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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, March 20, 2025 12:00 pm to 2:00
  pm \n Zoom \n\nDescription: \nSufi tomb shrines in India are among the mo
 st visible interactive spaces for the regular encounter of Muslims and non
 -Muslims. In these spaces that are both inside and outside of daily life,
  embodied practices and physical objects materialize the markers and vecto
 rs of belonging, unbelonging, and futurity. In the middle of Bangalore,
  a relatively small tomb shrine is a space of possibility for multiple mar
 ginalized groups, facilitating futural imaginings that include Muslims, 
 Dalits, and hijras as full citizens of the Indian polity, and as full hu
 man beings.A\na Bigelow is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the D
 epartment of Religious Studies at Stanford University. Bigelow's current b
 ook project is a comparative study of shared sacred sites in India and Tur
 key, exploring how everyday devotional life in shared spaces illuminates 
 the shifting terrain of these ambivalently secular states. Another project
  traces the lives of devotional objects circulated by Muslims, Hindus, a
 nd others around a Sufi tomb shrine in India. She is editor and contributo
 r to a volume on material objects in Islamic cultures, Islam through Obje
 cts (Bloomsbury, 2021). Bigelow’s earlier work Sharing the Sacred: Practi
 cing Pluralism in Muslim North India (Oxford University Press, 2010) is a
  study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacr
 ed and civic spaces in that community. \n\nContact Information: \n Elizabe
 th Moss betsy.moss@utoronto.ca \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n 
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SUMMARY:Material Encounters and the Aesthetics of Muslim Belonging
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 and-aesthetics-muslim-belonging
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