BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3868-3cbf680c6723da5def04271059523ab6@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T213722Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T170000 SUMMARY:Mikiya Koyagi, “Reimagining Asia: Biographies of Muhammad in Imperial Ja pan” DESCRIPTION:\nWhile participating in the discourse of world religions\, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad’s life in many genre s of academic and popular books during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868–1 926). This article unravels how these biographical accounts played a cru cial role in facilitating a geographical imaginary of Asia/the East that incorporated both Japan and West Asia. Situated in a radically differen t context from the Victorian biographers who inspired them\, Japanese bi ographers constantly compared Muhammad to historical figures familiar to them\, most notably Buddha and Nichiren\, and reinterpreted the life of Muhammad while relying exclusively on European-language sources. In par ticular\, in contrast to another strand of pan-Asianism that stressed pe acefulness as an inherent quality of the East\, the biographers identifi ed Muhammad’s perceived militancy and the miracles he performed as signs of the shared values between Japan and Islamic civilization. Through th e person of Muhammad as a concrete piece of evidence\, Japanese biograph ers reimagined an Eastern civilizational space that could stretch from T okyo to Mecca.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/miki ya-koyagi_reimagining-asia/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

While participa ting in the discourse of world religions, Japanese biographers published accounts of Muhammad’s life in many genres of academic and popular book s during the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868–1926). This article unravels ho w these biographical accounts played a crucial role in facilitating a ge ographical imaginary of Asia/the East that incorporated both Japan and W est Asia. Situated in a radically different context from the Victorian b iographers who inspired them, Japanese biographers constantly compared M uhammad to historical figures familiar to them, most notably Buddha and Nichiren, and reinterpreted the life of Muhammad while relying exclusive ly on European-language sources. In particular, in contrast to another s trand of pan-Asianism that stressed peacefulness as an inherent quality of the East, the biographers identified Muhammad’s perceived militancy a nd the miracles he performed as signs of the shared values between Japan and Islamic civilization. Through the person of Muhammad as a concrete piece of evidence, Japanese biographers reimagined an Eastern civilizati onal space that could stretch from Tokyo to Mecca.

For more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/mikiya-koyagi_reimagining-asia/

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