PENANG STORY LECTURE
The Penang Story Lecture is open to the public and limited to 150 persons will be held in conjunction with a two-day conference on “Penang and The Hajj”.
PENANG STORY LECTURE, Keynote Lecture: The Material World of the Hajj in Colonial-Era Southeast Asia by Eric Tagliacozzo, 18 August (Sunday), 3.30pm-5.00pm at E & O Hotel.
CONFERENCE on PENANG AND THE HAJJ, 17 & 18 August (Saturday & Sunday), 9.00am-5.00pm at E & O Hotel.
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Penang and the Hajj Panels
1st Panel Discussion: Penang Port Cluster
Dr. Aiza binti Maslan @ Baharudin, Aktiviti Haji dan Perkembangan Pentadbirannya di
Pulau Pinang
Saiful Anwar Matondang and Febry Ichman Butsi, The Strategic Position of Penang and
the Revival of Shared Identity of the Ummah
Khoo Salma Nasution, Pa’wan Abdul Kader Merican, Pilgrim Agent and Mosque
Superintendent
2nd Panel Discussion: Cosmopolitanism
Dr. Shanti Moorthy, The Hajj as a Cosmopolitan Practice
Dr. Christopher M. Joll, The Haj, salvation and social change in cosmopolitan Penang
and Patani
Prof. Faridah Abdul Rashid, The Malayan Hajj Doctors and the Malaysia Hajj Scene
1900-2013
3rd Panel Discussion: Community Experience
Dr. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad, Jak u Arab: Kajian tentang naik Haji di
kalangan masyarakat Aceh
Mohammed Siraaj bin Saidumasudu, Indian Muslim Community and Hajj: Some
personal experiences of their involvement in facilitating the pilgrims in Penang
Prof. (retired) Suwardi bin Mohammad Samin, Perjalanan dari Sumatera – Riau ke
Pulau Pinang naik haji ke Mekkah
Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, The Mandailing on Hajj
4th Panel Discussion: Narratives of the Hajj
Prof. Dr. Mohd Isa Othman, Catatan Perjalanan ke Mekah- Tarikh Al-Siyahah Ila
Makkatul Mukaramah, karya Wan Yahya Bin Wan Mohd Taib
Suryadi, A Critical Voice on Hajj by a Sumatran Pilgrim “Perdjalanan ke-Tanah Tjoetji”
by Dja Endar Moeda (1903)
Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, A Mandailing Narrative on Hajj: Peringatan Tarikh Perjalanan
Raja Shahabuddin dan Rahmah pergi ke Makkahtul Masyarrafah pada tahun 1358
[1939] Hijrah
5th Panel Discussion: Malay Press & Scholars
Prof. Ramli Awang, Haji dan Lebai dari Perspektif Tuan Guru Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al-
Mandili Al-Indonesi (1910-1965)
Dr. Francis R. Bradley, Penang, Pattani Scholars, and the Hajj
Dr. Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohamad, Hajj and the Migration of the Fatanis
6th Panel Discussion: Hajj Business and Occupations
Dato’ Dr. Mujahid Yusof Rawa, Haji Yusof Rawa and the Hajj Business
Dr. Numan Hayimasae, Syeikh Haji Melayu, Hajj Pilgrimage Service: Its geneses, role
and change
Download Penang and the Hajj Panels here.