Conference Call: Penang and the Hajj 2013

I'm helping to circulate this conference call on behalf of the organisers, Penang Heritage Trust, Think City, etc.

Conference Call

Title: Penang and Hajj 2013 Conference

Date: 17-18 August 2013 (after Raya)

Venue: The E & O Hotel, Lebuh Farquhar, Penang, Malaysia

Organised by: Penang Heritage Trust, Think City, etc.

General Public: Welcome, pre-registration required by 30 July 2013, lecture is open to first 100 persons

PHT website

Note for speakers:

Dear speakers,

Greetings from Penang Heritage Trust!

A gentle reminder that the full paper submission is due on 17 July 2013 and you have approximately 22 days before the deadline. The word limit for the paper is 10,000 inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. I would like to remind you that the papers will be considered for publication.

I would also like to inform you that the Penang and the Hajj poster is uploaded in PHT website. You are welcome to circulate the poster among your respective institution and fellow academia.

Again, PHT would appreciate very much if you are able to help us promote Penang and the Hajj conference. Pre-registration is required for the public audience who wish to participate. The registration form is downloadable on the website. The lecture is only open to 100 participants at a first come first serve basis. The deadline for the registration is 30 July 2013.

Do email me if there are any inquiries.

Regards,

Ee Vonne.

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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

http://www.facebook.com/faridah.abdulrashid

Conference Call: Penang and the Hajj 2013

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

Official website: http://www.pht.org.my/?ai1ec_event=penang-and-the-hajj&instance_id=19

I'm circulating the conference details which I received from Dr Lubis today. You can respond directly to him.

Call for Papers: Penang and the Hajj
Workshop on PENANG AND THE HAJJ
Date: 17-18 August  2013 (Saturday and Sunday)
Venue: George Town, Penang

Organised by Penang Heritage Trust and Think City Sdn Bhd, with other partners

From as early as the 18th century, Penang was a port of embarkation for aspiring pilgrims travelling by ship to the ‘holy lands’. The activity was centered at the port, Acheen Street and adjoining areas. This era ended in the 1970s with the establishment of the Tabung Haji (Pilgrims Fund) corporation and popularity of air travel. Thousands of pilgrims from Sumatra, northern Malaysia and southern Thailand went through Penang to realize the fifth pillar of Islam. Their reminiscences and collective memories deserve to be celebrated, consolidated and documented for posterity. Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo has accepted our invitation to give the keynote ‘Penang Story Lecture’ (please see the following page).

The Penang Story Lecture (open to the public and limited to 150 persons) will be held in conjunction with a two-day closed workshop (about 30 persons). Registration will be waived for speakers, who are eligible to attend all our events and meals. Please apply to your institution to sponsor your travel expenses and accommodation, although we might be able to offer accommodation (limited to a few speakers). 

CALL FOR PAPERS (for workshop)
We are soliciting papers on a variety of topics on the “Penang and the Hajj”, for example:

·       The Penang Port as a port of embarkation for the Hajj, businesses of Penang Sheikh hajis/pilgrim brokers especially Hadhrami operators, the service industry at the port cluster, ships and shipping (conveyance of pilgrims).

·       Religious, social and cultural change stimulated by Hajj returnees, such as Islamic renewal and reform in the formal religious education and literacy in the pondok and madrasa, pan-Islamic ideas, anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism ideologies, with implication to Penang and the region.

·       Colonial regulations on hajj travel, including the medical practices of hajj doctors in Penang and the quarantine station at Pulau Jerejak off Penang island, in addition to the functions of the pilgrim officers in monitoring the pilgrimage movement.

·       Travel preparations for the pilgrimage such as religious classes, currency exchange, packing the peti sahara, clothing. The production of Hajj literature by the Penang Malay press and the narratives of pilgrims sharing their experience.

·       Socio-economic dimensions of hajj travel, such as saving schemes, exploitation of indentured labour, and the setting up of the monopolistic Tabung Haji (Pilgrims Fund) as an economic scheme in the context of national development.

