Preliminary Programme

will focus on the so-called Constitution of Medina, the Pact of Umar, and the settlement of Akbar. The two first cases capture religious coexistence during the first years and decades of Islam, and therefore the perceived ‘basic rules’ for Islamic tolerance. However, and as the panel will discuss, the origins of these text were and are strongly contested, both in terms of their content and interpretation. The third case, the settlement of Akbar, takes the panel away from the well-known Middle-Eastern topics and focuses on Islam on the Indian subcontinent. Overall, the goal of discussing these three cases is to highlight how the supposed origins of Islamic tolerance have become part of a contemporary discussion, and how this discussion excludes less familiar cases. (Show less)

This paper will be focused on the 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), a peace treaty which settled the 2001 insurgency in the Republic of North Macedonia. More precisely, the paper will deal with the memory regimes in the post-2001 period in regards to the OFA, the major commemorative narratives and the bottom-up activism in the modern-day Republic of North Macedonia. (Show less)