Sat. Dec 3, 2022 10:45 AM - 12:25 PM F107 (Build. F)

Chair:Toshiyuki Takeda(Ritsumeikan University)

Arab-Islamic traditions have a long history of ascendancy as well as a few centuries of decline since the advent of Western modernity. Since the late 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to reconstruct Arab-Islamic traditions as a modern cultural vehicle. Dr. Takeda sheds light upon variations in the writing and reading of the sacred text of Islam, the Qur’an, in Islamic literary tradition. Prof. Kosugi argues the major differences between the traditional mainstream Islamic legal schools in their jurisprudential methodologies on the one hand, and Salafism which claims to go back to the primordial origins, on the other hand, using the religiously important issues around human death and the soul’s journey after death. Mr. Yoneda sheds light upon important Salafist organizations in Egypt through an analysis of their discourses. Dr. Ikehata examines how the “Official Islam” is determined in Muslim countries which constitute the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.