As the coordinator of workshop I am seeking papers and inviting paper presenters on the above theme. I am also open to suggestions to topics for deliberations. Paper proposals should consist of an abstract of 300-500 words and short biographical information (100-150 words) and should be sent to Abdur-Razzaq Lubis at namorasende@gmail.com

Abstracts should be submitted by 6 May 2013 and acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 14 May 2013.

Full papers are required on or before 17 July 2013. The word limit is 10,000 inclusive of footnotes and bibliography. The papers will be considered for publication.

The Penang Story Lecture and workshop are organised by Penang Heritage Trust http://www.pht.org.my/  and Think City http://www.thinkcity.com.my/ 

A separate announcement will be issued by Penang Heritage Trust on registration, registration fee (for participants), accommodation and tour.

PENANG STORY LECTURE (keynote)
The Material World of the Hajj in Colonial-Era Southeast Asia

by Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University 

Abstract

The economic connections of the pre-colonial Hajj were very important; they brought Southeast Asia into a wider orbit of contacts across the historical Indian Ocean. Scholars have asked, as a result of this, how vital the economy of the Hajj may have been in creating an “Indian Ocean world”, with major thinkers both championing and dismissing this notion.  We know from a number of period observers in the 17th and 18th centuries that the number and dimensions of ships engaged in the Hajj were substantial, and that the Mughal Empire, Ottoman, Yemen, and Southeast Asia all become intertwined in the routes of such craft sailing across the ocean's rim.  In my lecture I will examine these far-flung connections, while also concentrating on Southeast Asia and its trans-oceanic economies more locally.  I will do this by looking at the careers of eminent Hajjis such as Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar, as well as through classical texts from the region such as the Tuhfat al-Nafis.  I argue that the Dutch were crucial as facilitators of the pilgrimage, and I sketch out some of the circumstances of the Javanese Hajj from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.  I will also focus on the the British Case, where the Malay Peninsula and Penang became important as well in sending these travelers overseas, in increasingly larger numbers as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries wore on.  I highlight the means by which pilgrims from Southeast Asia were able to perform their Hajj, and the very real – and sometimes very difficult – material circumstances of their passage.  This was a world in the making, one that connected the paths of quite ancient travelers to the voyages of pilgrims from our own time.

Eric Tagliacozzo

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. His first book, Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale 2005) won the Harry Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.  His second monograph, The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013) has just been published. Tagliacozzo is also the editor or co-editor of four other books, and serves as the Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program at Cornell, as well as Director of the Modern Indonesia Project and editor of the journal INDONESIA.

Attached Eric Tagliacozzo, ‘The Pilgrimage to Mecca from Southeast Asia’, SEAP Bulletin 2009-2010.

http://history.arts.cornell.edu/faculty-department-tagliacozzo.php

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Penang and the Hajj

This is a bit about an upcoming lecture and workshop. Details will be announced later. I will update if I get more information.

1. Email

Dr Lubis and wife Salma Khoo Nasution (of Areca Books, Penang) are organising a workshop on the Hajj in Penang this August 2013. The date will be determined.

2. Announcement

Penang Story Lecture and Workshop: ‘Penang and the Hajj’

From as early as the 18th century, Penang was the departure point for aspiring pilgrims to the ‘holy lands’. The activity was centered at the port, Acheen Street and adjoining areas, which only ended in the 1970s. Thousands of pilgrims from Sumatra, northern Malaysia and southern Thailand went through Penang to fulfil the fifth pillar of Islam. Their reminiscence and collective memories deserve to be celebrated, consolidated and documented for posterity.

3. Both talk and workshop are by invitation to the academe and the public interested in the subject.

4. Keynote:  

Eric Tagliacozzo from Cornell http://history.arts.cornell.edu/faculty-department-tagliacozzo.php is giving the keynote address. 

5. Speakers: TBA

6. Organisers:

The event is being organised jointly by Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) http://www.pht.org.my/ and Think City http://www.thinkcity.com.my/

7. Contact for further details:

Dr Abdur-Razzaq Lubis

Email: namorasende [at] gmail.com
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