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ajiss-1465	Mian, Ali Altaf	The Fifth Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference	2008.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1489	46	31	Ebrahim Moosa’s (Duke University) concluding remarks ranged from highlighting the ethical and juristic dilemmas presented by technological reconfigurations and resuscitations of Muslim bodies in contemporary times to problematizing normative usages and mobilizations of ijtihad in response to the crucial challenges that (post)modern social imaginaries pose for Islam and Muslims. In his “‘What Their Hands Have Sent Forward’: Performatives of the Hand as Described in Qur’anic Exegesis and Hadith Literature,” Ali Altaf Mian (Duke University) explored possible reworkings of theorizing the performative (from John Austin and Jacques Derrida to Pierre Bourdieu and Judih Butler) using examples from Qur’anic verses and hadiths.	cache/ajiss-1465.pdf	txt/ajiss-1465.txt