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SUMMARY:Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence: Mediums\, Mediations\, and Mobilities
DESCRIPTION:In-person and Zoom \nRegister here for both in-person or Zoom \nThe South Asian saint Shirdi Sai Baba has an ever-growing global diaspora. His inspiration and healing energies are boons reinforced for many by his defiance of religious communitarianism. In welcoming all castes\, creeds\, and nationalities\, Baba offers an alternative to the divisiveness of his time and ours. Although Baba left his body in 1918\, he is eternally present through two- and three-dimensional iconic images and figural sculptures that\, as his embodiments\, are found in innumerable temples\, home altars\, roadside and wayside shrines\, films\, websites\, and social media. Through a recently published volume\, Professors Srinivas and Roberts have explored the emergence of specific spaces\, practices\, selves\, presences\, and mobilities associated with Baba. Such presentations are often exegetical and are interesting unto themselves\, but they also offer opportunities to consider the dynamics of religious expression anywhere in the world. Haptic visualities\, spatial refabulations\, corporeal mobilities\, transmigrations\, universes of translation\, and positionalities in trans-Asian and Indian Ocean worlds are among theoretical perspectives addressed. An anthropology of credibility is espoused as Drs. Srinivas and Roberts seek to understand and\, to a degree\, participate in the truths lived by Baba and his devotees. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia \nAL Roberts in Tunis\, March 2023; photo by Amira Hassnaoui\nAllen F. Roberts is Distinguished Research Professor / Distinguished Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and was trained in socio-cultural Anthropology (PhD 1980\, University of Chicago). He and his late spouse Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts (d.2018)\, who was Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and Consulting Curator for African Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, have undertaken research\, writing\, teaching\, and museum work together concerning arts and humanities of Africa and the Indian Ocean World. AL and Polly’s award-winning books and traveling exhibitions include Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History (1996) and A Saint in the City: Sufi Art of Urban Senegal (2003). Most recently and with Professor Smriti Srinivas of UC Davis\, AL has co-edited and contributed to Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence (2023) as a volume dedicated to Polly Roberts’ memory. \nSmriti Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Davis\, USA. She explores regimes of spatial\, somatic\, and symbolic production\, particularly in cities and Indian Ocean worlds. Her most recent books include Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence (2022)\, coedited with Allen F. Roberts and Neelima Jeychandran; Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (2020\, coedited); and A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (2015).
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/shirdi-sai-babas-presence-mediums-mediations-and-mobilities/
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SUMMARY:Teach-in for Peace
DESCRIPTION:ROOM FULL for in- person attendance. Accepting Zoom registration only.\nRSVP required. Register here \nExplore sources of peace and non-violence with leading teachers\, including: \n\nSalam Al-Marayati – Muslim Public Affairs Council\nProfessor Carol Bakhos – UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\nRabbi Sharon Brous – Ikar\nProf./Rabbi Aryeh Cohen – American Jewish University\nAziza Hasan – Executive Director\, NewGround\nAndrea Hodos – Associate Director\, NewGround\nRabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller – Director Emeritus\, UCLA Hillel\nRev. Dr. Najuma Smith – Word of Encouragement Community Church\nImam Dr. Jihad Turk – Bayan Islamic Graduate School\n\nModerated by Professor David Myers\, UCLA Distinguished Professor & Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History \nSessions taught by text experts\, spiritual leaders\, historians\, peace activists & students. \nSchedule: \n\n4:30-4:45: Introduction (Prof. David Myers and poetry reading by Rachel Burnett)\n4:45-5:05: Rabbi Sharon Brous\n5:05-5:25: Imam Dr. Jihad Turk\n5:25-5:45: Prof. Carol Bakhos\n5:45-5:55: Break\n5:55-6:15: Salam Al-Marayati\n6:15-6:20: breathing exercise (Sharon Zelnick)\n6:20-6:40: Prof. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen\n6:40-6:50: Break\n6:50-7:10: Rev. Dr. Najuma Smith\n7:10-7:30: Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos\n7:30-7:50: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller\n\n(Light refreshments provided) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and the New Coalition for Peace in the Middle East.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/teach-in-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/
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SUMMARY:The Formation of Classical Islam from Muhammad to the Abbasids
DESCRIPTION:In person (Haines 39) or on Zoom \nRegister here for both in-person or Zoom attendance \nReturning to UCLA by popular demand\, this lecture by Walid Saleh (University of Toronto) provides an overview of the major features of Classical Islam that solidified during the early Abbasid period. Such features include the  rise of major religious sciences and the textual tradition that became part of the scholarly and religious tradition. \nProfessor Walid A. Saleh is a specialist on the Qur’an\, the history of its interpretation (Tafsir)\, the Arabic manuscript tradition\, Islamic apocalyptic literature\, and the Muslim reception of the Bible. His first book The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition (Brill\, 2004) was the first monograph length study of al-Thalabi (d. 1035) and his influence in the history of Qur’an commentary tradition.  His second monograph\, In Defense of the Bible (Brill\, 2008)\, is a detailed study and an edition of al-Biqa`i’s (d. 1480) Bible treatise\, “The Just Verdict on the Permissibility of Quoting from Old Scriptures\,” which is the most extensive discussion of the place of the Bible in the Islamic religious tradition. \nProfessor Saleh is the editor of the Routledge Qur’an Series. He is also on the editorial board of Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-formation-of-classical-islam-from-muhammad-to-the-abbasids/
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