jouili (ISIM), Frank Peter (Frankfurt-Oder) and Armando Salvatore (L’Orientale, Na-ples)—took Talal Asad’s work on tradition and secularity as the starting point for a reflection on the structures of European secular formations in their double relation to Christianity and the Enlightenment. The workshop opened with a lecture by Armando Salvatore entitled “What Went Wrong with Tradition in Europe? Post-Christian Secular Order and the Challenge of Reformed Tradition,” where he proposed a re-thinking of secularity on the basis of a re-reading of Habermas’ work on communicative action.The workshop then took the form of a reading seminar divided into three thematic sessions. Participants critically discussed key texts from the disciplines of philosophy, political theory, sociology, and anthro-pology, in a deliberate attempt to connect the study of European Islam more closely to important debates in the social sciences. The first session, “The European State and Historical Time: The Dia-lectics of Assimilation and Marginalization,” attempted to question the assumptions upon which the binary opposition of continuity versus change—common in studies of European Muslims—rests. It began with a lecture by Ruth Mas (University of Colorado at Boulder) focusing on how calls for the reform of Islam relate understandings of time and history to specific sentiments and affects.The following session, “A Living Tradition? Subject Formation, Disci-plines and Bodily Practices,” was introduced by a lecture by Moham-med Tabishat (UAE University/WIKO Berlin) on “The Body, the Secular, and the Islamic: An Exploration.” Drawing closely on Asad’s anthropol-ogy of the body, Tabishat questioned the body-mind dichotomy still dominant in European conceptualizations of religion, as reflected in understandings of rituals in terms of symbolic practices. The last session on “The Structures of Dialogue: Disciplining, Antago-nism, and Resentment” started with a lecture by Maleiha Malik of King’s College London where she explored how European liberal democra-cies might design a political “dialogue” with Muslims whose political views seem to be incommensurable with liberal principles, notably by implementing what Malik, following William Connolly, calls “agonistic respect.” The workshop closed with an open discussion in which participants reflected upon the ways the theoretical texts of the previous days could or should be incorporated into the study of Islam/Muslims in Europe. The exercise and format of the workshop were stimulating for all par-ticipants, and a follow-up is already being considered.Alexandre Caeiro is Ph.D. Fellow at ISIM.Email: caeiroa@yahoo.comJeanette Jouilli is Postdoctoral Fellow at ISIM. Email: jeajou@yahoo.fr

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