Alexandre Papas
Biographic Data
| ID | 336849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandre Papas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandre |
| FAMILY NAME | Papas |
| SIGNATURE | PAPAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Études turques et ottomanes, XVe-XVIIIe siècles
Programme de l’année 2024-2025 : Lecture croisée de deux sources turques islamiques (Tezkiretü-l-müte’âhhirîn et Thabāt al-‘ājizīn)
Études turques et ottomanes, XVe-XVIIIe siècles
Programme de l’année 2023-2024 : Lecture croisée de deux sources turques islamiques (Tezkiretü-l-müte’âhhirîn et Thabāt al-‘ājizīn)
Repenser le culte des saints en islam
Few studies have focused on sport in rural areas, even though the notion of sociability has long been explored in rural history. The history of sport, a prolific field of research since the 1980s, has likewise paid little attention to rural spaces. At the intersection of these two historiographies, sport has long been regarded primarily as an urban phenomenon, which largely explains this historiographical blind spot. However, recent work has begu…
Études turques et ottomanes, XVe-XVIIIe siècles
Programme de l’année 2022-2023 : Lecture croisée de deux sources turques islamiques (Tezkiretü-l-müte’âhhirîn et Thabāt al-‘ājizīn)
Timour, l’héritier turc de Gengis Khan
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)
Bâti sur une thèse de doctorat soutenue à Paris en 2010, le présent ouvrage s’attaque au délicat problème de l’installation des populations turques dans l’Empire byzantin à partir du xie siècle tel qu’il apparaît dans les sources narratives. Celles-ci sont de trois types : épopées des guerriers turcs, récits de martyres byzantins et hagiographies soufies. Elles furent composées entre le xiiie et le xve siècle. Il s’agit non pas de reconstruire un…
L'Asie centrale de Tamerlan
Dū risāla dar bāra-yi futuvvat va taṣavvuf dar ṭarīqathā-yi Ṣafaviyya va Rifāʿiyya, written by Mehran Afshari
Le Traité de la rosace (Risāle-i gül-ābād) d’Ibrāhīm el-Eşrefī el-Qādirī, cheikh soufi ottoman du XIIe/XVIIIe siècle
La rose ( gül en turc) est un symbole bien connu dans le soufisme, en particulier dans la poésie mystique. Métaphore de l’épineuse beauté divine que le rossignol adule, la fleur hérite d’interprétations supplémentaires dans les manuels confrériques, à partir notamment de hadiths apocryphes. L’un de ces écrits, le Traité de la rosace d’Ibrāhīm el-Eşrefī el-Qādirī, cheikh de la branche Eşrefiyye de la Qādiriyya ottomane, explique les significations…
Introduction: Sufi Texts in Translation
This special issue of the Journal of Sufi Studies attempts to make the case that the act of translation is best seen as a recurrent activity necessitated by the various changes that inform the interpretation of Sufi texts on the one hand, and the languages and cultures that receive them on the other. The nine Sufi texts featured in this collection illustrate the diversity of genres and variety of languages in which they have been written, thereby…
The Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan: Some Research Leads
Recent discoveries and overlooked documents help us to understand the spread of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in a region stretching from the Tatar lands to the Tarim Basin, passing Bukhara and Kokand along the way. This paper by no means aims to provide a historical survey of al-Jazūlī’s prayer book in Central Asia. Rather, I introduce some leads for research on the basis of several manuscripts. A first issue is that of chronology and geography: termin…
Researching Uyghur spirituality, a conversation with Alexandre Papas
L’identité religieuse des Ouïghours, des Kazakhs et des autres peuples turcs vivant dans la Région Ouïghoure est devenue, au fil des années, l’un des motifs officiels de la politique répressive du gouvernement chinois. Les activités religieuses sont considérées comme arriérées, incompatibles avec la Chine moderne. Cette rhétorique a mené à l’interdiction de plupart d’activité en lien avec l’Islam. Cet entretien avec l’historien Alexandre Papas re…
Family Portraits with Saints: Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World
Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits Between Central Asia and the Hijaz
Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan
The History of Sufism in Multan: New Data from the Urdu Tadhkirah Tradition
The medieval history of Sufism in Multan is relatively well known. A figure such as the famous Suhrawardi Shaykh Baha’ al-Din Zakariyya from the thirteenth century embodies this prestigious period. Our article shows that the Sufi brotherhoods have continued to flourish until today, far beyond what traditional historiography describes. Using unexplored sources—mostly modern Urdu hagiographies devoted to the sacred history of Multan—we reconstruct …
Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th Century
Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practic…
Creating a Sufi soundscape: Recitation (dhikr) and audition (samā’) according to Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī (d. 1542)
Creating a Sufi soundscape: Recitation (dhikr) and audition (samā’) according to Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī (d. 1542)
A famous Naqshbandī Sufi, Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī, surnamed Makhdūm-i A’zam, had great influence on Islamic practices and thought in the Chinese part of Central Asia as early as the late sixteenth century when his descendants, known as Makhdū-mzāda, conducted missionary campaigns in the Tarim basin. Among the 30 or so treatises that he wrote, two are of particular interest for understanding Islamic soundscapes. The first work is entitled Risāla-yi d…
L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam: Approches historiques et anthropologiques
International audience
L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam: Approches Historiques Et Anthropologiques
Through various case studies in Central Asia, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans and in Turkey, this book discusses the religious authority exercised by different actors and the limits, whether theological, political, social or institutional, they are confronted with
Liste dés resumés
International audience
Central Asian Pilgrims.: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz.
Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings together eleven essays on hajj pilgrims and networks, each written by a leading scholar in the field of Islamic and Central Asian studies and drawing upon ne…
Research Trends in Modern Central Eurasian Studies (18th-20th Centuries). A Selective and Critical Bibliography of Works Published between 1985 and 2000, Part 2
Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman
Les tombeaux de saints musulmans au Xinjiang: Culte, réforme, histoire
Cet article analyse la situation actuelle du culte des saints chez les musulmans ouïgours de Chine. Les mausolées du Xinjiang font aujourd'hui l'objet d'une attention bienveillante de la part des autorités chinoises alors même qu'ils étaient considérés comme un contre-pouvoir à l'idéologie révolutionnaire. À la lumière de l'anthropologie historique et religieuse, cette apparente contradiction trouve sa cohérence. Le culte des saints, malgré les t…
Toward a New History of Sufism: The Turkish Case
L'histoire et les sciences sociales à l'épreuve de l'Asie centrale
Toward a New History of Sufism: The Turkish Case
Fonctionnaires des frontières dans l'empire mandchou
Les Mandchous achevent de conquerir le Turkestan oriental en 1759. Cette vaste region, peuplee essentiellement de musulmans turkophones, fut longtemps gouvernee par des dynasties saintes originaires d'Asie centrale et descendantes du Prophete. Une fois leurs membres mis en fuite ou bien executes, la cour de Pekin reorganise la nouvelle province - ou «nouveau territoire» (xinjiang) comme on l'appellera a partir de 1884. Quatre divisions administra…
Les tombeaux de saints musulmans au Xinjiang: Culte, réforme, histoire
Cet article analyse la situation actuelle du culte des saints chez les musulmans ouïgours de Chine. Les mausolées du Xinjiang font aujourd'hui l'objet d'une attention bienveillante de la part des autorités chinoises alors même qu'ils étaient considérés comme un contre-pouvoir à l'idéologie révolutionnaire. À la lumière de l'anthropologie historique et religieuse, cette apparente contradiction trouve sa cohérence. Le culte des saints, malgré les t…
Central Asian Pilgrims.: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz.
Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings together eleven essays on hajj pilgrims and networks, each written by a leading scholar in the field of Islamic and Central Asian studies and drawing upon ne…
Research Trends in Modern Central Eurasian Studies (18th-20th Centuries). A Selective and Critical Bibliography of Works Published between 1985 and 2000, Part 2
Le corps et le sacré en Orient musulman
L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam: Approches historiques et anthropologiques
International audience
L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam: Approches Historiques Et Anthropologiques
Through various case studies in Central Asia, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the Balkans and in Turkey, this book discusses the religious authority exercised by different actors and the limits, whether theological, political, social or institutional, they are confronted with
Liste dés resumés
International audience
Creating a Sufi soundscape: Recitation (dhikr) and audition (samā’) according to Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī (d. 1542)
Creating a Sufi soundscape: Recitation (dhikr) and audition (samā’) according to Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī (d. 1542)
A famous Naqshbandī Sufi, Ahmad Kāsānī Dahbīdī, surnamed Makhdūm-i A’zam, had great influence on Islamic practices and thought in the Chinese part of Central Asia as early as the late sixteenth century when his descendants, known as Makhdū-mzāda, conducted missionary campaigns in the Tarim basin. Among the 30 or so treatises that he wrote, two are of particular interest for understanding Islamic soundscapes. The first work is entitled Risāla-yi d…
Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th Century
Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practic…
Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan
The History of Sufism in Multan: New Data from the Urdu Tadhkirah Tradition
The medieval history of Sufism in Multan is relatively well known. A figure such as the famous Suhrawardi Shaykh Baha’ al-Din Zakariyya from the thirteenth century embodies this prestigious period. Our article shows that the Sufi brotherhoods have continued to flourish until today, far beyond what traditional historiography describes. Using unexplored sources—mostly modern Urdu hagiographies devoted to the sacred history of Multan—we reconstruct …
Family Portraits with Saints: Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World
Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits Between Central Asia and the Hijaz
Dū risāla dar bāra-yi futuvvat va taṣavvuf dar ṭarīqathā-yi Ṣafaviyya va Rifāʿiyya, written by Mehran Afshari
Le Traité de la rosace (Risāle-i gül-ābād) d’Ibrāhīm el-Eşrefī el-Qādirī, cheikh soufi ottoman du XIIe/XVIIIe siècle
La rose ( gül en turc) est un symbole bien connu dans le soufisme, en particulier dans la poésie mystique. Métaphore de l’épineuse beauté divine que le rossignol adule, la fleur hérite d’interprétations supplémentaires dans les manuels confrériques, à partir notamment de hadiths apocryphes. L’un de ces écrits, le Traité de la rosace d’Ibrāhīm el-Eşrefī el-Qādirī, cheikh de la branche Eşrefiyye de la Qādiriyya ottomane, explique les significations…
Introduction: Sufi Texts in Translation
This special issue of the Journal of Sufi Studies attempts to make the case that the act of translation is best seen as a recurrent activity necessitated by the various changes that inform the interpretation of Sufi texts on the one hand, and the languages and cultures that receive them on the other. The nine Sufi texts featured in this collection illustrate the diversity of genres and variety of languages in which they have been written, thereby…
The Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in Central Asia and Eastern Turkestan: Some Research Leads
Recent discoveries and overlooked documents help us to understand the spread of the Dalāʾil al-khayrāt in a region stretching from the Tatar lands to the Tarim Basin, passing Bukhara and Kokand along the way. This paper by no means aims to provide a historical survey of al-Jazūlī’s prayer book in Central Asia. Rather, I introduce some leads for research on the basis of several manuscripts. A first issue is that of chronology and geography: termin…
Researching Uyghur spirituality, a conversation with Alexandre Papas
L’identité religieuse des Ouïghours, des Kazakhs et des autres peuples turcs vivant dans la Région Ouïghoure est devenue, au fil des années, l’un des motifs officiels de la politique répressive du gouvernement chinois. Les activités religieuses sont considérées comme arriérées, incompatibles avec la Chine moderne. Cette rhétorique a mené à l’interdiction de plupart d’activité en lien avec l’Islam. Cet entretien avec l’historien Alexandre Papas re…
Timour, l’héritier turc de Gengis Khan
Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes. Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)
Bâti sur une thèse de doctorat soutenue à Paris en 2010, le présent ouvrage s’attaque au délicat problème de l’installation des populations turques dans l’Empire byzantin à partir du xie siècle tel qu’il apparaît dans les sources narratives. Celles-ci sont de trois types : épopées des guerriers turcs, récits de martyres byzantins et hagiographies soufies. Elles furent composées entre le xiiie et le xve siècle. Il s’agit non pas de reconstruire un…
L'Asie centrale de Tamerlan
Philosophy (13 works) · Art (12 works) · History (12 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Theology (6 works)