GLOBAL SOUTH

FICTITIOUS ORIENT
A VIVA VOZ REFLECTIONS ON
DECOLONIAL ISLAMOLOGY

October 5, 2018
09.00h-11.30h
OPENING LECTURE
MARCELLO MOLLICA (Universit di Messina)

12.00h-14.30h
INTELLECTUAL GEOGRAPHIES OF THE ISLAMICATE
CHIARA OLIVIERI (UGR)

16.00h-18.30h
NEW MUSLIM NARRATIVES
JUAN ANTONIO MACAS AMORETTI (UGR)

October 6, 2018
09.00h-11.30h
ISLAMOPHOBIA
RAMN GROSFOGUEL (UC Berkeley)

12.00h-14.30h
DECOLONIAL ISLAMIC RESEARCH-ACTION
ANTONIO DE DIEGO GONZLEZ (Junta Islmica)

16.00h-18.30h
ISLAMIC FEMINISM(S)
SIRIN ADLBI SIBAI
NADIA HINDI MEDIAVILLA (UGR)

October 5-6, 2018

09.00h-18.30h

Room 44
Facultad de Filosofa y Letras
Universidad de Granada

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INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this meeting is to reflect on different methodologies of studies on Islam and Islams,
laying the foundations for a new Decolonial Islamology in Spanish.

The studies on Islam(s) have been pregnant with Eurocentric and Arabocentric speeches,
orientalists and subalternizers in their epistemologies, narratives and logics of knowledge
production. To see its richness beyond the anecdote, it is necessary to trespass the limits of MENA
the academic acronym of the Middle East and North Africa, distancing from traditional
academic constructions and proposing new approaches to research that break with the universalist
traditions of the Global North and the Fictitious Orient. That is, at the same time, the romantic
populism that could derive from it. It is a claim of the Islamicate's logics against the Islamics, of the
contexts and experiences against the essences.

The decolonization of the Islamicate world forces us to reconsider ourselves. What is Islam? Who
are the Muslims? Where are the Muslims located? How many Islams are there? Decolonial
Islamology must raise and question not only the colonial logics of the Global North, but also the
narratives of the Fictitious Orient. Power, territory, modernity, tradition, epistemologies, ecology or
social justice are some issues that can arise from this polyphonic and plural debate from our
Global South.

Professors from the University of Granada and the University of Seville, pioneers in the research of
a new Spanish-language Islamology, researchers from the HUM-952 STAND (South Training
Action Network of Decoloniality) UGR Research Group, authors of the epistemological proposal
that gives its name to the course, as well as friends and colleagues who dialogue with the issues
and perspectives under discussion, who join other artists and activists to challenge and expand our
way of thinking and feeling perceptions about the so-called peripheral Islam(s). Likewise, a group
of participants of different origins in terms of geography, contexts, experiences and knowledges is
expected.

For this reason, we intend to address the issue of the creation of an intellectual geography that
shies away from the traditional canons of Eurocentric and Arabocentric matrix, and which breaks
with subalternizing categorizations of center/periphery, East/West, referring to Islam and Muslims.
WORK PANELS:

1. Intellectual geographies of the Islamicate (Coordinator: Chiara Olivieri)

Aspects on the spaces of the Islamicate worlds, borders, migrations, minorities and ethnicities,
intellectual development of the periphery(s) of MENA.
2. New Muslim Narratives (Coordinator: Juan Antonio Macas Amoretti)
Aspects on new narratives of the contemporary Islamic world, social and political
transformations in Muslim spaces.
3. Islamophobia (Coordinator: Ramn Grosfoguel)
Aspects on historical and contemporary Islamophobia, Eurocentric and Arabocentric epistemic
racism, colonialisms and epistemicides.
4. Decolonial Islamic Research-Action (Coordinator: Antonio de Diego Gonzlez)
Aspects about contemporary Decolonial Islamic activism, tradition(s)-modernity(s)-
reformism(s), identities and citizenship, decolonization of Muslim bodies, minds and habits.
5. Islamic Feminism(s) (Coordinators: Sirin Aldbi Sibai, Nadia Hindi Mediavilla)
Aspects on gender and Islam, women in Islam, decolonial criticism of Islamic patriarchy,
colonization of bodies.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Antonio de Diego Gonzlez (Junta Islmica)
Chiara Olivieri (UGR)
Antonio Ortega Santos (UGR)
Diego Checa Hidalgo (UGR)
Ramn Grosfoguel (UC Berkeley)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Antonio de Diego Gonzlez (Junta Islmica)
Chiara Olivieri (UGR)
Grupo de Investigacin HUM952 - STAND
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 15, 2018: Abstract (300 words) + Biographical Statement (300 words)
May 30, 2018: Notification of Paper Acceptance
September 1, 2018: Paper submission (8000 words, including Bibliography)
September 15, 2018: Deadline for Inscriptions

Official languages of the Seminar (presentations/papers): Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian.

PARTICIPATION AND FEES: (max. 40 attendants, inscription order)

UGR: gratis (you need to present a copy of UGR taxes in order to formalize the inscription)
Externs (Speakers/Attendants): 20,00
Social dinner (Oct 5, 21.00h): 20,00

INSCRIPTIONS: make a transfer to the account ES34 0487 3378 5620 0006 0858 specifying in
the Concept: "Religious Peripheries + ID", and send an email to stand@ugr.es detailing in the
Subject: "Religious Peripheries" and, in the body of the message : Name and surname(s), ID and
email, enclosing the payment receipt.

FEES COLLECTION POLICY

We are a group of public and trans-university research, we firmly believe in the free circulation and
production of knowledges, and we stand against the monetarization of research and the Academy.

But we also stand against unpaid work and the exploitation of volunteers in the University, so that
registration fees (a minimum and symbolic amount) will be used entirely to finance the work of
colleagues who will deal with practical organizational issues of the symposium (preparation and
dissemination of material, attendance to participants, organization of coffee breaks, video
recording of the event, subsequent publication on the web, etc.).
Gracias!