Workshop – Cultural encounters in the Muslim World (14th-19th centuries)
Düzenleyenler : Juliette Dumas and Richard Wittmann Partners : What is an innovation? What is said and thought as new? Any innovation is understandable only with regard to the society that receives and lends weight to it. Societies produce or might produce their “discovery” in response to their own expectations. The aim of this seminar is to question the concept of novelty and innovation, within the Muslim world. The Muslim world is anything but unified: each society manufactures itself as a unique example of its own cultural syncretism; Islamic references are just one component among many others. Muslim societies of the modern era are usually qualified as traditionalists: the oldness is used as frame of reference whether the topic is religious,