Emergent, Holistic and Transcendental Approaches to Social Sciences: Looking Beyond the Contemporary Narratives — 30 – 31 October 2023

Programme

Sessions & speakers

1. Inaugural Session

   Dr. Mohammad Rizwan

   Deputy Director, CSR

2. Keynote Address

   Prof. Syed Farid Al-Attas

   Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore(NUS)

3. Plenary

   Transcendental dimensions of existing epistemic phenomena

   Power and authority in the production of knowledge.

   Prof. Yusuf Amin (Director, CSR), Moderator-Shujahuddin Fahad (Research Coordinator, CSR)

4. Session I

   Epistemology Session

   Papers: “Revisiting Indigeneity and Universality in Social Sciences Debate: Some Critical Reflections” by Parvez Alam, AMU; “The Evolution of an Indigenous Epistemology: Making Sense of Recent Theoretical Contributions to Tribal Studies in India” by Ganga Sudhakaran, JNU; “Cart before the Horse: An Appraisal of Islamisation Knowledge Project” by Syed Ahmed Muzakkir, IUPUI; and “The Relevance of a Maqasid Approach for Political Islam and Arab Revolutions” by Syeda Nada Qadri, AMU

   Chaired by Prof. Yusuf Amin

5. Session II

   Political Science Session:

   Lecture on “The Islamic World in a State of Transition: A Geopolitical Perspective.” Paper presentation: Carceralism in the post-colonial state, Feminist reappraisal of property discourse, The Islamic State and Caliphate in the thought of Islamic modernists and fundamentalists.

   Lecture by Dr. Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shinqiti, chaired by Prof. Iftekhar Ahemmed

6. Session III

   Sociology Session

   Paper Presentation: “Islam, Syncretism, Tolerance Society: Few Notes from Karnataka” by Dr. Shabana Farheen, MANUU, and “Unraveling the Modus Operandi of Tablighi Jama'at: Liaison of Muslim Coastal Labor Force” by Fathima Nourin, CU.

   Chaired by Prof. Abdul Waheed, Department of Sociology, AMU

7. Session IV

   History Session

   Lecture by Prof. Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Department of History, University of Delhi, titled “Historiographical Biases with Respect to Medieval Indian History", “Politics of Quranic Inscription on Medieval Indian Monuments: An Approach to Epigraphical Historiography” by Arshad Sheikh, JMI; “Caste, Religion, And Labour: Mapping Slavery in Colonial Malabar, South West India” by Yahya C, HU; and “What do Archives Tell Us? Feminist Recovery and Re-Reading of Historical Knowledge Production” by Jahnvi Dwivedi, AU.

   Lecture by Prof. Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Chaired by Prof. Parwez Nazir

Key themes

What the programme engages

• Alternative approaches to social sciences
• Epistemology and methodology
• Critique of positivism; higher intuition and reason
• Metaphysics and revelation
• Historiographical approaches
• Political thought and political discourse
• Maqasid approaches

Participants

Guests & speakers

• Dr. Mohammad Rizwan - Deputy Director, CSR (Inauguration)
• Prof. Syed Farid Al-Attas — Prof, Dept. of Sociology, NUS (Keynote)
• Prof. Yusuf Amin — Director, CSR (Plenary)
• Dr. Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shinqiti - Asso. Prof of Political Ethics & History of Religion, HBKU, Qatar
• Prof. Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Department of History, University of Delhi