[Reader-list] Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: a talk at Goethe Institut, Delhi

[Tasveer Ghar]

Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi
An Illustrated Talk by Yousuf Saeed

Friday, January 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Siddhartha Hall,
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhawan
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi 110001

You are cordially invited to an illustrated talk by Yousuf Saeed on
the popular image and media practices around Delhi’s Sufi shrine of
Nizamuddin Aulia. The talk focuses on how the popular visuality around
the shrine has changed over time in response to the changes brought
about by urbanization, movement of pilgrims, new technology, and
competition from the more orthodox tableeghi and Wahhabi ideologues in
the vicinity? This work-in-progress is part of a research and
documentation project tracing the transcultural flows between Europe
and Asia in Muslim popular iconography, under the “Cluster of
Excellence - Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries
in Cultural Flows”, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Yousuf Saeed is a Delhi-based researcher and filmmaker having directed
well-known documentary films such as Basant, Khayal Darpan, and The
Train to Heaven, among others, which have been screened at several
international film festivals. He has worked in the past for the Times
of India and Encyclopaedia Britannica as video and image editor. His
research on popular Muslim devotional iconography in India has
culminated into a forthcoming book. Yousuf is currently the director
of Tasveer Ghar, a digital archive of Indian popular visual culture.

Tel.+91-11-2332 9506
http://www.goethe.de/newdelhi
Email: prog.mmb at delhi.goethe.org

Also see:
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/heidelberg-research-architecture/hra-projects/satellites-of-networks.html

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