17th Annual Meeting of JAMES

Japan Association for Middle East Studies

The 17th Annual Meeting of JAMES
Ryukoku University Omiya Campus

Program
Saturday, 12 May 2001:Open Lecture, Open Symposium, and Presentation
Open Lecture: "Islamic Fundamentalism Movement in Central Asia": The Islamic Threat to Central Asia Ahmed RASHID (Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan Bureau Chief, Far Eastern Economic Review and Daily Telegraph)

Open Symposium: "Islamic Renaissance on the Modern Silk Road": Ahmed RASHID; OBATA Koichi (Director of International Affairs, The House of Reprentatives, Former Japanese Ambassador to Uzbekistan); KOMATSU Hisao (The University of Tokyo); SHINMEN Yasushi (Chuo University); NAKATA Ko (Yamaguchi University)

Sunday, 13 May 2001:Presentation and Discussion
Forum No.1
(1)OBA Ryuta (Kyoto University): "Rethinking Kurdish Nationalism: Concerning Nationality and Islam in the Nurcu Movement."
(2)FURUKAWA Mio (Tokyo Metropolitan University): "The Activities of Sha^zli^ Order and a Village Headman's Families in a Village in the Egyptian Delta."
(3)OTA Keiko (Ochanomizu University)j: "The Rule of the Meccan Sharifate and its Diplomatic Relation in the Bahri Mamluk Period."
(4)OKAWARA Tomoki (The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science): "The Urban Fabric of Damascus in the Middle of the 19th Century: A Study of Tax Register (Rusum Defteri)."
(5)KONDO Nobuaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University): "Doubled Vaqf: A Study on a Law Suit in Qajar Iran."
(6)ABE Katsuhiko (Ueno Gakuen Univerisy): "Ceramic Tiles and Pottery of Kerman in the Safavid Period."

Forum No.2

(1)YAMAO Aoi (Osaka University of Foreign Studiesj: "Turkish Workers in Literature: The Case of Bekir Yirdiz."
(2)KAWAKUBO Kazumi (Tsuda College): "Egyptian Policy toward Japan at the Time of Eguptian Independence in 1922."
(3)KUBO Yukie (Hitotsubashi University): "Muslim Community and the Multi-cultural Policy in the Netherlands: A Case Study of the Public Muslim Broadcasting Organization."
(4)MIO Makoto (Chubu University): "School Education of Shi'a in Lebanon."
(5)PENN Michael (Kitakyushu University): "Shotaro Noda and the Japanse Mission to Istanbul 1890-1890."
(6)KOJIMA Hiroshi (National Institue of Population and Social Security Research): "Islam and Migration."

Forum No.3

(1)SUECHIKA Kota (Kyoto University): "Muhammad Rashid Rida and the Syrian Independence Movement in the Interwar Period."
(2)KOIKE Toshiyuki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): "The Reformist Thought of the Algerian Ulama Association."
(3)TAMURA Yukie (Tsuda College): "Transformation of National Movement in Mandatory Palestine."
(4)NUKUI Mari (Keio University): "The Bazaaris Political Role during Mossasdeq's Government."
(5)TAREK Chehidi (Sophia University): "Democracy in Modern Japan and Arab Thought: The Case of Yoshino Sakuzo and al-Ta^hir al-Hadda^d."
(6)SHIMA Toshio (Fukuyama University): "Turning Point for the Iranian Oil Industry."
(7)SHIMIZU Manabu (Utsunomiya Universitu): "Central Asia: Experience in Transition to Market Economy in the Last Decade."

Forum No.4

(1)MOTOYOSHI Akiko (Notre Dame Women's College of Kyoto): "The Jahili Poetic Contest of Imru' al-Qays vs. 'Alqamah al-Fahl: Horse Description and Its Sexual Interpretation."
(2)JAHANGIRI Nader (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): "The Linguistic Reflection of Social Hierarchy in Post Revolutionary Iran."
(3)DOUMA Khiry (Osaka University of Foreign Studies): "Are They "Autobiographial Novels"?"
(4)YODA Sumikazu (Osaka University of Foreign Studies): "On the Elimination of h in Non-Muslim Arabic Dialects of the Maghrib and its Phonological Influence."
(5)YAMANAKA Yuriko (National Museum of Ethnology): "Reezamining Dhu'l-qarnayn: Though Tabari's Tafsir."
(6)TOMITA Kenji (Oita Prefectural College of Arts & Culture): "On a Demonstration of Khomeini's Velayat-e faqih."