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Book talk: Bosnian Hajj Literature
06 November 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
A SSEES Southeast European studies seminar with Dženita Karić. This will be an online event.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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SSEES
This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the Hajj) and Hajj practices of Bosnian Muslims. It redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods for investigating the meaning and importance of Hajj for generations of premodern and modern believers. It also throws light on Balkan communities previously ignored by modern scholarship in Islamic, religious, and area studies. Breaking with the predominant academic trends of focusing on nationalism and ethnic conflict in the region, it instead puts the spotlight on the richness of texts, and visual and archival material, and focuses on genres that challenge the established literary canons.
About the Speaker
Dženita Karić
is Assistant Professor (UD) in Religious Studies and Cultural Heritage. Her research focuses primarily on religious history of the Balkans, with a particular emphasis on Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Europe more broadly. Her past research dealt with Islamic rituals in Bosnia in the longue durée perspective; her current research focuses on questions of religion, piety and environment in contemporary world. Karić obtained her PhD in 2018 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She worked as a researcher at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo (University of Sarajevo) from 2009-2020, and at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) from 2020-2023. She was a Teach@Tübingen Fellow at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen during the academic year 2019/2020. Dženita Karić teaches courses on women and world religions, urban spiritualities and fieldwork practicum.