Update: Penang and the Hajj Workshop 2013

Most recent update (15 June 2013):
http://www.pht.org.my/?page_id=1375


Previous post:
Here is the list of presenters for the "Penang and the Hajj Workshop 2013" which I received from Dr Lubis tonight.

Paper Presenters, Penang and The Hajj workshop

Prof. E. Ulrich Kratz
Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London
Islam on Pulau Pinang: Some early evidence

Prof. Suwardi bin Mohammad Samin
Historian and Culturalist of Riau
Perjalanan dari Sumatra – Riau ke Pulau Pinang naik haji ke Mekkah

Prof. Faridah Abdul Rashid
School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
The Malayan Hajj Doctors and the Malaysia Hajj Scene 1900-2013

Dr. Aiza binti Maslan @ Baharudin
School of Humanities Universiti Sains Malaysia
Aktiviti Haji dan Perkembangan Pentadbirannya di Pulau Pinang

Dr. Mohd Isa Othman
School of Distance Learning, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Tarikh Perjalanan ke Negeri Mekah Al-Mukaramah Catatan Pengalaman Peribadi Wan Yahya Wan Mohd Taib

Dato’ Dr. Mujahid Yusof Rawa
Member of Parliament
Haji Yusof Rawa and the Hajj Business

Dr. Ramli Awang
Faculty of Islamic Civilization, University Technology Malaysia
Haji dan Lebai dari Perspektif Tuan Guru Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al-Mandili Al-Indonesia (1910-1965).

Dr. Shanti Moorthy
Monash University, Malaysian campus
The Hajj as a Cosmopolitan Practice

Dr. Christopher M. Joll
Centre for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Chiang Mai University
The haj, salvation and social change in cosmopolitan Southeast Asian port city-states

Dr. Francis R. Bradley
Assistant Professor, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus
Penang, Patani Scholars, and the Hajj

Saiful Anwar Matondang1 and Febry Ichman Butsi2
1 Ph.D candidate in Anthropological Linguistics, Universitē de Fribourg, Switzerland
2 M.A.in Communication Science, USM
The Strategic Position of Penang and the Revival of shared Identity of the Ummah

Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohamad
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Hajj and the Migration of the Fatanis

Muhammad Ilyas Yahprung
Ph.D. candidate, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)
The reformist doctrine of ijtihad and its applications: A comparative study of Sheikh Ahmad
Al-Fatani's Hadiqatul Azhar and Tayyibul-ihsan fi Tibbil-Insan, and the Penang's reformist
journal, al-Ikwan and Saudara.

Michael Christopher Low
Ph.D. candidate in International and Global History, Department of History, Columbia University
From Pilgrimage to Plantation: Indentured Labor, Muslim Capital, and the Making of the
Colonial Hajj, 1860-1900

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad
State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh
Jak u Arab: Kajian Tentang Naik Haji di Kalangan Masyarakat Aceh

Numan Hayimasae
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prince of Songkhla University, Pattani
Syeikh Haji Melayu, Hajj Pilgrimage Service: It’s Geneses, Roles and Changes

Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Independent scholar and author
The Mandailing On Hajj


and a few more Thai speakers for the Rawa community in Thailand.

External links:
Penang Heritage Trust
Website: http://www.pht.org.my/?ai1ec_event=penang-and-the-hajj&instance_id=19
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penang-Heritage-Trust-PHT/206250309437981

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