MI week 3

This week your guest lecturer is Dr. Karim Gillani.

Tuesday (3a)

Class

"Introduction to Ismaili Ginan within its Indo-Muslim Cultural Context" (Karim Gillani, guest lecturer)

Due today

Report on the following:

1) The Ismaili "Ginan" Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent

Author(s): Karim Gillani
Source: Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 2 (December 2004), pp. 175-185
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23062807

[note: from off campus you may have to log in before being able to access the above jstor link. In a pinch, navigate to jstor via the UofA Library site, then search for the above title.]

2) Ginan (Hymn): Hearing and Reciting within the Indo-Muslim Cultural Context, by Karim Gillani

3) Two videos: Ginan recited by Abida Parveen in the presence of the H. H. Aga Khan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCiaUepMRmc, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOgh7cU3DG8

Thursday (3b)

Due today

Report on the following:

1) North Indian Sufi Popular Music in the Age of Hindu and Muslim Fundamentalism
Author(s): Peter Manuel
Source: Ethnomusicology, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Fall, 2008), pp. 378-400
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20174605
2) the following videos: (TBA)

Class

"Qawwali and Sufi popular music of South Asia" (Karim Gillani, guest lecturer)