Date: February 25 - 26, 1999

Place: Room 252, Building 9, Sophia University

(7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

(3 minutes on foot from Yotsuya Station on JR Chuo-line,

on Marunouchi-line and Nanboku-line of Eidan Subway)

February 25

10:00 - 10:15

Opening Remarks

Akira GOTO (Institute of Oriental Cultures, Tokyo University, leading Unit 5 of the IAS Project)

10:15 - 12:00

Session 1

Masayuki AKAHORI (Sophia University)

"Ziyara and Saint Veneration among the Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt"

Chair: Haruka WAZAKI (Japan Women's University)

Comment 1: Sachiyo KOMAKI (Kyoto University)

Comment 2: Susumu NEJIMA (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

13:30 - 15:15

Session 2

AbderRahmane LAKHSASSI (University of Muhammad V, Rabat, Morocco）

"Ziyara to a Pilgrimage Center in South Western Morocco" Chair: Masashi HANEDA (Institute of Oriental Cultures, Tokyo University, leading Unit 5 of the IAS Project)

Comment 1: Masaki UNO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Comment 2: Takashi SAJIMA (Osaka International University for Women)

15:45 - 17:30

Session 3

Noriko SATO (Qaid-e-Azam University)

"The Shi'i Women's Practices of ‘Ziyarat’ and ‘Nadhr’ in Quetta, Pakistan"

Chair: Mieko MIYAJI (Tokyo International University)

Comment 1: Kazuo MORIMOTO (Institute of Oriental Cultures, Tokyo University)

Comment 2: Kazuyuki MURAYAMA (Wako University)

18:00 - 20:00

Reception at Meeting Room no.4 in JOCHI KAIKAN (Free of charge)

February 2610:00 - 11:45

Session 4

Irina PETROSYAN (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia)

"Pilgrimage Sites in the Early Ottoman State: The Problem of Interrelation of Islam and Christianity"

Chair: Hidemitsu KUROKI (Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)

Comment 1: Nobuo MISAWA (Keio University)

Comment 2: Yasushi IMAMATSU (graduate school, Kobe University)

12:00 - 13:00

General Discussion Chair: Masayuki AKAHORI

13:00

Closing Remarks

Akira GOTO